Working in a group goes deeper, faster

A working group where Gestalt is practised, not just talked about — the original and still the heart of what I offer.

In a small group, people bring whatever is alive for them and we work with it directly. Some come with a specific knot — a stuck relationship, a creative block, an old grief — others arrive simply curious about themselves. Both belong. The group itself becomes a field of awareness in which old patterns can be noticed, experimented with, and gently re-shaped.

I have been running these groups since 1987, and what continues to move me is how much faster, deeper, and more lasting the work is in a group than in isolation. Witnessing another person's honest piece of work tends to dissolve our own defences in ways that no amount of reading or reflection can match.

A method for surfacing the hidden loyalties and inherited patterns that quietly shape a life — and then re-ordering the field so love can flow again.

Constellation work, developed in the lineage of Bert Hellinger, treats the family (and the workplace, and any human system) as a living field with its own laws. When someone has been excluded, when grief has been skipped over, when a role has been taken on out of unconscious loyalty, the system carries that imbalance — often across generations.

In a workshop, participants set up a small representation of their situation using other group members as stand-ins. What emerges is frequently astonishing: representatives feel sensations and pulls that match the real people they are standing in for, and a re-positioning can bring a felt sense of resolution that talk alone never reaches. I weave constellation work together with Gestalt awareness, so the insight does not stay external — it becomes something you can carry home in your body.

For therapists, healers, and seekers who sense that the spiritual and the psychological belong in the same room.

For decades the two streams have been kept apart — therapy attending to the psyche, spiritual practice attending to the soul — and clients have paid the price for that split. This workshop is about closing the gap with skill and discernment. We look at how to recognise when a presenting issue has a spiritual dimension, how to work with religious wounding and indoctrination using Gestalt method, and how to support clients whose belief system is genuinely sustaining them.

Equally, it is a chance to clarify your own ground. Most of us carry an inherited cosmology we have never examined. Through experiential exercises, sharing, and quiet reflection, participants get clearer about what they actually believe, what is borrowed, and what wants to be lived. The workshop is offered to mixed groups of practitioners and non-practitioners; the meeting of the two is part of the medicine.

A workshop about reclaiming the parts of ourselves we have been taught not to like — envy, pride, anger, greed, lust — without shame, and without acting them out.

Therapists in particular are trained, often unconsciously, to be nice. Gentle, contained, helpful. That is fine as far as it goes, but it leaves a great deal of human juice locked outside the consulting room — and clients can feel the absence. The Unvirtues is an invitation to bring those exiled qualities back into awareness and into contact, where they can be useful instead of leaking sideways.

The approach is rigorously non-shaming. We are not interested in moral correction. We are interested in what your envy actually wants for you, what your anger is protecting, what your self-interest knows that your virtue cannot admit. Using Gestalt experiment, projection work, and group dialogue, participants gradually thaw the disowned material and discover that integrating it makes them more — not less — trustworthy as people and as practitioners.

Power is everywhere in human life and almost nowhere in our training. This workshop puts it back on the table.

Most of us were taught, implicitly, that power and love are opposites — that to be loving we must give up influence, and that to be effective we must put softness aside. The result is a quiet incompetence: we either over-accommodate and lose ourselves, or we push hard and lose connection. Therapists, parents, leaders and partners all run into this.

Over several days we look at the many faces of power — positional, personal, relational, systemic — and at our own histories with each. Where did we learn to collapse? Where do we over-reach? What does it feel like to take a clear position and stay in contact at the same time? Through Gestalt experiments, paired work, and role-play with real situations participants bring from their lives, the workshop builds an embodied repertoire for using power with integrity. Love and power, it turns out, are not opposites at all; they are how a fully grown human moves through the world.