Topic Groups

Stop! – Setting and Protecting My Boundaries, Confrontations

Hosted by Tamás Koós

I long for closeness. I want to connect. But how close?

I want to be honest. But to what depth, and when?

I am interested in who you are. (Am I really interested?) But when, and to what extent, can and do I want to pay attention to you?

Here and now. Presence and attention. To myself and to you. Or to you and to myself?

My boundaries change.

Maximum number of participants: 15

Tamás Koós: Curious. Behind walls. Closed and open. If I knew who I really am… perhaps I would even tell you here.

Guided Meditation with Breathwork Techniques

Hosted by Vanda Dikker and Barbara Koppány

Conscious breathing is a simple yet powerful practice that helps us reconnect with ourselves. Although we breathe every moment of our lives, we rarely pay attention to how we do it. By bringing awareness to the breath, we can support the nervous system, reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate a greater sense of balance and well-being.

Conscious breathing can help us slow down, release tension, and become more present in our daily lives. No special skills are required – just openness and a little time. We would love to show you how conscious breathing can become a simple, accessible, and valuable part of everyday well-being.

Maximum number of participants: 15

Vanda Dikker and Barbara Koppány: We are work and organizational psychologists. Our friendship began in high school, where we were classmates, continued through university, and has grown through several professional projects we have worked on together. We believe that, alongside objective assessment tools, other approaches also play an important role in maintaining physical and mental well-being. For years, we have practised meditation and yoga, and we have experienced the benefits of conscious breathing first-hand. We would love to share these experiences with you.

Supportive Frameworks and Freedom

Hosted by Vera Noémi Kunos and Brúnó Fuchs

I often find myself reflecting on what it really means to be person-centred.

What makes a relationship a space where another person can begin to find their own way? Where is the boundary between offering direction and allowing freedom? How can a framework provide safety without becoming controlling?

In this workshop, we invite participants to explore these questions not through discussion, but through movement.

We will begin with simple movement experiences that are accessible to everyone. Through individual, paired and group explorations, we will notice how movement emerges, how it is shaped in relationship with others, and how it gradually becomes our own.

Throughout the workshop, Brúnó Fuchs will accompany the process with live improvised music. The music is not a background to the movement; it evolves together with the participants and becomes part of the shared relational space.

Although we work through movement, the questions we explore reach far beyond it. They are equally present in therapy, education, group facilitation, parenting, and everyday human relationships: How can safety and freedom coexist? How do presence and initiative support one another? How can connection nurture autonomy?

Rather than offering answers, we hope to create a space where these questions can be experienced together.

Maximum number of participants: 16

Vera Noémi Kunos and Brúnó Fuchs: We have been working together for many years in settings where movement, connection and improvisation come together. Vera is a psychologist, Ayres Sensory Integration (DSZIT) therapist and learning facilitator. Brúnó is a philosopher and improvising musician; both are members of the Pepita Playback Theatre Company. Together, we explore how live music and self-initiated movement can help create a safe space in which everyone can build on their own experience.

Painting

Hosted by Bora Bredár

There will be space, materials – watercolours, brushes and paper – and time to be together, to be with ourselves, to create and to talk.

No drawing skills are needed, only openness, so that the image and the act of creation can unfold and perhaps something might shift within us along the way.

I look forward to seeing you. Please bring HUF 500–1,000 in cash to help cover the cost of the materials we use.

Maximum number of participants: 12

Bora Bredár: I am a painter. I find it very exciting when we connect with one another through creating. Come and paint with us – let us see what emerges!

Garden and walls

Hosted by Ágnes Bánátiné Tóth

The idea for this workshop came from my life experiences when I was preparing for the second half of my life.

The title and the thought behind it come from the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho. He writes in his book ’Brida’ that people take two basic attitudes in their lives: they either BUILD WALLS or LOOK AFTER A GARDEN. BUILDERS build the walls of their buildings making a lot of effort for a long time, but when the construction is ready, they finish their activity and go on living, closed within those walls that never grow further. GARDENERS, who plant and look after their gardens learn to cope with the adversities of weather, learn to care for and renew the things that regularly die and need renewal. The life of a gardener is a continuous challenge and adventure.

This metaphor inspired me a lot when I was preparing for CCC in Pécs in 2011, not long after I had left the walls of my stability in Hungary, worked in England for 9 months, and had very hard life lessons there. Since then I have regularly checked my answers to the following questions:

• Is it true, that people either just BUILD WALLS or just LOOK AFTER A GARDEN? Isn’t it possible, that they do both depending on which period of life they are in?
• Do I have WALLS, and if so, what are they?
• If I am aware of my WALLS, am I brave enough to step out of them from time to time to learn something new?
• Do I have a GARDEN, and if so, what am I growing in it? Am I a good gardener?
• Do I love my work?
• Am I the captain of my life or do I live someone else’s life?

Since 2011 ’Garden and Walls’ has become a traditional workshop of CCC-s in Pécs. Using a technique well-working on my English lessons, once or twice during the CCC week we answer those questions in pairs with various partners, and after speaking we make the visual representation of our answers in a green spiral-shape paper garden and on the wall. Let’s talk about those answers again and see if they have changed! Newcomers are most welcome, too!!!

Maximum number of participants: not limited

Ágnes Bánátiné Tóth: I am an English teacher, a person-centered counselor, an encounter group facilitator, and a yoga instructor.