Deconstructing Time

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How we experience time is inextricably bound up with how we have come to construct time in our minds. Whilst, from the perspective of consensus reality, we view time in terms of seconds, minutes, hours, days and so on, the direct lived experience of time is a much more subjective and variable phenomenon. A kettle may take 3 minutes to boil, but the experience of how long those three minutes actually feel is related to a host of factors such as whether we are anxiously waiting for it to boil because we are late for a meeting, or whether we have switched it on and then become absorbed in another task so that we do not notice the passing of time. We might return to the kettle in what feels like a short amount of elapsed time only to find it has already boiled and cooled down.

A feature of the Achiever action logic is what is often referred to as being “had by time”, where individuals organise their thinking, felt experience and actions in relation to a number of constructs about time that are not yet consciously available to them for inquiry and redefinition. Surfacing and gaining perspective on these constructs is an important inquiry in service of movement towards the Individualist and more expanded stages of development.

In this webinar we will explore the ways in which time comes to be constructed and the effects of these constructs on thinking, feeling and our action in the world. The webinar will offer pointers for exploring our own constructs and relationship to time as well as ways of inquiring with clients into these phenomena and their impacts.

In this webinar we will:

• Explore a range of constructs related to time and their effects on perspective, thought, feelings and actions.
• Consider how these constructs are formed.
• Engage in experiential activities to surface individual constructs of time.
• Experiment with ways of relaxing attachment to constructs of time and the effect of these on perspective, feelings, thought and range of action.

Simon Cavicchia practices as a Gestalt Psychotherapist, Executive Coach, Supervisor and Leadership Development Consultant. He is on the Faculty of the Ashridge Masters in Executive Coaching in the UK. He has published a number of papers on aspects of the coaching relationship, executive coaching as leadership development, the experience of shame and vulnerability in coaching and organisational life and in 2018 with Maria Gilbert “The Theory and Practice of Relational Coaching – Complexity, Paradox and Integration” published by Routledge.

We’d love to see you there.

DATE: 8 July

TIME:  1430 - 1830

COST:  £140