Short & Snappy Series
Short & Snappy are a series of forums that have been specifically designed to be either taken individually or as a block. We start this year in Sydney with 8, 2 hour interactive, weekly lectures on philosophy with Dr Steven Segal. In April, we are offering a series of 5 half-day workshops on working with clients creatively and conclude the year with exploring what are known as the Four Worlds as first described by Ludwig Binswanger and extended by Emmy van Deurzen. This latter workshop is also offered in Melbourne starting in March.
Sydney 2012 (Location Map)
- Philosophical Conversations (series of 8, 2-hour interactive lectures)
- Working with the Five Senses - Creativity in Action (series of 5, 3 hour workshops)
- Exploring the Four Worlds
Melbourne 2012 (Location Map)
SHORT & SNAPPY SERIES 2012
SYDNEY
Philosophical Conversations
Series of 8 interactive lectures
Wednesdays from 6.30 to 8.30pm
PD Points: 2 per lecture
We are living in unsettling times thrown into questioning our most fundamental of assumptions. We have forgotten to philosophize and yet we yearn for answers.
Dr Steven Segal asks “is the experience of being unsettled, perplexed and even uncertain the emotional and existential basis for questioning philosophically, a form of questioning that reaches right back to Socrates?”
The Centre for Existential Practice and Dr Steven Segal invites you to explore the history of philosophy through the lens of the uncertainties and ambiguities of everyday lived experience.
Steven will expand on each of the philosophers and through dialogue explore how each philosopher asks questions that are pertinent to our living in the world today.
Synopsis of Philosophers (PDF)
Socrates |
Wednesday 15 February |
Plato |
Wednesday 22 Februay |
Machiavelli |
Wednesday 29 February |
Descartes |
Wednesday 7 March |
| Wednesday 14 March | |
Hume |
Wednesday 21 March |
Romanticism |
Wednesday 28 March |
Marxisim |
Wednesday 4 April |
Sartre |
Wednesday 11 April |
Philosophical Conversations (PDF)
Course Facilitator: Dr Steven Segal
Cost: $75 per session ($440 for series of 8)
Working with the Five Senses - Creativity in Action
Series of 5 half-day creative workshops
Fridays from 9.30am to 12.30pm *
PD Points: 3 per session
Existential practice is usually described as a conversational model with our heart in our heads. However, in this series of short workshops, the creative edge of existentialism is used to expand into the realms of imagination, allowing the unreflective or non-cognitive awareness to come forward.
Each session will be spent exploring how our five senses are activated when working with the different mediums of creativity.
| Sand Tray | 27 April |
| Cards | 18 May |
| Visualisations | 29 June |
| Drawing | 13 July |
| Voice Dialogue | 24 August |
* For those who have not had experience of the phenomenological process of enquiry, a 30 minute briefing will take place at 9pm prior to the workshop.
Workshop Description
Course Facilitators: Dr Alison Strasser& Adam McLean
Cost: $100 per session ($400 for series of 5)
Exploring the Four Worlds
Series of 5 half-day workshops
Saturdays from 2 to 5 pm
PD Points: 3 per session
The Four Worlds (Physical, Social, Private & Spiritual) are the dimensions that we implicitly inhabit in our being-in-the-world. Exploring these dimensions offers the therapist a map for understanding how a client relates to these four worlds. Although separate, these worlds are intimately interdependent and interlinked giving a unique insight into the polarities, tensions and dilemmas that client's face.
Each of the worlds will be covered separately in the first 4 sessions. In the final week all four dimensions will be reviewed to illuminate how this background 'map' can reveal both disparities and highlight potential openings into new understandings for the client.
The Physical World
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Saturday 1 September |
The Social World
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Saturday 20 October |
The Private World
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Saturday 3 November |
The Spiritual World
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Saturday 17 November |
Integrating the 4 Worlds
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Saturday 8 December |
Course Facilitators: Dr Alison Strasser& Adam McLean
Cost: $100 per session ($400 for series of 5)
MELBOURNE
SHORT & SNAPPY 2012
Exploring the Four Worlds
Series of 5 half-day workshops
Fridays & Saturdays from 2 to 5 pm
PD Points: 3 per session
The Four Worlds (Physical, Social, Private & Spiritual) are the dimensions that we implicitly inhabit in our being-in-the-world. Exploring these dimensions offers the therapist a map for understanding how a client relates to these four worlds. Although separate, these worlds are intimately interdependent and interlinked giving a unique insight into the polarities, tensions and dilemmas that client's face.
Each of the worlds will be covered separately in the first 4 sessions. In the final week all four dimensions will be reviewed to illuminate how this background 'map' can reveal both disparities and highlight potential openings into new understandings for the client.
The Physical World
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Friday 13 April |
The Social World
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Saturday 7 July |
The Private World
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Thursday 6 September |
The Spiritual World
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Friday 2 November |
Integrating the 4 Worlds
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TBA |
Course Facilitators: Dr Alison Strasser& Adam McLean
Cost: $100 per session ($400 for series of 5)