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A MAN and a WOMAN programme of workshops for Couples. Now in its second decade!

DANCING in the DARK

Our introductory residential course for couples in committed relationships.

Whether you want to enhance your relationship or are stuck, bored, tired from too much conflict, or gently drifting apart, this intensive weekend will give you a new perspective from which to see your relationship, your partner, and yourself.

Next course: 19th, 20th and 21st November 2010, Edinburgh

STOP PRESS - A BBC TV documentary by the company who made “The Monastery” and “The Convent” is proposed, filming a longer version of this weekend course. Selected couples pay no fees or accommodation expenses.

Please get in touch with us if you are interested to find out more.


Dancing in the Dark, our intensive residential course for couples in committed relationships, comes to Scotland.

19th, 20th and 21st November 2010, Friday 3pm till Sunday 5pm, Carberry Tower, Nr Mussleburgh, Edinburgh http://www.carberrytower.com/index.html

Course fees £250 per person + full board with lovely en suite accommodation, £152 per person.

Please don’t delay applying – there are limited places and only one course this year so we often have to turn people away.


KEEPING THE FLAME ALIVE and THE SEXUAL SOUL - awaiting new date

A follow-up week by the sea for couples who have already completed Dancing in the Dark.

In the Eden Roc Centre, San Feliu de Quixols, north of Barcelona, a 3-star hotel with gardens, pools, and private beach right on the Mediterranean Sea. This course runs only every other year.

Cost: course fees and administration €600 (Euros) p.p., plus accommodation (half board in double room) from only €50 (Euros) plus VAT (@7% currently) additional meals €12 payable to the venue. Childminding facilities can be arranged.

COMING SOON – “BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

Residential retreat in Advanced Relationship Skills in Southern France for couples who have worked with us before.


RELATIONSHIP THERAPY FOR COUPLES

If you are not interested in couple-courses you may prefer confidential intensive relationship therapy with Helena and Nick or with one of our graduate students.

We are also now offering intensive individual couplework sessions over a couple of days. Please ask for details.

Please email us to arrange an initial meeting in London or in SW France.

To check availability for courses or book sessions click the link below:

For more details see our brand new dedicated website: creativecouplework.com

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FOR PROFESSIONALS: Introductory courses in the theory and practice of Gender Psychology, suitable for wide range of professionals, and our Diploma Training in Creative CoupleWork, for therapists or coaches.

For all professional trainings the introduction and prerequisite for further training is our flagship course: Gender, Identity, Sexuality & Ground.

This course provides an in-depth introduction to our philosophy and methodology and is a complete course in itself.

The Entry Modules are available over 2 weekends in London, or a 5-day residential, or it may be arranged in-house.

Suitable for parents, teachers, social workers, parent-trainers, therapists and coaches - in fact all those interested in sex-education and/or the mechanisms of ‘sexual mirroring' and erotic transference.

If you want to book this course or tailor it to your organisation or training body please contact us.

These courses are highly innovative, combining experiential and theoretical inputs and are ideal for therapists, teachers, educators and parents. The are prerequisite for further training with us in Creative CoupleWork and Sexual Grounding Therapy.


E1 & E2: GENDER, IDENTITY, SEXUALITY & GROUND Residential 4-5-day module

An introduction to Gender Psychology & Sexual Grounding Therapy, and further training with us.

Next course: Thursday 10- Sunday 13 February 2011 - 4-day module residential or non-residential -

at our new home-counties venue St. Katharine's of Parmoor, Frieth, nr. Henley-on-Thames http://www.srpf.org.uk/ in superb countryside just outside of London and with legendary food!

Full CPD certificates will be provided. Trainers: Helenal Løvendal-Duffell and Nick Duffell.

Course fees: £450 individuals, £650 organizations, plus full board & accommodation in nice rooms, most with ensuite, from £110 per person. We handle all room bookings with the venue.


NEW COURSE: The Erotic Transference: A unique opportunity to join us for 4 non-residential days with Willem Poppeliers founder of Sexual Grounding Therapy® teaching for the first time in North London, with Valquria Martani & Helena Løvendal-Duffell.

Willem will present his developmental theory and a pragmatic body-work approach to Erotic Transference & Counter-transference.

Dates: Thursday 18 - Sunday 21 November 2010 - 10am till 5.30pm

Venue: The Active Birth Centre, Bickerton House, 25 Bickerton Road, London N19 5JT.

Willem will present his developmental theory and a pragmatic body-work approach to Erotic Transference & Counter-transference. Please contact us for brochure and further details.

Course fees: £550.00 per person.


Creative CoupleWork Post-graduate Diploma Training.

Relationship Therapy and Sexuality Therapy is probably the most effective tool for making real changes in people's lives. The next state-of-the-art Relationship Therapy Diploma Training starts early 2011.

We have designed our training programme to accommodate the needs of graduate counsellors and therapists, but the training is also open to individuals with relevant experience who wish to become Relationship Coaches.

Our Creative CoupleWork Diploma Trainings are aimed to train effective therapists in the satisfying but challenging art of couple therapy, and to serve the referral enquiries we receive from our popular book.

In 2011, due to public demand we begin our International Creative CoupleWork Diploma Training. This will take place over four 5-day modules May 2011; October 2011; March 2012; October 2012

Venue: The fabulous sea-side Eden Centre, Sant Feliu de Guixols, near Girona, Spain, boasting private beach, indoor and outdoor pools, Auyrvedic treatment and massage centre. In English, with possibilities of translation into German and French.

FOR MEN only.

Searching for the Father I found my Self - Quarterly on-going day groups for men in North London. Facilittaed by Nick Duffell, Darrel Hunneybell and Hank Earl

NEW GROUP STARTING APRIL 2010!

3 groups have been running for some years and spaces do become available. Ask for vacancy.

North London, non-residential 4 Saturdays or Sundays per year, 10am - 6pm. From £70 per day, concessions are available for young men.

Searching 1 dates: 13/12/08; 14/3/09; 6/06/09; 12/09/09; 12/12/09; 13/03/10; 12/06/10. Searching 2 dates: 14/12/08; 15/03/09; 7/06/09; 13/09/09; 13/12/09; 14/03/10; 13/06/10

Searching 3 dates: 18th Jan 2009; 26th April 2009; 26th July 2009; 11th October 2009; 19th January 2010; 18th April 2010

A non-residential weekend in London, near Hampstead Heath, Awaiting next dates.

A wild weekend for men who want something different and a prerequisite for the longer retreats.

Bring the young man in your family - perfect for fathers and sons!

Includes genderpsychology, bodywork, poetry and touches on the most critical subjects for men's awekening.


Images of Masculinity - A mythological ritual retreat in wild country, in search of our Sacred Dream.

Next course: 14 - 22 August 2010 - 8 days. Course starts 14/8/10 19.30, finishes 21/8 evening, depart 22/8/10 morning. Best flight out, 14/8/10 Ryanair Stansted 13.25 – arrive Rodez 16.05 Best flight back 22/8/10 Rodez 14.40 – arrive Stansted 15.25

Venue: An isolated former vinyard hidden between the forest and the river in a forgotten land between Albi and Rodez, in Southern France. Budget airines nearby. Nearest airport Rodez or Toulouse.

Course fees: £500, plus accommodation: 8 nights’ full board, lodging, refreshments, including delicious local cuisine and wine, in basic but beautiful accommodation, according to choice, are payable on arrival in local currency

Shared twin rooms: €425 (limited spaces); private riverside camping: €295 - mattress provided. Full details on application.

Open to those who have done at least one workshop with us before and want to awaken the King within them!


NEW - a weekend for men only.

THE FATHER'S HEART and THE MOTHER'S BODY

A residential intensive weekend in Somatic Soulwork in the home-counties easily accessible from London and the south.

awaiting new date.

£180 early-bird discount or £200 plus accommodation (approximately £140)

FOR WOMEN only.

Everything is born of Woman - that counts for your Mother too!

Exploring the inheritance from our female lineage and how this has effected our relationship to ourselves as women.

Facilitator: Helena Løvendal-Sorensen

Pre-requesite for the popular week-long retreat Woman Power Sex and Soul

Please note that this course will not run in 2009 due to Helena taking time out to write another book. Weekend courses for women only will be re-started in 2010. If you want to be kept up to date, please e-mail your interest and we will contact you.


Women, Power, Sex and Soul. A retreat for women. 25 August – 1 September 2010. A weeklong retreat for women only in wild country in Southern France.

How to live as powerful, sexual and soulful women in the 21st Century, with Tania Hosburn and Helena Løvendal-Sorensen

Venue: a secluded former vinyard in beautiful wild country between Albi and Rodez in Southern France. Budget airlines fly to Rodez and Toulouse.

Course starts 25/8/10 17.30, finishes 31/8 evening, depart 1/9/10 morning. Best flight out, 25/8/ Ryanair Stansted 11.35 – arrive Rodez 14.15. Best flight back 1/9/ Rodez 14.40 – arrive Stansted 15.25

Shared twin rooms: €395 (limited spaces). Private riverside camping: €255 (mattress provided) – full details on application.

Course and administration fees: £500. Accommodation: 7 nights’ full board and lodging, (payable in Euros):

MIXED GROUPS

Gender and Identity & Sexuality and Ground

Two part non-residential in London or 5-Day residential.

This course is perfect for parents, teachers, social workers, parent-trainers, therapists and coaches - in fact all those interested in sex-education and/or the mechanisms of ‘sexual mirroring' and erotic transference.

This course provides an in-depth introduction to our philosophy and methodology and is a complete course in itself.

Cost: From £400 individuals, £600 organisations, for both modules. Trainers: Helena Løvendal Sørensen and Nick Duffell. Both weekends must be attended.

E1 Gender & Identity 24-25/1/2009; E2 Sexuality & Ground 21-22/2/2009

SEXUAL GROUNDING THERAPY - the revolutionary new body-work approach to wholeness.

Sexual Grounding Therapy International Trainings.

The next Sexual Grounding Therapy®: Year I begins March 2011. Venue Eden Roc Centre, Nr. Barcelona - full details on application. Provisional dates and staffing:

Module 1: 27 March-1 April 2011 - Trainers: Robert Fischer & Helena Løvendal; Module 2: 15-21 June 2011- Trainers: Surahbi Fischer; Module 3: 23-29 October 2011 - Trainers: Valquria Martani Sarti and Helena Løvendal; Module 4: 25 - 31 March 2012 - Trainer

Sexual Grounding Therapy® Advanced Year: Awaiting new dates

There is a prerequisite course for those who have not worked with us before -see above Mixed Groups.

BOARDING SCHOOL SURVIVORS WORKSHOPS

Boarding School Survivors Workshops for men

A two weekend annual course for healing the wounds - open to all adult ex-boarders of any age.

Venue: North London next to Hampstead Heath - B & B list available

Men’s course 2010: Part 1: 30-31 October, and Part 2, 4-5 December.

NB. Both weekends must be attended since they are an integral part of the whole course.

cost £360.00 for both weekends. Early booking advised.


Boarding School Survivors workshops for women.

A two weekend annual course for healing the wounds - open to all adult ex-boarders of any age.

Venue: North London next to Hampstead Heath - B & B list available

Women’s course 2010: Part 1: 9-10 October, and Part 2, 13-14 November.

NB. Both weekends must be attended since they are an integral part of the whole course.

Cost £360.00 for both weekends. Early booking advised.


BSS Training for professionals

Specialist Training for professionals to work therapeutically with ex-boarder adults

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