This is a one -day workshop exploring grounding 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 practitioner specialising in feeling and purpose, that brings awareness to developmental interruptions and trauma held in the body. Radix is a body psychotherapy, personal growth work. She is experienced in holding groups that focus on feeling, embodiment, and aliveness of the human being. Her training in both ERT and Radix with their framework rooted in characterology and how character is formed by developmental trauma/interruptions that affect pulsatory rhythm in the body, looking at attachment theory and contact interruptions, grounding is seen as something that is developmental and done in different ways at different stages and therefore can be interrupted at different stages of energetic and physical development. Grounding is a relative state, we are more or less grounded at any one time, it is not fixed, is constantly moving depending on how safe and resourced we feel in any one moment. Like embodiment, we all have a body, but to be present, feeling, and aware of how we are moment by moment and what our relating to another or our environment, is a constant working of being more or less embodied. Grounding is part of being more one minute, less another minute grounded and embodied. We can’t be grounded if we are not embodied, and we can be grounded and ungrounded in fleeting amounts of time and vice versa.

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Grounding is the foundation of presence and the antidote to anxiety. How do we ground, what does it feel like? what does it change and enable? How does grounding affect our ability to be in contact or be out of contact? How does grounding affect our ability to feel or not to feel? These are some of the things we will explore.

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Radix and Chinese medicine theory understands grounding as the basis of being able to feel safely embodied, have clarity of thought, being able to be alive and present in the moment in reality of. An ungroundedness results in anxiety, confusion, overwhelm, lack of clarity, lack of reality, agitation and disassociation and a lack of embodiment. Chinese medicine uses several ways to ground, therapeutically, with touch, with food, with different meridians and acupuncture points, how might we choose what meridians and point to use depending on the developmental interruption to grounding that may have occurred, do we ground everyone in the same way? In grounding someone in Chinese medicine what are we energetically encouraging, is it always associated with the legs, or more or equally so the connection to the eyes, the hands the back?

This workshop will be theoretical and experiential. Giving you ways of understanding your own and others grounding and understanding the importance of our own and others in relationship.

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Radix is a body centred approach and unlike other psychotherapies that are somatically informed, Radix psychotherapy has the body as the central focus with the emphasis on the somatic unfolding. Radix is a process orientated body centred therapy.

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This workshop is for all those interested in learning about themselves and their own grounding and offers ways that you can incorporate grounding as an embodied concept for others and into any discipline you practice. How can grounding for us as human being, partners, parents, friends, practitioners, therapists, facilitators help our practice and give aliveness to our lives, for ourselves and others in our care?

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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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I run a few different 1-day works as part of my Alive workshop series, all look at different aspects of embodiment and being an embodied feeling human being, you can find the others offered on my website.

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As well as these one-day workshops, I offer more intensive personal growth work opportunities in a ‘Nurturing life programme’ the next is September 2026.

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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 to offer this as part of an essential course requirement.

 

With warmth Tessa