Workshops on offer for McCoCo 2013

 

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Special Events

CoCo Open Space

Even with the broad and exciting bunch of workshops already on offer, anyone present at McCoCo is encouraged to offer and ask for any workshop they like.

For this to happen we organise the CoCo Open Space, developed and tried at last year’s McCoCo and the CCI in Hungary the year before. This is a fast and effective way of bringing people together who want a workshop to happen. This CoCo Open Space  will happen on the Thursday night and supports the spontaneous creation of workshops during McCoCo and thereafter!

CCI-UK Business Meeting - new style

The last two years at McCoCo we had a CCI-UK business meeting that was pleasantly short (one hour, between afternoon workshop and evening meal) and kept to a clear format and time-frame. First we listed the topics that mattered to us. Then the time left over was equally distributed over all these topics. There were no discussions, only sharing opinions within the allotted time for each topic.

At the end people indicated which three topics mattered most to them. The three top choices became the three issues for a CoCo Café later on.

Afterwards many topics developed organically between people discussing what they had heard.

 

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Topical Workshops

Assertiveness for Co-Counsellors

Offered by Celia Wilson and John Talbut

[collapsed title="Read more"]Introducing the 30th anniversary edition of A Woman In Your Own Right by Anne Dickson, a former teacher of CCI co-counselling. [/collapse]
 

Touch, embodied awareness and feeling states

Offered by Marjan Tuk and Graham Colbourne

[collapsed title="Read more"]In this workshop we are doing bodywork, and linking it with co-counselling ideas and experiences.

We will be sensing vitality and feeling states in relation to touch. Also exploring feeling states - which can range from unbearable overwhelm to pleasurable excitement, from calm/peaceful to flat and depressed.

Then follows work with touch, to tune-in to your energetic state and to shift it.  This includes co-operating / experimenting with making a contract, giving and receiving touch.

You may find lively experiencing of self and other through touch, and enough steady connection with breath, ground and awareness of what is happening: this links with balance of attention.

The workshop will be a mixture of teaching input, experiential work and sharing.

We look forward to seeing you there.
hugs

Graham and Marjan.[/collapse]

Performing in public

Offered by Lilian Brzoska

[collapsed title="Read more"]For people who wish to address their fears of speaking/performing in public and for those who just want to practise their party piece. This would be a coaching workshop with some co-counselling where required and based on a wholistic view of the human condition.

Could also be about the performance of poetry, song and improvised moments of inspired shoogling. (hee hee)[/collapse]

Co-counselling on distress around alcohol

Offered by Kate Golten

[collapsed title="Read more"] “….When you’re drunk you’re terrific.
When you’re drunk I like you,
mostly late at night, you’re quite all right.
But I can’t understand the different you
in the morning when it’s time to play at being human
for a while.....”
from “Sea Song” by Robert Wyatt

What are our earliest memories of being around adults who are affected by alcohol use? Fear? Confusion? Grief? Shame?

How have our adult lives been affected by our own or others’ alcohol use?

Co-counselling can offer us an environment to work on memories and feelings. In this workshop I would like us to create a safe space to co-counsel on distress connected with alcohol.  Doing this in a group may be a good contradiction to distress such isolation and shame.[/collapse]

Opening to Brilliance

Coming up from under the weight of oppression created in a jealous world?

Offered by Lilian Brzoska

[collapsed title="Read more"]Would be a co-counselling workshop with rounds and sessions, writing/drawing, some voice work and laughter. Could be anything from a hour to a full day, depending on interest.[/collapse]

Create the Patterns in your life you want or need

Offered by JanPieter Hoogma

[collapsed title="Read more"]Change is scary, even when it is promising to be positive. Even co-counsellors prefer the known above the new and unknown. Building positive patterns or habits is often even more difficult. So, how can you bring change about into your life? This workshop is based on the work of Robert Maurer ‘The Kaizen way: one small step can change your life’. I used it to overcome my chronic pain. Bring a wish or need for changing your habits to this workshop.[/collapse]

Accessing emotion through Music

Offered by Geoff Rowe

[collapsed title="Read more"]In this workshop you are invited to choose an emotive piece on which you would work with the help of others in the workshop.

The idea for this workshop came originally from Marian van Wijngaarden in the Netherlands and was the basis of a weekend event at Donkerbroek in the Netherlands.

 At CCI 2012 in the Netherlands, Joke Stassen and I offered a similar workshop one afternoon which was a wonderful experience.  It is best if the number of participants were limited to a maximum of 10, but preferably 8.

Interested? Bring some pieces of emotive music on a USB stick or MP3 player so you can choose on which one to work.[/collapse]

Exploring your fantasies

Offered by Geoff Rowe

[collapsed title="Read more"]This is an opportunity to use Co-Counselling and writing to delve into your fantasy life.  A particular focus would be those darker fantasies which normally do not see the light of day.  What are your "shades of grey"?[/collapse]

Sex in Later Life

Offered by Richard Mills

[collapsed title="Read more"]I will be offering this workshop at McCoCo for anyone wanting to explore their experience of sex in later life: you choose what that means to you.

If you consider that you are not yet in 'later life' you may still come (no pun intended). It'll be part sharing, part co-counselling. I expect to encounter the risk of being re-stimulated.[/collapse]

Here and Now

Offered by Richard Mills

[collapsed title="Read more"]You are invited to attend this group for a unique experience in encounter with other individuals.  The invitation is to stay as much as possible in the 'here and now', in order to maximize the opportunity for authentic meeting with others and with yourself.

This is an interactive group and is a non-co-counselling workshop.

Read what I have written about Here-and-Now groups at
www.co-counselling.co.uk[/collapse]

Radical Acceptance of Everything

Offered by Grahame Jack

[collapsed title="Read more"]Why don't I clear my clutter, organise my wardrobe, apply for a job, go out and meet possible partners, move house despite having decided these are things I want to do?

Often the block is a dissociated part of us that is protecting, rebelling against  being ordered about, or  simply a part of us that wants to do something else.

Focusing can help us get in touch with the part that is stopping us. By acknowledging it, listening to it with compassion it can become free to support us in moving forward.

Ann Weiser Cornell has some suggestions in “Radical Acceptance of Everything” about how to say “Hello” to the resisting part, be with it , empathise with it so that it feels safe to tell you how it feels. Once it is fully heard it can change.

Every aspect of Self , including our Inner Critic, has good reason for being the way it is. When we listen, acknowledge its feelings and intentions it is free to change.

This workshop offers an opportunity to tune into our bodily “felt sense” and experience what happens when we offer gentle, caring acceptance to what is.[/collapse]

Focused Fantasising

Offered by Marjan Tuk

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With focused and playful fantasizing you increase the likelihood of materialising your future aspirations and desired outcomes.

The workshop stimulates your creativity and imagination and is based on the work of Barbara Sophia Tames. For more information see http://www.barbaratammes.com/book/   

Email me if you want some more information: ccnrdam@xs4all.nl[/collapse]

Other Workshops likely to happen

Dancing: line dancing and five rhythms. The McCoCo Ceilidh where people share their poems, art, songs, stories and dances the Scottish way.

 

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Conference - Supporting the networking among co-counsellors

The day after McCoCo there will be the McCoCo Conference, this year held in Lilian’s house in Kirkcaldy, near Edinburgh.