Experiential Group and Process Work
 A playground for therapists to nurture the imagination, release inhibitions and mobilise therapeutic insights

“Supportive, thought-provoking, emancipating, grounding”
Hanni St Johns, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist

This Autumn Term is inspired by 16 Greek Deities (a nymph among them). These myths are our cultural pillars. The roots and original framework of western civilisation from a time when the “love for wisdom” was the fruit of committed labour. Gods and Goddesses expressed forces of Nature and also intimate human experiences. Through their joys and struggles we extracted meaning to organise the internal and the wider world alike. Eternal and Mighty they embody the elemental qualities that served to the construction and informed our perception of Self and relationships. The relationships with our clients and patients are not exceptions.

Programme of Gods, Goddesses and their parameters

Week 1: Myths & Monsters: Meaning and Metaphor
Week 2: Zeus & Hera: Will & Power
Week 3: Poseidon & Demeter: Emotions & Instincts
Week 4: Hades & Persephone: Soul & Underworld
Week 5: Apollo & Athena: Reason & Sequence
Week 6: Hermes & Echo: Interpretation & Communication
Week 7: Ares & Aphrodite: War & Love
Week 8: Hephaestus & Hestia: Creativity & Forging
Week 9: Dionysus & Artemis: Playfulness & Mystery
Week 10: Participant’s Presentations

Dates:
Thursdays 23 and 30 September
7, 14 and 21 October
11, 28 and 25 November
2 and 9 December

Fee: £300 – Online

Buy a ticket in Eventbrite or Request a booking

Recommended films:

Jason and the Argonauts
film directed by Don Chaffey (1963) – full film link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50DZWP-Pz88

Inmortals
film directed by Tarsem Singh (2011) – trailer link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEVFMg8g30

Clash of the Titans
film directed by Desmond Davis (1981) – trailer link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojw1sau98Jg

Clash of the Titans
film directed by Louis Leterrier (2010) trailer link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJNenKqmOMU

Wrath of the Titans
film directed by Jonathan Liebesman (2012) – trailer link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPWdzDxB4B8

Electra
film directed by Michael Cacoyannis Source (1962) full film link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5crCNgAPvAk

Helen of Troy
film directed by Robert Wise (1956) – trailer link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHi7Kcf42TQ&list=PLU6yMd_F_bQkrKxuMkse4BCm82SqZ0hNK

Hercules
film directed by Brett Ratner (2014) – trailer link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3HrUg6aidI

Hercules
Walt Disney (1997) – trailer link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlblxDGoGwo

Medea
film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1969) – full film in Italian with Spanish subtitles link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZYy493Hrd8

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
film directed by Thor Freudenthal (2013) – trailer link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cql6ug74jx4

The Trojan Women
film by Michael Cacoyannis (1971) – trailer link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9sAriamSpU

Troy
film directed by Wolfgang Petersen (2004) – trailer link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znTLzRJimeY

Ulysses
film directed by Mario Camerini (1954) – full film link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G60xcQbHh70

See more in https://www.greekmythology.com

300
film directed by
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIbxk7idYA

Others:

Birth of Dionysus from Semele and Zeus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdvZjWWC-DU

Apollonian compared to the left brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VUU84kI-EM

Dionysus and daemonic, chaos chthonian power and freedom nature brute force
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VUU84kI-EM

The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmkWvbIGNw

300 ecstasy scene for Ares: Love & War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDnXI6KXoeg

300 Sparta for Dionysus and Ares
film directed by Zack Snyder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIbxk7idYA&t=56s

Zorba the Greek
film directed by Michael Cacoyannis (1964) trailer link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkuoaKtOZg8

Bolero Jorge Don Los Unos y Los Otros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCtqsUMB3UI

Charlie Chaplin 3m clip the great dictator (None-Ares!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-7ntsRgi7M