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What if the places that shaped you are trying to tell you something?
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Walking Memory - One day of process work in Melbourne In some traditions, where an event took place matters more than when. In therapy, we often ask when something happened - to locate it in developmental stages, power dynamics, systemic contexts. But we rarely ask where. Yet places have their own power, their own feel that gets us. Places carry both individual and collective meaning. I started exploring this connection between personal history and place after noticing that when I return to Warsaw, my hometown, I walk - often unintentionally, for hours - through places tied to my memories. My life has a material map, not just in my head but in actual space. Since emigrating, I need this reminder. Walking like this, I discovered: I'm no longer who I was then. I've changed. My life is moving. But what I love most is imagining myself as I was 20, 30, 40 years ago - then, there, in those places - and how I would have reacted seeing who and where I am now. Try this: Imagine yourself in a place from memory. The first thing that comes to mind, or some significant moment. You're there. Look around. Who were you then? What mattered to you? What were you dreaming about? Now imagine someone told you then who and where you'd be today. How would you have reacted? What do you notice? You can try this with a few different places and times. [ Walking Memory - Full details and registration here ] My strongest impression? I wouldn't have predicted where and who I am now. In many of those space-times, this was beyond my imagination. What I took from this: I can be less attached to my reactions, both positive and negative. More open to the unpredictable. In the workshop, we'll work with this more deeply - using our bodies and movement, not just imagination. We'll explore Arnold Mindell's Process Oriented Psychology, tools for working with Earth directions, and the concept of leaving personal history as described in Shaman's Body (drawn from don Juan's teachings in Castaneda's books). This workshop is for you if you're interested in process oriented psychology, personal development, psychology, philosophy, spirituality - if you like walking, sense that places have meaning, and that you can be in relationship with a place. Some theory, lots of practice. Walking Memory: A Day of Process Work Grzegorz P.S. If you want to dive deeper into Process Work:
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