Week of October 31-November 5, 2010

The Bioenergetics of Emotional Healing: Addiction, Codependency and Other Relational Wounds

This workshop is about healthy relationships in love, friendship, and daily life with a focus on how to nurture our own vitality when we long for more authentic, safe, or rewarding connections. Bioenergetic techniques offer an opportunity to develop our capacity for healthy contact and personal boundaries, which make it easier to stay grounded and authentic in every relationship and situation.

Pleasure is essential for healthy relationships. Add the erotic element and the potential for pleasure grows exponentially. But whether in love or friendship, whether in same- or opposite-gender relationships, the reality of sustaining delight in one another over time is often a mystery and a struggle. We substitute old avoidance patterns for intimacy as we play out roles we developed during traumatic childhoods and adolescences. Or, we repeatedly act and react out of fear, sadness, or rage, keeping our relationships locked in the "cultural missionary position." Giving up carefully honed pain avoidance habits releases new energies for the pursuit of personal fulfillment in relationships.

This workshop can help individuals and couples identify myths that block the flow of joy. By redefining the role of pleasure in our lives, we can update our sexual and sensual selves, explore new language that more honestly communicates our desires, and encourage each other to approach our gender gaps with intention rather than fear, and assertion rather than suspicion. We will follow our instincts for pleasure into enriching and creative moments of wholeness. Come alone or with an intimate.

CEUs available for psychologists.

CEUs available for MFTs and LCSWs.

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