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.

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A 90 minute online session, starting at 7.30pm UK time. Jo Maughan and I will be hosting this session and together we will be using colour, shape, mindmaps, poems and images to discover more about Re-Imagining Relationships, a residential course in SW France in October, which will give you the opportunity to
*open up to your creative intuition and innate wisdom
*understand the neuroperception involved in your responses and feelings *and move past your frustrations to sustain safe, satisfying and surefooted
relationships, enabling you to be who you really are. Come and find out what you want more of or less of in your relationships!

Zoom call details

Zoe Grace Cozens is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Intro session to Re-Imagining Relationships
Time: Sep 10, 2020 07:30 PM London

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A new expanded 1 day course which has run twice very successfully and which I am very excited about.
Why do the course? In order to build on your strengths and qualities so that you can create a year ahead that inspires you and brings you deep satisfaction. 
What will we do? Create and interact through paint, collage, storytelling, mask work and touchstones.
How will we work? Individually, in pairs, in threes and as a whole group of 12, with support and facilitation from Zoë Grace and Jay Mooney.
Will there be support after the course? Yes, you will be offered the chance to do an online course consolidating and expanding the work from the weekend. 
What if I am not sure that it is for me? There is a free Zoom call on Monday May 20th from 7.30pm – 9.00pm. Here is the link https://zoom.us/j/971033148

What have people said about it? “This course ticked all the boxes for me. It was fun and very absorbing using all the arts materials and a great way to explore and express my journey and all the other things covered.  The thing that surprised me most was the degree of connection with the other participants. During the mask work in particular I experienced this support in a way that was memorable and has sustained my learning.” Lex Penn-Carver.    “Zoe Grace, thank you so much for your artistry throughout the day, for your sensitivity and for creating a safe space.  Thank you for sharing so much of who you are…. Your inner light was there for us all to see, which gave us all permission to open. My first experience of Embrace Yourself was tough ,no doubt about that, but the opportunity to explore and meet my self and others through creative expression was extremely powerful and at times challenging. ”   “Don’t be put off this course because you think you are not creative. You don’t have to be an artist and the work is about what you discover inside yourself rather than what you produce.  I found the day challenging and fun in equal measures. Zoe Grace led the day with sensitivity, love and enthusiasm which created a space that was safe for people to gradually let their barriers down and to be able to not only look at their ‘true self’ but also let others see that too.  Something I wouldn’t have thought possible in a one day course.” Jay Mooney
“I found Zoe Grace patient, supportive and very understanding. She made everybody feel comfortable and at ease so it felt okay to be open when talking within the group. The exercises were fun but meaningful and had a powerful impact on me. I felt as if I had confronted what I had been denying and felt very positive towards the end. I understood myself better after taking part in the course and this made me feel more content with myself.“

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A new course which has run twice very successfully and which I am very excited about. Unlike the UK versions which are one expanded day this course is more leisurely, starting with a meal together on Friday evening and covering all day Saturday and Sunday morning. Flights back to the UK go on Sunday afternoons or you could make a long weekend of it and fly back on Monday from Poitiers to London Stansted. If you already live in France or have friends here you can do the course and choose whether to eat with us in the evening or not. Prices can be adjusted and spread. Course costs will be paid in sterling and food and accommodation in euros on arrival.
Why do the course? In order to build on your strengths and qualities so that you can create a year ahead that inspires you and brings you deep satisfaction. 
What will we do? Create and interact through paint, collage, storytelling, mask work and touchstones.
How will we work? Individually, in pairs, in threes and as a whole group of 12, with support and facilitation from Zoë Grace and Jay Mooney.
Will there be support after the course? Yes, you will be offered the chance to do an online course consolidating and expanding the work from the weekend. 
What if I am not sure that it is for me? There is a free Zoom call on Monday May 20th from 7.30pm – 9.00pm. Here is the link https://zoom.us/j/971033148

What have people said about it? “This course ticked all the boxes for me. It was fun and very absorbing using all the arts materials and a great way to explore and express my journey and all the other things covered.  The thing that surprised me most was the degree of connection with the other participants. During the mask work in particular I experienced this support in a way that was memorable and has sustained my learning.” Lex Penn-Carver.    “Zoe Grace, thank you so much for your artistry throughout the day, for your sensitivity and for creating a safe space.  Thank you for sharing so much of who you are…. Your inner light was there for us all to see, which gave us all permission to open. My first experience of Embrace Yourself was tough ,no doubt about that, but the opportunity to explore and meet my self and others through creative expression was extremely powerful and at times challenging. ”   “Don’t be put off this course because you think you are not creative. You don’t have to be an artist and the work is about what you discover inside yourself rather than what you produce.  I found the day challenging and fun in equal measures. Zoe Grace led the day with sensitivity, love and enthusiasm which created a space that was safe for people to gradually let their barriers down and to be able to not only look at their ‘true self’ but also let others see that too.  Something I wouldn’t have thought possible in a one day course.” Jay Mooney
“I found Zoe Grace patient, supportive and very understanding. She made everybody feel comfortable and at ease so it felt okay to be open when talking within the group. The exercises were fun but meaningful and had a powerful impact on me. I felt as if I had confronted what I had been denying and felt very positive towards the end. I understood myself better after taking part in the course and this made me feel more content with myself.“

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Embrace A4 Poster
A new expanded 1 day course which I am very excited about.
Why do the course? In order to build on your strengths and qualities so that you can create a year ahead that inspires you and brings you deep satisfaction. 
What will we do? Create and interact through paint, collage, storytelling, mask work and touchstones.
How will we work? Individually, in pairs, in threes and as a whole group of 12, with support and facilitation from Zoë Grace and Jay Mooney.
Will there be support after the course? Yes, you will be offered the chance to do an online course consolidating and expanding the work from the weekend. 
What if I am not sure that it is for me? There is a free Zoom call on Monday 18th from 7.30pm – 9.00pm. Here is the link https://zoom.us/j/720076449

What have people said about it? “This course ticked all the boxes for me. It was fun and very absorbing using all the arts materials and a great way to explore and express my journey and all the other things covered.  The thing that surprised me most was the degree of connection with the other participants. During the mask work in particular I experienced this support in a way that was memorable and has sustained my learning.” Lex Penn-Carver.    “Zoe Grace, thank you so much for your artistry throughout the day, for your sensitivity and for creating a safe space.  Thank you for sharing so much of who you are…. Your inner light was there for us all to see, which gave us all permission to open. My first experience of Embrace Yourself was tough ,no doubt about that, but the opportunity to explore and meet my self and others through creative expression was extremely powerful and at times challenging. ”   “Don’t be put off this course because you think you are not creative. You don’t have to be an artist and the work is about what you discover inside yourself rather than what you produce.  I found the day challenging and fun in equal measures. Zoe-Grace led the day with sensitivity, love and enthusiasm which created a space that was safe for people to gradually let their barriers down and to be able to not only look at their ‘true self’ but also let others see that too.  Something I wouldn’t have thought possible in a one day course.” Jay Mooney

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A new expanded 1 day course, lead by myself and Lexi Penn-Carver, which we are very excited about. Why do the course? In order to build on your strengths and qualities so that you can create a year ahead that inspires you and brings you deep satisfaction.  What will we do? Create and interact through paint, collage, storytelling, mask work and touchstones. How will we work? Individually, in pairs, in threes and as a whole group of 12, with support and facilitation from Lexi and Zoë Grace. Will there be support after the course? Yes, you will be offered the chance to do an online course consolidating and expanding the work from the weekend.
How do I register? There are only 12 places so register quickly here.  registration form

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