Tuning in to vitality

With Shirley Summers and Mark Thomas

Shirley and Mark will be looking at vitality, novelty, energy and
creativity, the points at which we are most alive.
This course is suitable for therapists, counsellors, trainees and those
who have been involved in their own personal development.
If we are truly in touch with our vitality, freshness and creativity are
inevitable.
So says the seminal writer and leading developmental psychologist,
Daniel Stern. In his final book, Forms of Vitality, he explored dynamic
experience in the Arts, Psychotherapy and infant developmental
movement.
How then can we pay attention to this creative lively energetic potential,
which remains largely “hidden in plain view”?
How can we use these ideas to increase our understanding of how we
can best relate: to ourselves, to one another, and to the world?
Using movement, sound and voice, we will be looking to work in ways
which support and challenge us to connect to our vital selves. We will
be using Stern’s work to support us in looking at these questions.

25/26 October -2014
The Fellside Centre
Low Fellside, Cumbria
10am – 4.30pm
Cost: £150

Shirley and Mark trained respectively in Movement, Music and
Gestalt Psychotherapy. They have a deep interest in how therapists
can resource themselves through profound contact with the body and
how this can be translated in their contact with clients.

Shirley: MSc, Dip Gestalt Psychotherapy, Cert Ed, Dip Couns, UKCP
reg, works in private practice as a therapist, trainer and supervisor at
the Manchester Gestalt centre and in Cumbria. Originally trained in
Dance, Shirley’s current work is largely focused on integrating body
psychotherapy, developmental movement and Gestalt. For the past
three years Shirley has been working with Daniel Stern’s Forms of
Vitality.

Mark: Dip Gestalt Psychotherapy, Dip couns, UKCP reg, works in
private practice as a therapist, trainer and supervisor in North
London, with particular focus on both addictions and the arts.
A musician for 40 years, performing Classical, Jazz, Folk and
Improvisation, Mark had been the MD of several community choirs,
including Maspindzeli, the London based Georgian choir. Currently
Mark is focusing on integrating vocal body work and Gestalt. He is
also very fond of cats.

Contact Shirley: Shirley@moving-gestalt.co.uk
Contact Mark: markvernonthomas54@hotmail.com