Re-Imagining Relationships;
creative curiosity, joy and change
Friday 30th Sept – Monday 3rd Oct
Standing your ground in secure and wobbly times Residential Course in Ruffec, France
This initially 8 days course in beautiful South West France has been rescheduled to cover three long weekends in Sept/Oct, May and July. Overall it gives you the opportunity to
- open up to your creative intuition and innate wisdom
- understand the neuro-perception involved in your responses and feelings
- move past your frustrations to sustain safe, satisfying and surefooted relationships, enabling you to be who you really are, both alone and with another.
Covid 19 changes:
I would like all of us to have a lateral flow test before the course starts. Please let me know if that will be a problem. We will also agree on what level of proximity to each other we feel comfortable with.
Re-Imagining Relationships – Residential Course
Location:
La Maison des Nuages
5 bis Avenue de la Libération, 16700
Ruffec, Charente
France
Group size and eligibility for the residential course:
- This group will comprise of 3-4 participants with Zoë Grace Cozens as facilitator and sometimes a team member. The course includes individual, pairs, triad and whole group interactions and working with paint, clay, fabric, silence, visualisation, stillness, movement, natural resources and indoor and outdoor space. All resources will be provided but bringing your own journal is always a good idea.
- Eligibility is very simple. You need to be a human being who has had some relationships in your life! In addition, it helps if you want to create the sort of relationships that give the most mutual satisfaction, without either person having to sacrifice who they are at their core. You can come with or without another person and that person might be a friend, family member, colleague or intimate partner. You don’t currently have to be in a relationship to gain from this course.
Part 1 course content:
Day 1: Arrival at the course venue (in France) | Sunday 30th September. Evening meal and meeting each other. We will do a getting to know each other exercise which starts us on our journey of sharing our stories and sensing our narratives.
Day 2: Who we are, who we bring with us and what we want next:
Group care, conscious re-imaginings, visualisation, the myths and the missing parts, words into pictures, sharing, witnessing and safety
Day 3: Secret, silent, safe spaces:
Whispered names, embodying safety, building and owning your sacred space, boundaried welcomes, outside in and the song of the garments!
Day 4: If flights allow we could have a final breakfast together before travelling home, replete with new understandings and clarity re the next step of the journey.
Ongoing support and connection
There will be monthly Zoom workshops to continue and deepen the work we have started. These will be arranged with the participants.
Parts 2 and 3
There will be a choice of two dates in May and two in July to continue the course. All of the parts of the course are valuable in and of themselves and there is no requirement to attend all of them.
Part 2: Communication: mythical, menacing or miraculous
Day 1: Eating together, connecting and preparing our internal space
Day 2:Listening & witnessing, personality quadrant, intensely satisfying relationships in words, paint or fabric, couples dialogue, hidden beliefs and their effects.
Day 3: Primary relationships and how we still sail in them: Fantasy figures, childhood feelings, looking for our other half, E.F.T. Emotional Freedom Technique, unfinished business, acknowledging ourselves and others.
Part 3: Blossoming connections:
There is more time on this section now so I will be expanding it but to date this will be what is included …
safety tools, disconnections, masking our feelings, seeing the impact, releasing grief and moving on, the shape of our vulnerability in clay, change & choices.
Course fees:
Standard fees: £250 pp
Concessionary fees: £200 pp. please enquire regarding availability.
Deposit for either Standard fee is £100.
Deposit for a concessionary place is £100.
Payment Options:
A payment plan can be agreed with Zoë Grace.
Registration and all monies to be paid by 23rd Sept unless agreed otherwise.
All prices include the course sessions, handouts, art resources, refreshments & delicious daily lunch. (It does NOT include accommodation, see below.)
In the event of a further lockdown or emergency in your ‘home’ country or in France, your deposit and/or fees will be refunded.
Read more about Accommodation, Transport and other useful information
Please note that the yurts will not be available but a cottage in medieval Ruffec will. Costs for both our house and the two-bedroom cottage will be 250€ per person. This includes food for the weekend.
Download Registration Form (Word-Document)
