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Humans are by nature group and community-oriented. Group therapy is often the most valuable experience of psychotherapy you can ever have.

You were most likely born into a type of group, and your early experience of family, school or other group may influence you all your life. The nature of the bond between members of a therapy group allows you to experiment with your social behaviour. It is a place to grow interpersonally, to express feelings with spontaneity and immediacy, a forum for self-disclosure, for trust, for honest feedback and for staying in the here and now.

“Your great workshop has made a lasting impact for the good, and I am very grateful.” – R.

This can mean discovering your social acceptability and disassembling the defences you have put up in response to past hurts.

In a therapy group you learn to take greater individual responsibility, so that you can ask yourself ‘What am I learning about this person?’ rather than ‘What is this person doing to me?’

You can learn greater respect for others without diminishing yourself: ‘I’m not a copy of you, my characteristics are right for me and you may even come to value the ways in which I’m different from you.’

“Thank you so much for the two days of soul searching. I am always amazed by the power of the group.” – C.

Even if you have not had a personal history that included a healthy, nurturing family, the therapy group can give you a reparative and healing experience. By a ‘healthy’ family, I mean one in which every member had the right to self-worth, there was a sense of safety and effective communication, and there were rules that were explicit, defined and age-appropriate, along with plentiful links to the outside world and the community.

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Pesso Boyden Workshops

Workshop with accredited Pesso Boyden therapists Deborah Clarke and Marcus Gottlieb

Sunday 28th January 2024

Pesso Boyden Therapy (PBSP) is a powerful yet gentle and imaginative therapeutic technique for addressing entrenched issues. It will be introduced experientially and conceptually, and worked with in 4 or 5 individual client sessions each lasting about one hour.

We meet 6 times per year on either a Saturday or Sunday. The next dates are 17th March, 5th May, 13th July, 15th September and 9th November 2024.

Venue: Hammersmith, London W6
Time: 10.00 am - 5.00 pm

* More details on this Pesso Boyden Therapy Workshop, and also read here.

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Boarding School Survivors Workshop Programme

The pioneering 4-day workshop is spread over TWO WEEKENDS A FEW WEEKS APART. Participants are asked to commit to attending ALL 4 DAYS. The workshop has been running for two decades and was created and is still supervised by Nick Duffell, author of ‘The Making Of Them’.

NB. These courses are very popular so early booking is always strongly advised.

Men’s Course – Spring 2024

Part One: Saturday 09 MAR – Sunday 10 MAR 2024
Part Two: Saturday 18 MAY – Sunday 19 MAY 2024
Venue: Hampstead, North London.
Times: 10am (arrive by 9.45) to 6pm each day.
Cost: £650 (£250 deposit to secure place).

Women’s Course – Spring 2024

Part One: Saturday 24 FEB – Sunday 25 FEB 2024
Part Two: Saturday 06 APR – Sunday 07 APR 2024
Venue: Highgate, North London.
Times: 10am (arrive by 9.45) to 6pm each day.
Cost: £650 (£250 deposit to secure place).

Men’s Course – Autumn 2024

Part One: Saturday 21 SEP – Sunday 22 SEP 2024
Part Two: Saturday 02 NOV – Sunday 03 NOV 2024
Venue: Hampstead, North London.
Times: 10am (arrive by 9.45) to 6pm each day.
Cost: £650 (£250 deposit to secure place).

Women’s Course – Autumn 2024

Part One: Saturday 05 OCT – Sunday 06 OCT 2024
Part Two: Saturday 16 NOV – Sunday 17 NOV 2024
Venue: Highgate, North London.
Times: 10am (arrive by 9.45) to 6pm each day.
Cost: £650 (£250 deposit to secure place).

Men’s Course in North America (2024) 

Part One:  Wednesday 05 JUNE – Monday 10 JUNE

Part Two:  Friday 04 OCT – Sunday 06 OCT

Venue:  Nova Scotia, Canada

Costs & all other information:  Please request by email.

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Pesso Boyden Group with accredited practitioners Deborah Clarke and Marcus Gottlieb

Pesso Boyden Group with accredited PBSP practitioners Deborah Clarke and Marcus Gottlieb

Pesso Boyden Therapy (‘PBSP’) is a philosophical process for becoming whole.

It is a respectful, interactive group process that heals by embedding new memories in the brain and in the body

Most people consciously or unconsciously have memories – explicit or implicit – of 

1. deficits 

2. traumas 

3. having to take care of others when we were too young – e.g. protecting a sibling, providing the joy in the life of an unhappy parent, unconsciously becoming the ‘spouse’ of a widowed parent, or making the world right after hearing stories of injustice. 

When any of these three categories of memory appear in the client’s work, the client and therapist work together to externalise them, in order to illuminate the client’s ways of handling life and to facilitate change. The client is always in charge of this process – people and incidents from the client’s past will be symbolised in the here-and-now either by people in the group or by objects in the room, all chosen and placed by the client. 

The therapist then works with the client to facilitate an antidote to what happened in the past – a new memory which provides what the client needed at that particular time in their past, from a specific kinship figure. This new memory may be developed over several sessions in a number of steps. In the Pesso approach we don’t change our history; however, we do change our response to our history, leading to a new perspective. 

The way is opened to possibilities of greater pleasure, satisfaction, meaning, integration and connectedness.

 



Deborah has worked as a Performance Coach for over 16 years having trained with Coach U. Her background is in the arts as an actor, theatre director and artistic director. She has worked with a wide range of people from all walks of life. Having first encountered Pesso Boyden as a client, she felt inspired to do the training herself. Since graduating in 2013 she has been running Personal Development workshops using the Pesso Boyden system and is now accredited by the official PBSP U.K. organisation.

Notting Hill Therapist | Marcus Gottlieb Psychotherapist & Counsellor
Marcus Gottlieb is a highly experienced London-based psychotherapist with a particular interest in boarding school survivor syndrome. Having trained alongside Deborah directly under Al Pesso and his closest collaborator Lowijs van Perquin, he is steeped in the work of PBSP and a strong believer in the client’s genetic impulse towards health and expression of their unique potential and individual destiny. He became an accredited Pesso Boyden therapist in 2021.
An Introduction to the Pesso Boyden Method

 

An opportunity to learn about and observe the distinctive techniques of this respectful body-based psychotherapy.

Suitable for both psychologically interested professionals, people seeking personal development/CPD and for people not in the therapeutic professions seeking to address entrenched issues. For all those who are interested in living a larger life. A special price of £35 for the day includes lunch and refreshments. CPD certificates will be available.

PBSP (Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor) is a powerful, deeply respectful, psychotherapeutic process that uses feedback, ritual, objects and role players in a unique manner to heal the traumas, wounds and losses that affect our personal map of the world.

Its central goal is the imaginative creation of an ‘ideal’ healthy past that a person’s brain processes so that they emerge feeling differently about themselves. As Albert Pesso said, ‘Humanity is responsible for the meaning that surrounds us. The task for each person is to create a meaningful life and then live it with existential courage and passion.’

As well as gaining new perspectives, clients often experience increased pleasure, satisfaction, meaning and connectedness following a PBSP session and find themselves psychologically freer to make the changes they wish for in their lives.
Date: Saturday 7 October 2017
Venue: Notting Hill, London W11
Time: 10.00 am – 4.30 pm
Cost: £35 (inc lunch & refreshments)

 

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Boarding School Survivor Syndrome Conference

BOARDING SCHOOL: Surviving the Syndrome
Broken Attachment and Childhood Trauma

University of Brighton

Saturday 9 September 2017
9.30 am to 5.00 pm

Conference for psychotherapists, counsellors, mental health workers, boarding school survivors and other interested people.

Conference overall aims are to:
§ Present key aspects of what has been published about the psychological and other effects of boarding.
§ Explore helpful therapeutic approaches for clients who are former boarders.
§ Consider current research and a possible agenda for future research
§ Enable networking amongst those interested in this important topic

Chair: Pam Howard, School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton.

Speakers: Nick Duffell, Joy Schaverien, Alex Renton, Thurstine Basset, Anni Townend, Olya Khaleelee.

Group Discussion Facilitators: Marcus Gottlieb, Leslie Lund, Nicola Miller, Simon Partridge, Boarding Concern Directors.

For more details, contact Laura Williams:
southcoastevents@brighton.ac.uk

Pesso Boyden Workshop with Ana María Ruiz Sancho and Marcus Gottlieb

 

Pesso Boyden Therapy is a respectful and highly respected, body-based psychotherapy with distinctive techniques aimed at addressing entrenched issues. It is an interactive process that creates new body-based memories to heal emotional deficits of the past.

An exceptionally powerful personal development tool, it uses feedback, systematic procedures, objects and role players in a unique methodology, in order to repair the early traumas, wounds and losses that can powerfully influence the brain’s map of the world.

In shifting underlying perspectives, the way is opened to the possibility of greater pleasure, satisfaction, meaning and connectedness, and an enhanced freedom to effect longed-for changes.

It is expected there will be between 8 and 12 participants, with an absolute maximum of 15. The day will start with an explanation of Pesso Boyden and an experiential introduction, followed by 4 actual client sessions of an hour each.

Venue: Philadelphia Association, 4 Marty’s Yard, London NW3 1QW
Date: Saturday 3 June 2017
Time: 0930 to 1800
Cost: £75

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Ana María Ruiz Sancho is an experienced psychiatrist and a psychotherapist. She is also a specialist in group dynamics and an Institutional and Team Motivation Consultant.

Ana is the Founder and a Director of VocAcción, as well as being a qualified Pesso Boyden psychotherapist.


Notting Hill Therapist | Marcus Gottlieb Psychotherapist & Counsellor

Marcus Gottlieb works with relationships, sexuality, abuse and trauma, with a particular interest in boarding school survivor syndrome. Qualified in Pesso Boyden as well as other psychotherapies, he is also an Alexander Technique teacher.

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