COMMENTS
PEOPLE HAVE MADE AFTER ATTENDING A PESSO BOYDEN DAY WITH
JULIET
- Juliet has a spectacular ability to help people reach the deeper
levels of emotion rather than drowning in content. Her intuitive control of the
situation is breathtaking and the faultless way she confirms the emotions and
the moves at every step of the way with the volunteer [client] is exemplary.
Olive Hickmott NLP Master Practitioner and Coach
- Juliet manages to combine deep, safe work with a satisfying sense of
clarity and matter-of-factness and a sense that this [whatever the issue is] is
nothing unusual, it is simply what we do... Adrian Longstaffe --
Psychotherapist
- This is like speed
dialling the unconscious. James Thomas. Salesman.
- I’ve found the Pesso Boyden courses to be
highly enriching experiences. They produce great results. One of my own issues
has been resolved and qualifies I believe, as a breakthrough. Juliet who
facilitates at a level that’s quite rare, in my experience. And merely
being present on a day, and playing ‘roles’ for others is worthwhile
too as every single one of the “structures” seemed to resonate - and
thereby forward something within me, which is sort of like getting an extra
free gift that I couldn’t possibly have expected! Debra White. Coach.
- Deep safe and sensitive work - very well held.
Adrian Longstaffe. Therapist.
- I’ve moved but I feel that I haven’t
been touched physically, I mean I wasn't pushed at all. It was very respectful,
and very gentle, and yet I’m also aware I’ve gone through a very
powerful experience. Something has definitely been moved. Thank you. FT. Head
teacher.
- This process took me into the nub of the things
in a psycho-physical way which I haven’t before. And I've had 20 years of
therapy! I'll definitely be back for more. Amazing. Sam Walker. Engineer.
- I've only done one structure, but this has
enabled me to stop rescuing people, in particular my partner. As a result our
relationship has improved significantly. Sue Bradshaw. Coach.
- I found the whole experience very interesting,
intriguing and rewarding. As mentioned at the time, I found something of impact
in the work done by all those who did a structure. There were echoes in each
person's issue for me, so I got a great deal out of the whole day. And, most
importantly, the impact has stayed with me, because of the powerful nature of
the structures. From my own psychotherapeutic experience both as a counsellor
and a client, I really enjoyed the novelty of the Pesso Boyden approach, I
liked the directness of it, and was mesmerised watching the process as people
manoeuvred their voices, people, and problems around the room with ease and how
clear everyone was about what they wanted, how they wanted it, and corrected
and refined their process as they went along. Equally I liked the gentleness of
the process, and was really aware of the depth of the work that was going on -
interestingly without huge cathartic screamings and roarings! Osanna
Whitehouse.
- Juliet has real integrity and a lightness of
touch as a facilitator. and also very professional - I liked the way the whole
thing ran like clock work. David Anderson
- I was really impressed with the method, as well as being profoundly
moved by the process and results. The work I did is really shifting things
– just amazing. I love the way you established real safety and sense of
community with no fuss, and I admired your tremendous skill in guiding the
process. Judy Apps trainer and coach, and Director of ABL World Training and
Coaching
- Found my structure deeply moving and freeing - hadn’t realised
quite how young that part of me was!! It has reinforced an alertness in me to
notice and create opportunities to "lark around a bit". I really want to
nurture this part and give it plenty of space. (I think that if I had known how
to do this in my earlier years "to play and join in" then perhaps I
wouldn’t have needed to use schoolwork and further learning as a coping
strategy........... perhaps that's why I drank too much - didn’t know how
to play - what to do when I wasn’t working - so play became getting
drunk.) Have also noticed a greater sense of compassion for my family. From a
delegate who attended in March 2007
- The day I attended in Preston actually made a profound impact on my
level of personal happiness and self-concept; I feel [almost exactly one year
later] as though I have body memory of the relief and joy which ran through me
during my piece of work (installation?? Set??) – I cant remember the
terminology, but I have certainly absorbed the results. Thanks again for a
transforming day. With fond memories. SF
- Since my 'Pesso Boyden' experience, I seem to have gone into a state
of deep reflection. It has caused me to review my contacts with my children and
grandchildren. So I repeat my observation that your skill and sensitivity,
which enabled 'clients' to explore and dig deep into the depths of their
subconscious, in a safe, secure and supportive environment, was quite
phenomenal. The Pesso Boyden 'process' allows the fastest access to deep and
hidden emotions that I have ever seen. Tony Warren. UKCP Reg. Psychotherapist
MBACP (Accred). NLPtCA (Accred). www.e-balance.co.uk
- I feel so positive!! Things, courses etc I've steered clear of I'm
now making forward plans for. I almost feel I'm starting afresh with a new
confidence and instead of thinking "it won't last" I'm thinking about really
getting my life in order. Gosh, I wish I'd heard of Pesso years ago! This is
truely an amazing form of therapy...I thank you for sharing it with me, I also
feel doubly pesso-ed as I had a reaction during the first session, not sure if
you remember. I feel that I've recently been reparented in such a short space
of time, so exciting Thank you, love annie x Annie Lambley-Steel,
Psychotherapist.
- I so enjoyed working with you Juliet, you made me feel so safe and
the Pesso method is so powerful I feel it is the equivalent of years in
therapy. Mary O’Hagan, Managing Director, Vivace, Live Events Production
Company.
- Still feeling very helped and soothed by the Pesso process: it seems
to 'go deeper' than many psychotherapies and have a lasting, structural kind of
effect. Fergus Stokes, psythotherapist April 08 (had 2 structures, June 06 and
Feb 08)
After my first experience of a day of Pesso Boyden
work, being the client and joining in other people’s
work
About 2 weeks later I find myself trying to reflect on what happened
that day, and its just as well I have written some notes as my world seems to
have accelerated since then. I really had no idea what to expect during a day
with Juliet and the Pesso Boyden system Psychomotor. Was it some sort of
device, could you see it, I had no idea but something drove me to be curious.
Maybe it was just Juliet's e-mails.
So I joined the north London Group for a day in a colleague's house
in the lovely village of Harrow-on-the-hill. If you haven't been there it is a
real treasure, and an island of peace in the sunny outskirts of a very hot and
noisy London. I have given up long ago having expectations of a day's training;
I always get lots I didn't expect so why both expecting, I am just open to
whatever happens and I knew it would be an adventure - most days in my life are
like that.
I am an NLP Master Practitioner, specialising in health coaching and
Juliet assured me I would be very at home with the Pesso Boyden "whatsit", and
I hadn't spotted an odd Dr. Who device lurking in the corner.
The group was small, nobody knew each other and amid some late
arrivals we started. I listened to the introduction, it sounded fine, but I
really wasn't a lot wiser. We started the first group with a volunteer; the
session is called running their 'structure'. Juliet indicated that there might
be a voice or two that she would place above her head, like puppets….one
of which was 'the witness' who observed the emotions, and she may put other
voices there as necessary. The other people in the group were available to act
out parts of the person running the structure, under Juliet's control.
So, by the end of the structure, Juliet actually controlled 2
imaginary puppets above her head, and a whole cast of a play, not only giving
them the dialogue to say, but moving them around and also changing their
identity from time to time. So for about an hour Juliet runs this structure
with a volunteer and the assembled cast; her intuitive control of the situation
is breathtaking and the faultless way she confirms the emotions and the moves
at every step of the way with the volunteer is exemplary.
Since my structure some things have lingered with me and developed
further, a little like developing a photograph (for anyone who has ever seen
the old fashioned way in a bath of solution). As the picture has slowly taken
shape more insights have arrived to connect the pieces of the jigsaw I am
always assembling.
Looking back now on my structure:
- I experienced emotions I had never felt before
- I had insights into how some emotions, such as "excellence" could
also include a "do better" voice and together be very supportive rather than
confrontational
- The eyes of one particular "actor" (played by another member of
the group) held my attention, and that continues to today, offering me a
resource within myself that I doubt I would ever have found, without first
being able to see it externally - as my observer/witness said "I see you are
surprised!"
- I have learnt to control some of my subconscious panic
- One particular emotion that had a physical manifestation, has set
me off on another voyage of discovery
- I found that listening and acting in other people's structures
enormously helpful. When you are open to listening to stories and guided
imagery you have points that resonate with you and then they drop away and then
comes another thing that lands; and so it goes on in some strange oscillating
movement, for me throughout a structure. This experience was quite
extraordinary, as when I am working with a client, nothing lands, but then I
suppose I am in a different state and totally focused on them.
- Juliet has a spectacular ability to help people reach the deeper
levels of emotion rather than drowning in content
- The next morning my eyesight had cleared again, which is a sure
sign with me of a major shift.
- And lastly, listening to almost exactly what you have said coming
back from one of the actors has the most profound effect, it is nothing like
you saying these things to yourself in your internal dialogue or even out loud.
For those who are NLP Master Practitioners and have removed from
clients their critical voice, the Pesso Boyden system is like dealing with
several voices all in one hour, simultaneously.
Olive Hickmott for understanding how your mind effects your health
www.empoweringhealth.co.uk
Just wanted to re-iterate what a powerful experience I had last
Thursday, both watching and participating in others' structures and doing my
own. There were nuggets of gold and insights of differing shapes and sizes
throughout - most profoundly when I was able to touch a piece of the grief I
have been repressing over my parents' (and our family's) break-up. I had always
seen them as two totally separate entities, never entwined as a couple. I found
a few pictures of them together some time ago (they're few and far between)
that I now look at through totally different eyes. I can see the love they once
had for each other and me, and the fun they had together. There will be more
tears (and sounds, instead of swallowing?!) to come I'm sure, and they'll be
'good tears'. So thanks again to you for your skill, humility and visible
compassion and empathy. - Rupert, Family Mediator
Written by psychotherapist Fiona Perris 11 days after doing a
structure...she said I get 'Recurring sensations of my structure that I can
only describe as honeylike.'
I have a number of clients who I think would really enjoy your work and
you are one of the very few Group Leaders I would unreservedly recommend -
London-based UKCP psychotherapist
'I have gained so much benefit from observing other participant's
facilitations and taking roles if asked. This can be healing in itself. Hearing
someone's description of a situation, or even a phrase that resonates, has
prompted insights into my own behaviour that were previously out of my
awareness. Attending a Pesso workshop gives me the opportunity to recognise
things I think and do that don't serve me and a gentle, respectful and powerful
structure to work with them if I wish.' Carole Clements Therapeutic Coach and
Counsellor
'The most powerful and direct path to personal change I have come
across.' Simon Lawrence, Training Consultant and Coach
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