Holistic Self-Development in Community: Grow Together with others in a Soulful Way
A weekly, online group to navigate the ebbs and flows of life
Do you feel like you have missed out on fun and adventures of life because of your life circumstances?
Do you feel lonely or isolated, or in some way stuck in your life choices?
Do you feel like you sabotage yourself a lot which gets in a way of making fulfilling choices?
If you are looking to grow your confidence and self-acceptance - in soulful, meaningful connection with others - this group is for you.
Over 9 weeks, the group will support you to feel more accepting of yourself and provide tools to create more meaningful relationships. You will develop more confidence as you make peace with self-critical and limiting beliefs, experience belonging to a tribe of fellow travelers, and rewrite the narrative of your life together with other like-minded people.
It is led by a UKCP-registered Gestalt psychotherapist and creator Katy Swoboda, and based on the Gestalt cycle of experience, includes elements of grief work and awareness-based movement practices.
Each series is limited to 6 people meeting online over the 9 weeks on a weekly basis. This is a closed group to foster deepening safety and trust over the weeks we get to know each other, and so your commitment is to the whole duration of group.
What happens in a group session?
This is a facilitated and held support group, and not a therapy group. I will be holding a non-judgmental and safe space for you to explore how creativity, embodiment and spirituality can support you in exploring themes from your life together with a group of committed explorers.
Through dialogue and witnessing others as well as guided creative and embodied practices, we will expand our capacity for focused awareness, self-trust and connection.
This 9 week self-development group includes psycho-education on:
- stages of life and developmental tasks for these stages
- an introduction to a lens which can support your understanding of the relationship between self, others, and environment
- an introduction to the Gestalt cycle of experience which can help you cultivate a sense of satisfaction and letting go
- an introduction to acceptance and self-compassion practices
- an introduction to how we can tap our embodied wisdom
Who is the group for?
This group is open to anyone interested in developing practical tools which will support meeting your needs for:
- An accepting relationship with yourself
- Connection with others
- Cultivating a sense of belonging
- Spiritual development -connection beyond ourselves with nature and what nourishes you
- Creating a constructive life narrative supporting you to live the life you want to live
Dates and times
The group starts in January 2025 and takes place on Fridays at 10.45am – 12.15pm.
Here are all the dates:
Week 1: Friday 10 January
Week 2: Friday 17 January
Week 3: Friday 24 January
Week 4: Friday 31 January
Week 5: Friday 7 February
Week 6: Friday 14 February
Friday 21 February – half-term – no group
Week 7: Friday 28 February
Week 8: Friday 7 March
Week 9: Friday 14 March
Zoom link will be sent out on registration
How to join
If you are interested to join this group, please contact Katy on katy.swoboda.psychotherapy@gmail.com or text 07788 1770092. I will get back to you with a suggested time for an initial free-of-charge chat where we can see how we could work together and whether this group is what you are looking for. If you are in doubt whether the group is suitable for you but would like to join, please do not hesitate to contact me and we can discuss this further.
Payment Options
Please choose the payment option below that best reflects your financial circumstances,
Reduced: £270 - if you are on benefits or unemployed, and/or financially struggling
Standard: £378
Supporter/Generosity: £495 - if you can afford, and have enough to support others, this would support me to offer a low-cost place
It’s possible to pay in 2 installments – 50% on registration, and this will guarantee your place in group, and the second installment on a Monday before week 5 starts.
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