Roger Stennett
Roger Stennett
M.A. (Cantab.) HPD, MNCH
The site is divided into sections covering my work
as a Dramatist, Creative Writing Tutor,
Psychotherapist and Aikido Teacher.
I have a Therapy web site at :
www.rogerstennett-hypnotherapy.co.uk
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I am a professional writer and psychotherapist/clinical hypnotherapist.
I write scripts for Theatre, Film, Television, Radio Drama, Radio Features and Animation. I have also published Poetry and Fiction. My work has been produced internationally, by companies such as the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Disney, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Bristol Old Vic, Nottingham Playhouse and Manchester Royal Exchange. I am a director of an independent production company - “Hare In the Gate Films”
I grew up around the world of Variety Theatre and Pantomime. My father is comedian, and actor, Stan Stennett.
From 1969-72, I studied History at Christ’s College, Cambridge (M.A 1976).
My Director of Studies at Christ’s was Simon Schama.
After Cambridge, for ten years, I was involved in public funding for the Arts, with the largest regional arts funding body in Britain - South West Arts. During that time I published poetry and scripted my first play, which was produced at The Half Moon Theatre, in London, in 1978. I continued to write for the theatre and television, and on January 1st, 1984, when I was its Director, I left South West Arts to become a freelance dramatist.
As well as working as a writer I teach Creative Writing and Screenwriting to postgraduate level at universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff and Bournemouth. I am the founder of the two year Higher Education Diploma in Creative Writing for Performance at Bristol University Department of Drama & Film.
I was an International track and field athlete, British high-jump champion, Welsh record holder and Cambridge University Athletics ‘Blue’.
I am currently an Aikido Black Belt and a British Aikido Board Instructor.
I have Enhanced Criminal Records Board Disclosure/Clearance and First Aid qualifications.
I hold a Practitioners Diploma (H.P.D) in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, and further qualifications in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. As a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Solution-Focused therapist, I draw on a number of healing traditions, tailoring each session to the evolving needs of the individual client. In addition to Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, I use NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), C.B.T (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) S.F.T. (Solution-Focused Therapy) and Rogerian (Client-centred) therapies, alongside interventions involving creative writing, drama and life-skills drawn from the philosophies and practises of several martial arts.
I am a member of The National Council for Hypnotherapy and also the United Kingdom Association for Solution Focused Practice .
“It is said that the Warrior’s Way is a twofold Way of pen and sword,
and he should have a taste for both ways”
Ieyasu Tokugawa (1543-1616)
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Please press the link below to download my writing c.v.
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Writing Workshops :
‘Samurai Scriptwriting’
‘Beginner’s Mind’
‘Radio Daze’
‘Staring At A Blank Sheet of Paper’
‘Six Poems In Search of a Playwright’
For details of
Writing Workshops
Please press
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Creative Writing & Therapy Courses :
“ Screenplays of Our Lives ” - Creative Writing & therapy
“ Breakfalls “ - Aikido, creative writing and therapy
“Jukebox of Memories” - Creative Writing, popular song and therapy.
“Snakes & Ladders” - A workshop looking at male and female roles.
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Public Courses/Workshops 2008
Swansea Life Film Festival - June 2nd
www.swanseafilmfestival.com/home07.htm
Oxford University Summer School - July 19-26th
http://summerschool.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/w2/courses11.php
Swanwick Festival - August 10/11th
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Aikido & Therapy Courses :
“Balancing Points” - Using aikido both as a practical martial art and
as a therapeutic tool to explore the application of its philosophy
and practise in everyday ‘life-skill’ situations and relationships.
A series of small, closed group sessions, spread over ten week periods.
For a brief movie clip from my Black Belt Grading
Please click ... HERE.
(Takes about 60 seconds to download the clip)
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Publisher
Amber Lane Press
Please click ... HERE
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Personal Contact
15, Over Lane
Almondsbury,
Bristol.
BS32 4BL
(01454) 612687 ( Home)
(07968) 919255 (Mobile)
“ The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.
When ‘mindfulness’ embraces those we love,
they will bloom like flowers.”
Thich Nhat Hahn - Vietnamese Buddhist teacher
“We can not enjoy life if we spend a lot of time worrying about what happened yesterday, and what will happen tomorrow.
We worry about tomorrow because we are afraid.
If we are afraid all the time, we can not appreciate
that we are alive, and can be happy now”
Thich Nhat Hahn - Vietnamese Buddhist teacher
“You are you,
And I am I.
And, if by chance,
We find each other,
It’s beautiful ...”
Fritz Perls (1893-1970) Founder of Gestalt therapy.
“Keep me away from the Wisdom which does not cry,
the Philosophy which does not laugh
and the Greatness which does not bow before children”
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) - Poet
In my early professional years I was asking the question :
“How can I treat, or cure or change this person ?”
Now I would phrase the question in this way :
“How can I provide a relationship which this person
may use for his own personal growth ?”
Carl Rogers (1902-1987) - Psychologist
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.
It is a direction not a destination”
Carl Rogers (1902-1987) - Psychologist
“When you begin to touch your heart, or let your heart
be touched, you begin to discover that it is bottomless,
that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge,
vast, limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth
and gentleness is there, as well as how much space”
Pema Chodron - Buddhist Nun
“The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the
unconscious of the race - reveal what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on. The artist presents the broken image of man, but transcends it in the very act of transmuting it into art. It is his creative act which gives
meaning to the nihilism, alienation and other elements
of modern man’s condition...
Only a schizoid man could paint a schizoid world.”
Rollo May (1909-1994) - Existential Psychologist
“In psychotherapy, enthusiasm is the secret of success”
Carl Jung (1875-1961) - Psychoanalyst
“When you get extremely soft,
Then you become extremely hard and strong”
‘Tai Chi’ principle.
“Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning,
strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable centre.
Do not stare into the eyes of your opponent.
He may mesmerise you.
Do not fix your gaze on his sword.
He may intimidate you.
Do not focus on your opponent at all.
He may absorb your energy.
The essence of training is to bring your opponent
completely into your sphere.
Then you can stand where you like. “
Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969) - Founder of Aikido.
“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose
of the present moment.
A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment.
If one fully understands the present moment,
there will be nothing else to do, and to pursue.
Living, being true to the single purpose of the moment.”
‘Hagakure’ - The Book of The Samurai
“There is a gap or space between stimulus and response
and the key to both our growth and happiness
is how we use that space........
When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves”
Viktor Frankl ( 1905 - 1997)
“We are all in a post-hypnotic trance
induced in early infancy”
R.D.Laing (1926-1989) (Anti)-Psychiatrist
“You cannot solve a problem with the same
kind of thinking that created it.”
Albert Einstein ( 1897-1955 )
“Midway this way of life we’re bound upon,
I woke to find myself in a dark wood
Where the right road was wholly lost and gone”
Dante (1265-1321)
“Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would never have taken the road.
But she has nothing more to give you.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not defrauded you.
With the great wisdom you have gained,
With so much experience
You must surely have understood by then
What Ithacas mean.”
C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933)
“Tho’ much is taken, much abides ; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield”
‘Ulysses’ - Lord Alfred Tennyson ( 1809-1892)
“And though you come out of each gruelling bout
All broken and battered and scarred
Just have one more try - it’s dead easy to die,
It’s the keeping on living that’s hard.”
‘The Quitter’ - ‘Yukon’ poet, Robert Service ( 1874-1958)
“Once the realisation is accepted that even between
the closest human beings, infinite distances continue,
a wonderful living side-by-side can grow, if they succeed
in loving the distance between them which makes it
possible for each to see the other, whole against the sky.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who
are only waiting to see us once, beautiful and brave......
Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being,
something helpless that wants help from us.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
“ Don’t search for answers which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without evening noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
“Spring has returned.
The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
“We rarely hear the inward music,
but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless”
Sufi Poet, Rumi (1207-1273)
“The chief benefit of dancing, is to learn how to sit still”
Dr Samuel Johnson ( 1709-1784)
“Never give up.... Never slow down.
Never grow old...... Never ever die young”
James Taylor - “Never Die Young”
“The person is never the problem.
The problem is the problem”
Therapeutic ‘truth’
“Only the wounded physician heals ...”
Carl Jung (1875-1961) - Psychoanalyst
