Любовь и потеря: 5-дневный интенсив с Клэр Хилл и Марком О'Коннелом в Грузии. Российский+швейцарский институт процессуальной работы OPORA
A five-day intensive surrounded by the Caucasus Mountains and expansive skies, where we will gather to explore love and loss as two sides of the same living feeling. This retreat includes:
• An intensive introductory day to process work: master classes, games, and practices.
• A three-day A five-day intensive surrounded by the Caucasus Mountains and expansive skies, where we will gather to explore love and loss as two sides of the same living feeling. This retreat includes:
• An intensive introductory day to process work: master classes, games, and practices.
• A three-day seminar by Claire and Mark on the nature of love, pain, forgiveness, and hope.
• Integration work in small groups — to translate the experience into personal discoveries and inner movements.
Schedule
June 10 — Intensive “Introduction to the Process Approach”
Facilitators: Tatiana Shipulina, Lydia Smal, Yulia Pritchina
• Before lunch: Check-in. Getting acquainted. Introduction to process work — ideas, methods, inspiration
• After lunch: Introduction to process work, process games — practices and physical experiments to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of living research
June 11–13 — Seminar “Love and Loss” with Claire Hill and Mark O’Connell
Love and loss are profound, inevitable human experiences that contain both vulnerability and strength. We explore them through a process approach — a method based on respect for the multi-layered nature of experience: from bodily sensations to dreams, from everyday situations to transcendent states.
Process work allows us to look beyond the familiar story, to find hidden impulses of life even in pain, to hear the voice of the body, the subconscious, rhythm, and ritual.
In this seminar, we will explore together:
• how we experience love and loss — in the body, in speech, in dreams, in field contact,
• how grief can become a portal to the unknown,
• and how group support and awareness help to accommodate the impossible.
Content and approach
This is not therapy in the classical sense, but a living research group where each participant can move at their own pace, be seen and heard. We will draw on key elements of the process approach:
• Working with the edge: exploring the boundary where personal history becomes a field of transformation
• Body signals: attention to micro-movements, somatics, breathing, nonverbal reactions
• Imagery and dream work: what cannot be expressed in words can be told through images
• Field consciousness: recognizing that we are more connected than we think
• Working with roles and subpersonalities: exploring inner figures such as the One Who Holds On and the One Who Lets Go
Seminar topics:
• The nature of love—how it manifests in our bodies and in the field
• Losses: partners, health, meaning, familiar identities
• The presence of spirit alongside pain
• Grief as a personal and collective experience
• What does it mean to “let go” — and is it possible not to hold on?
• Defense mechanisms: fear of loving again, fear of losing again
• Transition from grief to transformation, creativity, connection
June 15 — Integration in small groups
Facilitators: Tatiana, Lydia, and Julia
• We help participants make sense of, reflect on, and deepen their experience of the seminar, and outline further steps and ways of providing internal support.seminar by Claire and Mark on the nature of love, pain, forgiveness, and hope.
• Integration work in small groups — to translate the experience into personal discoveries and inner movements.