Jamie Catto's 'Transforming Shadows' - Live in Leek

On this workshop:

• You will learn how to dissolve and heal blocked emotions and the pain of old habits which weigh you down and reframe negative beliefs which hold pain-loops in place.

• You will play games and processes which lighten up rigid notions of appropriateness and uptight limitations of unconscious shame and negativity.
• You will laugh your head off and realise how much energy you’ve been wasting wearing masks to satisfy other people who’s values you don’t necessarily share.
• You will realise how precious each day is and how much more space there is for mischief and playfulness in the world, especially yours.
• You will forgive yourself for all the shame and negativity you’ve allowed yourself to carry due to old beliefs from uptight parents, carers, and teachers of old.
• You will reclaim vast amounts of energy and joy and channel it into your creativity and passions. Wonderful treasures we reclaim from ‘the shadow’ include feeling comfortable to take centre stage, enjoying dancing, allowing the discovery of failure, allowing oneself (and others) to be messy sometimes, singing, arting, wearing colours, being fully honest with family and friends, self-care, cracking yourself up, being able to release emotion with crying, experiencing the passion of your anger, standing up for yourself, engaging with causes and healing, laughing at ourselves, being generous, allowing others to support us in our vulnerability, being sexy, enjoying all kinds of pleasure.......the shadow is not just the dark and yucky bits, it’s all the parts of ourselves we learnt at young ages were ‘unwelcome’ or got us rejected or told off.

It takes SO little effort and drama to gently turn towards these places and reclaim their treasure...and there’s a lot of sheepish laughter and friendship in it...

What natural parts of yourself did you shut down as a kid? Let’s welcome them home together...

“…a polite warning; prolonged exposure to Jamie Catto could blow your mind…” - The Daily Telegraph

“Jamie Catto is kind, wise, open, boundlessly energetic, optimistic, and passionate. I adore him.” - Stephen Fry

“Jamie Catto is a human icebreaker with a prow of determination and a motor of love, slicing through the frozen seas around us.” - Tom Robbins

These workshops can potentially be emotionally intense and may bring things to the fore that are sensitive/difficult to deal with. You accept that whatever issues or emotions that arise for you on a weekend or online workshop are your own, that you take responsibility for your choice to attend a workshop that may include such experiences and that Jamie Catto and Jamie Catto Productions are held harmless for any and all responsibility for your responses to the workshop.

By signing up to the workshop, you agree to the terms and conditions.

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