TRANSFORMATIONAL DIALOGUE

Embodied Relational Presence

 

A Two-Day Weekend Course

with

KEITH PHILLIPS

 

27th/28th June 2026

 

 

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field, I will meet you there.” - Rumi

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This dynamic workshop, in Transformational Dialogue (TD), brings a powerful and enriching dimension to therapeutic practice.

 

Transformational Dialogue can profoundly support and deepen the work you already do, bringing greater depth, authenticity, and healing potential to your practice. It offers a way of working that is deeply soulful and that has the potential to open us spiritually to our deepest essential nature.

 

This approach can significantly increase your effectiveness and confidence as a practitioner. Through Transformational Dialogue we bring a deeper humanity into our work - an approach that is both humbling and deeply rewarding.

 

At its heart, Transformational Dialogue is a process of opening and deepening. One of the most beautiful aspects of this work is that both practitioner and client experience this unfolding together. In the shared space of presence and connection, both are touched and transformed by the exchange. The relational field is experienced by both, as a resource and a gateway into healing.

 

A central element of this approach is consciously becoming aware of, and inhabiting body sensations, emotion, and the images that arise in experience. Within the therapeutic relationship we together explore the client’s felt sense - their bodily sensations, emotions, intuitions, and inner imagery. At the same time, as practitioners, we develop the capacity to remain present to the sensations, emotions, and images that arise within ourselves in the relational field. This can open us both to the underlying unified field of foundational consciousness and the shared unity of being.

 

Through this workshop you can expect not only your professional practice, but also your own life, to be touched and enriched.

 

TRANSFORMATIONAL DIALOGUE

 

Transformational Dialogue (TD) is a conversation rooted in presence and authentic connection between practitioner and client. It involves a gentle yet profound enquiry into the truth of the present moment, opening awareness to what is deeply alive within both ours and the client’s experience that accompany the exploration of the difficulties and suffering they bring.

 

TD is an empowering form of dialogue that is deeply healing in and of itself. It also creates the conditions for genuine receptivity in the client, preparing the ground for hands-on bodywork.

 

Transformational Dialogue recognises the innate wisdom, emotional intelligence, and creative capacity of the client. It supports individuals in taking responsibility for their own experience through compassionate awareness in the present moment.

Transformation arises spontaneously, moment by moment, without the need for analysis or intellectual understanding. As clients are supported in trusting and staying with their direct experience, insight and healing unfold organically.

 

THE WORKSHOP

 

This training will support you in developing:

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• Deep embodied listening
• Authentic therapeutic presence
• Transformational enquiry and dialogue
• Attunement to body sensations, emotions and imagery
• Greater trust in intuitive knowing
• Skills for holding a safe and transformative relational space

• Honouring both individuality and shared presence and being

 

 

THIS WORK

 

My work has unfolded over more than forty years of practice in shiatsu, healing and personal transformation. Since beginning my studies in 1977 and entering clinical practice in 1982, I have been engaged in an ongoing enquiry into how healing arises through touch, presence and relationship.

 

Through more than 18,000 hours of clinical work, I found myself increasingly drawn beyond technique into the subtle relational field between practitioner and receiver. It was here - in the quality of meeting - that the deepest shifts seemed to take place.

 

This recognition initially shaped what I now describe as Relational Shiatsu: an approach that places embodied presence and authentic relational contact at the heart of the work.

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Transformational Dialogue has grown organically out of this path - as an extension of the same principles into the field of spoken interaction. In many ways it is continuous with shiatsu: a different form of touch, where awareness, language and relationship become the medium through which transformation can unfold.

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