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Lives of Quiet Desperation 13th and 14th February 2025
Lives of Quiet Desperation Therapeutic work with men
with Simon Roe and Lee Stagles
An online workshop for people who are therapists, counsellors, social / health care workers and interested individuals.
FEEDBACK FROM COURSE ATTENDEES:
‘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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Date : Thursday 13th and Friday 14th February 2025
Alternate Dates: Thursday 5th and Friday 6th June 2025 or Thursday 9th and Friday 10th October 2025 or Thursday 12th and Friday 13th February 2026
Time : 3pm – 7pm (GMT) on both days.
LOCATION : Online
TRAINERS : Simon Roe & Lee Stagles, Scroll down to see more about the trainers
COST : £99 if booked by 13th December 2024
£115 if booked by 13th January 2025
Full price £135
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‘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
Listen to a recent podcast with Andrew G Marshall featuring Simon Roe and get an insight into his informative work:
https://www.podbean.com/site/EpisodeDownload/PB11B5FDFJUQNY
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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. Simon is a fully accredited member of the Association of Facilitators www.associationoffacilitators.co.uk
Lee Stagles Is an embodiment coach (graduate of the Embodied Facilitator Course 2017), men’s work leader and facilitator. He has 20 years of experience in engineering as a technician, manager and business owner. He is interested in behavioural patterns and simple systems design, engaging with the body through an Awareness, Acceptance & Intention paradigm. He brings his expertise in ritual, grief, relationships, parenting and separated parenting. Now, using story, nature and movement, he supports his clients to a better understanding of themselves, helping to equip them with the tools and practises to achieve their goals. He also works with organisations (private and public sector) in the field of Men’s Work. His mission is ‘to leave the place better than I find it.’
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MAXIMUM NUMBERS : 23
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.
FOR MORE INFO : If you have further questions please email: [email protected] or call Juliet Grayson on 01291 638805
Organised through Sleeping Mountain Ltd
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The Lads in the Park
The Lads in the Park
Why do the young lads bellow in the park
and spoil the calm of a long summer’ s evening?
Perhaps they’ve forgotten something.
Perhaps they want salt but not vinegar.
Perhaps their little-boy voices just broke
and they think they need some man-practice.
Maybe they’re in the movies.
Maybe they’re on a mission.
Maybe there’ s suddenly a girl across the way
with a smile that only responds to bellowing.
Perhaps they’re feeling isolated.
Perhaps they’re feeling inadequate.
Perhaps they’re feeling abandoned — though
the odds are they’re not feeling anything at all.
Maybe if they didn’t bellow they’ d explode.
Maybe they’re going to explode anyway.
Maybe the stillness scares them so much
they need the simple reassurance of an explosion.
Perhaps they’re waiting to be told to shut up.
Perhaps they’ve been told to shut up already.
Perhaps they’re sick of being called boys
long after their forefathers would have been men.
Then again they might just bellow ‘cos they’re lads,
‘cos that’ s what lads have to do to get noticed,
and ‘cos this sad and middle-aged world of ours
needs shaking, every generation, with a shout.
William Ayot
from
The Inheritance, 2011
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