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Shock and Stress
Shocksare exceptional high impact events that can disturb and disorient a person for life. Ten examples of shock events, the impact of which can persist for years, are:-
The impact produces both physical and psychological defences that assist survival but reduce capacity to feel and relate. Often the conditions necessary to allow a process of recovery are missing. Recovery stops some way short of completion or sometimes hardly begins at all. Unresolved shock needs the continuing support and safety of a specialised helping relationship. The workshop will help you assess how necessary that might be for yourself. Shock produces a degree of stress but ordinary stress management is insufficient for the more traumatic events that result in continuing states of shock. And dealing with the more inevitable and commonplace stressors is much more difficult where unresolved shock is already present. Stresswas defined by the originator of the concept, Hans Selye, as the rate of wear and tear caused by life. Stress accumulates through normal constraining and compelling forces and is associated with the pressure of too many (or sometimes too few) demands. Ten examples of stressors are:
Like the more traumatic shock events such more banal occurrences also have physiological effects but the difference is these usually clear by themselves or else self help methods are adequate. Thus as a rule stress can be dealt with on your own by making changes or taking avoiding action. This Workshopwill be about establishing safety, developing body awareness and practising boundary setting. It will provide some DIY tools with which to begin stress management. A method of non-verbal life review will help with discerning pattern and meaning in what otherwise may continue to be felt and lived as a chaos of shocks and stresses. The workshop is designed as a shallow end experience to better prepare you to swim with deep end experience. By the close of the day the difference between the effects of chronic shock and the temporary stressors in your life will be clearer and this will assist you in regaining control. Note: A requirement for attending this workshop is that you are in ongoing personal therapy at the time. Guy Gladstoneis a personal development practitioner and member for twenty five years of The Open Centre in London. He has undertaken specialised training in working with post traumatic stress, integrating the approaches of two leading European practitioners who are expert in this field, Sander Kirsch (Belgium) and Babette Rothschild (Denmark). Booking ProcedureYou 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 SeriesShock and Stress 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; Body Image, Discovery and Change; 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 personal development 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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