Validated by the National Agency, published  in the Comenius - Grundtvig Training Database, reference number  UK-2009-1016-001

Transforming Life: On Symptoms, Illness and Near-death Experiences

We’d like to let you know about the upcoming seminar with clinic day.

Transforming Life: On Symptoms, Illness and Near-death Experiences 
Facilitated by Jean-Claude and Arlene Audergon
30 September – 4 October 2009, at Interchange Studios, 213 Haverstock Hill,
NW34QP London (across the street from Belsize Park tube, Northern line)

Many of us are involved with people who have serious illness or meeting matters of life and death, with family members and friends, or professionally.  And all of us at some point will be.

Whether as family member or as professional (psychotherapist, complementary medical professional, doctor, nurse, chaplain), you may be grappling with how you can facilitate awareness and support individuals and families facing serious illness and issues of life and death and meaning, while meeting the limits and the challenges of the systems of medicine and care.

Personally, both of us have been very involved with family dealing with illness and matters of life and death. Three of Jean-Claude’s brothers died recently, and these brothers were his ‘parents’, because he lost his parents young. Arlene spent a month last year, day and night in hospital, by the side of her 84 year old mom, (now 85) who had an extreme case of Pneumonia and ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) and we are so happy she pulled through.

Serious illness brings life into focus. What is really important to you? What matters? It sharpens your awareness of what you have done, and not done, what is no longer important and what matters and what you still want to achieve or fulfill. It may bring a sense of letting go, or a new commitment to live.

It may bring a sense of your ‘life myth’, a pattern that has been with you since the beginning, that you suffer from and grow with, that appears in your dreams, inside yourself, in your relationships and family, and in your vocation and creative contribution.

Process Work (Mindell) skills have helped us not only to facilitate the deepest spiritual and transformational processes behind serious illness, but also the impossible system dynamics within a hospital, and the advocacy needed moment to moment, around the clock.

In the seminar, we want to share Process Work skills that are a matter of life and death, and even more importantly a matter of quality of life, and finding contact to oneself and others, and sense of meaning and spirituality. We will focus on:

1. Process Work skills for working with serious illness, questions of life and death, discovering the deepest sense of spirit, orientation and meaning.

2. Dimensions of Advocacy in Health care:

• Advocacy in respect to basics such as sleep, cleanliness, and nourishment at home and in hospitals; medication; medical decisions about procedures; communication among medical professionals, and more.  
• Advocacy through process awareness at different levels: emotional and spiritual processes and personal transformation, relationships and family, hospital system dynamics, collective issues
• Advocacy for the opportunity to contact one’s deepest nature, and how symptoms and illness can transform one’s awareness and life.

3. Working with serious illness and questions of life-death: ‘Clinic’ day within seminar.

On this highly practical clinic day (October 2nd), we invite individuals who either suffer themselves from serious symptoms or illness to come and work with us in the middle. If you are interested or know of people who would benefit from this opportunity, please contact seminars@processwork-audergon.com

4. Mini ‘think tank’ on public health and medical ethics 

We are looking forward to explore these themes together,

Arlene and Jean-Claude Audergon 

For more information about this seminar, you can reach us personally on
arlene@processwork-audergon.com or jc@processwork-audergon.com  

To register for the course, please contact Eva on seminars@processwork-audergon.com
The fee is £400 - Payment details

For information about CFOR, including our Europe Matters programme, Balkans projects, the Facilitation for Leaders annual training and more, please visit www.cfor.info or email us on admin@cfor.info
For more info about Process Work and Audergon seminars  www.processwork-audergon.com
 
For more info on Process Work in the UK, or the Foundation and Diploma programme, contact the Research Society for Process Oriented Psychology. www.rspopuk.com. RSPOPUK is a member training organisation of UKCP, the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy

Chapter you may be interested in: Audergon, Jean-Claude:  'The Body in Process Work', Chapter in Totton, N (Ed.) New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy, Open University Press/McGraw-Hill, London, 2005 Open University Press/ McGraw-Hill   ISBN: 0335215920, Pub Date: SEP-05
For our publications, see http://www.processwork-audergon.com/info/publications.htm