Selves in Action
- Two Day Workshop
Held in Bristol
Date (2010) to be announced
Led by Adrian Longstaffe & Russell Fleet
Click on the topics below to find out more...
- Meeting the Different Parts of Ourselves
- Give me some examples
- Why work with Subpersonalities?
- The Tools
- The Workshop Ethos
- The Leaders
- Logistical Details
- Contact Details
Selves in Action
Have you ever noticed how we can -- think, behave, react, feel -- in radically different ways depending on circumstances, physical health, who we are or what is going on in our lives. One way of looking at the human psyche is to understand it as a group of so-called "subpersonalities" each of which is capable of operating as an independent person for shorter or longer periods of time.
Give me some examples
Some of these subpersonalities are role associated -- the mother or the boss for instance. Others operate to keep us safe -- the protector, the controller. Yet others are young -- inner children -- and others are gender-based -- inner male and female. There are ones which run us -- the critic is a good example here -- and others we don't know about but which influence us nevertheless.
Of course these names are only for convenience. Your inner family is a set of quite unique individuals and you may, as you get to know them, want to give them their own unique names.
Why work with subpersonalities?
Why would we want to know about these parts of ourselves?
Well -- although they all developed for good reasons -- and between them they have got us this far -- some of their viewpoints and ways of behaving may not be useful to us any longer. And, as in any outer family, they get into fights -- uncomfortable when they can't get away from each other! And these conflicts may not just be internal. I have noticed that, in relationship conflicts, it's usually one of my subpersonalities versus one of theirs. Knowing this can give us any number of ways of negotiating agreement.
So, this workshop will take a look -- from all sorts of angles -- at this inner family.
The tools
The tools we will use will include talking and listening, bodywork, Imagework (visualisation), shared ideas, and shared creativity. One of the most important processes is the opportunity for the facilitated presentation of some of these important subpersonalities to the group. This powerful process allows the group to support and witness the work as well as identifying with and recognising similar issues in themselves.
A rich journey which will move from mind to heart and back again bringing these into healthy working relationship.
The workshop ethos
These workshops are designed for you to work personally and for you to get what you need. They are also designed to empower the process by supporting other people -- this concept of mutual support is one of the ingredients which makes it safe to go on these inner journeys. We get inspired by each other.
As part of the boundaries designed to hold you and the work safely, you will be asked to sign a simple ethics form in advance of the workshop. Nothing out of the ordinary, but it is good to make this explicit.
This workshop comes from the traditions of theatre and of personal development. It is not a therapy workshop. Part of the work will involve you presenting yourself and your process to a supportive group -- although this may seem scary at first, it can be a powerful and inspiring place to get witnessed as who you are.
The Leaders
Adrian
Longstaffe
Adrian has worked as a teacher in more than six careers including veterinary
medicine, choreography, acting training and educational technology. He graduated
as a psychotherapist in 2000 and leads the internationally famous personal development
workshop "The Mastery".
"I have spent the last five years in leadership training, gaining the Diploma in Leadership of the Institute for Creativity in 2003. My experiences across the fields of academia, personal development and theatre have resulted in a fascination with the training of actors -- one of the few groups of people for whom the taking of emotional risk is part of the job description. Subpersonality theory is one of the most useful ways of looking at the human psyche and there are versions of this in almost every flavour of psychotherapeutic work -- this is material which should be more available to everyone."
"One of my aims is to enable people to walk their emotional universe with the same confidence that they walk their intellectual universe -- balancing the rational with the non-rational."
Russell
Fleet
Russell has been around the Mastery since 1995 when he trained at the Actors
Institute, the originators of the work. Since then he has been a professional
actor and moved into health promotion in 2000, training to lead a number of
workshops aimed at improving people’s self-efficacy. He is most proud
of his work over the last 8 years as a trainer of Assertiveness, an intensive
personal development course which looks at what stops us asking for what we
want and is most closely related to the Mastery in approach and outcome.
Since 2005 Russell has been on a further stage of his journey toward leading
the Mastery and will be experiencing Selves in Action as part of it.
Logistical Details
Date:
2010/11 -- to be announced
Times:
-- this is a two-day workshop:
Start: -- 9.00 for 9.30 am
Finish: -- 7.30 PM (approximate timing)
Cost:
£145
Booking:
Deposit
£30* -- Click here
for a form to express interest
Earlybird discounts
Pay deposit by 8 weeks in advance and save
£5
Pay the balance 4 weeks in advance and save
a further £15
*Returnable less a £15 administration fee if cancelled more than 28 days from the workshop. Returnable subsequently only if we can replace with someone on a waiting list.
Venue
The Studio
24 Clifton Wood Road
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 4TW
Numbers:
Limited to 8 people
Contact Details
J. Adrian Longstaffe
Interactive Consultancies
24 Clifton Wood Road
Bristol
BS8 4TW
Tel: 0117 926 2456
E-mail: information@interactive-consultancies.co.uk
© Adrian Longstaffe
July 2010