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SAUDADE:
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Presented by
Mark Wentworth & Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP
June 18-21, 2020
Lisbon, Portugal
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REGISTRATION FEES:
Early Bird - 400€/ US$445
Regular: 450€/ US$500
Accommodation/food extra
Participants receive up to 24 hours for certification as a practitioner
through the
- American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy (ABE)
- International Society of Experiential Therapies (ISEP)
- Expressive Therapies Training Institute (ETTi)
The seminar will be held in English.
It is intended for those who are interested in self-awareness, self-improvement, and self-care.
Psychodrama, Dynamic Theatre, Color Psychology, Playback Theatre and other Action Methods and Creative Arts Explorations
LocationHotel DAH - Dom Afonso Henriques
Rua Cristóvão Falcão, nº 8 1900-172 Lisboa, Portugal |
Saudade is a Portuguese word which has no exact English translation, roughly translated it means to miss and to long for something or someone. Saudade is a word which conveys deep emotion, it has been loosely described as melancholy, but even that doesn’t begin to convey “an ache in the Soul” an ache for a way of being that will never be again or an ache and a deep missing for someone that has left our life and we will never see again. It is the love that remains.
If our ancestors originate from a different land to the one we now call home, maybe we have an unnameable sense of emptiness that has followed us all the way through our lives, a feeling that we only allow ourselves to feel in the quiet hours.
Maybe as we go through our daily routine we occasionally wonder what life would have been like if we had chosen another path, rather than the one that we did choose because it pleased those around us. Carl Jung referred to this as the “Unlived life”; an unlived life choice can drain our life force giving the feeling of being mere observers of life, simply going through the motions.
If we are to live fully and follow our inherent life purpose we have to learn to embrace and deeply look into our longings. Maybe the person we miss so much may never come back but we can, through action methods, have the opportunity to say all the things that we never got to say.
Even though the career path we wished we had followed is now no longer possible, through creative arts and active imagination we can encounter the part of us that did live that life in so doing we bring a unity of the life lived and unlived.
The ache of longing and missing is part of the sweetness and vulnerability of daring to open ourselves fully to experiencing the love of what life has to offer us. Through psychodrama we can learn to embrace and hold the tension of opposites of both the longing and the loving, and within this sweet embrace we find our own sense of wholeness and oneness with all that is.
We look forward to welcoming you Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, a city and a country that needs to be deeply experienced in order to be understood and to bathe in the true meaning of Saudade.
Until June,
Mark & Daniela
“Oh sea, oh salty sea, how much of your salt is the tears you cry for Portugal”
Fernando Pessoa
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Saudade (from Portuguese, SAW-DaaD), means a nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or that has been loved and lost, “the love that remains”. This deep emotional state of melancholy or nostalgia is a characteristic of the Portuguese and Brazilian temperament. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It brings sad and happy feelings together: sadness for missing and happiness for experiencing the past. The word may have originated during the Great Portuguese Discoveries, giving meaning to the sadness felt about those who departed on journeys to unknown seas and disappeared in shipwrecks, died in battle, or simply never returned. Those who stayed behind—mostly women and children—suffered deeply in their absence. The state of mind has subsequently become a "Portuguese way of life": a constant feeling of absence, the sadness of something that's missing, wistful longing for completeness or wholeness and the yearning for the return of what is now gone, a desire for presence as opposed to absence. In the latter half of the 20th century, saudade became associated with the longing for one's homeland, as hundreds of thousands of Portuguese-speaking people left in search of better futures in South America, North America, and Western Europe.
About the Presenters:
Daniela Simmons, Ph.D, T.E.P., is the founder and director of the Expressive Therapies Training Institute (ETTi), offering workshops on action methods in North Texas, other states and internationally. Dr. Simmons teaches experiential tools and didactic; preparing the students pursuing certification to take both the written and on-site exams. She has conducted and published various research on action methods. Daniela Simmons', professional experience, both in Europe and the US, is in educational, research, and consultancy work in the social sciences, applied gerontology and mental health. She has been utilizing action methods sessions since 1995 in Europe and since 2005 in the US. Daniela Simmons is the President of the American Society in Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP); and executive editor for the American Journal in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.
Mark Wentworth, Color PsychoDynamic Practitioner, has been studying and working with colour for over 30 years. He is the creator of The Colour Path and the Colour PsychoDynamic method, both integrating colour with the archetypal and visionary worlds of C.G. Jung, the psychodramatic life work of J.L. Moreno and the pioneering methods of Dr Roger Woolger. Mark pioneered workshops in the late 90’s uniting colour with bodywork, expressive arts and psychodrama techniques, giving colour, for the first time, not only a voice but also story and action. He is the co-founder and director of Dynamic Theatre (“Incognito Auxiliary”) an action-method of spontaneous representation. Mark is based in the UK as well as working across twelve countries worldwide. www.colourforlife.com
For additional questions, please contact
Daniela Simmons at danielatsv@gmail.com
Mark Wentworth at mark@colourforlife.com
If our ancestors originate from a different land to the one we now call home, maybe we have an unnameable sense of emptiness that has followed us all the way through our lives, a feeling that we only allow ourselves to feel in the quiet hours.
Maybe as we go through our daily routine we occasionally wonder what life would have been like if we had chosen another path, rather than the one that we did choose because it pleased those around us. Carl Jung referred to this as the “Unlived life”; an unlived life choice can drain our life force giving the feeling of being mere observers of life, simply going through the motions.
If we are to live fully and follow our inherent life purpose we have to learn to embrace and deeply look into our longings. Maybe the person we miss so much may never come back but we can, through action methods, have the opportunity to say all the things that we never got to say.
Even though the career path we wished we had followed is now no longer possible, through creative arts and active imagination we can encounter the part of us that did live that life in so doing we bring a unity of the life lived and unlived.
The ache of longing and missing is part of the sweetness and vulnerability of daring to open ourselves fully to experiencing the love of what life has to offer us. Through psychodrama we can learn to embrace and hold the tension of opposites of both the longing and the loving, and within this sweet embrace we find our own sense of wholeness and oneness with all that is.
We look forward to welcoming you Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, a city and a country that needs to be deeply experienced in order to be understood and to bathe in the true meaning of Saudade.
Until June,
Mark & Daniela
“Oh sea, oh salty sea, how much of your salt is the tears you cry for Portugal”
Fernando Pessoa
*******************
Saudade (from Portuguese, SAW-DaaD), means a nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or that has been loved and lost, “the love that remains”. This deep emotional state of melancholy or nostalgia is a characteristic of the Portuguese and Brazilian temperament. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It brings sad and happy feelings together: sadness for missing and happiness for experiencing the past. The word may have originated during the Great Portuguese Discoveries, giving meaning to the sadness felt about those who departed on journeys to unknown seas and disappeared in shipwrecks, died in battle, or simply never returned. Those who stayed behind—mostly women and children—suffered deeply in their absence. The state of mind has subsequently become a "Portuguese way of life": a constant feeling of absence, the sadness of something that's missing, wistful longing for completeness or wholeness and the yearning for the return of what is now gone, a desire for presence as opposed to absence. In the latter half of the 20th century, saudade became associated with the longing for one's homeland, as hundreds of thousands of Portuguese-speaking people left in search of better futures in South America, North America, and Western Europe.
About the Presenters:
Daniela Simmons, Ph.D, T.E.P., is the founder and director of the Expressive Therapies Training Institute (ETTi), offering workshops on action methods in North Texas, other states and internationally. Dr. Simmons teaches experiential tools and didactic; preparing the students pursuing certification to take both the written and on-site exams. She has conducted and published various research on action methods. Daniela Simmons', professional experience, both in Europe and the US, is in educational, research, and consultancy work in the social sciences, applied gerontology and mental health. She has been utilizing action methods sessions since 1995 in Europe and since 2005 in the US. Daniela Simmons is the President of the American Society in Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP); and executive editor for the American Journal in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.
Mark Wentworth, Color PsychoDynamic Practitioner, has been studying and working with colour for over 30 years. He is the creator of The Colour Path and the Colour PsychoDynamic method, both integrating colour with the archetypal and visionary worlds of C.G. Jung, the psychodramatic life work of J.L. Moreno and the pioneering methods of Dr Roger Woolger. Mark pioneered workshops in the late 90’s uniting colour with bodywork, expressive arts and psychodrama techniques, giving colour, for the first time, not only a voice but also story and action. He is the co-founder and director of Dynamic Theatre (“Incognito Auxiliary”) an action-method of spontaneous representation. Mark is based in the UK as well as working across twelve countries worldwide. www.colourforlife.com
For additional questions, please contact
Daniela Simmons at danielatsv@gmail.com
Mark Wentworth at mark@colourforlife.com
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