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Exploring what helps us feel more alive when life feels difficult
What happens when life starts to feel heavy, stressful or disconnected?
Stress can leave us constantly “on”. Anxiety can make it difficult to relax or feel safe. Burnout can take away our energy and motivation. Depression and loneliness can leave us feeling disconnected – from ourselves, from others, and sometimes from life itself.
Re-connect is a therapeutic programme offering 3 days of group work combined with individual support, to explore together what can help us feel more present, connected and alive. It is not about fixing yourself, being positive, or having to share more than you want to.
It is an invitation to become curious about your experience and explore different ways of meeting yourself, others and everyday life.
What will we explore?
Through gentle experiential exercises, conversation, reflection, and embodied and creative practices, we will explore:
- Vulnerability & courage – allowing ourselves to be seen without always having to cope or hold everything together.
- Connection & loneliness – discovering what supports meaningful connection with ourselves and others.
- Choice & personal leadership – exploring where we have agency and how we can move from feeling stuck towards possibility.
- Control & uncertainty – finding different ways of meeting what we cannot control.
- Energy, motivation & aliveness – noticing what gives us energy and reconnecting with what makes us feel curious, engaged and alive.
The group will be based on the principles of Gestalt psychotherapy, a relational and experiential approach that emphasizes awareness, embodied experience and the quality of our contact with ourselves, others and the world around us.
An opportunity to contribute to research
This programme is part of a professional research project exploring how relational methods like Gestalt therapy may contribute to people’s lived experience of aliveness, and what happens when individual sessions are combined with group experiences.
The project is conducted as part of the final year of Elena’s psychotherapy training at the Gestalt Institute of Scandinavia. All individual and group work will take place under the supervision of a senior psychotherapist and in compliance with GDPR and the ethical standards required of members of the Danish Psychotherapy Association (DPFO).
Could this be for you?
You might recognize yourself if you’re feeling stressed, overwhelmed, anxious, exhausted, lonely, unmotivated, stuck or disconnected – or simply curious about understanding yourself and your relationships differently.
You don’t need to arrive with a clear goal. You can simply bring your curiosity:
- A space to pause.
- A space to feel.
- A space to connect.
- A space to explore choice and possibility.
- A space to discover what helps you feel more alive.
What does participation involve?
Short screening conversation: before joining, we’ll meet one-to-one to explain the project, answer your questions and see whether the programme feels right for you.
3 full-day group sessions
Sunday 25th October · Sunday 15th November · Sunday 6th December
10:00–17:00
Plus 4 individual one-hour sessions before, during and after the group programme.
Small group: 8–10 participants
Lunch included on all three group days
550 DKK for the entire programme – covering the professional supervision costs.
450 DKK if you are a member.
Café Blom, Studiestræde 5, st., 1455 Copenhagen
Facilitators:
Elena Martins PhD
Psychotherapist in the final stage of her training at GIS-International, bringing more than a decade of experience in mental health across clinical practice, research and education. Her work is grounded in an integrative and relational approach, bringing together humanistic psychology, somatic and embodied practices, and contemporary relational perspectives. She is particularly attentive to how our relationships, environments and life circumstances shape our experience of health and well-being. Her way of working combines professional knowledge with curiosity, warmth and a genuine interest in each person’s unique experience.
Kasper Bruhn
Psychotherapist in training at GIS-International, with a rich professional background working with young people, families and adults. After many years as a schoolteacher, he brings extensive experience of supporting people through development, change and challenging life situations. His parallel career as a musician brings creativity, playfulness and sensitivity to his therapeutic work, offering a unique perspective on the role of expression, connection and creativity in psychotherapy. He combines this experience with a warm, grounded and open approach to meeting people where they are.
Information:
When: Sunday 25th October · Sunday 15th November · Sunday 6th December from 10:00–17:00
Where: Café Blom, Studiestræde 5, st., 1455 Copenhagen
Sign up and book an introductory session: 👉 Spots are limited – sign up now!
Price: 👉💚 550 DKK for the entire programme including 3 Sundays with lunch and 4 individual sessions
| This programme is part of Blom Collective, our English-speaking community for people who have come to Denmark from other countries and who wish to: – attend inspiring and insightful talks by skilled psychotherapists – connect with others through meaningful conversations about mental health and personal development. If you’re experiencing stress, low mood, or anxiety – or simply looking for a space to grow personally alongside others – this is a place for you. |
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Warm regards,
Volunteers at Blom Collective 🤗