RITUALS OF PLAY, FAILURE & LOVE:
AN INNER PARTS INTENSIVE
Friday, June 23rd 10am - Monday, June 26th 6pm 2023
Devon, UK
Devon, UK
Do you crave tender, bravely honest experiences with others in a safe container?
Are you interested in exploring the depths of paradox within and between us?
Does the combination of quiet, creative time in nature and emotionally dynamic playing with others appeal to you?
Are you excited (and scared) to play in the emergent field of relational group dynamics - with its divisions, alignments, subgroupings, and other drama?
Are you interested in exploring the depths of paradox within and between us?
Does the combination of quiet, creative time in nature and emotionally dynamic playing with others appeal to you?
Are you excited (and scared) to play in the emergent field of relational group dynamics - with its divisions, alignments, subgroupings, and other drama?
Join us for a four-day immersive adventure in the rolling hills of Devon, discovering together our inner parts and our group dynamics. The workshop will be rooted in parts work, a practice that involves tracing individual and collective selves through therapeutic methods, sensory experiments, mindfulness exercises, and social structures that invite creative imagining and courageous honesty with ourselves and one another. Our workshop hopes to bring us into deeper relationship with our parts and each other’s, and to do this we anticipate oscillating between intense interpersonal relating, including explorations of conflict, frustration, shame, sadness, and on the other hand, quiet and creative contemplation. We will use our personal explorations and those of the group to play with interpersonal dynamics that are patterned throughout larger communities and the world.
Theories of parts work suggest that we are each made up of parts-of-self, who often feel different ways in a given moment. One part may feel resentful, while another feels embarrassed, or angry at others’ parts, or playful, or delighted. Our goal will be to observe and deepen our relationship with these parts. We will diagram and express from parts-of-self, working with various modes of expression drawn from Internal Family Systems, Fooling, Psychodrama, Voice Dialogue, Tavistock Group Relations, Authentic Relating, Psychodynamic group therapy, and Circling. We will dialogue and dance with our harsh critics, our frightened inner children, our responsible managers and our angry fighters. We will find within us access to care, compassion and curiosity, harnessing this loving energy to support our most under-resourced parts in ourselves and the group.
This retreat is designed for anyone open to creative, vulnerable connecting, and there is no need to be familiar with the practices we will be sharing prior to attending. You might be a therapist looking to play with new practices, or a tired technical worker interested to unblend from conditioned postures, or a somatic practitioner with an edge they would like to work on, or a mother who wants to explore a recurring conflict with her son, or an activist who craves a refreshing approach to deconstructing patriarchal capitalistic mindsets, etc! Participants should be open to sharing about their emotional realities with others, and open to experimental practices that include movement, silence, creative expression, hearing other peoples’ challenging emotions, and sometimes needing to set boundaries or opt out if needed.
The intensive will be a mixture of rigorous and restful activities, with many opportunities to share, journal, reflect and listen in the beautiful, natural setting of Devon. In between the structured activities we will eat together, and have time in the evening for songs and games by the fire.
The leadership will be playing too! And working to notice, express, love, and listen. We will fail at times. And these failures will hopefully move towards repair, and more failure and play and repair. We will model the inscription of play into learning for the group, and collaborate with you to nourish and sustain the co-creative process. We are so excited to learn and play together with you!
IMPORTANT: Because of the nature of our exploration, conflict and big emotions can happen, and we ask that participants be prepared for that possibility. We hold a norm around opting out as needed, whether for a short time or altogether leaving, as a safety measure, and ask that people mind their own boundaries and those of others and do their best not to overextend. It is important that participants feel capable, in principle, of listening to others with compassion if conflict arises, and to regard conflict as an opportunity for learning. We know this is challenging territory and we bring tools and skillsets that can help the group approach conflicts this way.
Theories of parts work suggest that we are each made up of parts-of-self, who often feel different ways in a given moment. One part may feel resentful, while another feels embarrassed, or angry at others’ parts, or playful, or delighted. Our goal will be to observe and deepen our relationship with these parts. We will diagram and express from parts-of-self, working with various modes of expression drawn from Internal Family Systems, Fooling, Psychodrama, Voice Dialogue, Tavistock Group Relations, Authentic Relating, Psychodynamic group therapy, and Circling. We will dialogue and dance with our harsh critics, our frightened inner children, our responsible managers and our angry fighters. We will find within us access to care, compassion and curiosity, harnessing this loving energy to support our most under-resourced parts in ourselves and the group.
This retreat is designed for anyone open to creative, vulnerable connecting, and there is no need to be familiar with the practices we will be sharing prior to attending. You might be a therapist looking to play with new practices, or a tired technical worker interested to unblend from conditioned postures, or a somatic practitioner with an edge they would like to work on, or a mother who wants to explore a recurring conflict with her son, or an activist who craves a refreshing approach to deconstructing patriarchal capitalistic mindsets, etc! Participants should be open to sharing about their emotional realities with others, and open to experimental practices that include movement, silence, creative expression, hearing other peoples’ challenging emotions, and sometimes needing to set boundaries or opt out if needed.
The intensive will be a mixture of rigorous and restful activities, with many opportunities to share, journal, reflect and listen in the beautiful, natural setting of Devon. In between the structured activities we will eat together, and have time in the evening for songs and games by the fire.
The leadership will be playing too! And working to notice, express, love, and listen. We will fail at times. And these failures will hopefully move towards repair, and more failure and play and repair. We will model the inscription of play into learning for the group, and collaborate with you to nourish and sustain the co-creative process. We are so excited to learn and play together with you!
IMPORTANT: Because of the nature of our exploration, conflict and big emotions can happen, and we ask that participants be prepared for that possibility. We hold a norm around opting out as needed, whether for a short time or altogether leaving, as a safety measure, and ask that people mind their own boundaries and those of others and do their best not to overextend. It is important that participants feel capable, in principle, of listening to others with compassion if conflict arises, and to regard conflict as an opportunity for learning. We know this is challenging territory and we bring tools and skillsets that can help the group approach conflicts this way.
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TIMINGS : Friday 23rd June from 10 am to Monday 26th June 6pm
PRICING: Tier 1 £500, Tier 2 £400, Tier 3 £300 See link for info on Tiers.
EARLY BIRD! A limited number of early bird tickets are available for £250, via a partnership and matching donations from Intercultural Roots. This offer ends on May 15th. Early Bird Registration
DIRECTION: Hittisleigh, Crediton Mid Devon UK (more specific directions given prior to start date)
PLACES: limited to 15 participants
MEALS: Each person will bring ingredients to cook a meal for around 15 people. Support will be available for this. This will accommodate lunches and dinners, and participants are required to bring their own breakfast supplies.
ACCOMMODATION : Camping, van park ups and potentially B&B available locally. Participants are asked to bring their our camping supplies (tent, sleeping bag, etc) if camping.
REFUNDS: Refunds are available up to 30 days before the event - minus a £20 processing fee. No refunds available less than 30 days from the start of the event. We are not able to refund any travel costs in the unlikely event of cancellation.
QUESTIONS?: Please reach out to us at thedeepplayinstitute@gmail.com
TIMINGS : Friday 23rd June from 10 am to Monday 26th June 6pm
PRICING: Tier 1 £500, Tier 2 £400, Tier 3 £300 See link for info on Tiers.
EARLY BIRD! A limited number of early bird tickets are available for £250, via a partnership and matching donations from Intercultural Roots. This offer ends on May 15th. Early Bird Registration
DIRECTION: Hittisleigh, Crediton Mid Devon UK (more specific directions given prior to start date)
PLACES: limited to 15 participants
MEALS: Each person will bring ingredients to cook a meal for around 15 people. Support will be available for this. This will accommodate lunches and dinners, and participants are required to bring their own breakfast supplies.
ACCOMMODATION : Camping, van park ups and potentially B&B available locally. Participants are asked to bring their our camping supplies (tent, sleeping bag, etc) if camping.
REFUNDS: Refunds are available up to 30 days before the event - minus a £20 processing fee. No refunds available less than 30 days from the start of the event. We are not able to refund any travel costs in the unlikely event of cancellation.
QUESTIONS?: Please reach out to us at thedeepplayinstitute@gmail.com
FACILITATORS
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Aaron Finbloom is a philosopher, artist and pedagogue. He is the co-founder of The School of Making Thinking (SMT) and the founder & director of The Deep Play Institute (DPI). His practice involves expanding transformative inquiry through games, performance art and structured play. With training in Circling, Authentic Relating, and Psychodrama, he also facilitates experimental individual and group sessions inspired by these practices. Finbloom has presented works internationally at venues which include: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Gallery 151 (New York), Maschinenhaus Kulturbrauerei (Berlin), UNAM (Mexico City), and MainLine Theatre (Montreal). He holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities & Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, and is currently teaching Philosophy at the City College of New York and The University of Portland. finblooming.com
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Netta Sadovsky, MFA, LSW (she/they) is an artist and therapist living in Philadelphia, PA, and the assistant director at The Deep Play Institute (DPI). They provide individual and relationship therapy specializing in Internal Family Systems (IFS), working with kink, polyamory, the hardships of artmaking, and healing from relational trauma at West Philly Therapy Center. They also provide Psychedelic Psychotherapy at Voyage Healing in Philadelphia, with a specialty in using IFS with Ketamine Assisted Therapy. Netta is level 1 trained in Internal Family Systems, small group consultancy trained in Tavistock Group Relations, and is a student of Relational Psychodynamic Therapy, Mindful Facilitation, Theater of the Oppressed, and Psychodrama. They make artwork that borrows from and experiments with these practices under the moniker Suso Phizer.
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Christie Animas has over a decade of experience in creative and embodied personal development practices mixed with myth, connection to nature and emotional intelligence. Christie discovered a wealth of resources that are being mis-used or lying dormant within us. Christie is now showing people how to harness all these aspects so they can see them as gifts and thereby bring aliveness and constant creativity to their lives. Christie as a degree in occupational therapy, a specialization in child psychiatry. She trained as a Voice Dialogue practitioner in Dorset, UK, as a Fool with Franki Anderson and in the 8 Shields Model. She is currently training in Body Informed Leadership. She is offering her work in the UK and throughout Europe, and has created and gathered an expanding, vibrant community of players in the South West of England. She also works one-to-one using the Voice Dialogue process and performs and improvises her own music using the Fool Expression's practice. https://christieanimas.com/
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