The Sacred Art of Relating Retreat
Invigorate your relationship through the Art & Practice of mindfulness,
dance, psychotherapy, adventure, sexuality, passion, presence &
the SAVE relationships Inventory
Hepburn Springs
(CPD 15 points)
April 24-26th 2015
A closed couples retreat for therapists (with couples focus) and their partners
- 10 couple limit
with facilitators
Nic Morrey, Carla Van Laar & Ostii Ananda
This retreat is specifically designed for personal development and professional development... for Couples therapists only and their partners. You are likely aware that by being a couples therapist does not necessarily mean our own relationship is free from issues brought up in counselling. Relating as a therapist in your own relationship is boring, anxiety provoking, frustrating and generally inappropriate, especially if one of you have this supposed skill set whilst the other is trying to stay on top of your latest theories about what you should be doing to improve your relationship. The sacred art of relating is to give in to a 3rd force. Not you, not to your partner, but rather the space in between the two of you. Furthermore, even for the most experienced relaters, and with years of couples therapy behind you, to further deepen your relationship requires testing new holding containers such as in the way this retreat will hold you both within an intimate small group structure over a whole weekend.
Working as a group, as a couple and individually, you will discover new tools to support healthy and happy relating that are applicable in your everyday life, for you both and secondarily your clients, whilst enjoying an immersion in an exquisite location in Hepburn Springs. This is an opportunity for both of you to reach your highest potential of relating to each other.
Working as a group, as a couple and individually, you will discover new tools to support healthy and happy relating that are applicable in your everyday life, for you both and secondarily your clients, whilst enjoying an immersion in an exquisite location in Hepburn Springs. This is an opportunity for both of you to reach your highest potential of relating to each other.
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Our retreats are for couples of all orientations who may be:
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Discover:
How men and women think and feel differently How to unravel shame for yourselves and for your clients Who distances and who persues and when Who from the past, is affecting your present relationship
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A non-negotiable of being in relationship is to study your own reactivity. This includes facing childhood wounds as well as taking a further step back into genealogical patterns which made you who you are. Looking at genealogical patterns makes who you are less personal. 95% of who you are comes from the past, with only 5% capacity remaining to curb the influence from ancestry and change your embedded neural pathways, brain synapses and temperament. Many of us try to change our partner and others to think like we do, and this is as close as most people get in the attempt to create change. It doesn’t work. An antidote to our reactivity and anxiety is engaging ourselves with all of our relational parts. In the search for wholeness, the SAVE Relationships Inventory helps us identify our disconnected parts which require reintegration.
The themes for this weekend retreat will be a further exploration into Passion, Safety, Reactivity & Metagenealogy. When exploring intimacy, the key issues to emerge are safety and trust. Progress can be seen in the quality of passion and playfulness maintained in the relationship. If these qualities are not there from the beginning, they need to be discovered and embraced for deeper levels of safety and trust to emerge between the couple. If you or your partner offer passion and energy, it needs to be cultivated and channelled (Sublimation). If not, needs will either be repressed or fulfilled with others, both of which dull your energy as a couple.
The aim of this retreat is to bring Eros forward via the study of our own reactivity. We hope you can join us.
Before arrival, please complete the SAVE Relationships Inventory & the Tree of Life Relationships Inventory and bring your print out of results. This temperament sorter and set of action plans will help you with the weekend exercises.....Thanks
The themes for this weekend retreat will be a further exploration into Passion, Safety, Reactivity & Metagenealogy. When exploring intimacy, the key issues to emerge are safety and trust. Progress can be seen in the quality of passion and playfulness maintained in the relationship. If these qualities are not there from the beginning, they need to be discovered and embraced for deeper levels of safety and trust to emerge between the couple. If you or your partner offer passion and energy, it needs to be cultivated and channelled (Sublimation). If not, needs will either be repressed or fulfilled with others, both of which dull your energy as a couple.
The aim of this retreat is to bring Eros forward via the study of our own reactivity. We hope you can join us.
Before arrival, please complete the SAVE Relationships Inventory & the Tree of Life Relationships Inventory and bring your print out of results. This temperament sorter and set of action plans will help you with the weekend exercises.....Thanks
Investment:
$800 Couple price king/queen bed accommodation
Cost includes
$800 Couple price king/queen bed accommodation
Cost includes
- All meals (inc Friday night dinner, -Saturday breakfast, lunch & Dinner, -Sunday breakfast & lunch) All meals are Vegetarian/Vegan
- 2 nights accommodation
- WiFi
- Retreat manual/SAVE relationships inventory
Venue:
Continental house
9 Lone Pine Avenue HEPBURN SPRINGS VICTORIA
http://www.stayz.com.au/accommodation/vic/macedon-spa-country/hepburn-springs
Timetable:
Friday 24th April check in 2pm-6pm
Friday 6:30pm - 10pm
Saturday 8am - 11pm
Sunday 8am - 4pm
with 2 hour lunch breaks each day!
Continental house
9 Lone Pine Avenue HEPBURN SPRINGS VICTORIA
http://www.stayz.com.au/accommodation/vic/macedon-spa-country/hepburn-springs
Timetable:
Friday 24th April check in 2pm-6pm
Friday 6:30pm - 10pm
Saturday 8am - 11pm
Sunday 8am - 4pm
with 2 hour lunch breaks each day!
Nic Morrey:
Psychologist, (BSS Hons; MPsych Child & Family; M.A.P.S) Musician, Yoga & Zen practitioner, has over 16 years experience in the Community Health sector & now works privately in Melbourne helping singles & couples heal. Nic has been running The Sacred Art of Relating retreats in Bali for a number of years and is now running it in Melbourne for the first time. His teaching style is influenced by his experiences in Hakomi, Insight Meditation, Mondo Zen, The Diamond Approach, Integral Psychotherapy & PACT (psycho-neurobiological approach to couples therapy).
Nic is also the Victorian Convener for the Australian Psychological Society’s Transpersonal Psychology Interest Group and author of the Save relationships inventory which will be available on retreat and be used to unravel your temperament, the purpose of romantic love, how romantic love goes wrong, the science of attraction, how to deepen intimacy, and to learn effective couples dialogue. Nic is also a husband (married for 20 years), a father of two children (9 & 13 years) and also cares for 2 rabbits, 6 lizards, 2 cats, 1 dog, 6 fish & many tadpoles. http://www.integralpsychology.org/
Nic is also the Victorian Convener for the Australian Psychological Society’s Transpersonal Psychology Interest Group and author of the Save relationships inventory which will be available on retreat and be used to unravel your temperament, the purpose of romantic love, how romantic love goes wrong, the science of attraction, how to deepen intimacy, and to learn effective couples dialogue. Nic is also a husband (married for 20 years), a father of two children (9 & 13 years) and also cares for 2 rabbits, 6 lizards, 2 cats, 1 dog, 6 fish & many tadpoles. http://www.integralpsychology.org/
Carla Van Laar:
With over twenty years experience as an art therapist, Carla has a deep commitment to creativity and the arts as ways of enriching the lives of individuals, communities and our global society. Carla has worked within clinical and management settings in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region in the contexts of psycho-social care, custodial environments, mental health services, with survivors of trauma, and as an educator at RMIT University, MIECAT, Whitecliffe University and Phoenix Institute.
Carla loves to work with others with similar values, holding the belief that “Together we create ripple effects that continuously expand. When we work together using the arts and our imaginations, the amazing, surprising and unexpected become possible.” Carla will share a number of her artistic therapeutic tools to enhance connection and presence which can be applied within your own clinical practice.
Professional Doctorate in Experiential Arts Practice, MIECAT, expected graduation 2014, Master of Creative Arts Therapy, RMIT, 2001, Graduate Diploma, Creative Arts Therapy, RMIT, 1999
Carla loves to work with others with similar values, holding the belief that “Together we create ripple effects that continuously expand. When we work together using the arts and our imaginations, the amazing, surprising and unexpected become possible.” Carla will share a number of her artistic therapeutic tools to enhance connection and presence which can be applied within your own clinical practice.
Professional Doctorate in Experiential Arts Practice, MIECAT, expected graduation 2014, Master of Creative Arts Therapy, RMIT, 2001, Graduate Diploma, Creative Arts Therapy, RMIT, 1999
Ostii Ananda:
A yoga teacher and bodyworker, with years of exploration in tantra, sacred sexuality, massage, shamanism and dance, Ostii is deeply committed to a path of full authentic expression, both within ourselves and in relationship.
One of the organisers of Dancing Ground Festival, Ostii is also the founder of Pulse Brunswick, a centre for expression and connection practices and the home of his sunrise yoga classes.
The cornerstone of Ostii’s life practice is breath, sound and movement, which he has come to know as the doorways to emotional freedom and truth, and yoga as a practice available in every moment, rather than just on the mat.
He loves spending time pottering in the garden, retrofitting caravans and is kept very entertained by the antics of his beautiful nine year old son. Ostii’s greatest wish is to see everybody thrive, waking every morning happy to be alive and excited by the adventure of existence.
One of the organisers of Dancing Ground Festival, Ostii is also the founder of Pulse Brunswick, a centre for expression and connection practices and the home of his sunrise yoga classes.
The cornerstone of Ostii’s life practice is breath, sound and movement, which he has come to know as the doorways to emotional freedom and truth, and yoga as a practice available in every moment, rather than just on the mat.
He loves spending time pottering in the garden, retrofitting caravans and is kept very entertained by the antics of his beautiful nine year old son. Ostii’s greatest wish is to see everybody thrive, waking every morning happy to be alive and excited by the adventure of existence.
Registration and Payment:
Regisration and enrolment via email before payment please
(be quick as there are only 2 places left)
contactnicmorrey@gmail.com
Credit Card
April 24-26th 2015 Sacred Art of Relating Retreat
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or
Electronic Transfer
BSB: 638 120 Account: 8010072
Please include your surname &
code APRIL in the reference field
For further enquires
contact
Nic Morrey Ph: 0432 066 880
Regisration and enrolment via email before payment please
(be quick as there are only 2 places left)
contactnicmorrey@gmail.com
Credit Card
April 24-26th 2015 Sacred Art of Relating Retreat
http://www.trybooking.com/FVNZ
or
Electronic Transfer
BSB: 638 120 Account: 8010072
Please include your surname &
code APRIL in the reference field
For further enquires
contact
Nic Morrey Ph: 0432 066 880