The Heart of Intimacy: A Relationship Workshop
With Don and Diane St John
True intimacy has two sustaining components: closeness and freedom. It is a dynamic process not a state. To the degree that we feel confident in our ability to “feel and deal,” (to stay in the arena when emotions, feelings, significance, or meanings are high without attacking or withdrawing), we can welcome intimacy.
Sustaining an emotionally intimate sexual relationship over time takes heart, comprehension, skill, support, courage and more. How many of us had models or teaching to learn how, or even what, this means?
Individuals and couples are welcome!
Dates: Friday, May 31st and Saturday, June 1st 12:00 noon to 6:00. Sunday, June 2nd, 12:30-6:30.
Investment: $295 for individuals, $525 for couples. Payment can be made on our PayPal account.
Cancellation Policy: If you are unable to attend and you cancel before April 30th, 2019, you will be refunded the full amount minus a $ 50.00 administration fee. Cancelling after April 30th and before May 15th, you will forfeit one half of your registration fee. After May 15th, there will be no refunds (unless we are able to fill your place in the workshop).
About the Facilitators
Dr. Don studied Gestalt Therapy at the LA Gestalt Therapy Institute, and Neo-Reichian therapy with Drs. Allan Darbonne and Jack Lee Rosenberg; the Psychology of Selves and Voice Dialogue Method with Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone; Hakomi with Dr. Ron Kurtz, Coherence Therapy with Dr. Bruce Ecker, AEDP with Dr. Diana Fosha and CIMS with Dr. Albert Sheldon and Beatriz Winstanley. Don has taken immersion courses and core training in Dr. Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Couple’s Therapy. He is a Trainer Emeritus in Hellerwork Structural Integration and is certified in Somatic Experiencing (SE), the trauma work of Dr. Peter Levine. For 18 years, Don has been practicing and now teaching Continuum Movement, developed by Emilie Conrad. Don’s doctoral dissertation focused on the consequences of and recovery from relational maltreatment in early childhood.
Diane draws from many years of working with individuals and studying diverse body-oriented, movement and energetic systems. Diane is an authorized Continuum Movement Teacher, and certified in Somatic Experiencing (SE) – the trauma work of Dr. Peter Levine as well as Hellerwork Structural Integration. Diane is experienced in the Psychology of Selves and Voice Dialogue and AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy). Currently she is using EVOX as a system to assist in helping clients shift their perceptual views and understandings.