A differentiated way of working with sex, intimacy and the fragility of life and how practitioners respond to working with couples regardless of gender
Do your clients dream about a relationship in harmonious balance between the personal and the interpersonal, between the sexual and the intimate? Just as dreams tantalise us with a surreal and metaphoric view of reality so too do relationships challenge people to recognise how they know their partners, how their partners know them and to differentiate one from the other and themselves from the other person. Relationships have their own surrealistic lens through which people can conflate different aspects. Sometimes, we as practitioners find ourselves working with the intimate and sexual aspects of our client’s relationship where we, like our clients, can confuse one for the other. Yet, a relationship can be experienced as the harmonious intersection of both intimate and sexual aspects that leads to a creative expression of human passion and to a transcendent experience of the human condition. By nature, many practitioners are more prepared to enquire into the aspect of intimacy more than the other aspect of sexuality.
However, when the individual or couples come to therapy, which aspect or combination of them is implicated? How do you work with each aspect in the context of the relationship being a balance of both for each of the people in it? This workshop will outline a model of a relationship that is a dynamic balance between aspects of intimacy and sexuality, as proxies for fusion and individuality and help you be more comfortable working with both intimacy and sexuality
