R E N E W A L
Renewal = Healing + Awareness + Attunement + Joy
We offer two routes of personal development, a fortnightly closed group with on-going regular membership which is run on a therapeutic basis, and a bi-monthly drop-in group with moving membership run as a mixed agenda group addressing therapeutic, coaching and supervisory needs as the membership dictates.
A Fortnightly Personal Development /Therapy Group
How we work
We share the sentiment that 'Gestalt's therapy rebellion against catagorising, analysing and putting patients into cubby holes according to theory-driven priory beliefs and concepts' '(Yontef 1993) is liberating and an essential componant of therapeutic health. Many current Gestalt trainings we contend have lost the baby in the professional bath-water! When therapy walks too close to the social order it courts the same conditions that bring clients to us in the first place!
We therefore attempt to develop whole persons through holistic group inquiry informed by Gestalt and Humanistic psychology informed by Taoist and Buddhist philosophy.
Groups are kept small at about 6-8 members. We celebrate feast-days together and other notable occasions with wine and snacks, and allow our agenda to emerge from those present.
- Days: Wednesday or Thursday
- Time: 7.45-9.45pm
- Venue: Redhill, Surrey
- Fee: £25 per attendance.
We have vacancies in our Fortnightly Wednesday & Thursday Groups
Who We Are
Paul Barber (PhD; MSc; BA; EAGT; UKCP; UKAPC)
"I teach group facilitation, Gestalt, clinical philosophy & research, counselling & organisational consultancy in university settings, & have researched & published widely in health, therapy & organisational change. I also supervise Gestalt, Humanistic & Psychodynamic therapists & consultants. My prime role is as lead facilitator."
For a free consultation phone: 01737-779430 or email:
A Bi-Monthly Saturday Group at Redhill Surrey
To hone and develop your Gestalt practice it is envisaged that some of you may wish to supplement workshop training with attendance at the Redhill Group held bi-monthly (see Renewal Bi-Monthly Groups where you can grow and co-facilitate in a group climate more conducive than the formal setting of a training workshop.
2010 = Sept 18, Nov 6. 2011 = Jan 8, Mar 19, May 14, July 22.
This group is designed to help you become fully alive - now.
Many sole practitioners lack opportunity to receive quality peer feedback & find this drop-in group a useful supplement to their personal/professional development. If you would like to explore yourself & your relationships, to sample Gestalt & group facilitation, or re-vision your life & expand your awareness please join us. Come as a peer & claim your power & place as a fellow explorer alongside others. We employ an holistic model of facilitation drawn primarily from Gestalt, but informed by Psychodynamics, Philosophy, Humanism & Transpersonal psychology, Taoism & Buddhism.
This group meets every two months & has a moving membership, it is open to everyone. At each meeting there are some regulars, some irregulars plus a new face or two. Some come to experience an organically flowing Gestalt group where the themes naturally arise from negotiation or being together; some come to explore their relationships, others to expand their awareness through quality feedback. One recent participant sent the following appreciation:
"It was good to see you and to meet such great people on Saturday. I found the level of sharing and discussion really rich with much to reflect on over the past couple of days.
The group process particularly helped me explore energy flow, how to have good contact with others and maintain my energy levels without moving into isolation. So much came from group themes as well - compassion for and parenting of ones self as well as others. I wonder what grand parenting ones self would look like - very loving and quite indulgent I imagine!
Thank you for your alert and warm facilitation which enabled so much to happen."
Acceptance to the group is on a first come basis. (Up to 10 places are available).
Fee: £75 per group.
Times: (10 a.m. - 5. 00 p.m - A light lunch is provided)
Venue: 7 Ridgeway Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 6PQ 01737-779430
(10 minutes walk from Redhill Station – every 30 mins London Bridge,Waterloo – 10 min’s from M25, please email for further directions).
There are nearly always vacancies in our drop-in Saturday Group
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