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Redeeming the Spirit: Counselling, Psychotherapy and Spirituality "Certainly there is within each of us a self that is…out of love with the ordinary; it is out of love with time. It has a hunger for eternity." ~ Mary Oliver By attending to the spiritual dimension of experience, psychotherapy and counselling acknowledges an intrinsic aspect of a person's life, which is not always recognised or lived. The consequences of this can be far reaching. And it is often through paying particular attention to spirituality in therapy that a person's life is given greater significance, sometimes profoundly so. For the practitioner, widening the therapeutic frame to give priority to spirituality can be challenging as well as enriching, and often demands a way of working which requires an ability to attune to the spiritual in the unique life of another, as well as to adopt a non-reductive therapeutic focus. This weekend offers an opportunity to consider the spiritual side of therapeutic practice from both practical and theoretical perspectives, and will include a consideration of the importance of the quality of the therapist's way of being and "presence", the use of imagination, specific therapeutic interventions and techniques, working with dreams, and creative explorations which take body's wisdom into account. EDINBURGH DATES: Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th May 2010 The Edinburgh weekend is now full, but will be offered again in 2011. Please register your wish to be notified of future dates by emailing Mike Wilson. GLASGOW DATES: Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th August 2010.
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