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The Bigger Picture
This part of the website deals with issues in relation to 'the bigger picture'. Part of my journey has been wrestling with issues of sustainability and the bigger global picture. I am interested in how we can start to sit with the possibility, and some would say inevitability, of global ecological collapse. How do I and others start to deal with accepting this, as away of then starting to motivate ourselves to act.The fear involved when acknowledging this can be overwhelming. My own experience as a psychotherapist, including my own experiences as a client of therapy, would say that we will all have a tendency to want to defend against feelings that threaten ours sense of self, or that powerful feelings which are unacknowledged, can become somatised in a variety of ways.
I would welcome peoples thoughts, as my own develop, in relation to these areas, and will start to put any writing and links on the site that people feel are relevant and useful.
This is a really important organisation doing some great work for indigenous people and therefore for the values, community and relationships that offer hope for a sustainable future
http://www.survival-international.org/
Some good links:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007906.html
http://www.greatturningtimes.org/
http://www.joannamacy.net/html/great.html
Meeting of members (non members are welcome but will need to join overall cost 35 pounds inc. weekend)
Friday 8th October - Sunday 10th October
Location: Powder Mill Woods, Battle, East Sussex
Camping self catering
Cost: 15 Pounds
Meeting to discuss and share good practice in taking therapy practice into the outdoors. Members will be sharing practice in the form of workshops, exploring the question of 'why take therapy into the outdoors?' and also what therapeutic role does nature have in the therapeutic process?
Group will also be discussing roles and future direction of CAPO.
Email: m.jordan670@ntlworld.com
Previous events
Day Workshop: Sat 17th April, Stanmer Park, Brighton 10-4pm
Cost £60
Ecotherapy: exploring our therapeutic relationship with the natural world
A day exploring the therapeutic potential of the natural environment. Time will be given over to exploring ourselves in relation to the natural world. We will start the day with a social dreaming matrix, taking themes that emerge into experiential exercises exploring our therapeutic relationship with the natural world.
Tea and coffee provided please bring lunch to share
CPD certificate will be provided.
Please contact Martin Jordan for booking form or with any questions you may have.
Weekend Workshop:4th - 6th June 2010, Roeburndale Camping Barn, Middlewood, Nr Wray, Lancaster.
A Meeting of Minds in Nature
Cost £150 Cost includes barn/camping fees, particpants will need to bring food.
We will be working together in a group based in the secluded camping barn, or camping in tents in the meadow adjoining. We will venture out into the surrounding native woodlands and along the River Roeburn for contact with nature, and to explore emerging personal experience. There will be time for group process and personal reflection, as well as theoretical input and discussion.
This workshop will be suitable for both for therapeutic practitioners wanting to incorporate the natural environment within their work, and for those already working in this area to help develop ideas and skills further.
Wilderness immersion weekends. A chance to explore the process of ecotherapy and nature based therapy in more depth over a camping weekend.
•28th-30th Aug - ‘The Living Mountain’ - Rhinog Mountains, Snowdonia National Park. A weekend in the beautiful mountains of North Wales exploring the therapeutic potential of nature. Cost £100
Both weekends are camping or bunk barns, self catering.<