Therapist Training

Pulsation

To be vibrant, alive, breathing, moving and feeling is our birthright and very nature.

Pulsation is derived from Neo-Reichian emotional release work, using breath, bioenergy, and expression to contact and clear physical, emotional and psychological patterns of tension from early life conditioning. Once this bio physical clearing has taken root, we will move more deeply into silence, relaxation and a joyful celebration of the life that moves within us.

Body Energy & Bodytypes

In this section we will continue to work on opening the body energy, bringing in an understanding of how our body structure gets formed through childhood experience, and how our energy flow gets affected. Our basic map will be the Neo-Reichian Bodytypes.

Different techniques will be taught on how to “read” these emotional patterns as they express themselves in our bodies. By becoming more perceptive and sensitive to the body we are laying the foundation for our transformation process, and gaining basic tools for working with other people.

Primal

A possibility to deeply explore your own early life issues. We will move through your childhood as it unfolds in each of its developmental stages.

We will work on:

• understanding how through parental conditioning we have taken on roles and rules which continue to determine our life.
• re-experiencing and expressing
  feelings which we had to suppress in the family, and exploring our natural boundaries and strength.
• rediscovering the healing dimension of trust and love for our “inner child”.

These seven days will also simultaneously offer you a taste of the many different tools and methods that Primal and Inner Child work can offer. All this will create a solid base for your therapeutic education.

Love & Freedom

Once we start opening to the past and let the ghosts which have been hiding there out of the closet, we need to learn a better way to take care of ourselves, finding a friendlier way of living, with awareness and understanding.

This week we will look at how to move on, and how to keep a fresh and open view about ourselves when relating to others. We will work with the roots of projections and judgements, the defence mechanisms which keep us attached to the past, finding the freedom to be ourselves. We will contact our courage and truthfulness by meeting our problems around power, shame, unworthiness, inferiority and perfectionism. When we are in touch with ourselves in this way we can more easily create space for others to explore their own human potential, so that love can grow.

Tantra

In this 6-days section we look at the limitations of our mind and conditioning in experiencing our own pleasure, love and bliss. In the tantric approach, sexual energy is a spiritual and creative force which we can learn to expand and transform by connecting it to the heart. Blending techniques from the West and the East Radha’s work is an attentive and gentle method of transforming old habits. It has a quality of celebration and meditation, creating a space of relaxation and trust where we can reconnect with our bodies, open up, melt and expand towards real harmony in our relationships and our own lives.

Counselling I -
The Therapist as a Friend

As we mature as individuals and as therapists, we become naturally attracted to the deeper issues in ourselves and others. We simply want to be ourselves, and help others to find the same. This section will teach counselling skills based on meditation, following an understanding that the depth and compassion with which we relate with ourselves is what we have to offer to our clients.

The first part focuses on the art of befriending ourselves, developing an ability to go deep into ourselves and emerge fresh and nourished, no matter what we find inside. The second part will be teaching counselling skills which give us tools to extend this sense of inner friendship to others. We will learn to create an atmosphere where others feel comfortable getting to know themselves more deeply, accurately and compassionately. These skills will include inner journey work, focusing therapy and inquiry. All these techniques can be doorways for journeying through the complex world of neurosis and confusion and discovering the fundamental goodness of who we are.

Beyond the Inner Judge, Towards Inner Space

Our inner judge condemns, criticizes, defines right or wrong, good and bad, keeps us feeling wrong and guilty (or right and righteous), in a state where we are unable to act, think or feel freely. It keeps us from "stepping out of line". And unless we can step out of line, there can be no growth. Growth needs space, the inner space to be with what is, even if painful or otherwise intense. Growth requires that we first be able to inquire into, to explore, to feel. The inner judge cannot allow this, because its dominance over us will be questioned. And so, a mechanism that worked as a protection in the past becomes a constricting prison in the present.

The work this week will be to recognize and understand the judge, learn how to defend against it, and create the inner space to grow with openness, curiosity and love for truth.

Breath

Osho Breath Therapy is a multi-dimensional approach to use breath for health improvement and human growth. Because breath is the bridge between conscious and unconscious as much as between the body and the soul, many mystics used its incredible power to create awareness. Here we will learn some basics of Osho Breath Therapy like: deep breathing as the creator of a powerful cleaning and clearing process of all tensions; breath integration as a body healing process; breath oriented meditations to create a new awareness.

In this week there will be an emphasis on dynamic meditation, and its use in a therapeutic context.

Awareness Intensive

In the first 5 days we use the simple yet powerful structure of the Awareness Intensive to move inwards with the help of the koans ”Who is in?” and ”Who am I?” It is a journey through layers of identification with personality and conditioning to a direct experience of who we truly are: consciousness, love, being. In the last days we’ll explore how to integrate this direct experience in meditation and daily life.

The process will be supported by a team from the Risk Buddhafield.

Counselling II -
Essence of masculine and feminine

The frame of this section is Rafia's work with masculine and feminine issues, a deep exploration where our male and female sides are exposed to us, the mechanisms of our relationships mirrored, and where we find answers and understanding for many old patterns and pains.

Rafia's way of working includes the background of "essence work", creating more awareness of our hidden defences and holes.

In the course of this we move towards working with other groupmembers in a session space, continuing to learn basic skills of counselling, such as: energy-reading, working with open space, with projections, "difficult client"-situations and power issues, slowly acquiring confidence in "giving" rather than "helping" another person.

The River of Grace

The ending of a great time of togetherness and deep transformational change will be the focus of this last week of the training. Letting go, death, and how to deal with it, are themes that are inescapable in everybody’s life. Especially when working with people we need to know how to deal with the fact that every beginning is an end, and every end will be a beginning.

As an entrance to our inner being we will focus on the heart and work with our longing, the longing for truth and the longing to come home.

Guided meditations, sharings and open individual work, combined with relaxations and silent meditations, will bring us in touch with our depth.

Compassion, and watchful remembrance of who we truly are, in our essence, are the major tools to face the inescapable.