Mens Groups Exploring Anger, Authenticity & Relationships
- Learn to live more fully in the present moment
- Free yourself from the grip of incapacitating fear and the tyranny of self-judgment
- Undo your depressive responses to stress and conflict
- Manage your anger and undo the triggers that set you off
- Discover the hidden conflicts and old roles that are holding you back
- Deepen your capacity for feelings and managing intimacy
- Explore themes of trust with others and how you may undermine intimacy
Learn to take life’s knocks less personally and enjoy greater inner freedom; Discover the “secrets” of successful relationships and how to build more connection, joy, satisfaction, aliveness and warmth into your life.
Discover a new world of shared emotional intelligence, where personal development and transformation happens through the intentional building of a shared resonance within the group, using a communication tool called "Functional Subgrouping". As interpersonal resonance builds, the group functions more like a living organism where new awareness emerges and evokes powerful developmental forces that are unavailable to us as individuals.
My Approach to groups is Relationship-Centered, Present-Centered, Body Centered, and Systems-Oriented:
Each of these areas of focus are interdependent and build on each other. As one element changes, your whole self-as-a-system changes. Each week you will practice getting centered in your body as we launch the group.
We will focus on learning to stay in the present moment by bracketing the past and future and by exploring what is happening in the now.
We will focus on relationship patterns that emerge in the emotional field within the group, and we will use a systems based communication tool called "Functional Subgrouping" to learn to build interpersonal resonance.
We will naturally land on the universal polarities and challenges that all groups and relationships encounter and identify and work through the crucial phases of development we face in the relational systems within which we live.
Our focus is not on confrontation, judging or fixing each other, but rather exploring shared experience together and learning side by side. You will discover your growing edges, find comrades who share a similar path. You will learn to make increased room for differences you discover in others and in yourself. You will naturally become more authentic, more open, more free, more personally authentic and responsible, and more able to make choices.
I hope you'll consider joining us,
Peter
Articles:
Joining A Therapy Group: Opening to Life Energy
The Journey of a Man in a Group
Raising Your Systems IQ: An Introduction to Systems Thinking
- November 6, 7, 8: Anger, Authenticity and the Life Force
- March 19-20-21, 2010
Contact: www.birdk.dk
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- November 13, 14, 15
- March 5,6,7, 2010
- Fall 2010 TBA
- March 8-17, 2010
Harriët Ordelman
Trainer, Coach
“I found it a wonderfully practical weekend and a truly liberating experience; Peter is an expert guide. He is a born teacher!”
Urmila
What I really found valuable was how we as a group became more and more in the “here and now’ and more open; something that gave us the space to investigate the things that drive our behavior in a very respectful way. Peter Bernhardt’s professional guidance, engagement and presence really allowed this to happen. Very exciting for me to think of how I can integrate Systems theory and practice into the work I currently do with groups in a therapeutic setting
Tanja Mars / TAOS
Trainer, Coach and Therapist
" I really enjoyed the weekend. The ‘systems approach’ of Agazarian does justice to the complexity of reality from one moment to the next without drowning the simplicity of personal connection. On the contrary, its an exciting adventure to be swept up in a group adventure where we learn from the roles we play and from the different aspects of being human.
Annick Nevejan
Trainer, coach and creative specialist
“I enjoyed the workshop immensely. I generally find things like this terribly confronting but this was completely inspiring and a fascinating experience to be part of. The technique and manner of working really worked for me.”
Nora
