An experiential workshop exploring chronic pain and illness
Beyond 'Pain as invitation': A two-day experiential workshop on chronic pain and illness in therapy.
Are you looking to deepen your work with clients experiencing chronic pain and illness? Or are you a practitioner navigating your own journey with chronic pain, fatigue, or illness? This immersive workshop offers a relational body-centred approach that embraces both professional and personal experiences of long-term suffering.
About the workshop:
Chronic pain and fatigue are not just physical conditions - they shape identity, relationships, and emotional landscapes. As therapists, how can we meet these challenges with curiosity, attunement and a presence that fosters transformation? Over two days we will explore chronic suffering as a doorway to profound therapeutic work, integrating phenomenological focusing, somatic attunement, and the art of listening to symptoms as meaningful expressions.
This space is designed to support both those working with clients experiencing chronic illness and those who personally navigate these experiences, recognising the wisdom that can emerge for both perspectives.
What you'll gain:
- A deeper of chronic pain as a lived, embodied experience rather than a symptom to be "fixed".
- Techniques for working with the felt sense, allowing pain and fatigue to be fully expressed in a safe and therapeutic space.
- Practical tools for maintaining presence and curiosity in the face of complex and often overwhelming narratives.
- Insight into your own embodied responses as therapist, especially if you experience chronic pain or fatigue yourself, and how these shape the therapeutic process.
- A balance of experiential exercises, discussion, and reflective practice to ground theory in lived experience.
Who is this for?
- Practitioners working with clients experiencing chronic conditions.
- Practitioners who personally navigate chronic pain, fatigue or illness and want to explore how these experiences intersect with their work.
- Those interested in a relational, body-centred and experiential approach to long-term suffering.
This workshop offers a supportive environment where professional insight and personal experience are equally valued, fostering deeper connection, understanding, and growth.
To book please contact: mandy@relationalchange.org
Cost:
- Early Bird - £250 (before 31/3/25)
- Full price £300
- Lunch included both days.