Workshops for 2010

January 15th, 2010

If you’ve read my books and would like the chance to work through the ideas with me and a group of like minded people, you may be interested in my workshops for 2010.

How to Find Love

I keep the numbers down on all my workshops, so that the atmosphere is supportive and intimate, so everybody feels able to contribute and so that I can tailor make the content to the needs of the participants. Generally, we have somewhere between six and ten people on a course. The aim is that you not only learn from mself and my co-leader Debby Edwards but from each other too.

The course will run in Central London (close to main terminus for people coming from the North)  from 10.30 to 4.30 with a break for lunch at the MIC Centre, 81-103 Euston St NW1 2EZ - www.micentre.com

  • After introductions and coffee, we do an exercise: Where am I today? This helps everybody to get to know each other and gives us a clear idea which parts of the course need extra time.
  • Next comes ‘Family Stories’ which explores the messages we get from our families and how this effects our search for love.
  • The morning finishes with ‘What I need and what I bring to a relationship’
  • Lunch: Hot meal (included in price of the course)
  • In the afternoon, everyone does a ‘Relationship Tree’ - you might be familiar with this from the Single Trap - and I go through everybody’s tree with them.
  • Followed by several exercises that look at dating and how to meet people.
  • We finish with helping everyone create a ‘well made plan’ for moving forward and deal with any unanswered questions.

Here is some of the feedback: ‘A very good workshop. An enjoyable and worthwhile day. Thanks’ and ‘the small intimate group was helpful and allowed everyone the chance to participate’ and ‘ It was useful to explore key points from the book and listen to other people’s points of view about similar situations’

If you would like to have the benefit of working on your relationship in a group setting with me. The next version of this course will be running on Saturday 27th February in Central London at the MIC Centre, 81-103 Euston St NW1 2EZ - www.micentre.com

Re-establishing Trust

This course will have the same one day structure and the numbers will be kept to a maximum of twelve. Once again, it will be run by myself and Debby Edwards.

Who would benefit? Anyone who has discovered their partner is unfaithful or has been discovered. So it can be done as a couple or an individual. My expectation is that most people will come on their own - however if your partner is the Discovered and he or she wants to attend, my aim is to provide a non-judgemental space and to make certain nobody feel attacked.

The outline for the course is as follows

  • Where am I on the recovery ladder?
  • Putting the relationship into the context of your whole relationship and understanding what might have triggered the affair.
  • Good communication. How to open up to your partner and how to get him or her to open up in return.
  • How to move on and put the affair behind you.
  • Lunch
  • How to stop over-thinking.
  • Trust, what it is and how to get it back.
  • Where do I go from here?

As always my aim is that everyone comes away with a well-made plan for how to move forward and renewed energy after  spending the day with other people wrestling with the same issues.

The first ‘Trust’ course is on Saturday 6th March in Central London.

To register interest or ask questions about either workshop,  go to the WORKSHOPS button on the left hand side of the page

Andrew G. Marshall is a marital therapist with twenty five years’ experience.

He works for RELATE the UK’s leading couple-counselling charity, and writes on relationships for the Times, Mail on Sunday and Psychologies.

His books have been translated into fifteen different languages.