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 biophysical 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.

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.

Love, Sex and Prayer

Intimacy with Yourself, Intimacy with Another, Intimacy with the Divine

Sexual energy has been repressed for centuries by religions and society. In this section we will enliven our passion and learn to connect to our bodies in a healthy and natural way. Often denied through deep layers of shame and guilt, it hinders us to live our sexuality in a joyous and fulfilling way.

Once we learn to love our bodies, accept them as they are, ignite our sexual energy, it can then move into Love and we can meet another.

Once we learn how to communicate from the heart, we can meet another in respect of each others needs. We learn how to melt and how to stand on our own feet. Once we learn how to love, we can open our wings to the divine, the most supreme of all.

Movement Beyond Family
Family Constellation and Trauma release

This week is a deep self-experience on one hand. On the other hand, it transmits the basic theoretical and practical principles of Family Constellation work and some practical tools of Somatic Experiencing (Trauma work) that can be used in a counseling situation and in everyday life.

Working with the energy field of the family we begin to recognize many traumatic experiences. So it is extremely helpful to know how to deal with the emerging trauma energy and to be able to support the person facing and discharging the effects that trauma has had on their body behavior and nervous system.

At the beginning of the week each participant will understand and experience family conditioning and will have the opportunity to put up her/his own constellation. The process will be made transparent by absorbing step by step what happens in each constellation and seeing how the source of love can be found.

Later the focus will shift. Doing constellations with symbols in the setting of more individual work which includes dealing with the different childhood trauma that emerges in the context of family constellation.

Osho Family Constellation is based in meditation and is rooted in deep acceptance and honoring of what is, rather than in effort for improvement. This is the point where therapy ends and meditation begins.

Power of 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 week, 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.

Counselling III
Acting from Certainty

When we are with a client, naturally we need meditative presence; on the other hand, we also need to take initiative, to act with sure intentions. When both of these qualities are present, we are responding to the other from our being. The being is not a thing. It is rather a no-thing, or an empty space produced by the alive balance between two opposite energy polarities. These seven days will focus on the meditative quality during active response to real situations. The ‘situations’ we meet can be classified either as the therapeutic kind, or as a more normal kind, but they are not essentially different. Every type of creative act brings us to a state of heightened awareness. Once we are able to feel certainty in our actions, being a therapist becomes more playful and merges beautifully into daily living.

This section includes guided moving meditations, polarity “swing” breathing, Gestalt practice, male/female dialogues, creativity demonstrations, and Star Sapphire individual work.