International Trainings Practical Information
What does participating on the 'Basic' Year involve?
The 'Basic Year' consists of four modules of self-development spread over 12 - 18 months in order to allow participants time to integrate the learnings of Willem Poppelier's Revolutionary bodywork approach to sexuality.
All modules are run residentially over 6 whole days, in comfortable and beautiful venues, near budget airline hubs. Generally, we aim to hire venues in Southern France or the Costa Brava, Northern Spain, for the sake of value for money accommodation, cheap travel and climatic reasons.
Participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements, and this will usually mean arrival the night before. All travel expenses must be insured by participants, in order to cover any unforeseen eventualities.
To support integration of the material, participants are encouraged to attend support process groups in between course modules. Participants may choose to engage any of the registered Sexual Grounding Therapists to offer these groups, which usually span two days. Contact details for accredited therapist may be found here
'Basic' Year I: dates and staffing
Groupwork starts at 10.00 on first day and ends 17.00 last day.
Module 1:
27 March-1 April 2011 - Trainers: Robert Fischer and Helena Løvendal-Duffell
Module 2:
16-21 June 2011- Trainers: Surahbi Fischer
Module 3:
24-29 October 2011 - Trainers: Valquíria Martani and/or Helena Løvendal-Duffell
Module 4:
26 - 31 March 2012 - Trainers: Helena Løvendal-Duffell
The 2011-12 International SGT Staff Group
Helena Løvendal-Duffell was born in Denmark and originally trained and accredited as a psychotherapist in London. She is a co-founder of the Centre for Gender Psychology and co-author of Sex, Love and The Dangers of Intimacy (Harper Collins Thorsons, 2002). She was the first President of the Association of Sexual Grounding Therapists and Trainers, and lives in France. Robert Fischer was born in Switzerland and trained as a medical doctor, psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specializes now in body-psychotherapy and has a particular interest in working with men.
Surabhi Notbargu Fischer was born in Austria and for many years worked with Margot Anand, the founder of Sky Dancing Tantra. She has a practice in integrative body-oriented psychotherapy in Berne, Switzerland.
Surabhi and Robert are married with have two children and live near Berne, where their Mann-Frau Institut is based.
Valquíria Martani Sarti was born in Brazil, but trained in body-psychotherapy at the Wilhelm Reich Institute of Mexico, where she began her private practice in 1987. She introduced Sexual Grounding Therapy into Mexico, and for a decade was a co-trainer with Willem Poppeliers and the training-therapist. She now lives and works as a trainer and supervisor in Northern Spain.
Willem Poppeliers , the originator of Sexual Grounding Therapy, was born and educated in Holland. He trained as a development psychologist and a bioenergetic analyst. He leads the Sexual Grounding Therapist Trainings and makes guest appearances on the 'Basic' and 'Advanced' courses. More information on the trainers can be found on this page
Venue
The fabulous sea-side Eden Roc Centre, Sant Feliu de Guixols, near Girona, Spain, boasting private beach, indoor and outdoor pools, Ayurvedic treatment and massage centre. In English, with possibilities of translation into German, Spanish and French on some modules.
Cost
€3500 training fee, excluding accommodation from €55 per day, half board. Additional costs are inter-module support groups (approx. €100-€150 per day).
Application procedure
Please apply by e-mail to info@genderpsychology.com saying why you are interested in this course and what your experience in the field is. You will then be asked to fill in an application questionnaire and, due to the depth that this training requires the students to go, you may be asked to do our pre-requisite course or come to an interview, before acceptance to the full training.
English language candidates are anyway highly recommended to attend one of our Entry Level courses in order to provide background for this intensive bodywork personal development course.
Entry Level courses
E1 & E2: Gender, Identity, Sexuality and Ground.
These courses are highly innovative, combining experiential and theoretical inputs and are ideal for therapists, teachers, educators and parents. They are prerequisite for further training with us in Creative CoupleWork and Sexual Grounding Therapy.
More details Here
Organisers
FSGT (Foundation for Sexual Grounding Training) and BodyMind Opleidingen (NL) in collaboration with the Centre for Gender Psychology (UK/FR).
Contact
If you wish to have any further information before applying, please do not hesitate to contact us. For application and further details please contact:
the Centre for Gender Psychology
www.genderpsychology.com
e-mail: info@genderpsychology.com
tel: 44 (0) 20 7267 7098
6 Chester Court , Lissenden Gardens, London , NW5 1LY , UK .
