Workshop Overview

The capacity to set appropriate limits to the influence others have over us and we have over them is an essential skill. Both in our professional as well as our personal lives.
Boundaries are what keep us mentally safe from the world, and keeps the world safe from us. At the same time, we as humans are social creatures and to be influenced by life and the people in it is what makes us human.

Healthy boundaries allow us to participate in life while not being unnecessarily overwhelmed by it. To observe or experience discontent in others or ourselves, and integrate it wisely.
Inspired by Brene Brown and Terry Real, this workshops seeks to introduce the ideas of healthy boundaries in a place of work. We will differentiate the “protective” boundary from the “containing” boundary, explore ways of strengthening boundaries where they feel insufficient, or making them more porous where otherwise we might feel disconnected. Through exercises you will be able to place yourself on the so-called “Relationship Grid”, and learn to adjust your boundaries minute to minute.
Length of training: 3 hours

Objectives

1. Provide awareness about participant’s capacity to set and hold appropriate boundaries, with flexibility;
2. Skill-building around improving appropriate boundaries.

Trainer : Aernout Zevenbergen is a counselor in private practice in Nyon and Vaud, working with couples and adult individuals. Born in Zambia and raised in the Netherlands, Zevenbergen originally studied Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit and the Universiteit van Amsterdam to become a journalist. In 1997 he moved to Kenya and later South Africa to cover African current events.

In his private practice, Zevenbergen integrates his understanding of the benefits and trappings of contemporary patriarchy in his work with male clients and couples. Helping clients move towards a more compassionate and relational stance is at the heart of his practice.