ASSERTIVENESS WORKSHOP 16-17 September 2006, 10 am - 4.30 pm
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	Do you automatically submit to your partner’s wishes and opinions?  Do you stop yourself asking your boss for a rise or a promotion?  Are you uncomfortable about expressing yourself in a clear, specific way?  Do you defer to others whose style or behaviour is more domineering?  Have you ‘given in’ as far back as you can remember?  Do you get your needs met  -  always, often, rarely? Do you recognize these questions arising in your life?  Whatever your individual dilemmas, you will learn practical ideas and approaches on this workshop which you can then take out into the world. Assertiveness is the willingness to define yourself  -  one of the most challenging yet rewarding and confidence-building steps you can take.  Using visualisations, exercises and the sharing of personal experiences, the workshop will explore such issues as: • Is it OK to say NO? • Why is it such a challenge for you to make an impact?  • Where is the risk in standing your ground? • What habits and patterns damage your self-esteem? • What is it about conflict that can make you contort yourself to avoid it? • Where is your ‘bottom line’? If you want to discuss participating in the workshop and/or to reserve a place, please call 020 7243 6752 or email marcusgottlieb@gmail.com.  The fee will be £160, of which £60 is due in advance.  The venue is The Coach House, 14a St Luke’s Road, Notting Hill, London W11 1DP.  The fee includes lunch on Sunday. Marcus Gottlieb, formerly a solicitor, has graduated from an 8 year training in humanistic and existential psychotherapy at Spectrum, a long established institute accredited to the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.  He uses gestalt, psychosynthesis, psychodrama and other models, and he is particularly interested in finding a synthesis of F.M. Alexander's bodywork method with Stanley Keleman's formative psychology.