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Renewal Groups

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.

The fortnightly groups are closed groups whose members are interviewed (free of charge) prior to admission, so that they might appreciate a longer committment of 2 years plus is to be expected. Members develop close attachments in this group which can become a symbolic family where earlier issues might be addressed. Members are expected to give two full sessions notice after stating their intention to leave so that 'endings' might be addressed in a healthy manner by themselves and their peers alike. Fee for the fortnightly group is £25 per 2 hour group, 7.45-9.45 pm.

The bi-monthly Saturday Group has a differing membership each time and may be used as a place to check-out life plans, receive quality feedback, to release tensions and to luminate understanding of our potential blind spots. Those new to Gestalt have also found it to be a valuable taster of this way of working. Fee for the day is £75 and a light lunch is provided. 

 

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About Paul Barbers
About Paul Barbers
Born in- Middlewich, Cheshire, Northern England

1970's- I trained in psychiatric nursing at Epsom (St Ebbas & Long Grove Hospitals)and the Henderson Hospital before establishing a Therapeutic Community in acute mental health within Belmont Hospital

1980’s- I applied Humanism and Therapeutic Community practice to education and the Public sector. After being recruited to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to develop nurse tutors, I joined with the Association of Therapeutic Communities (ATC) and group analysts from the Tavistock and Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) to initiate a programme in Therapeutic Community Practice for medics, social workers and nurse.

1990’s- I applied Humanism, Gestalt and Group Analysis to education, being recruited by the Human Potential Research Group (HPRG) at the University of Surrey to design and co-deliver an MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies (CASS).

21st Century - I have acquired an international audience and been propelled into illuminating the potential of Gestalt to resolve conflict and to build communities - through the holistic process of its phenomenological inquiry.