The paradoxes of transcendence and incarnation - embodiment and disembodiment
Tuesday May 12th 2009
11am-6pm
 Full Price: £85 (see booking form for discounts) Trainer: Michael Soth

 

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A one-day experiential seminar with Michael Soth

"Our body and mind are not two, and not one. If you think that your body and mind are
two, that is wrong. If you think that your body and mind are one, that is also wrong. Our
body and mind are both two and one."
Shunryu Suzuki: 'Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind'

Spirit and flesh, energy and matter, psyche and substance, mind and body – many spiritual and transpersonal teachers have struggled with these polarities. Traditionally, transpersonal therapies have been pervaded by what Wilber calls the ‘European Split’ and have too easily drifted into neglecting the body, especially in its intersubjective dimension. Spiritual beliefs then can acquire a defensive function in the psyche and in therapy.
How we approach these essential conundrums, which are central to the nitty-gritty of the
transpersonal journey, is informed by our own sense of embodiment and disembodiment.
Our sense of embodiment is in turn dependent on how our mind and our body are relating: antagonistic or complementary, fused or dissociated, psyche indwelling in the soma (Winnicott) or the body-mind split. This day workshop will be an opportunity to explore your own experience, your assumptions and habits as well as your therapeutic practice in the paradoxicalmine-fields of the body-mind-spirit.

Michael Soth is an integral-relational Body Psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor (UKCP), living in Oxford, UK. Over the last 20 years he has been teaching on a variety of counselling and therapy training courses, alongside working as Training Director at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy.
Inheriting concepts, values and ways of working from both psychoanalytic and humanistic traditions, he is interested in the therapeutic relationship as a bodymind process between two people who are both wounded and whole. In his work and teaching, he integrates a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches, including transpersonal perspectives (e.g. Jungian & archetypal).
He has written numerous articles and is a frequent presenter at conferences. Extracts from his published writing (including several book chapters) as well as summaries of presentations are available at www.soth.co.uk.
He is currently organising a training for leaders and group facilitators, called The Communitas Project.
 
 
This workshop / seminar will be held at:

The Psychosynthesis & Education Trust,
92-94 Tooley Street, London Bridge,
London SE1 2TH

There are often limited spaces - so book early to avoid disappointment.