‘Defining your Space with Couples: Powerful starts and Mastering Therapeutic Presence’ with Lottie Passell- Syms & Alison Curtis, on March 2nd 2024, In North Baddesley Village Hall SO52 9DT £40 members £50 non-members

Alison, a Relationship Specialist, has spent a significant part of her career in business coaching leaders and their teams. Despite only working with couples since the pandemic, she has already won two awards for her work. Alison believes the skills required of a couples’ therapist are actually very different to practitioners working with individuals.

She is passionate about bringing people together to collaborate and share best practice.

Lottie, a Psychosexual/Relationship Specialist and Supervisor, working with individuals and couples during the past two decades. She offers a programme based way of working and is passionate about exploring and navigating themes of attachment, so profiling clients to better understand their narratives. Lottie offers hourly sessions, intensive weekends and Retreats for Individuals and couples who seek intimacy, connection and the  learning of a new ‘language’ which will help align themselves as ‘I’ and together as ‘We’.

The morning session: The first meeting – first impressions and assessment.

‘How to invite a couple into therapy and establish the right relational energy which enables engagement with you, as a therapist, plus engagement with each other? Therapists will receive instruction and clarity in how to make a strong first impression with a couple and to conduct an assessment. There will be opportunities to observe the experience of other practitioners and to put new ideas in to practice yourselves. The day will provide a co-facilitated supervision experience – so feel free to bring your couple dilemmas.

The afternoon session: Sex and Tantra.

This workshop will generate greater understanding for both therapists and clients, building confidence in how to talk about intimacy and sex in the therapy room. We do not intend to go into depth, just give you a flavour. We will also invite you to explore the sacred world of tantra and the secrets this energetic practice holds to enhance intimacy and sexual healing. We will discuss the use of appropriate sexual language, including topics that enable you to be more aware of your own bias, prejudice and/or discomfort.