Because the impact of trauma is held in the body – as well as the mind – the healing of child sexual abuse happens most effectively when both mind and body are involved.
Workshop Description
Because the impact of trauma is held in the body – as well as the mind – the healing of child sexual abuse happens most effectively when both mind and body are involved. Pesso Boyden System of Psychotherapy (PBSP) is a body-based therapy.
As Bessel Van der Kolk – renowned trauma specialist and admirer of Al Pesso’s work – said, “The healing tableaus of [PBSP] structures offer an experience that many participants would have never believed was possible for them: to be welcomed into a world where people delight in them, protect them, meet their needs and make you feel at home.” (from his book ‘The Body Keeps the Score’).
PBSP has a comprehensive theoretical framework for working with child sexual abuse. This impacts bottom up, brain stem responses, reflexes and automatic survival patterns as well as with the top down parts, involved in thinking, speaking, and our current emotional awareness.
Juliet will share a PBSP model: the 10 themes that commonly arise when working with people who were sexually abused as children. Juliet will be showing 4 short films, which are extracts of client sessions, to give a powerful illustration of how PBSP works with the body.
Whilst recognising that the majority of people attending this talk will not be trained PBSP therapists, Juliet hopes to alert them to some of the more obscure needs of clients who are dealing with these issues.
NB This talk was given in July 2021, and much of the content will be repeated.
- For courses by Juliet Grayson, William Ayot and their team, including dates of many other workshops www.therapyandcounselling.co.uk
- Recordings of webinars and talks – including the Exploring Shame Series 1, which was 7 webinars that William and Juliet did in 2020-2021 with Online Events. www.jandw.thinkific.com/ Create an account and then you can watch free talks, free previews, and purchase various items including Exploring Shame Series 1. There are also poetry readings, talks on ritual, relationship issues, and films and talks about the Pesso Boyden System of Psychotherapy.
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- Onlinevents have set up a forum for William and Juliet where you can ask questions and find out more about other offerings they have https://onlinevents.mn.co/share/N-9HevToO7P4DRH8?utm_source=manual
- For those who are curious about Pesso Boyden System of Psychotherapy there is a forum here https://onlinevents.mn.co/share/FdUUd5fAqE_WP3x_?utm_source=manual and a Facebook page for PBSP in the UK https://www.facebook.com/groups/PBSPUK
- For therapists thinking of Working With Couples – details of the 6 modules designed by Juliet Grayson are here https://therapyandcounselling.co.uk/certificate-in-working-with-couples/ and the dates for modules coming up are here https://therapyandcounselling.co.uk/ (NB you can do just one module, or all 6 modules. Your choice).
- To contact William Ayot for one-to-one coaching, or to arrange a personal ritual, e.g. to help you manage something in your life or deal with a transition contact us at info@williamayot.com
- Resources for i) people struggling with sexually inappropriate behaviour and those who might cross the line and commit an act of sexual violence, ii) their families, iii) the therapists who work with them, and iv) their victims. www.sexuallyinappropriatebehaviour.org
- Poems by William, as information about other workshops he runs www.williamayot.com. His books are for sale on here www.williamayot.com/shop/
- For details of The Men’s Room: An Inquiry into Modern Manhood – a programme for men that William Ayot and Nicholas Janni are running, starting in December 2021 go to https://www.training.nicholasjanni.com/manhood
- The website for Juliet’s book, info about it, articles, and you can also purchase it www.landscapesoftheheart.co.uk
Course Content
Presenter
Juliet Grayson is a psychosexual psychotherapist, coach, teacher, and has worked as a psychotherapist since 1991. She specialises in working with couples and sexual problems, as well as people who are facing a life-limiting diagnosis. As a psychotherapist she is UKCP registered, NLPtCA accredited, COSRT accredited, and PBSP accredited. She has a private practice in South Wales (UK) and on Zoom. Juliet designed and runs (alongside her team) a twelve day programme, in six modules each of two days. This teaches therapists, counsellors, psychologists, coaches, and health professionals how to work with couples and relationship issues. This course is approved by COSRT for CPD.
They also run courses for therapists on Creative Writing in the Therapeutic Encounter, Storytelling for Healing and Change, Anger Rage and Relationship, Working With Shame, Polyamory Polygamy and Arranged Marraiges, Therapeutic Work with Men, Boys, & Teens.
Juliet herself runs Deep Dive Therapuetic Workshops using Pesso Boyden System of Psychotherapy. John Wilson said about these ” I would personally highly recommend this experience, I have been on 3 residentials now and found them all deeply helpful!” John Wilson Trainer, Psychotherapist & co-founder of Onlinevents.
