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2024 Calendar at a Glance
January to March 2024 – Introduction to ImageWork
A five-part online course hosted by Onlinevents. See Eventbrite for details. The five weeks are:
January 26. 2.30-5.30pm. Online. Introduction to ImageWork Part 1.
Unlock Your Imagination: Transform the Images that are Running (or ruining) Your Life – and have a truly New Beginning. See Eventbrite for details.
February 9. 2.30-5.30pm. Online. Introduction to ImageWork Part 2.
Empathy Unveiled: Use Imagery to Discover the Hidden Perspective of Others. See Eventbrite for details.
February 23. 2.30-5.30pm. Online. Introduction to ImageWork Part 3.
Heal From Within: Access Your Inner Consultants and Healers Through Imagery. See Eventbrite for details.
March 8. 2.30-5.30pm. Online. Introduction to ImageWork Part 4.
Future-proof Your Life: Imagery for Visioning the Future You Wand and Finding Out How To Get There. See Eventbrite for details.
March 22. 2.30-5.30pm. Online. Introduction to ImageWork Part 5.
Living Spaciously and Finding Freedom: Imagery for a Renewed Relationship with Life. See Eventbrite for details.
May 6-8 (to include travel days 7-11) at the Aurora Centre, Monopoli, Puglia, Italy – Fundamentals of ImageWork Practitioner Training.
In person training course open to practitioners and non practitioners. See below Monopoli, Italy, 2024
June: date to be confirmed. At the Skyros Centre – Visioning Your New Life
To enquire about or to book a Skyros course phone +44(0)1983 865566 or go to www.skyros.com.
July/August: date to be confirmed. At the Atsitsa Centre – New Beginnings
To enquire about or to book a Skyros course phone +44(0)1983 865566 or go to www.skyros.com.
September 30 – October 4 (to include travel days Sept 29 – Oct 5) at the Aurora Centre, Monopoli, Puglia, Italy – ImageWork Autumn Retreat
In person retreat in our beautiful centre overlooking the sea in Puglia, with like-minded people exploring ImageWork. Details to follow. Save the dates.
Imagination and Transformation, Tivoli Institute, Co. Dublin
Dates: April 1-2, 2023
The most effective time for transformation and new beginnings is the moment when the winds of change are already blowing in one’s life. Burnout, stress, crisis, confusion, loss, illness, major change: these are all words that let you know that you need to stop, orient yourself and listen to your inner wisdom before you can take your next step. If you are a therapist, counsellor or consultant, this is the time in your client’s lives that they turn to you for help and are most open to receive it.
This workshop focuses on the three-stage process of transformation: catalyst, turning point, and new beginning. We will be working with imagery at each point to go below everyday thinking and old assumptions to your own unique view of reality.
Using imagery has the power to deepen and speed up any learning, healing, problem solving, or creative process. You will learn to tap into your “genius imagination,” or “radical imagination” to get a vivid and accurate snapshot view of where you are right now, what has led up to it, and what is possible—as well as to support you to say Yes and map out steps to a new future. In so doing, you will also gain the tools to continue this learning in everyday life or to work more effectively with clients.
This workshop is suitable for people seeking life change, as well as for therapists, counsellors or consultants seeking professional development. It can offer clarity and confidence in your own life, as well as a powerful way to facilitate change in others. It has the added bonus that clients can take these methods into their own lives to continue their own transformation, and so can you.
CPD certificates are available. Dina Glouberman’s book, ImageWork: the complete guide to working with transformational imagery as well as the MP3 download of all the exercises (www.dinaglouberman.com/audios/) can serve as a text and further training for the workshop.
Phone +353 1 2809178 or Email tivoliinstitute@gmail.com
Skyros Centre: Visioning Your New Life
Dates: Saturday 10 June-Friday 23 June, 2023
Are the winds of change blowing in your life? What are they whispering? Are you willing to listen? If so, this course is for you.
You may be feeling burnt out, stressed, or stuck. Or you may be confronting crisis or change. Either way, such times demand that you step forward into a bigger picture of who you are and where you are going.
An interesting spiritual tradition says that when we are living our everyday lives in an everyday way, the soul just rests or even sleeps. But when we are in crisis, or looking for change, or wrestling with something that our ordinary mind doesn’t quite know how to deal with, the soul wakes up. And then life begins to move to a whole new level.
Is this what you’ve been yearning for? If so, you need to stop, listen to your soul’s whispers, look at what reality is telling you, find out where you want to go, and then get to a Yes.
Saying Yes is a commitment to take whatever is brewing within you and around you into a new behaviour, a new attitude, or a new way of life. An unqualifiedYes sets the next stage into motion, opening you to the intuitions, research, actions, and persistence in the face of difficulties that make it possible to vision and create your new life.
This is what Visioning Your New Life will help you do.
In this course we will be working with imagery and visualisation to:
- Recognise the catalyst that can start you moving in a new direction
- Get a vision of the future that would be right for you
- Say Yes
- Map out the steps to your new future, and take a leap of faith into a new reality.
This is also a crash course in working with your ‘genius imagination’ so that you can be your own consultant, therapist, and wise guide. The secret is to educate your imagination to bring together the spiritual and the practical – learn to attend to the whisperings of your heart and soul while being grounded in the real world.
Since you are what you imagine, if where you are is not where you want to be, why not learn to imagine better?
This course is suitable for complete beginners in imagery and visualisation as well as for those who are experienced in using this approach.
Prepare to be surprised. Your images by their very nature don’t always tell you what you expect; rather they will show you what you know deep down inside but haven’t yet told yourself, and they always point the way to transformation.
You will be able to emerge from this course with the clarity and confidence to take your next step in life. You will also have a magic box of tools, indeed a new way of thinking, that you can use to understand, protect, and guide yourself, not just during the workshop but for the rest of your life.
Since you are what you imagine, if where you are is not where you want to be, why not learn to imagine better?
This course is divided into two parts, but it is best if you can do the whole course.
Week One: The Joy of Burnout
In week one, we will map out the path from where you are back to your authentic self and forward into a new set of choices. You don’t need to be burnt out to take this course, only to recognise that you are at a choice point, and you don’t want to fudge it.
This week will include learning how to:
- Find a metaphor that gives you a map of where you are in your life right now
- Discover whatever may have been blocking your way and find a way through
- Forgive life and yourself for whatever hasn’t gone as you dreamed
- Learn to listen to the voices of heart and soul and integrate them with your mind
- Consider what are your choices at this moment and find your best way forward
In other words, at the end of this week, you will have a deep sense of where your true joy lies.
Week Two: New Beginnings
Week Two is about moving through to saying Yes. Saying Yes is a commitment to take whatever is brewing within you and around you into a new behaviour, a new attitude, or a new way of life. An unqualified Yes sets the next stage into motion, opening you to the intuitions, research, actions, and persistence in the face of difficulties that make it possible to vision and create your new life. We will be working with imagery and visualisation to:
- Recognise the catalyst that can start you moving in a new direction
- Get a vision of the future that would be right for you
- Say Yes
Map out the steps to your new future, and take a leap of faith into a new reality.
At the end of this second week, you will have a vision, a plan, and a determination to make it work. More than that, you will have a knowledge of what really matters to you, and how to make sure your life reflects this understanding.
‘You have changed my life and helped me to have a second chance at living and being happy.‘ Recent course participant
Since you are what you imagine, if where you are is not where you want to be, why not learn to imagine better?
Atsitsa: New Beginnings
Dates: 29 July to 10 August, 2023
Are you feeling stuck or burnt out, facing difficult changes, or simply yearning for something you cannot imagine having? If so, this workshop by Imagework pioneer and Skyros co-founder Dr Dina Glouberman can help you:
- Recognise the catalyst that will start you moving in a new direction.
- Get a vision of the future that would be right for you.
- Find your way forward to a new beginning.
The secret is to educate your imagination to bring together the spiritual and the practical – learn to attend to the whisperings of your heart and soul while being grounded in the real world. You will emerge from the workshop with more clarity and confidence to take your next step in life. You will also have a magic box of tools, indeed a new way of thinking, that you can use to understand, protect, and guide yourself, not just during the workshop but for the rest of your life.
These courses are based on my books, Life Choices, Life Changes, The Joy of Burnout, You are what you imagine as well as my memoir Into the Woods and Out Again: A memoir of love, madness and transformation. My new book for practitioners is called ImageWork: the complete guide to working with transformational imagery. Don’t forget you can always get free downloads of book chapters or MP3s of imagery exercises, or buy any of my books or MP3s of imagery exercises on this website.
To enquire about or to book a Skyros course phone +44(0)1983 865566 or go to www.skyros.com.
ImageWork Autumn Retreat
THE ALCHEMY OF IMAGEWORK
Dates: OCTOBER 2-6,2023
THE AURORA CENTRE IN MONOPOLI, PUGLIA, ITALY
Puglian Centre for ImageWork Therapy, Coaching and Consulting
Director: Dr Dina Glouberman:
Come to Puglia, and take time to step back and reimagine your life in the company of like-minded people at our beautiful venue overlooking the sea. Our ImageWork retreat is open to everyone, from beginners to the more advanced, and is suitable for practitioners who wish to train in ImageWork and for non-practitioners alike.
ImageWork is the unique process that Dina Glouberman has developed over 40 years which harnesses the power of the imagination to promote healing, creative achievement, transformational insight, spiritual discovery and practical wisdom. You can learn to use imagery to enhance every aspect of your life, personally, professionally, creatively and spiritually.
By tapping into the imagination that guides our lives, we are enabled to make creative life choices and profound life changes.If you can imagine it, you can create it. ImageWork is an invitation to learn to imagine better
You will be able to emerge from this course with the clarity and confidence to take your next step in life. You will also have a magic box of tools, indeed a new way of thinking, that you can use to understand, protect, and guide yourself, not just during the workshop but for the rest of your life.
Join us and explore the surprising insight of your transformational imagination, enjoy the warm and loving support of our Imagework community, and experience the beauty and tastes of Puglia as together we celebrate our first retreat at Aurora.
For photos of the Aurora Centre and Monopoli, please see the photo gallery.
| Venue: | Aurora – Puglian Centre for ImageWork Therapy, Coaching and Consulting |
| Dates: | October 2-6 (Including travel days: October 1-7) |
| Course fee: | £565 (£525 Early Bird if booked by June 26) |
| Accommodation and transport: | Participants to book separately. Not included in cost. |
| For further information, see Aurora Centre |
To enquire further or to book, please email Lynn at lynnljones@btinternet.com
The Janus Years Programme
Dates: to be decided. Please contact us if you want to be notified about courses.
Facilitators: Dina Glouberman, Ph.D, Stewart Mitchell, MPhil.
The Janus years are the years, often around what is called mid-life but not necessarily, when you have achieved a measure of success or fulfillment in your life, but are beginning to suspect that all is not completely well, and consider that there may be a need to to review the past, understand where you are now, and revision the future so that it is more in line with the person you have now become.
This course will support you to negotiate the Janus Years more comfortably, productively, and wisely and to take charge of your life in a new way. It will offer you skills in imagery and visualisation, bodywork, health management, and voice work to take home with you into your life as well as a new map of the territory of your life.
The programme which includes one day sessions, weekends, and individual consultations is designed to help you to take a cool look at how your life is going and to acknowledge where it is working for you, and where it is not resonating with the whispers of your heart and soul. It’s an opportunity also to use the experience and wisdom you have gained in your life to look back, honour and appreciate what what has brought you to this point, to see where you are now, to vision a future that offers you whatever it is you have been missing, and plan your next steps.
This review and revisioning can apply to any area of life, including work, family, and other relationships, as well as give you a map of your life situation as a whole and where it is leading.
Continuing participant-only support groups will also be set up.
Further details will be posted here. Or express your interest on Contact Me, and we will add you to the mailing list.
Bios of Course Facilitators:
Dr. Dina Glouberman: please go to Who I am and What I do.
Stewart Mitchell B.Phil. is a Naturopathic practitioner with over 30 years experience in Europe, the USA and India. Now resident in Zurich, he maintains a practice and self-help programme – the Naturopathic Gym – for individuals and organisations. A frequent keynote speaker, Stewart is the author of three best- selling books on well-being, The Healing Power of Nature, The Healing Power of Touch, and Yoga Shastras. Stewart is also a former restauranteur and his business acumen contributes to his approach. In his experience, symptoms of stress or disorder are undercover agents for reform; managed sensitively, we emerge physically regenerated and spiritually renewed.