Transforming Our Dreams

body/movement based creative process /non-Directive Intervening therapeutic approach 

This workshop has been facilitated at “Spiti ton Kentavron” for eleven consecutive years, with the support, respect and love of the fellow members of Kalikalos community.  

You are very welcome to join us this year in the Transforming Our Dreams workshop and unfold with us the group dynamic, creation, connection and healing in the here and now! 

During this intensive week we are going to create a safe space, take care of ourselves, deepen our listening and seeing to oneself / each other / nature, explore creative pathways for dreams to manifest, share and find new possible ways to make them real and act upon them. 

This workshop is for anyone who feels the need for transforming the old ways of experience life, feels the need for deeper connection with nature, wishes for creativity to come along, longs for coming together and being inspired and encouraged for change, wants to work with others and to enrich his/her inner resources, seeks for an opening of revealing dreams and realizing them. 

We are experiencing very challenging times in multiple layers and levels. You are very welcome to join the group and have time to take care of yourself and space to dream awake for our future, our world. 

The goal of this week is to open up the possibility of less closed/ego-centric conditions and more loving/ eco-centric connections. We will explore ways and conditions to create positive experiences that enrich our inner resources and facilitate the emergence of desires for learning, communication, creativity, change and integration. 

The workshop processes respects the here-and-now process of the group and the facilitator will follow the group dynamics and will be accompanying emerging desires and needs with appropriate creative invitations. We will work in a space where feeling safe will give us the opportunity to explore new possibilities of presence, relating and action. 

During this 6day workshop we will go through the following structure: 

• First days: Landing, becoming familiar with each other, taking care of ourselves. Warming up. Creating a safe environment. 
• Core of the week: Exploring dreams in a personal/collective/ecologic level. Finding ways for deeper connections within the group and with nature. Opening space for nature to speak. Calling for the unknown. Silence. Exploring ways of listening, seeing, manifesting. Work in the sea, at night, in the sun-spring etc.
• Closing days: Crystallization of the work. How our new understandings/experiences can be applied/linked to our everyday life. Call for innovative ideas. 

 Creative movement work and other expressive ways (art, sound, craft in individual, duo, group forms) will support this process. The workshop’s theory, methodology and philosophy follows the Non-Directive Intervening approach (of psychotherapy, pedagogy and group facilitation) and Dance/Movement Psychotherapy discipline. Polyvagal theory and practice will inform the content of our work. 

Prerequisites

No prior dance or therapeutic experience is required. 

The workshop aims at a personal development process, it is not psychotherapy intended. 

The participants need to be in an alert state in order to work through their personal processes. 

Participants need to answer a questionnaire before their registration (pre-registration) 

The workshop has a very limited number of participants. 

Workshop language: Greek and English (with parallel translation if needed)