WORKSHOP: Environmental Constellations |
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| Saturday 18th July and Sunday 19th July 2009 | Full Price: £170 (Early Booking price available until [date] - see booking form) | Trainer: Zita Cox | |
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10am - 5pm Each day |
Download a booking form here (word) | Enquiries@petrust.org.uk | |
| A 2 day Eco-Psychology Workshop Part of the Joint Re.Vision and Psychosynthsis & Education Trust Joint Programme - Public Studies "For my part I feel Darwin's
is a glorious vision. I love the notion that we are literally related
to all other creatures - that apes are our sisters, and mushrooms are
our cousins, and oak trees and monkey puzzles are our distant aunts. Conservation,
on such a view, becomes a family affair." Eco-Psychology work allows us to transform our relationships to other species and to the Earth itself, enabling us to expand our thinking and find unexpected solutions and resolutions to our problems and our conflicts. It introduces empathy and love into the mix of fear and guilt which so often afflicts thinking about environmental problems. Environmental catastrophes surround us: desertification, flooding, the melting of the polar ice caps, the Amazon Rainforest on the point of collapse and mass species extinction. These catastrophes are increasingly acknowledged as symptomatic of the spiralling effects of climate change - a consequence of the increasing conflict between mankind and the Earth as mankind struggles to meet his needs. Thinking systemically about these issues is essential to ensure that a solution to one malady does not become the cause of another. The bio-fuels solution to carbon emissions is in danger of increasing the pressure on eco-systems by destroying wildlife and human habitats, causing species extinction and taking land away from food production. Therefore an intended solution may become an aggravator of climate change and a source of future conflict. Since 2002 I have been using the constellation method to explore these issues. Constellations offer us an amazingly versatile tool with which to think systemically about environmental issues thus creating ways to explore and change attitudes and to develop new philosophical, political and spiritual responses and strategies to current and future dilemmas. Time and again I have witnessed profound and unexpected solutions, radical
yet realistic ideas and new and healing attitudes emerge from constellations
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| Zita Cox : Zita currently works
as a facilitator of Environmental Constellations for individuals and organisations.
Her training and work expanded to include wilderness therapy, equine-assisted
psychotherapy, eco-psychology and family systems constellations in the 1990s.
Her interest in constellations led to two years' intensive training in Systemic
Constellations with Dr Albrecht Mahr who worked for many years with Bert
Hellinger in Germany. Zita then applied the constellation technique to issues
relating to the environment, with very interesting results.
Previously Zita worked for 18 years as an integrative counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor both in private practice and in the NHS. Zita also worked as a coach and consultant for managers in both the corporate and voluntary sectors. She has a Person-Centred Counselling Diploma from Metanoia, additional training in Gestalt, and a Masters Degree in Counselling Supervision and Training from Bristol University. Zita's first degree is in Philosophy; she sees environmental constellations as contributing towards a necessary shift in our thinking, which 'Earth Scholar' Thomas Berry refers to as 'the great turning'. Zita has facilitated Environmental Constellations in Britain, California and New Zealand. She has written an article on Environmental Constellations, 'A Different Kind of Field Trip', published in 'The Knowing Field' January 2007. She contributed a chapter on Trauma to 'Balancing Acts: Studies in Counselling Training' edited by Hazel Johns (Routledge (1998)). She completed a research paper into Bystanding and Intervention in extreme situations in 1995. |
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This workshop / seminar will be held at:
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The Psychosynthesis & Education Trust,
There are often limited spaces - so book early to avoid disappointment.
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