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The Druid Way
2021

14 Jan

 

 

SOPHROLOGY: An overview and practice. A webinar for the British Psychological Society

Sophrology is a system of mind/body training and therapeutic intervention, developed by Professor Alfonso Caycedo over 50 years ago, which has achieved widespread recognition in the French-speaking world.

Drawing on the influences of Ludwig Binswanger and Existential Psychology, the work of Victor Frankl, Yoga and Buddhism, sophrology has only recently begun to cross the language barrier into the English-speaking world.

During this webinar, Philip Carr-Gomm will give an overview of the history of sophrology, its strengths and weaknesses, its key theories and techniques.

There will then be an opportunity to try out some sophrology, and discuss the topic in more detail with a Q&A session.

Philip Carr-Gomm Biography
While taking a degree in psychology at UCL, Philip decided to train as a Jungian analyst, but after two years of his own analysis in preparation, switched to a more transpersonal approach, and pursued his training at the Institute of Psychosynthesis. That was all a long time ago, and in the decades that followed, he maintained a private practice in psychotherapy, wrote books, and was asked to lead the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids. He developed their distance learning programme, and into this he introduced perspectives and techniques from transpersonal psychology. After thirty-two years, he retired from this role, and is now involved in the work of three institutes: the Institute of Psychosynthesis, where he acts as a non-executive director; the Synthesis Institute, where he works with clinical psychologist Dr Rosalind Watts in the integration programme for participants involved in research into the use of psilocybin for the treatment of depression; and the Sophrology Institute, which he has founded with colleagues, and which is focussed on teaching sophrology to psychologists, mindfulness teachers, coaches and the general public.

17 Feb

Preparing for a Thoughtful Death with Sophrology and the Story of the Seven Valleys: a talk for the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation, Mexico, online at 1700 GMT. Details

25 May

‘Looking into the Light’: Philip Carr-Gomm in conversation with Rev Peter Owen Jones,

Tuesday 25th May 2021   19.00 – 20.15 BST
on behalf of The Fintry Trust

In this series of sessions entitled Looking into the Light, Philip Carr-Gomm interviews a number of religious thinkers, making use of the power of conversation to enlighten, educate, perhaps even amuse and entertain, while focussing on the issues that really matter.

By talking with people who have devoted their lives to the spiritual quest, he hopes both to explore philosophical questions and to learn how their lives have been directed and transformed by their search.

Philip writes: “I first came across Peter Owen Jones, watching him on TV. I then met him personally and we became friends, and I got to know the man beneath the persona described by the media as ‘the maverick 21st century priest, spiritual explorer, TV presenter and author’. Every time I come away from a conversation with Peter I feel we’ve travelled deep and far – not only in the world of ideas but within the heart too.”

Rev Peter Owen Jones is an Anglican parish priest based in Sussex. He has written several books and is currently writing Conversations with Nature.  He has presented a number of award-winning programmes for the BBC including Extreme Pilgrim, Around the World in Eighty Faiths and England’s Mountains Green.

This is a live Zoom session including talk and questions.  Tickets: £15 to support the Trust.

Book online on the Fintry Trust website

31 - 31 Oct

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