This is a one -day workshop exploring centring and will be largely experiential, with a combination of groupwork, pair work, sharing and listening, bodywork, feeling work, breath work and movement, promoting self-contact, and self-expression.

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Tessa has over 20 years’ experience as a Chinese medicine practitioner. She is a somatic bodyworker and is a certified Radix teacher specialising in feeling and purpose, body psychotherapy, personal growth work. She is experienced in holding groups that focus on feeling, embodiment, and aliveness of the human being.

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Within this one-day workshop we will explore centring as bodies and a part of embodiment. How do we become in contact with our bodies, how do we become aware of the internal sensations, track ourselves internally and encourage it in clients. Why is it useful? Centring is a skill that allows for us to come to a place within our bodies that we don’t try for change or a specific result or process to happen, centring is part of acceptance of how we are right now, without judgement or a need to move on from.

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We will explore in this workshop what centring is and what moves you away from your centre and contact with yourself, we will work from a Radix and Chinese medicine perspective looking at different ways that we can encourage centring in ourselves and others. What are the things that we can do that connect us to more of a sense of what is happening for ourselves and what takes us away from this experience. We will look at breath, visualisation, touch, and types of contact to explore how we individually stay in touch more with ourselves and explore why keeping our centre is important in our lives.

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This workshop and the other Alive workshops run throughout the year, and can be brought into colleges, universities and places of study and work. They provide opportunity for deepening  understanding of embodiment, awareness and presentness, for the individual and what this allows for in turn in therapeutic spaces. Awareness about character our own tendencies, what each bring in strength and challenge, the workshops can be used to help promote authentic relating and knowing in the workplace, or as part of self, development and growth in students, who will be working in a therapeutic way with people and the need when working with other people in therapeutic settings to be trauma informed and to process trauma within our own bodies. The Alive workshops can be taken singularly or part of a series of workshops and can be tailored to your setting and requirements.

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As well as these one-day workshops, I offer more intensive personal growth work opportunities, both 1-1 individual and programmes that combine group work and workshops with individual sessions. A new group is forming for September 2026, please contact me if you are interested.

 

I am looking forward to sharing this day with you. Please feel you can contact me to book a place or and to ask any questions that might facilitate your decision.

 

With warmth Tessa