WELCOME
TO SOLVERV KLIKK HER FOR INFO PÅ NORSK
Welcome to Solverv for 2008. We
are proud of our long history and we are thankful to the many therapists who
have contributed so richly to our development since 1977. We look forward to hearing from you and
getting your feedback.
Lois and
Odd are not only responsible for the groups you see presented here but we also
accept individuals for both short term and long term psychotherapy. The main
theoretical basis for the work, both practically and theoretically, is in
Therapy Cycle Process (TCP), which is a synthesis of several body oriented,
psychodynamic and cognitive psychotherapeutic processes. They have special
competence and experience in working with couples with communication issues as
well as sexology issues. Solverv is a member of the
Norwegian Association for Clinical Sexology. Lois is a member of European
Association for Body Psychotherapy.
FOR
GROUPS: SEND PAYMENT TO
Solverv,
Vækerøveien 69a, 0383 Oslo. Bankgiro:7056.05.55847
TELEPHONE:
2250 5190
e-mail: Click here
WHAT IS
THE THERAPY CYCLE PROCESS?
The
main bases for this unique way of working is Pesso Boyden System Psychotherapy, primal therapy, vegetotherapy, and functional/cognitive psychotherapy.
Through
creating an atmosphere of mutual respect, confidence, care and safety we
encourage you to investigate your own process of personal development. The
methods we use are talking, deep breathing processes, consciousness raising, and bodily expression as well as a stylised form of
psychodrama. This is our basic theoretical point of view whether we work
individually with a client or with a group. In both situations you get the help
you need to go into physical and emotional states while staying in contact with
your conscious values and reservations.
Deep
breathing can help you to loosen physical and emotional barriers so that you
can contact and use your resources. In doing so you are better able to become
more of who you wish to be.
Through a
stylised form of psychodrama role figures help you to express your bodily
experiences, becoming conscious of your defences and the rules you live by.
This symbolic "structuring" helps you to more easily see, understand
and manage experiences in which you presently find your emotional and mental
states.
We will
help you to reconstruct events from the past, so that suppressed feelings can
be experienced fully and expressed. With the use of ideal role figures you can
change old patterns, find alternative ways to be in yourself and develop new
ways to respond to others. In these ways you are able to develop a new
self-image and a new picture of the world around you.
SCHEDULE FOR 2008
TCP GROUPS Torhild Bakke
and Erling Thorkildsen (and
possibly Marianne Lund) lead these groups, unless otherwise specified. You
will find them at Solverv
Associates. Maximum 12 participants. VIDEO MAY BE
USED. There may be an assistant from the training program. Weekly groups meet
6-10pm (18-22)
Winter/spring
group (Wednesdays): Price NOK 6000.
To be
announced
Fall
group (Wednesdays): Price NOK 6000.
To be
announced
4 Weekend TCP Intensive:
NOK 6000. Saturday 10-22,
Sunday 10-18.
Torhild Bakke and Erling Thorkildsen are the group
leaders (see Solverv
Associates)
Spring group:
16-17/2, 29-30/3, 26-27/4 and 24-25/5.
Fall group: To be announced
COUPLE THERAPY AND
SEXOLOGY
COMMUNICATION
GROUP FOR COUPLES (WEEKEND GROUP):
In this
group you can learn techniques such as "active listening",
"constructive aggression", and "fighting for change". These
processes we have used both in groups as well as with individual couples.
"Couples" may be married or non-married couples, friends, colleagues,
parent and child, or sexually involved couples of every sexual orientation.
The first
therapy group for couples that Lois and Odd held at Solverv
about 13 years ago grew out of an argument they had on a beach in Florida. Both
remembered independently that they had in fact used principles from George
Bach’s method of "fair fighting" which they had read about years
earlier. These methods functioned so well that they based the new Solverv course on their experiences with very good results.
APPOINTMENTS
FOR COUPLE THERAPY/SEXUAL COUNSELLING:
Call for appointment
Lois and
Odd regard all varieties of sexual practices as acceptable when they are
between consenting adult partners and include attitudes of respect and empathy.
It is often a difficult challenge to talk with one’s partner freely and openly
about one’s sexuality especially likes and dislikes. Many of the difficulties
come from embarrassment and fear of criticism or ridicule. Listening to each
other and learning to better communicate can overcome these. It is very helpful
to have more knowledge about sexuality than one typically learns in school, at
home, or on the street.
Eye
Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
This is a
new method for working through traumatic experiences.
By moving
the eyes while thinking about a traumatic experience, one can open up closed
neural networks in the brain (where the trauma is stored and lives its own
life) so that positive information can be accessed and thereby neutralize the
trauma. The procedure in this work is more complex than it sounds in this
simplistic description. It uses methods from cognitive therapy to bring forward
both negative and positive self talk. Both body sensations and emotions are
important in this work.
The method was
designed for treating single traumas which people haven't finished with
(post traumatic stress), but has later been used for more complex issues (for
example phobias and anxieties which are caused by multiple traumas).
EMDR for post traumatic
stress has been widely researched and with very good results.