Nurturing Life programme

Radix®

Nurturing life

body psychotherapy - body work - personal growth work

Group work, individual sessions, and workshops.

January 2027- December 2027

With Tessa Fergusson

This nurturing life 12 month programme is devised for those wanting to grow, personally and professionally. Embark on an important block of work in your life. Update yourself to allow for the possibility of purpose and fulfilment.

This is a body orientated programme, with the focus of the work being our aliveness, our pulsation and our contact: the three cornerstones of Radix work.

Often we have outdated aspects of self that even after something has allowed growth, it does not manifest into our lives. Our bodies struggle to update to our new capacity, resource and to integrate, this is often because of the body/mind split in our society, and the focus being the mind. Integration is needed between the mind and the body for full healing and updating. It is by body mind integration that the ability to have congruence in behaviour, thinking, movement, feeling and action is possible.

Over the 12 months we will work through all segments/areas of the body, this is rarely possible in short blocks of work, this 12 month programme allows opportunity to experience and grow curious to what each segment/part of your body, holds for you.

The Ocular, feet and hands
The Oral
The Cervical
The Thoracic and arms
The Diaphragmatic
The Abdominal
The Pelvic and legs.

We will be working over the 12 months with characterology, development and trauma, relationships and trauma, sexuality and integration.

This nurturing life programme will be of interest to different types of bodyworkers, movement practitioners, any practitioner that wants to be more body focused and body informed, especially if they are more verbally orientated in their work. It would be an invaluable programme for those that work on other people’s bodies, and work with embodiment and movement. It will be valuable for parents/carers hoping to break generational repeated patterns of wounding by looking at their own body stories and core beliefs about the world and for any individual who is looking to self discovery and personal growth. The way we will work is experiential, emphasis is on one’s own personal work.

Within this 12 month programme you will be invited to come back to yourselves and to flow in, in balance you will be invited to flow out, into the world, into expression; we will work with the body in movement, with the breath and with sound.

The block of work will increase your awareness about how trauma is held in the body, in your own body, in other bodies, you will witness, observe, be part of and begin to process your own trauma in a gentle and compassionate way. We cannot work with another’s trauma or go about breaking repeated patterns within our own lives without becoming more conscious of what narrative and beliefs our bodies hold and to begin to create spaces that update our nervous system and our bodies holding patterns to a more up to date place that allows for choice rather than one mode of being and reacting.

We are alive, feeling, pulsating beings, intelligent, valuable and orientated towards what is life enhancing, life informing, we hold wisdom deep within. We are relational, we experience life relationally to our environment and to others, we pulsate by being connected by a movement inwards to ourselves and outwards into expression, movement and contact with another. This inward flow and outward flow is often interrupted by trauma. We will experience this.

What does the body need to do to integrate our frozen history, so that it allows for wholeness and aliveness? This is a process of regaining or establishing flow and pulsation, throughout the whole body, from head to feet, feet to head and from core to the world beyond our skin and into our core from the world. This enables us to be responsive and to have choice in our lives.

Radix work is not easy work, but it is the work that allows us to heal. It is deep and powerful, potent, life changing work, that moves us into the position of knowing and understanding ourselves.

Radix work allows for deep changes to occur in our nervous system, in our ability to remain in relationship with another, and with ourselves.

Realise your value and the human value of another, to have self-esteem and human esteem, to be able to see, to hear and be in touch with your ground and reality even if that reality is uncomfortable. These are some of the qualities that make up psychological maturity, and allow for us to energetically drop into our bodies and engage with the intensity of what it is to be fully here, to show up in our lives and engage with the intensity of life.

Become a body that is safe to be with. A body that can be trusted.

Be a person who has processed some of its own personal material, has grown awareness around some of the ways that it defends, obscures and is hyper sensitive to. A person that is aware of some of the themes and beliefs that different parts of their body hold and how that plays out in their lives.

This course is a space for your own growth and personal work, a commitment to your ongoing aliveness and a commitment to those bodies that seek safety from our bodies, our friends, partners, children and the people we work with.

When we are working with people that have had different experiences, hold stories in their bodies in different ways, our ability to be with, present to, are of the utmost importance, regardless of the story, body process and emotional expression. Our capacity to be with, to not shut down, to work with is dependent on the work we have done in our own bodies, with our own stories and wounds.

We become more able to be with, have capacity and robustness for the more our systems are able to process our combined human material, if my body is having to work hard to stay regulated as a practitioner or parent then I am having to work harder to stay present and usefully available to this person seeking my support. This is often the reason why people who help and support other people burn out.

One of the reasons Radix is a powerful if not the most powerful somatic therapy for complex trauma is the amount of on-going personal work, body work, growth work that a practitioner has to do, there comes a time where it doesn’t matter how much theory we have learnt if we cannot embody our knowledge and wisdom, be sustainable, resourced, robust and nourished by the work we do and offer ways that allow for psychological maturity for the people who seek our support.

We have lost growth spaces that create opportunity to work with the body as part of process, spaces that allow for the body as an organism to re organise and integrate experience. To look at what experiences we missed and need to be whole.

Radix practitioners are skilled in working with the eyes this visual work is of great importance in bringing people into the present moment. Work in Radix is done when the person has the resource to do it, this in part is gauged by the ability of the person to stay present to the work.

Over the 12 months we will be working on our ability to be in self-contact, self-reference and to stay with our internal process, whilst simultaneously being in contact and being in relationship, to move out into the world.

Radix is unique in its addressing both relationship to self and relationship to other, flowing in, and flowing out, we work with centring, grounding, presentness and embodiment as part of self-contact whilst also expressing, moving and actioning, this completes the circuit and allows for us to lead purposeful lives connected to our own uniqueness.

We need spaces and people that can be with, and work with all the different emotional feelings. Depending on our history our body stories, certain emotional expression will be easier and some more challenging to be with. We become more aware with our own personal work, which ones are missing, that perhaps our capacity and range is diminished in certain ways. We may be passing these repressions to our children, we may be limited with who we work with or how we work.

With Radix we learn to tolerate being uncomfortable and to feel more. There are parts of the human experience that can be deeply uncomfortable, it is a surprise to find that tolerating our aliveness to be with pleasure for many is more uncomfortable than the emotions of anger or grief, the ones we assume will be uncomfortable.

In the 12 months you will work with your edges, what is uncomfortable for you, why the edges are your edges, what do they protect? what do they limit? this is explored with gentleness and respect for the reasons why they are in place, awareness created will be usefully challenging to the beliefs that hold these limitations.

We can’t skip important energetic, psychological stages in our early years, trauma is often the interruption to psychological and energetic growth, stunting us in growing emotional and psychological maturity, in growing our wisdom. We grow older biologically, but lack tools and resource in some aspects of our being to grow emotionally, psychologically. Trauma holds us in habit and tendency, it limits our choice, in thinking patterns as well as postures, movements and behaviours. Our core beliefs about the world are formed in our early years, our feeling of belonging, our feelings of our deservingness of love, care and support can be held by the person in their bodies, in life diminishing ways. Becoming aware of what your core beliefs might be, exploring them, is part of the process of updating, changing them to our present time and resource.

My hope with running this next group is that practitioners, facilitators, therapists, bodyworkers, practitioners, parents, other passionate growth mindset human beings, become bodily informed, trauma informed from engaging with themselves, their body stories and working on their own personal trauma history.

Radix training is rare in its demand for ongoing, deep and comprehensive personal work. Because of this high standard of training and personal work, Radix practitioners are comfortable with and able to work effectively with emotion and recognise the role and purpose of doing so.

The above will be explored primarily experientially in three ways, individual sessions, in group work and in workshops. We learn more deeply by experience, than being told, being told about ourselves or others, the deepest learning and invitation for change, comes with experiencing the changes meaningfully and with growing awareness.

Within this 12 months, we become more embodied rather than just having a body and moving it, we are informed by it, are a feeling body.

Within the 12 months within group work and in the workshops your capacity to be with others processes, others feelings by being present and attentive to will increase, your partner work increasing your awareness of what goes on for you when another is feeling what they are feeling, do you have impulse to rescue, to shut down, to leave, to smother, to alter the experience. We learn by being in relationship to others bodies in different ways.

Over the 12 month long programme, the focus will be experiential. It is essential as people that we become trauma informed, one of the key components to being able to be useful in others process is to burn our own wood, to be aware of what we are bringing, what others are receiving from our bodies, and how amplified or unaware we are to certain material within us that is unhelpful in our own lives and to another seeking our care or support.

By being companion to people’s births and deaths, I have grown an immense respect for letting the body do what it needs to do, it knows how to live in the same way it knows how to die, by engaging with dying, my aliveness in my living is even greater, this is so with all we do, to be moved in different ways to life, to our experience, to feel our fear we can feel how to trust, to feel our pain allows for us to feel our pleasure, to feel our sadness, allows for us to feel great joy, in our anger we hold the path to love.

Trauma is often visible to others and is in our unconscious material, it is seen in our bodies in our eyes and presentness, in our embodiment and energetics, in our disruption to pulsation. It is seen in the lack of congruence between what we think, how we move, our behaviour and action, within the core beliefs we hold about the world.

With Radix work we learn to feel, to be present to, be accepting of, to be responsive to, to be receptive to, to increase our tolerance our capacity for feeling our aliveness, we learn to allow for all feeling: feeling pain and sadness, grief, anger and in doing so we create more space to feel, to give and receive, love and joy, to feel contentment, peace, and satisfaction in our lives.

Over the 12 months we will work at different paces and have different journeys.

The group will be a maximum of 8 people.

This is not work that is available much in the UK. I am currently the only certified practitioner in Radix offering Radix in the Uk.

It is deep and beautiful work that is important. Come and join me and a small group of others in increasing our ability to be fully alive with the intensity of life.

If you are interested in joining the Radix nurturing life programme, please feel you can contact me, Tessa Fergusson on 07717790944

or send me an email: info@tessafergusson.co.uk

I will send out an Autobiography of feeling, which is a number of questions that allow me to get a sense of you and your life, your past and your current, your upbringing and beliefs, and will be sent out in November 2026 and to be returned completed by the 15th of December 2026, before first individual sessions starts in January 2027.

Individual sessions will start in January and the first group work/workshop begin in March 2027, a commitment to the 12 months is needed and payment up front to be made at the beginning of the course. Payment plans are possible with assured commitment and by individual arrangement in advance.

The commitment changes month to month so do look carefully at all dates and whether they are in person or not. In person work is always over the weekends and is non residential and held in West Cornwall in Roselidden/Helston. The individual session are an hour in length, with some flexibility to days and time and are only an option on week days Monday-Friday 8am-6pm, with an online option for those living outside of Cornwall. Workshops will take place on a Saturday or Saturday and Sunday depending on whether they are one or two days, please check carefully.

Timetable and prices for Nurturing life programme. January 2027-December 2027

January 2027

Week beginning the 4th January 1hr session, flexible time and day in that week online possible, in person for people in Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn)

Week beginning the 18th January 1hr session flexible time and day in that week online possible, in person for people in Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn)

Total January 2027 £130.00

February 2027 (Half term 15th February -19th February)

Week beginning 1st February individual session 1hr flexible time and day in that week, online possible, in person for people in Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn).

Week beginning 22nd February individual session 1 hr time and day in that week, online possible, in person for people in Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn).

Total February 2027 £240.00

March 2027 (Holiday 25th March-April 12th)

Saturday and Sunday weekend 2 day workshop in person/non-residential 6th and 7th March 2 day (14hr) 9.30am-5pm.(Roselidden/Helston/Cornwall). £220.00

Week beginning 15th March individual 1 hr session, flexible time and day in that week, online possible, in person for people in Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn)

Total March 2027 £285.00

April 2027 (Holiday 25th March-April 12th)

Week beginning 12th of April 1 hr individual session, flexible time and day in that week, online possible for those that live outside of Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn)

1 day workshop in person/non-residential (7 hr session), Saturday 17th April, 9.30am-5pm £110.00 (Roselidden/Helston/Cornwall)

Week beginning 19th April 1 hr individual session, flexible time and day in that week, online possible for those that live outside of Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn)

Total April 2027 £240.00

May 2027

Week beginning 17th May 1 hr individual session, flexible time and day in that week, online possible if you live outside of Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn)

Saturday and Sunday weekend 2 day workshop in person/non-residential, 22nd and 23rd May (14hr) 9.30am-5pm.(Roselidden/Helston/Cornwall). £220.00

Week beginning 24th May 1 hr individual session, flexible time and day in that week, online possible if you live outside of Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn)

Total May 2027 £350.00

June 2027 (Half term 31st May-4th June)

Week beginning 7th June 1hr individual session, flexible time and day in that week, online possible if you live outside of Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn)

1 day workshop in person/non-residential (7 hr session), Saturday 19th June, 9.30am-5pm £110.00 (Roselidden/Helston/Cornwall)

Week beginning 21st June 1 hr individual session, flexible time and day in that week, online possible if you live outside of Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn)

Total June 2027 £240.00

July and August off. No individuals, group work or workshops. Summer break.

September 2027

Week beginning 6th September 1hr individual session flexible time and day in that week, online possible if you live outside of Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn).

Saturday 18th September (1 day workshop in person) (7 hr workshop). £110.00 non-residential. (Roslidden/Helston/Cornwall) 9.30am-5pm.

Week beginning 20th September 1hr individual session flexible time and day in that week, online possible if you live outside of Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn).

Total September 2027 £240.00

October 2027 (Holidays 25th-29th October)

Week beginning 4th October 1 hr individual session, flexible time and day in that week, online possible if you live outside of Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn)

Saturday and Sunday weekend 2 day workshop in person, 23rd and 24th October (14hr) non- residential 9.30am-5pm.(Roselidden/Helston/Cornwall). £220.00

Total October 2027 £285.00

November 2027

Week beginning 8th November individual 1hr session, flexible time and day in that week, online possible if you live outside of Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn)

Saturday and Sunday weekend 2 day workshop in person, 20th and 21st November (14hr) non- residential 9.30am-5pm.(Roselidden/Helston/Cornwall). £220.00

Week beginning 22nd November individual 1hr session, flexible time and day in that week, online possible if you live outside of Cornwall (Monday -Friday 8am-5pm) £65 (Penryn)

Total November 2027 £350.00

December 2027

No workshops this month 1 individual session.

Week beginning 6th December individual 1hr session, flexible time and day in that week, online possible if you live outside of Cornwall (Monday-Friday 8am-5pm) £65.00 (Penryn)

Total December 2027 £65.00

Total £2425.00

Mentoring/Supervision by arrangement and not included in the cost.

About Tessa Fergusson

The work I will be offering in this ‘Nurturing life’ 12 month programme is Radix body psychotherapy, body work and personal growth work. My background and other offerings are in Eastern medicine, Eco-psychotherapy, Process work, Gestalt, embodied relational therapy and my experiences of being at births and deaths as a birthing and dying companion.

I have 20 years of Chinese medicine experience and have worked in a variety of practise settings, with experience of having apprentices, supervisees, mentees, and tutees. I have been a senior lecturer and tutor and have been a supervisor in the final year of the student clinic. I have worked in a busy private practise and have 20 years clinical experience practising in Kent and now Cornwall. Ten years ago I began working and training more directly with embodied and feeling work practice, working with becoming more embodied and having greater capacity to be with feelings and to work with them, grappling with and I continue to grapple with what it is to be human, to be able to be with all feeling and therefore more experiences.

I have studied Embodied-Relational Therapy, process work and group facilitation and from there Radix and for the last four years have been running regular Radix groups in Cornwall. I am currently the only practicing certified Radix practitioner in the Uk, although I have some dear friends that are training and I am peer to, that I collaborate with as part of a larger body psychotherapy group, offering residential body psychotherapy weekends in various shapes. These workshops and Radix work are unique, valuable and rare opportunities that provide much insight and awareness into your own unique process. I have been running this particular shape for a couple of years and it is the shape that seems to really work well, although it is unique this next one, in the ability to do online individual sessions if you cannot make them in person, in the hope that more can participate outside of living in Cornwall, all workshops will continue to be in person.

Over the years I began working with people who were dying and continued my work to support conscious birth and conscious parenting, I began to look at how groups worked energetically, and how processes unfolded. Becoming a mother of three, home educating and my father dying have been pivotal in my own embodied experience and distilling of what it is are my offerings in this world at this time, and what my aliveness is to follow and unfold into. I am passionate about people, I deeply care about others and I enjoy working with awareness and presentness and depth of being. I seek to be trauma informed to bring awareness to power and privilege, to be inclusive of diversity and difference. I have regular supervision in place to help keep my practice safe. I have tried to avoid practise which preys on fear and have chosen many times not to specialise in an area of dis-ease, but to specialise in seeking wholeness and aliveness in people, in nurturing all of life. Embedded within my practise is a deep trust that we will get to the work together we are meant to and that you hold your own wisdom.

https://www.tessafergusson.co.uk

www.pulsationsupervision.co.uk

info@tessafergusson.co.uk

07717 790944