The actual workshop program is open and anyone can offer a co-counselling workshop on the spot or ask for a topic group, massage, meditation and indeed anything what makes your and other people's heart sing. For last year's McCoCo we experimented with enticing people to offer their workshops in an earlier stage so that we could publish them beforehand and attract even more people to McCoCo. See last year's workshops on offer beforehand. This year we will do the same. Here you can find the workshops on offer for McCoCo 2011.
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Special Events |
The ‘Evidence’ Forum and CoCo Café
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The ‘Science of Emotion & Co-Counselling’ has been the main topic of a recent Teachers workshop, presented by Rose Evison and Richard Horobin. Lilian Brzoska and JanPieter Hoogma like to celebrate this initiative to look at scientific ideas about emotions and human nature to improve Co-Counselling teaching.
This ‘Science of Emotion’ initiative inspired us to organise a workshop on ‘Evidence behind working with Emotions’. Its challenge being of course the question of how to create an 1) inspiring and as an 2) engaging workshop as possible.
So we will start the workshop with a short forum of three people. Each of them will do a concise introduction highlighting their area of special interest in the evidence of the Science of Emotions. After these introductions there will be a short time to ask questions.
- James Hawkins: ex-co-counselling teacher with a special interest in the evidence-based, empirical science of Emotions and Stress. Click here for his blog about these topics.
- Lilian Brzoska: holistic evidence of a relationship between spirituality, attention and emotions
- JanPieter Hoogma: especially interested in the role ‘testimonial or anecdotal’ e.g. ‘See, how it works for me!’ evidence plays in the Science of Emotions.
This Forum will be chaired by Mystery Surprise.
The ‘Evidence’ CoCo Café
We hope that the short forum will inspire the workshop’s participants to engage themselves in a CoCo Café conversation encouraged to share about all aspects of the science of emotions and co-counselling while doodling.
The conversational culture of World Café has been introduced last year at McCoCo by Rudolf Gieselmann (absent), Dymphna Headen and Marjan Tuk. Then there were the experiments during CCI Ireland (Agota Rusza, Lilian Brzoska and Rudolf) and twice in Scotland (Lilian with support from Mary McCann and JanPieter). Almost all of them will be present to support this process.
The Evidence Forum and CoCo Cafe will take place on Sunday afternoon.
Web site Links
Rose and Richard’s Teacher workshop announcement
Stressed to Zest, the research-evidence based blog on stress, health and well-being by James Hawkins.
Catharsis, venting and the talking cure
Coco Café on CoCoInfo
The new CoCoInfo Bibliography contains among others references to research on discharge and emotions
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Opening of the ‘Just Listen’ Photo Exhibition
[collapsed title="read more"]Rudolf Giesselman has captured persons while they are listening to somebody at CCI 2010 in Ireland. With his photographs he explores the process of listening, a 'duet dance with love and attention' as he names it.
The exhibition at McCoCo will be festively opened on Friday evening April 29th with an opening speech by Dymphna Headen.[/collapse]
Beltane Fire and Maypole Celebration
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We will be together over May weekend which includes the Celtic festival of Beltane 30th April / 1st May. This is the Festival which welcomes in the Sun, celebrating Fertility in The Land and her people. May Day is also celebrated in Britain as a national worker's holiday, expressing solidarity with the International Worker's Movement.
We will co-create a CoCo Beltane Fire Festival on the night of the 30th April, when Calton Hill in Edinburgh and The Doon of May in Galloway also have their fires alight, as our People prepare to welcome the Dawn of May 1st 2011.
We hope the creation of a Maypole Dance on the 1st May will also be possible. It is up to you. Lilian Brzoska will be delighted to hear from anyone who wishes to Co-faciltate the Fire Festivities and/ or the May Day Circle of Life. We encourage the bringing of, or creating, your Queen of the May and May King (Green Man) costumes, awakening your own Inner Sun, celebrating the Fertility of ideas and feelings of connection in our Co-counselling International.[/collapse]
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The Listen Project |
Last year’s CoCo Café inspired Graham Colbourne to offer his ‘Connecting’ workshop that turned out to be a very popular one. One of its spin-offs was that it brought people together who are very interested in the Listening aspect of Connections between people, Co-Counselling and CoCo Café. The Listening Project has been born. Here below you see a rich offering of workshops approaching Listening each from their own angle.
Listening to your Longings by Creating Art
Offered by Dymphna Headen from Ireland [collapsed title="read more"]
In this workshop I will ask you to take a second to get in touch with your deepest longing. Think of a symbol for it.
Then do a quick sketch of that symbol.
Next think about what stops you from fulfilling that longing. Is it shame or guilt or lack of self confidence? How do you sabotage yourself ? Can you paint a symbol for that?
Then I will ask you to do a painting of how it would be if you are fulfilling that longing. Give yourself permission to express it fully. The act of painting by-passes your inhibitions and allows you to get through to the feelings behind these longings.
You do not have to show these paintings to anyone else if you do not wish to.
When the paintings are done we will do co counselling in pairs in the usual way.
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The Six Listening Modes
Offered by Marjan Tuk [collapsed title="read more"]
By switching between various listening modes, you can
- increase the richness of a current life experience
- balance more effectively your feelings, thinking and will power in your balance of attention,
- detect more easily the hidden opportunities in difficult and challenging situations
- develop more practical and effective ways of dealing with what life throws at you
In the workshop you will explore those Six Listening Modes as client in a Group session. So bring an issue or topic! This will also clarify the qualities, preferences and traps in your ways of listening. If time left, we will explore the opportunities these Six Listening Modes offer in a CoCo Café Conversation.
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Listening, Dialogue & Relational Depth
Offered by Grahame Jack from Scotland [collapsed title="read more"]
How do we give the other our full, best quality attention to enable them to think well and connect with themselves?
How do we do this while staying mentally, emotionally and bodily in touch with our selves and when and how do we share our reactions with the other?
How can we use this subtle mix of receptivity and expressiveness to really connect with the other and relate deeply?
This is the territory that will be explored in this workshop. It will be experiential so bring your listening skills, your expressive self and your desire to connect deeply.
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Focusing - listening and sensing into your body
Offered by Eileen O’Connell from England [collapsed title="read more"]
Focusing is a body-orientated process of self-awareness. It involves listening to your body in a gentle accepting way so that you can be open to hearing the messages your inner self sends. The aim is to get in touch with felt sensations, so that attention is given to things that are directly experienced in the present, but have not yet been formed into words.
Focusing can be practised on your own as well as with someone else and can be used in many life situations. It is easier to learn the technique with someone else so in this workshop we will work in pairs as focuser and companion. The role of the companion is simpler than that of a counsellor in Co-Counselling. As companion we learn how to listen and support the inner relationship the focuser is forming with themselves.
In this introductory session we will initially practise the art of being present in our selves. Then in pairs we will explore the ‘felt sense’, the subtle level of knowing (which is not yet formed into words) and learn how to listen and honour this inner wisdom.
I have completed Level 4 training in Focusing (people who reach Level 5 are fully trained). I have been very impressed by the subtle power of the technique. It is something that can be incorporated within counselling and Co-Counselling, to great benefit and works well using telephone or skype.
If you want to know more then visit these websites
http://www.fionaparr-focusing.co.uk/free-resources/21-listening-skills
http://www.focusingresources.com/articles/poweroflistening.html
http://www.focusing.org.uk/intro_to_focusing.html
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Expressing Yourself
Offered by Lilian Brzoska from Scotland [collapsed title="read more"]
Listening to yourself is often easier if you Express Yourself Creatively. This will be a Co-Counselling Workshop in which you will be encourage to move expressively, laugh, sing as you discharge and make marks on paper with paint. Your creative child will be encouraged to emerge and meld with your Present Day Expression of Yourself, to enhance your experience of Being You in daily life
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Active Listening and Disagreement
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Active Listening is about listening carefully to other people on their terms and resist the temptation to assess what they are saying without really understanding what they are talking about. Active listening is successful when the other person feels listened to and understood, especially when you are disagreeing with them. This requires an open mind and a disagreement tolerance. This workshop is about all that fun and pleasure that are on offer by the skills of really understanding where people are coming from..[/collapse]
Photo project ‘Just Listening’
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I want to visualize the power of listening in a series of photographs. Listening is one of the core qualities we practice in Co-Counselling. I would like to take photographs of the listening person while the person who is working is in the 'background'.
This is what I would like to offer:
A photo session in which I portrait you in a session while you are listening. I will provide 2 prints 20 x 30 cm and a digital file of the photo for you to keep, all free of charge.
This is what I would like to ask:
In return I would like the rights to publish the photo in the contexts of art and Co-Counselling. The title of the photographs will be chosen according to your needs and wishes to remain anonymous.
How you can take part in these photo project:
Both session partners agree that I will be present with my camera. After some technical arrangements beforehand, I will remain present in silence during the entire session time. It would be wonderful if I could portrait both session partners during their supporting times
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Listening and Expressing your Inner Movements
Offered by Ian O’Sullivan and JanPieter Hoogma[collapsed title=read more]
Discover how to come in contact with the feelings and emotions hidden in your body and how you can express them through dance.
We will guide you through different ways of how you can use movement to listen to your body, open it up and express in dance what needs to be expressed. We will use music usually associated with five rhythms dancing. There will also be elements of co-counselling sessions.
Confidence in your dancing capabilities is not required at all: everybody is welcome, with a maximum of 16 people.
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Community and Network Development |
Getting on with Difficult People
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Three workshops, one for each stage:
Stage 1: How to relate well with people that we have difficulty with, partners, family members, people we have conflicts with or anyone else. This workshop will be about getting in touch with what is going on in the other person while staying in our own power.
Stage 2: Being assertive with people that we have difficulties with.
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World Café - What next?
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CoCo Café celebrates its first Birthday during this McCoCo. Almost all people who nurtured its birth and development in Scotland, Ireland and the Netherlands will be at McCoCo.
A splendid opportunity to reflect back and to learn from what happened so far.
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CoCoInfo: the Facebook and LinkedIn of Co-Counselling?
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Already familiar with Facebook and LinkedIn? During this workshop you will be shown how fast CoCoInfo is approaching the capabilities of these social networks plus the extras these sites do not have. I am also looking forward to your feedback about what you like about CoCoInfo and find difficult.
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Other Special and Exciting Workshops |
Back to Basics: CCI Co-Counselling in a nutshell.
Offered by Sue Gray and John Talbut [collapsed title=read more]
This will be a practical workshop to refresh and remind ourselves of the essence of co-counselling:
- Keep it simple
- Client in charge
- No questions
In the sessions we will explore:
- How we give free attention
- What the difference is between process and content
- The co-counselling client techniques
- How to remind the client of those techniques in normal or intensive contracts
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‘RelationShipWreck?’ ... Or creating an even better relationship!
Offered by Steve Roche & Sue Gray [collapsed title="read more"]
We all have wisdom and experience about relating with each other generally and also more intimately and romantically.
This workshop will provide structures in which we can all
- celebrate what we do well;
- share things we have discovered that have helped us;
- learn from each other about solving things that still trip us up or mystify us
- and discharge feelings and emotions that hold us stuck!
The format will be sharing rounds, Coco Sessions and Gold Fish Bowls*
Steve and Sue will hold the space and also participate. It is 'suitable' for single people and people in relationships.
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Traumatic Incident Reduction
Offered by Celia Wilson (and perhaps Colin Stroud) [collapsed title="read more"]
Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) is a second cousin to co-counselling and can be done alongside it. TIR is an intensive method that works well for material from traumatic incidents or for stubborn themes in our lives arising from distress. The "viewer" works through the material to an "end point" where it is no longer bothersome.
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Manifesting your Desires
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The workshop is based on Tantra and the rest is a surprise.
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A Special Support Group |
Photographers support group
Offered by Rudolf Giesselmann from Germany.[collapsed title="read more"]
I would like to facilitate an ongoing support group for co-counseling photographers.It will be a creative process enriched by the special qualities of self awareness everyone has improved within Co-Counselling (contexts). It is mainly about perceiving and becoming aware: What do I really want to tell about me, the people and the place? It will be about photo technical questions and picture language, too. We will apply our Co-Counseling skills for co-operation and producing a meaningful collection of images and texts. Everybody will get copies of the product for reproduction in other creative processes.
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