From Deadness and Emptiness to Aliveness and Joy

Name: From Deadness and Emptiness to Aliveness and Joy
Start: 2024-10-18T12:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-10-18T15:00:00+10:00
Location: Aerial UTS Function Centre

Schedule

Fri Oct 18 2024 at 12:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

Aerial UTS Function Centre | Sydney, NS

Presented by Cecile Barral with Jocelyn Ormerod
Note for Attendees:
This workshop will examine Jo’s journey through a long, arduous and eventually successful therapy and describes intimate work between herself and her therapist, Cécile. Difficult material may be revealed, and we ask you to be respectful of our presenters, and of yourself. Please attend with this in mind, allowing the workshop to become a therapeutic space.
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At the time of Jo’s birth, her family was in a state of trauma, unrelated to the birth. This trauma had a profound impact on the development of satisfactory relationships between Jo and the other members of the family and resulted in Jo growing up with a sense of emptiness and invisibility and having great difficulty in forming satisfactory relationships with others. The workshop will start with a brief account of the traumatic family situation happening at the time of Jo’s birth. It will move on to discuss her childhood and its consequences regarding the difficulties she was experiencing that finally led her to pursue therapy.

The therapy sessions, and what happened in them will be an important part of the workshop. Jo and Cécile will discuss what occurred in those sessions that helped Jo to become the person she is today – a vibrant 80-year-old woman who works with children with emotional difficulties.

Cécile will also engage Jo in reference to Bob Hobson’s Forms of Feelings, especially chapter 12: ‘Towards a model of psychotherapy’.

There will be plenty of opportunities for questions and exchanges both during and at the end of the workshop. A power point presentation will be created to emphasise the concepts being discussed and to show relevant artwork created by Jo through the therapy.