Description
In this 48-hour retreat (intended for those with an active therapeutic and/or spiritual accompaniment role), we will be focussing on the multi-faceted experience of loss as an integral part of the human condition.
Drawing particularly on the work of psychotherapist Francis Weller in his book The Wild Edge of Sorrow, this largely experiential offering will provide a space for participants to be in community together and to explore some of their experiences of losses and the impact these have had. In these troubled times we believe that acknowledging loss is integral to our recovery and to enabling us to rediscover our connection to ourselves, to each other and to the natural world. By allowing space for this we can begin to explore and recognise our blocks to intimacy, creativity, freedom and inner peace.
The retreat (led by two experienced psychotherapists with long-standing interest in the landscapes of loss) will be loosely structured to focus on a range of themes but will also afford participants the flexibility and informality to use the space in whatever way feels right for them
Certificates for adding to UKCP and/or Transactional Analysis portfolios of Continuing Personal and Professional Development can be requested and signed off at the event for those who require this.
The retreat will begin at 2pm on Friday 23rd and it will end at 1pm on Sunday 25th. Two nights of accommodation are included in the price, along with one lunch (Saturday) and two breakfasts and two dinners. Holland House offers excellent home-cooked food. Special dietary requirements can be accommodated if indicated at the time of booking.
If you would like to stay for Sunday Lunch after the retreat, the cost is £20 per person for a 2 course lunch and can booked via administration@hollandhouse.org
If participants on this occasion find themselves wishing to continue the work together, Geoff and Jane are open to making this an annual event.
Geoff Hopping
Geoff is currently a senior partner of The Link Centre (a counselling and psychotherapy
training institute in Sussex https://www.thelinkcentre.co.uk/) and an experienced and qualified psychotherapist. He has qualifications and training both in Transactional Analysis and psychoanalysis. As a supervisor he trained at the Society for Analytical Psychology and is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. He has decades of experience working in mental health in NHS, Social Work and psychotherapy settings. Latterly he has worked in a high security prison as a consultant psychotherapist specialising in Individual and Group work with people with complex trauma. He has also been ordained as an interfaith minister with the One Spirit Interfaith Foundation as he has a keen interest in the spiritual dimension of psychotherapy. Geoff held the role of primary tutor at the Metanoia institute between 1996 and 2019. His other professional interests include working with bereavement and loss and all that this entails and it was his training in the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation during the 1980s that was foundational to his starting traning as a psychotherapist.
Jane Tillier
Jane has worked with people for over 30 years in a wide variety of settings such as healthcare (hospice, hospital and primary care), education (school and university)
and church. With a background in the study of Modern Languages and a PhD in Spanish, she was among the first women to be ordained priest in the Church of
England in 1994. In 2021 she completed an MSc in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute. She also holds a Diploma in Clinical Supervision and is a Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. She has a keen interest in exploring (with Geoff and others) the deep interplay between therapeutic processes and spirituality. https://soulbody.co.uk/
Please note that Holland House does not provide a choice menu at meal times and it is therefore very important that you note any food types that you are unable to eat due to an allergy or you can advise of a dietary preference of vegetarian, pescatarian, dairy free, gluten free or vegan.