Body Image, Discovery and Change

Learning to Feel OK About Your Body

With Guy Gladstone at The Open Centre 188 Old Street London EC1V 9FR Tel: 020 7272 6672 or email

• Do you criticise your body silently or to others?
• Do you feel that being in your body is like living in a bleak prison rather than in a comfortable supportive home?
• Have you decided that you were at the back of the queue when bodies were handed out?
• Has a casual remark about your body been engraved on your mind for years?
• Are TV adverts and clothes shopping constant reminders that your body is not OK?

Body Image

is the inner mental picture you hold of your body and is closely linked to self esteem or its absence. Even if you manage to change your appearance through dieting, dedicated exercise or designer clothing, until you directly address your body image the roots of bad feeling about your body remain untouched. Whereas you might change your car or house for another one, you obviously cannot exchange the body you are born with. You can however change your present body image for a better one. Through a range of imaginative and carefully structured exercises that follow a progressive route, this theme workshop in the ‘Sensations Series’ will

• Expand your choices of how you feel about your body.
• Research and isolate causes of an unhappy body image.
• Shift you from over or under awareness of your body towards feeling OK with it as it is.
• Help you attain a more positive and pleasurable relationship with your bodily self.

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Guy Gladstone

is a body psychotherapist who has been working for twenty years with ongoing and weekend groups at The Open Centre, the long established (1977) independent personal growth centre. He is accredited as a group psychotherapist and bodywork practitioner by the Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners and is a graduate of three trainings - The Institute for the Development of Human Potential (2 years). The Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies (3 years) and The British Association of Analytical Body Psychotherapy (5 years).

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Booking Procedure

You may ring at any time to ascertain current availability of places on Sensations series workshops. You may book directly using the registration form. If you want to discuss booking or have any queries you may ring beforehand on 020 7272 6672 or email.

Sensations Series

Body Image, Discovery and Change can be attended on its own or in a series of six theme based workshops. Details of any of the other Sensations series workshops are available on this website. The others are Sexualities and Suppressions; Facing up to Shame; Shock and Stress; Anger, All Angles; and The Rainbow of Desire. The unifying element of these workshops will be an exploration of the phenomena of your personal bodily experience. Participants will be helped to recall and communicate the exact sensations associated with their experience. The charge of the themes will be grounded and contained through carefully structured exercises.

Attending a Sensations series workshop may serve as an introduction to work in one of several ongoing analytical body psychotherapy groups. Further details of weekly ongoing groups and weekend groups are available on this website. Current or former members of these groups may also attend the theme workshops in order to focus on specific concerns surfaced/surfacing in that setting.

To discuss booking or if you have any queries please ring Guy Gladstone on 020 7272 6672 or email.

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