TENDING THE FIELD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCE WITH HEART; THE BASIS OF CONTEMPLATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY A Retreat-workshop WITH Anne Overzee

This short retreat-workshop offers an opportunity to practise drawing on contemplative practice to orient and ground ourselves in embodied presence. In addition to supporting us in our daily lives, this can help us in our work with clients. We learn to lean back into our intrinsic awareness and can cultivate and sustain those inner qualities which support our capacity to open to whatever arises in the moment.

The intention is to co-create a safe, warm relational field for participants to feel able to settle into a simple rhythm over the weekend, prioritising and giving kind attention to ourselves, including when doing experiential practices in pairs.  We can then listen to ourselves and each other with heart, opening to the possibility of dropping down in our embodied experience and entering a unified field of connection, while at the same time being with whatever is happening in terms of relational and intrapersonal processes.

There will be practice sessions in silence, sharing in the group, listening exercises in pairs, ritual-making, and walking meditation.

Dates and venue

September 20-21, 2025

Saturday 10.00 – 18.00; Sunday 10.00 – 12.30

Participation fee

The cost of the Retreat-workshop is 190€ plus 25€ for the annual registration in the organization. Cost for members of the contemplative supervision group with Anne Overzee: 125€

Associazione Sati Mudita
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Anne Overzee

(M.A. (Cantab.), Ph.D.; E.A.P. reg. psychotherapist)

Anne’s work over the years has been on the interface between spiritual practice and psychotherapy. She has always been interested in how contemplative practice can help transform our experience of daily life, of being in relationship, and of deepening our capacity to live in the moment and with greater open heartedness. After years working in the field of psychotherapy (‘mindfulness in relationship’), her main focus now is in working with others keen to explore ways of living as a committed contemplative actively engaged in the world. Following her first degree at Cambridge University in Theology and Religious Studies, Anne’s subsequent research in eastern spiritual practices was in India where she lived between 1975-77. She subsequently studied for her doctorate in Religious Studies (The Body Divine: Cambridge University Press, 1986) while completing her training to become a Psychotherapist, and her work with clients, supervisees and training groups as a staff member of Karuna Institute, U.K. spanned the following 40 years. Her psychospiritual approach comes from Core Process Psychotherapy, which was then a completely innovative approach integrating Buddhist awareness practices and psychology with western psychotherapy.  She has been practising Buddhism since the 1970’s when she went to Dharmasala, the seat of H.H. Dalai Lama.

For further information and enrollments, please fill the form below or write to: segreteria@satimudita.com