{"id":328,"date":"2016-04-28T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/general\/?page_id=328"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:03:35","slug":"alchemy-of-relationships-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/?page_id=328","title":{"rendered":"Alchemy of Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Key information<\/h1>\n<table style=\"width: 545px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 161.5px;\"><strong>Topic<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 351.49px;\">Alchemy of Relationships<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 161.5px;\"><span class=\"bodytext\"><strong>Date<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 351.49px;\">31st October and 1st November 2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 161.5px;\"><strong>Time<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 351.49px;\">Saturday and Sunday 10am - 5pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 161.5px; vertical-align: top;\"><strong>Cost<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 351.49px;\">\u00a3250 (Partial bursaries available upon written request in advance).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 161.5px; vertical-align: top;\"><span class=\"bodytext\"><strong>Lecturer<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 351.49px;\">Cathy McDermott M.S.c., Dip. Psych<span class=\"bodytext\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 161.5px; vertical-align: top;\"><span class=\"bodytext\"><strong>Who can attend<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 351.49px;\">Therapists, educators and lay-people alike.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 161.5px; vertical-align: top;\"><strong>How to book<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 351.49px;\">Please book in advance by sending us a \u00a3100 non-refundable deposit and <a href=\"mailto:info@ccpe.org.uk\">emailing<\/a> a completed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CCPE-2026-CPD-Seminar-Booking-Form-MASTER.docx\">2026<\/a> booking form<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">This weekend offers an opportunity to explore how our human relationships can both challenge and nourish us, emotionally and spiritually, in the alchemical journey of inner growth and transformation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We shall be looking at how our relationships can inform and guide us in our transformative processes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/general\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sem8.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/general\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sem8.jpg\" alt=\"Alchemy of Relationships\" width=\"120\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>Helping us know ourselves more clearly<\/li>\n<li>connecting to our inner gold, and manifesting our soul purpose<\/li>\n<li>expanding our hearts, and becoming more capable of deep connection to other human souls, and<\/li>\n<li>connecting to the sacred dimension of the Greater Love that animates us all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We shall be drawing upon exploration of the qualities both latent and manifest in our relationships, looking through the lens of the Elements Model.<\/p>\n<p>We shall consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the tension between longing and fear<\/li>\n<li>the defensive walls that we build around our hearts to protect us from pain<\/li>\n<li>how we project parts of our own inner world onto other people<\/li>\n<li>the work of discovering who is really there when we drop our projections<\/li>\n<li>the question of commitment<\/li>\n<li>nurturing the soul of the other<\/li>\n<li>sustaining the vitality of the relationship;<\/li>\n<li>the opening of the heart to the Divine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You will begin each day with a lecture of 1.5 hours duration introducing the themes of the weekend.\u00a0 For this you will join the main body of students training with CCPE. After a break you will join a small group for the rest of the day.\u00a0 This group will compose of others on the CPD programme and will be facilitated by a staff member of CCPE.<\/p>\n<p>These groups will provide a mix of teaching, exploration and experiential work that are intended to provide a holistic experience of the subject.\u00a0 All facilitators will be qualified psychotherapists and case material can also be brought and explored through the lens of the transpersonal<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Please note:<\/strong> All content may be subject to change.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key information Topic Alchemy of Relationships Date 31st October and 1st November 2026 Time Saturday and Sunday 10am - 5pm Cost \u00a3250 (Partial bursaries available upon written request in advance). Lecturer Cathy McDermott M.S.c., Dip. Psych Who can attend Therapists, educators and lay-people alike. How to book Please book in advance by sending us a <a href=\"https:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/?page_id=328\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Alchemy of Relationships\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-328","page","type-page","status-publish","h-entry","hentry","h-as-page"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccpe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}