UPCOMING AWARD WINNING WORKSHOPS TO SUPPORT MEN
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ONLINE Workshop: Lives of Quiet Desperation: Therapeutic Work with Men
with Simon Roe and Lee Stagles
When: Thursday 14th and Friday 15th September 2023
Alternative dates: Thursday 14th and Friday 15th December 2023
Extra Early Booking Discount runs out on 14th July 2023
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ONLINE Talk: A Hunger for Healing Men’s Issues – a Talk for Men and Women: A 2 hour talk for Men and Women with William Ayot & Simon Roe
When: Wednesday 6th Sep 2023 13.00-15.00 BST Online
Cant make it? You can pre-purchase the recording of the event for £10 here: Click to Pre-purchase recording for £10
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ONLINE Workshop: Lives of Quiet Desperation Therapeutic work with men
with Simon Roe and Lee Stagles
An online workshop for men and women who are therapists, counsellors, social / health care workers and interested individuals.
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Date: Thursday 14th and Friday 15th September 2023
ALTERNATIVE DATES : Thursday 14th and Friday 15th December 2023
Time : 9am - 1pm (BST) on both days.
LOCATION : Online
TRAINERS : Simon Roe & Lee Stagles, Scroll down to see more about the trainers
COST : £99 if booked by 14th July 2023 Please note this price will show at the final check out
£115 if booked by 1st August 2023
Full price £135
‘Most men lead lives of quiet desperation (& go to the grave with the song still in them) ‘
The above quote, paraphrased from Henry Thoreau, seems as distressingly apt today as it did when it was written over 150 years ago. Despite the advances made by feminism, the ‘new age’ & the ‘men’s movement’ men are still notoriously reluctant to present for any kind of therapeutic support. Yet levels of depression, violence & suicide in men, particularly young men, are worryingly high. What is it that leads to this state of affairs? How, as practitioners, can we engage effectively with men? What unconscious biases or prejudices might we be holding that will interfere with or sabotage our work?
This training will provide participants with hands-on experience of a range of methods & approaches, which they can take away and add to their to add to their tool kits, including personal reflection, group and pair work, creativity, poetry & story.
Some of the topics we will explore include:-
· Not measuring up’ – men and shame
· ‘Boys don’t cry’ – men and grief
· The dangers of ‘nice’ men
· The ‘boy code’ – breaking the silence
· Working with men’s anger & violence
· Men and sex
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Feedback from previous ‘Lives of Quiet Desperation’ participants
‘Simon’s depth of experience in running workshops for and about men was clearly evident. I recommend his course.’
‘This is the first time I have been able to grieve for my father – thank you.’
‘Simon’s workshop is very apposite; much needed at this time. He invites us to look very squarely and honestly at the male and masculine archetypes and find value and integrity. A challenging workshop for therapists and the therapy culture.’
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Simon Roe originally trained as a body psychotherapist with Nick Totton & Em Edmondson and has nearly 30 years’ experience of working with individuals and groups. For the last 25 years’ he has worked almost exclusively with men & teenage boys in a variety of settings including 1-1 psychotherapy, domestic violence work and Rites of Passage events.
He is a Respect approved trainer & supervisor www.respect.uk.net for domestic violence practitioners and is the director of Two Wolves Consultancy and Training www.twowolvesconsultancy.co.uk. Simon has recently completed a foundation course in Process Oriented Psychology
www.processworkuk.org – an approach which increasingly informs his practice.
Simon is a fully accredited member of the Association of Facilitators www.associationoffacilitators.co.uk
Lee Stagles is an embodiment coach, event manager, men’s work leader and facilitator working freelance mainly with men. Using story, nature and movement, he supports his clients to a better understanding of themselves and then equip them with the tools and practices to support achieving their goals.
MAXIMUM NUMBERS: This workshop will have a maximum of 23 participants
CANCELLATIONS: Any request to change (eg defer to alternative dates) or cancel your place at a workshop, that is made at less than 21 days before the course start date will be charged in full. Any cancellation / amendments / requests to defer before 21 days, will be subject to a 12.5% handling charge.
CPD FORM: A Certificate of Attendance form for Continuous Professional Development for 7 hours will be sent by email once you have filled in the feedback form.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: If you have further questions please email: [email protected] or call Juliet Grayson on 01291 638805
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Organised through Sleeping Mountain Ltd
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A Gift for you
Tears On The Drum
For R.B.
We are standing together, my long-lost brother and I,
On the sloping deck of a holed and dying luxury liner.
We are sharing a fine cigar because we have no jokes.
He is talking about the grandfathers who went before.
Today I understand, how these proud men,
Lonely and afraid, could rise up smiling
In far-off, strange, unhallowed places
With mud on their tongues and tears on the drum;
How they could gather, to pick sweet poppies,
The red, red poppies, and when they were gathered,
To walk together, into the morning,
The misty morning, and die together.
We need to weep awhile, my long-lost brother and I
But we both know the score - there's never the time.
So we wave once more at the distant boats. Then
We smile, hold hands, and walk down into the water.
© William Ayot
The Inheritance
Sleeping Mountain Books
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