THE WORLD BETWEEN US a ‘worldwork’ approach to addressing diversity and rank issues in personal and professional relationships

Date: 27/11/2009

Audience: Clients, Counsellors and Psychotherapists

Location:
Central London

Contact:  Stanya Studentova Mgr. Dipl PW

Further Details:

Workshop days: November 27 eve, 28-29, 2009
with Anup Karia and Stanya Studentova, www.astafacilitation.net

In this two and half day workshop we will focus on diversity in its deepest sense and how it plays out in our personal and professional relationships and how to facilitate this flow. Relationships (be they with one ‘other’, our families, communities or teams) can be dramatic! We may experience in different moments love, loneliness, hate, longing, conflict, desperation ….

Diversity, by which we mean both the more visible including culture, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class, disability, age as well as the less visible which includes the emotional, spiritual and transpersonal, often lies at the heart of most relationships. Diversity brings with it both immense richness and attraction as well as difficulties and conflicts.

WORLDWORK and RELATIONSHIPS
We would like to re-think and re-experience our ideas about relationships and bring in Worldwork perspectives which will help us to view our own relationship challenges as aspects of collective (world) processes, including our personal and collective histories.

Worldwork helps us to notice how the field expresses itself in different ways including in our relationships; how social oppressions, rank, power and dominance issues in the world are reflected in our relationship patterns in a continuum of almost unbroken wholeness.

Worldwork, is based on the principle of ‘Deep Democracy’, the idea that sustainable relationship and community life depends on our diversity and the interaction of all parts of our experience.
We will learn how through unfolding these disturbances creatively we have the potential to both bring awareness and evolution to our relationships and contribute to our communities and the world rather than just feel at the mercy of these dynamics.

Who is it for?
This workshop is meant for anyone who is interested in learning more about relationships whether personal and/or professional. For those who are interested in contributing more to a related community life. It is also intended for relationship and family therapists and team & organisational consultants

In the workshop we will:

• Learn a new framework of thinking about relationships which have the potential to bring fresh and sustainable solutions.
• Explore the Taoist approach of Worldwork which helps us to view our rank and privilege as source of empowerment and creativity in our relationships and in the world
• Play and experiment together using innovative methods including art and theater to develop attitudes for recycling the energy of relationship conflicts more sustainably in ways that address both the content of the fight and also the underlying social, emotional and spiritual differences between people.
• Explore ways to connect to the deeper spiritual bond that exists between people and is difficult to express but is periodically felt by many of us.