Therapist Training
2011-2013
An education and a deeply transformative process
The Osho Risk Therapist Training is a unique opportunity in Northern Europe. It is based on principles that make it radically different from other psycho-therapeutical educations: it connects therapy to meditation, and it teaches through experiencing.
Over the span of years, since the start in 1990, the therapeutic methods used in the Therapist Training have been refined. The tools used today include the latest findings of experiential therapy: Somatic Work, Essence Work, Family Constellation and other relevant approaches.
Hundreds of people have taken their turn with the challenges and the deeply transformative quality of this training. They have absorbed its benefits into their lives back home, into their relationships and into their work and creativity.
Some of them have started to work as counselors, some have found other ways to support individuality and aliveness in themselves and other people. Some have started growth centers, others again are now working with people in companies, but with a new vision. They have become more true to themselves, more vital, with greater flexibility in responding to the challenges of life.
The 11 training weeks lead the participants on a journey of self-exploration: it starts out by opening the body to life energy with the help of bioenergetics, it then clears the psychological ground by investigating childhood- and sexuality issues.
Combining different approaches to Western psychotherapy with a variety of Eastern meditation techniques we gradually move towards more understanding, awareness, and compassion for ourselves and others. This will enable us to use the deepened awareness in our work with people in a more respectful and loving way. We build on the understanding that we can only work with another as deeply as we have known ourselves.
The Osho Risk Therapist Training is
truly international. The word of satisfied trainees has spread beyond Scandinavia,
and the participants come from many countries. The team of highly skilled
teachers also come from many corners of the world, each of them being an
international capacity within their own specialized field.
The language used in the training is English. The participants need not to be perfect in English, but must be willing to express themselves in English, with the helpful support of the group and staff.
The group: growing together
Since the beginning in 1990 we have gathered experience through conducting 19 Therapist Trainings for more than 450 people in this line at Osho Risk. We have learned that an important aspect for the participants is the group - to go through this long growth and learning sequence with people who have made the same commitment. A group where pretensions are bound to fall and we become capable of being honest, where we are provided with so many ”mirrors” for our projections, and where unexpected love and support flows back to us as we open up.
We have learned that spreading the course over bi-monthly intervals is ideal for the absorption of the intense therapeutical work. The transformation continues in the intervals between training weeks as the new findings are being integrated into everyday life.
Healing for a new vision
This upcoming Therapist Training - called "TT 21" - consists of 78 days, spread over 20 months. The course is a clearing- and learning process, not only for those who already work as therapists/counselors or would like to do so, but equally for those who join the process mainly for their own personal growth, as a life training. It ends with a diploma but it doesn’t lead to an actual authorization as a psychotherapist in itself. Further specialization is needed if that is the aim.
Our trainings have been characterized by great enthusiasm and commitment from people who arrange their lives in order to follow this process, in spite of practical difficulties of getting free from work and family obligations, getting money together, long travel etc.
It is a process that appeals to maturity, a process for people who wish not only to heal their lives, or become better therapists, but who have come to a point where they are thirsty to create a totally new vision.
THE OSHO CONNECTION
In the background of a lot of the human potential-activities that happen on many levels in Europe and worldwide today lies an unmistakable source of inspiration: the Indian mystic Osho (1931-90).
In the 70's and 80's Osho's vision of bridging Eastern consciousness with Western psychotherapy and his creation of "active meditations" to help the restless modern man was spreading like rings in the water from Poona in India to hundreds of new growth-communes all over the world. From these centers it has spread further since then, being used today in a wide variety of contexts.
Osho Risk began life in l986 and since then we have created an environment that functions as a laboratory for individual exploration. This institute has specialized in processes that use Osho’s active meditations, such as Dynamic and Kundalini, together with audio and video recordings of Osho’s discourses. In particular, we promote Osho’s vision of a New Man, the creation of a unique and rebellious individual who is free from social conditioning and who acts naturally, authentically and spontaneously, using his or her innate intelligence and intuition.
Osho's term is to create "the New Man", and the atmosphere of the wave he initiated is the life affirmative "Love, Life and Laughter".
Osho Risk was started as an Osho Center in 1986. We have created an environment, which functions as a laboratory for individual exploration. It has specialized in processes that in addition to the therapeutic work use the active meditations (Dynamic, Kundalini etc.) together with audio- or video quotations from Osho on a daily basis.
The teachers in the Therapist Training all come from the early generation of Osho Therapists, who were coached directly by Osho 25 or more years back. They became each an artist in their therapeutic field. Over the years they have incorporated a lot of new methods in their work, and continuously renew the content of the sections in every new Therapist Training.
To be with these people, in the relaxing atmosphere of the Osho center, is an opportunity for everyone to look at one’s own ”artist”, and to find a unique way of working with oneself and others.
(The international Osho Center in Poona can be visited on: www.osho.com)
” The therapist is in the service of life.
He has to create life affirmative values by living them himself, by going to the silences of his heart.
The deeper you are within yourself, the deeper you can reach into the heart of the other. It is exactly the same...because your heart or the other’s heart are not very different things. If you understand your being, you understand everybody’s being. And then you understand you have also been foolish, you have also been ignorant, you have also fallen many times, you have also committed crimes against yourself and against others, and if other people are still doing it there is no need of condemnation. They have to be made aware and left to themselves; you are not to mold them in a certain framework.
Then it is a joy to be a therapist, because you come to know the interiority of human beings - which is one of the most secret hiding places of life. And by knowing others you know yourself more.”
Osho: The Great Pilgrimage: From Here To Here
