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Tutor biographies

All seminars will be led by Roz Carroll, and supported by guest tutors Jon Blend and Therese Melville.

Roz Carroll

Roz Carroll is a body psychotherapist with an interest in movement, neuroscience and relational psychoanalysis. She teaches on the MA in Integrative Psychotherapy at The Minaster Centre, as well as at The Bowlby Centre and Terapia Insitute. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters, including, most recently ‘Self-regulation – an evolving theory at the heart of psychotherapy’ in Contemporary Body Psychotherapy: The Chiron Approach (2009) ed. L Hartley.

Roz  Carroll specialises in interdisciplinary thinking and experiential practice. This course draws on her one year training with Linda Hartley in Body Mind Centering. It reflects her interest in a variety of body-based awareness practices including improvisation, authentic movement and yoga. www.thinkbody.co.uk

 

 

Guest tutor  Jon Blend

Jon Blend MA Dip Psych  is a  Gestalt psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. He teaches an introductory course on Working with Children using the Creative Arts at the Gestalt Centre, and is a trainer at the Terapia Institute.  Jon has extensive experience of working with adults, children and families in various community mental health settings, also in private practice. Jon is resident musician for an improvisational theatre group. (www.playbacksouth.org). Jon has a keen interest in  “Communicative Musicality”  (Trevarthen, 2009)  and has published several articles concerning therapeutic use of music.

Good vibrations pdf

 

 

Guest tutor Therese Melville

Therese has taught Eutony in the U.K and on the Continent for over than thirty years.  The essence of Eutony – created by musician, dancer and therapist Gerda Alexander (1908-1994) – lies in an attitude of observation of the finest sensations experienced in the body, from the surface of the skin to the resonance of the bones, in relationship with the outside world. Therese is a potter and a sculptor with an interest in permaculture. Therese writes more about Eutony.

Eutony PDF

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