Relational Gestalt Practice: Presence, Contact and Communication

With Dorothy Charles

June 17 - 21, 2024

Workshop Schedule

Monday
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm*How to Drop into Esalen *
7:15 pm – 9:30 pm
Tuesday
9:30 am – 1:00 pm
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Wednesday
9:30 am – 1:00 pm
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Thursday
9:30 am – 1:00 pm
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Friday
9:30 am – 12:00 pm

See general schedule information including arrival, departure and meal times.

  • Sleeping Bag Space – $900.00
  • Bunk Bed Space – $1,200.00
  • Standard Shared Space – $1,500.00
  • Standard Queen Room – $2,000.00
  • Standard Room Two Beds – $3,200.00
  • Premium Queen Room – $2,800.00
  • Premium King Room – $3,000.00
  • Premium Plus King Room – $3,400.00
  • Premium Wooden Yurt – $3,400.00
  • Premium Wooden Yurt Two Beds – $3,400.00
  • Price House Suite – $4,600.00
  • Rolf Suite – $6,500.00
  • Point House – $6,500.00
  • Fritz Point House – $6,500.00
  • South Point House – $8,000.00

In 1938, researchers at Harvard University began a 75-year study that addressed life’s fundamental question: What makes a good life? The Grant Study, also known as the Harvard Study of Adult Development, found strong relationships to be the clearest predictor of life satisfaction.

In Relational Gestalt practice, direct and response-able communication is essential for creating intimacy and strengthening our bonds to others. The benefits that flow from solid relationships with partners, relatives, and friends, can be a source of connection and great joy in our lives.

Sometimes, the ways we’ve learned to communicate in relationship creates more distance rather than contact with the people who are important to us. 

In this workshop, you’ll have an opportunity to become aware of the ways you communicate; you’ll have the chance to learn, unlearn, and practice ways of communicating to enhance your connection to others. Together, we will explore how the past may be keeping you from making use of the contact that is available in the here and now.

Over the course of the weekend, we will use dyads, repeating questions and open seat sessions designed to facilitate communication and understanding.

About the Leader

Dorothy Charles

Dorothy Charles has been a student and teacher at Esalen since 1982. A student of Esalen co-founder Richard Price, she combines Esalen body-centered Gestalt with relational Gestalt theory, and leads workshops in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Email Me www.dorothycharles.com

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