Relational depth: A window into an interconnected world
| Title | Relational depth: A window into an interconnected world |
| Facilitator | Gill Wyatt |
| Date | Saturday 22 January 2011 |
| Time | 9.30am for a 10am start - 5pm. |
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Venue
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Community Base 5th floor conference room 113 Queens Road Brighton BN1 3XG (see map) Entry procedure: South Wing entrance, switch on intercom, dial 555, ask to be let in |
| Cost | £50* |
| CPD | 7 hours CPD certificate on attendance |
Relational depth: A window into an interconnected world
Relational depth is about a specific way of relating and usually refers to an ongoing caring and connected relationship and special moments of contact and connection. During this workshop I will extend the concept of relational depth and invite you into a world where relational depth is a possibility at all times. This possibility arises from a belief that ‘we live in an interconnected universe’.
Why does the qualitative nature of relating matter? Relational depth is significant within therapeutic relationships because the therapeutic relationship is enhanced with the client and therapist experiencing enduring positive effects. I believe that the qualitative nature of how we relate, all the time, has a profound influence on the very structures and processes of our society. This means that if you extend relational depth beyond the therapeutic context into the wider world, it could help to address Einstein’s much quoted plea regarding the problems of today can never be solved by the same consciousness that created them. So, by living our life with relational depth and creating societal structures and processes embedded with relational depth, we may be able to extend our consciousness so that we can work together collaboratively to find a way forward that addresses the global problems that we are facing in the 21st century.
Gill Wyatt: I have been involved with the Person-Centred Approach for over 20 years and worked as a psychotherapist, supervisor, and tutor on postgraduate and under-graduate courses. I am the series editor of Rogers’ Therapeutic Conditions: Evolution, Theory and Practice (PCCS Books) and co-editor (with Mick Cooper, Maureen O'Hara and Peter Schmid) of the Handbook of Person-centred Counselling and Psychotherapy (Palgrave). Currently, I run Creating Synergies where I hope my work with ‘cultural therapeutics’ – facilitating social structures and processes – can play some part, however small, in helping to birth the new global society needed so badly in these times of increasing chaos.