GLASTONBURY, SOMERSET
Feedback from recent residential Pesso
Two years ago I would have never have seen myself doing a Pesso Boyden course. It has been an amazing uplifting experience. It’s a big leap of faith, but you are beautifully guided and your hand is held firmly by Juliet from the first minute to the last. Once you engage and really take it into your heart the benefits are outstanding. I will never forget the 3 days I have spent here. I absolutely know I’ll leave here feeling a different person, and I suspect I always will.
From a man who describes himself as ‘Not the kind of man who’d usually do something like this!!’
It’s an experience which can be so enriching and as a residential gives time and space to individual needs. Pat Hoare. Accredited Counsellor/Supervisor.
I learnt a lot about myself and the way I function as a human being. Despite only being an observer/participant, the others’ structures all resonated with me in some sense. Having that length of time with the group really allows people to settle in, switch off from what they have left behind, and begin to loose their masks and open up….get to know each other a little. Emma Finch, Reflexologist, Devon
Juliet makes it all feel very safe. There is a great energy and I feels totally secure. Andrew Christensen
Its a wonderful experience which I doubt many people have ever known. Its like being held in a warm healing bubble of love. Pat Hoare. Counsellor/Supervisor and Group therapist.
The Pesso Boyden work is good to begin with, so when you mix it with the special atmosphere of a residential set-up, something extra happens. It’s what I call the rolling crescendo. The group goes wider, deeper and higher. Great! Tom Corbishley – Trainee psychotherapist
Thanks again for the all the wonderful Pesso gifts over the years – they help me every day of my life – and my EarthSpirit Place structure is still unfolding in the loveliest ways.
I got a huge amount from this workshop, more than from any other I think. Specific learnings from my structure: a feeling, which I’m still gradually absorbing, of how it would be to have been really loved and wanted and held completely acceptingly and non-judgmentally as a baby, without that in any way damaging my sister who was equally loved and wanted, and with the support of not just ideal parents and sister but also grandparents and a larger support group, so there was always someone there…. I realise that, with the best will in the world, my real family couldn’t offer all of that, because they hadn’t received it either – and somehow I feel softer and more understanding towards them now as a result.
I just want to say thank you and that I may well still be following you around for quite a few years to come….!
Do it! because the total immersion gives more power to the experience and being residential gives deep containment: A therapist
A hugely powerful structure. Lots unfolding from it, including, so far: feeling able to relax much more easily at home, regardless of what J is doing; much less worried about getting into challenging discussions with J. I’m feeling more relaxed about the future – I know I just need to go at my own pace and that I’m far more likely to succeed and stay healthy like that than if I follow other people’s guidance (however well-intentioned). Only I know what it feels like to be in my body. I’m also more genuinely optimistic that things will improve with my partner J – he’s already treating me better. Seeing J’s structure was really helpful too.
I can now see really clearly that the multiple traumas and abusive family patterns in my early life and my resulting adult life-choices have all been hugely stressful and damaging, to the point of causing pretty severe physical, mental and emotional illness over the last 12-15 years. As a result, over the last 6 years, I’ve had to completely re-examine and re-programme almost every assumption I held about the world I grew up in and it’s been a full-time job – and an extremely challenging one at that. I trundled about in the garden today and felt the warmth of the sun behind the clouds and was able to feel relaxed and happy. Also calmly optimistic about the blossoming that will inevitably continue as spring really gets under way. Thank you for helping me to finally reach this place.
It’s an opportunity to do deeply nourishing and lasting healing work with like-minded people in a really safe, supportive environment. Great food, handy accommodation and the time and freedom to relax and put yourself first. I’ve been on 4 of these residentials over the last 4 years (alongside other Pesso days) and they’ve been a hugely important part of my journey to recovery from severe M.E./complex PTSD and a great help in discovering who I really am. I’ve tried many different therapies over the years and Pesso has been by far the most effective, so I look back on these residentials as a really worthwhile investment in my future health and happiness.
I felt I addressed stuff that has been affecting me all my life and that I have spent much of my life trying to put right through therapy. The therapy I have had was good and overall I suffer less as a result of it, but the pesso structure somehow addressed it in a more holistic way, all the aspects of it, or a lot of them were addressed in a sort of visual tableau that I can bring to mind still and feel some of the relief and comfort it gave me at the time. I found the support of the others participants very heart warming and the experience of being in their structures very moving. Juliet you are a superb facilitator.
Thanks for a remarkable 3 days. The venue was fabulously quiet and felt safe. Food was tasty. The thing I like best about the Pesso work is the control the client’s pilot has over the nature and direction of the work. I found it invaluable in opening further insights which had been blocked previously.
I have come away from the workshop with a better level of self-awareness and a better understanding of my own emotional intelligence.
It was lovely to experience what having an ‘ideal father’ would have felt like, to fill holes in roles, and to participate in other people’s structures, I got a lot out of these and they topped up my own structure much more than I thought they would. I experienced a real high from the whole course.
I came without any expectations. It was a little piece of heaven on earth… perfect place for taking the chance to find some solitude in order to analyse the experiences of the day. Beautiful surroundings, amazing food, and transformational, life-changing sessions for every person.
This residential Pesso Boyden workshop was a life changing experience. It has enabled me to experience a very profound new way of being in a deeply supportive safe and held environment.
It was my first experience of a Pesso structure and I found it a very powerful modality
I learnt so much about myself and others and was amazed, inspired and touched by the various stories. This felt like the shift that you might experience after months of therapy in only three days.
I really appreciated your approach and style as a therapist and the way you worked with me in my structure. I feel you are truly a master of your craft, and for that I thank you.
I think you are very skillful and am so glad that I discovered you and Pesso. Thank you for being special Juliet.
I’ve got so much out of the experience – more than I can write
I was able to deal with unresolved issues which had been with me since childhood. Other insights still emerging by way of dreams.
I gained clarity through my own structure but also through the role play. I am more clear about the way forward. I also recognised how far I have come so far and this was a positive and unexpected insight.
an opportunity to go much deeper in your own work and to see other people’s deep structures, which in turn can be immensely healing. The residential aspect allows you to really focus on yourself without outside distractions. It also allows space for the unconscious to process, leading to even more insights than usual. It also feels “safer” somehow – perhaps because there’s time to get to know the others a bit and to bond as a group. Somehow it felt as though all of us were there because we were really committed to giving ourselves the gift of healing work. I found the experience incredibly powerful – somehow much more so than doing 3 separate Pesso days. I would definitely prefer to go for this approach in future, although it’s great to have the option of 1 day top-ups in between.
I have a new found trust and a calmness which will change my life.
This experience offered a powerful therapy with an intuitive and trustworthy therapist which enabled effective and insightful growth and understanding.
Juliet, You’re fabulous! I’m so glad X encouraged me to come along to that first Pesso in Harrow. Thank you for your skill, care, patience, wisdom and enthusiasm. It’s lovely to have such a great role model for me as a therapist too.
A really positive experience which enables emotional freedom in a safe group setting. Juliet is a very skilled therapist.