Forthcoming workshops

Autum 2010
London

 Lourdes Callen facilitates learning groups on parenting which include experiential exercises, talks and dialogue. She is a counsellor with a background in Steiner Early Years Education, working both here and in Spain. 
In the workshops adults meet each other in a space that encourages support and learning. They bring their questions and experiences, opening the way to new ideas, commitment and enthusiasm for the task of parenting.

Consultations and Biographical Counselling
In London and Forest Row (East Sussex)

Supporting you with parenting and development questions

For more information please go to: Consultations
For appointments please call 01342 826727
or E-mail: lcallen@atimeforchildhood.com

 Further information about Courses in London

Sunday, 17 Oct 10.30 am – 5 pm

Healthy boundaries as a preparation for life

This workshop offers an opportunity for a general exploration on the theme of boundaries:
What boundaries are and their effect on children.
This workshop is for parents of children of any age. We will look at:

• How setting healthy boundaries can help children’s development.
• Adults’ resistance to setting limits. 
• Understanding our reactions to children’s behavior.
•  How the child needs limits for containment.
• How building relationships helps children’s positive response and cooperation.
• Understanding the particular approach for setting boundaries that young children need.
• How positive limits are a preparation for life.

£80/£55 concessions. Places limited, early bookings advisable.
Please bring your own lunch.

To book please contact Rudolf Steiner House on 020 7723 4400

Venue: Rudolf Steiner House,
35 Park Road, NW1 6XT.
Nearest tube: Baker Street

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Sunday, 31st Octuber (Starting Date)

Development Group
Biographical Learning and Parenting

Enhancing our capacities

“When I change my child changes too”

A New Initiative
Our experiences in Spain and London this June have inspired us to open a new phase for our courses "A time for childhood":
We would like to start a social-therapeutic group that will be active and supportive to parents in a continuous way throughout the year. We will meet two times a term which will make it possible for busy parents to attend. These meetings are similar to workshops we have been running.
The times being: 10.30 am to 5 pm on Sundays.
From October 2010 to June 2011

Dates
1st Workshop    31 October
2nd Workshop   12 December
3rd Workshop   30 January
4th Workshop   20 March
5th Workshop     8 May
6th Workshop   26 June  

This group will integrate biographical and personal development work with parenting support; understanding children needs and exploring each person's path of parenting. We will also train faculties for observation, for grounding ourselves and for expanding our capacity to love.

We aim to:

• Create a space which will help us to meet the challenges of the times in which we are living.
• Give Personal attention to the parent and through him/her to their children.
• Find tools for healing and for learning in times for transformation and change.
• Build resources to move from crisis and difficulties to well being and creativity.
• Develop new attitudes to ourselves, to children and to life through experiential work and dialogue.

• Enhancing the connection to children and the work with their angel
• Welcome the new experiences and creative acts that we notice in our daily lives.

This work is based on:

• The knowledge of Anthroposophy; the life phases and biography work;

and the experiences of many years of workshops with parents.

• The intention to
• Encourage personal development as the base for a healthy development of the child.
• Work with deepening questions and with refining the work of parenting.
• Increase awareness of our parenting path and the influence of our own upbringing.
• Explore destiny questions; find meaning in parenting; and in our own life.

These workshops will have an experiential approach.
We will work with:

• The understanding of life phases; our individual biographies; and what the meaning of transformation might be.
• The journey of parenting within each person's path of life.
• Practical questions about parenting

We will have parents with children of different ages and they will contribute by bringing their questions and experiences, sharing in small groups, and participating in a rich giving and receiving.

This way of working includes:

• Working with Art and social exercises
• Biography sharing in a small group
• Developing abilities for communication and dialogue

• Encouraging awareness of the new discoveries, achievements and leanings

Cost: the first workshop will cost £85/£60 concessions.
To book for this workshop, please call Lourdes or Rainer on: 01342 826727
And send a cheque for the workshop amount to:
53, Upper Close. Forest Row. RH18 5DS
 
Please make cheques payable to “A Time for Childhood” 

After the first session, in order to make it possible to run this group we would like you to commit for the whole year (5 sessions more) by paying the whole amount of £375 / £250 concessions (which includes a discount of £10 each session). For any other arrangements please call the above number.

Places are limited, early booking is advisable. Please bring your own lunch.
Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, NW1 6XT. Nearest tube: Baker Street
Lourdes Callen facilitates learning groups on parenting which include experiential exercises, talks and dialogue. She is a Biographical Counsellor with a background in Steiner Early Years Education, working both here and in Spain.
 
Programme 
Development Group 2010-2011

31 October 2010
1st Workshop
What does a world in movement require from us?

• Introduction to Biography work.
  • Knowing ourselves better.
  • Life phases and the 7-year rhythms.
  • The biography chart –Inner and outer biography.
  • How biography and development work can help parents.
• Learning to learn – Becoming active in times of crisis.
• Practising tools:
  • Working with our journal – Reviewing; digesting events.
• Everyday life with children:
  • Space for questions and dialogue.

12 December 2010
2nd Workshop
What is it to be a child?

• Understanding the first years of childhood. From Birth to 9.
  • Development, play and learning — Trusting the world.
• Parents and children in today’s world
• Practising tools:
  • Building a picture of childhood.
  • Developing abilities for Retrospection.
• Everyday life with children:
  • Knowing our children.

3rd Workshop
Finding an inner space.

• ”What about me?” Creating resources in us that allow us to give.
• Understanding the years from 9 to 21 – Enhancing Beauty and Truth.
• Phases of Ego development.
• Practising tools - How to learn from life:
  • Observation exercises: What is this situation teaching me?
  • What is this child telling me?
• Everyday life with children:
  • Learning to really see the child.
  • Working with the angel.

4th Workshop
The years of soul development

• Understanding the phases of life between 21 to 42 – An overview.
• What each phase of life can offer to children and what children offer to parents’ individual biographies.
• The years from 21 to 28 – A time for Experiencing.
• Family life – The need for individual space and for enriching our social life.
• Practising tools:
  • How to work with the questions that emerge within us?
• Everyday life with children:
  • Lowering anxiety levels - Working with Trust.

5th Workshop
Working for soul transformation (continuation)

• Understanding the years from 28 to 42 - A time for Balancing and Questioning.
• Biographical learning and parenting – Growing with our children
  • The soul work of parenting.
  • What can we learn from our own biography that will serve the next generation?

• Relationships in the family.
• Practising tools:
  • Supporting each other’s development.
• Everyday life with children:
  • Learning to give and receive.

6th Workshop  
The Spiritual Development Years – Expanding our consciousness

• Understanding the years from 42 onwards – Imagination, Intuition, Inspiration.
• The parenting path within the bigger picture of one’s life.
• Working with the influences from the past, creating the present and being open to the future.
• The workings of destiny in human biography and parenting
  • 0ur parents, us, our children.
• Practising tools:
  • Finding Meaning and Integration.
  • How does our biography speak to us?
• Everyday life with children:
  • Enhancing our life forces and our capacity to Love.