Courses in Wellbeing

I offer courses in holistic approaches to health and wellbeing.

Courses aim to develop deeper understanding of personal wellbeing, what determines it and how it can be enhanced.

They are valuable both for personal wellbeing and for health care practice. They provide insight into ways in which the wellbeing of patients or clients can be supported with positive effects on their health.

Courses are small – maximum 10 participants and include taster days, two and four day courses. They can be tailored to different professional groups.

At Warwick University I developed and taught ...

At Warwick University I developed and taught courses for postgraduate medical students, for postgraduate public health professionals and for undergraduates in all disciplines. Consultants, GPs, trainee doctors and many other health professionals have enjoyed and benefited from these courses.

Forthcoming Courses in Wellbeing

Wellbeing for Health – A one-day course in health enhancement and life enrichment

Developed to support health professionals, these days have proved popular among people from many walks of life – addressing personal wellbeing, resilience and ways to support these essential qualities. When you’ve had enough of feeling weary, this is an opportunity to turn your world the right way up again.

Take advantage of the knowledge and expertise I’ve acquired over decades of wellbeing research, teaching and practice
Develop new insights into resilience and wellbeing
Learn approaches and practices that are effective and easy to adopt
Take stock of your situation, decide what can be changed and what can’t
Leave recharged and resourced
Take away ideas for your patients and as well as yourself
In a delightful setting in central Oxford

Upcoming dates for Wellbeing Taster Days:

Dates for 2025 coming soon

Price: £100 | Concessions available on requestClick here to contact me for further details and to book your place.

Testimonials

'A fascinating SSC practical, fun alternative, less book learning; clinically significant skills'

‘Sarah somehow holds a space that is both structured enough to feel purposeful, but wide open enough to be entirely attuned to whatever may come in that moment’

‘It may take a few years before the profession as a whole starts to feel the benefit of Sarah’s Wellbeing courses, but if her past leadership performance is anything to go by I know that they will.’

(read longer testimonials here)

Courses in Embodiment

I now offer the 2-day Radical Wholeness workshop.

These workshops take you beyond listening to your body. They offer another way of paying attention and another way of thinking and being that together bring you home to the body’s vital wisdom. They were developed by Philip Shepherd as an introduction to The Embodied Presence Process (TEPP).

This course is (in Philip’s words) for those who live in their heads and long for something more in their lives.

Forthcoming Courses in Embodiment

Radical Wholeness – A two-day embodiment workshop

In this course, I offer a different way of looking at the world and introduce a series of simple, gentle, unique practices that help you encounter habits of disembodiment that otherwise remain invisible. Finding your way back home to your body’s vital wisdom is more than a little challenging because our neurology has been shaped by the disembodied culture we live in. But once you bring these limiting patterns and mindsets into awareness, they begin to soften and change.

As your relationship with your body transforms, it will start to heal and you will feel your relationship with the world changing, and discover nourishment and pleasure in both. During the course you will develop a set of skills that will serve you for a lifetime.

Upcoming Radical Wholeness workshops

Offered over 4 Thursday mornings in Oxford:

31st October 2024
7th November 2024
14th November 2024
21st November 2024

Offered over a weekend:

1st – 2nd March 2025 in Oxford
17th – 18th May 2025 in Bristol

Click here to contact me for further details and to book your place.

Testimonials

'I discovered how one-dimensional my view of breathing is'

'It's exciting to discover why different ways to breath bring so much and how they can be easily practiced'

‘I became far more aware of the blockages and restrictions throughout my body’

‘A great course- loved it; it was so experimental. Good clear explanations; well paced’

‘Such an intense feeling of connection with what was going on when I opened my eyes after the elevator exercise - magical really’

Courses in Bodywork

I offer courses in bodywork to health professionals

I am offering an exciting four-day course in Bristol. It is designed for those, already working with the body, who want to develop new skills and insights into psychological as well as physical wellbeing, exploring the energy of bone in the context of a broad body-mind-spirit framework.

Offered over 2 weekends, it introduces the practices of Zero Balancing and Embodiment as well as the insights of Polyvagal Theory and other psychological approaches. Integrating insights from a range of perspectives from the world of trauma to the world of biomedicine, the teaching trains new skills, offers new perspectives and potentiates many different approaches to practice.

Forthcoming Courses in Bodywork

Bone to Bone

This new four-day course is designed for those who work with the body and want to develop skills and insights into psychological as well as physical wellbeing, exploring the energy of bone in the context of a introduces the practices of Zero Balancing and Embodiment as well as the insights of Polyvagal Theory and other psychological approaches. Bringing ideas and exercises from a range of perspectives from the world of trauma to the world of biomedicine, the teaching trains new skills, offers new perspectives and potentiates the practices of different approaches to bodywork.Bodies take the brunt of everyday stresses and distress because these interfere with physiological functioning and musculoskeletal patterning. Eventually they become painful or diseased. The Bone to Bone approach offers the deeply and holistically restorative experience of being held through the skeleton. This allows the release of long -standing tension patterns and offers an opportunity to reset the nervous system.The course covers:

Properties of bone and how to work with bone to greatest effect.
How bodywork can directly affect the nervous system enhancing aspects of wellbeing as we age.
The practitioner qualities essential to this work – presence, awareness, sensitivity and mindset.
Polyvagal theory and how it can potentiate bodywork.
Embodiment practices for therapists and clients

Participants report that the course has a personal impact, for example one said that the course seemed to ‘thaw places of holding in my body, sufficient that I have less fear and more grounded courage available’. Another said ‘I’m feeling more boundaried, with a greater self-awareness’.This powerful gentle technique has a capacity to enable bone, the deepest and most structural component of the body, to relax and heal. When your very skeleton is held in kindness, curiosity and gentleness you can feel safe enough to step away from deeply held patterns, whatever your history.Upcoming dates:

18th – 19th January and 1st – 2nd February 2025

This 2 + 2-day course runs at the Bristol College of Massage and Bodywork.

Click here to contact me for further details and to book your place.

Bone to Bone. 5 – 6 June and 11 – 12 September 2023

Course description: This powerful gentle technique has a capacity to enable bone, the deepest and most structural component of the body, to relax and heal. When your very skeleton is held in kindness, curiosity and gentleness you can feel safe enough to step away from deeply held patterns, whatever your history. Bringing insights from a range of perspectives from the world of trauma to the world of biomedicine, my teaching potentiates the practice of zero balancing, teaching the protocol in a broad body-mind-spirit framework. Please contact for further details.

Bone to Bone. Saturday 14th – Tuesday 17th January 2023

Testimonials

‘The course has changed me; I feel different; it has been very unexpected and moving.’

‘I have learnt as much about myself and my senses as I have about my clients’ bodies. I was fascinated that I know exactly when to give space and read signs and continue.’

(read longer testimonials here)

Venue - Annex@No4

I have a workshop space, purpose built for courses and workshops on wellbeing. I offer this for hire to teachers of human development and wellbeing when I am not using it myself.

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