Saturday June 4, 2016
10:40 am - 1:00 pm
Workshops
C1 COMPLETE
EDITH BAKKER (The Netherlands)
The transpersonal in the world
What do we do with the violent forces that are present in our word today? How do we react to the war and destruction we see around us?
One way is going into the opposite pole: meditating and sending peaceful energy out to the world. This is very valuable. But what about the violent energies?
In our individual work as psychosynthesis people, we always look for the valuable essence in subpersonalities, even if these figures are aggressive and repulsive. Could we do the same thing with these forces on a collective level?
In this workshop we are going to examine if there is a valuable core in today's war and violence. We are going to look at the forces of war and peace at an archetypal level, and see if we can connect to both of these forces.
C2 COMPLETE
FRANCESCA BARBAGLI (Italy)
The interior theater: Psychosynthesis staging
In the seminar we use theatrical techniques in a psychosynthetic perspective, touching some central themes in active and experiential ways.
- Contact with the unconscious: imagining a scene and putting it into action, we resonate with our deepest unconscious (both lower and higher); it is from there that we draw the psychic material, through improvisations and exercises that make it emerge with the same mechanism as free associations.
- Ego experience: is the central psychic entity, the director in fact, that helps us to direct and coordinate all the psychic functions through the assistant-director, the Will. The Ego and the Will work together so that our theatrical communication is effective, understandable, exciting and reproducible.
- Conscious creation of sub-personalities: creating a scene, a character using a certain tone, showing certain physical characteristics, which sends verbal chosen and precise messages, is how to create a sub-personality through a conscious and willed process, it is an exercise for "doing as if ", a key technique for changing behaviors considered dysfunctional or creating desired behaviors.
C3 COMPLETE
CRISTINA BASSOLI (Italy)
Will 4.0
LLife is change; the body, emotions and thoughts change like the seasons. Learning to accept our changes means to be masters of our lives, opposing them means to become lost and to betray ourselves.
The purpose of the workshop is to know ourselves to enhance our qualities,discover our limits and have the courage to go further, learning to take the appropriate risks to plan our own lives; have the confidence and the courage to listen to what our heart says and not be afraid of other people's judgments and to use judgments as guiding aids and not as a "condemnation", finding our direction in the present and for the future. Therefore it is important to follow a route that we plot it on the map: we knowing our map we will trace our route.
C4 COMPLETE
PIETRO ALESSANDRO CAFORIO (Italy)
Being happy is possible,when…
Living in these present times imposes great challenges to individual existence. Everyone makes choices that often does not recognize as his own. The resulting sense of strangeness to ourselves and to the world around us creates anxiety, grief, anger and distracts from the path of individuation and self-realization. The workshop aims to help recognize the Adaptive Self, source of pragmatic inspirations that activate the individual's Will. We will work on the dynamic structure of the personality and on the mobilization of Ego functions. Experiences will be offered to identify and recognize the signals from the Adaptive Self, reflected from the Transpersonal Self, and to structure the Model of the Possible, a reformulation of the Ideal Model. The process is based on a meeting of the Masculine and Feminine in a synthesis that reopens to elements of human and universal sympathy, up to the enlightening and liberating experience of Love.
C5
MICHELA CERVELLATI (Italy)
Presentation and meditative contact with the symbol of the Banner of Peace as an evolving tool in consciousness.
Symbols act as a driving force in any human culture; one of the peculiarities of the symbol of the Banner of Peace is being "above the parties", because it belongs to all of humanity and it is existing from time immemorial and everywhere in the world.
For this reason, the symbol of the Banner of Peace has an universal value to be discovered and carries with it a meaning that is echoed in every conscience.
Experiencing contact with this symbol, pregnant with universal energy, produces work towards a raising of consciousness.
C6 COMPLETE
CAROLINE HOEK (The Netherlands)
The Game of gifts
Game of gifts presupposes we are born with a (soul) mission. By getting acquainted with your specific gifts it helps you to uncover this mission. The technique is similar to the voice dialoque. participents get there own stag of (almost 100) cards with archetypes written on it. After choosing there unique set of 12, they are getting to know the gender and task of this `talent` and in the dialogue the role of the inner leader will become clear. The game is played with 2 boards. After finishing the second board, one will have a deep understanding of ones gifts, the purpose of each one and a clear direction for the future.
C7 COMPLETE
AUBYN HOWARD (France) e PAUL ELLIOT (UK)
Psychosynthesis as a core coaching psychology
How can psychosynthesis become more widely established as a core coaching psychology, in service to emerging needs in our organisations, communities and society? Building upon Sir John Whitmore’s context for psychosynthesis-trained coaches (Coaching for Performance, 4th edition 2009), we are seeking to develop psychosynthesis as a coaching psychology to meet the emerging and evolutionary needs of leadership coaching today. Increasingly leaders need support from coaches who are not just psychologically trained but able to draw upon an holistic depth and height psychology such as psychosynthesis. We ask; what are the barriers to helping psychosynthesis become more widespread as a coaching psychology and how can these be overcome? What are the trends globally – e.g. growth of coaching versus therapy as a more accessible modality, prevalence of psychosynthesis coaching? How can psychosynthesis be developed and adapted for leadership coaching?
C8 COMPLETE
MICHAEL LINDFIELD (USA) e MARINA BERNARDI (Italy)
La nascita del Sé di Gruppo: un’avventura condivisa nella crescita della coscienza
A group is not just a setting where the individual can grow through intentional and aware relationships, it is also in its own right, a bio-psycho-spiritual entity with a Super-conscious, Sub-conscious and Conscious. Participating in a group life is how we learn, grow and create the future together.
This shared journey marks a transition from the "I" to the "We" state of consciousness, thus allowing us to expand our sense of personal identity. In working with many groups around the world, the Science of Group Work has tested some basic assumptions regarding the elements of the collective spiritual journey and has mapped the various stages of development with their specific challenges and requirements.
This workshop explores the principles and practice of group life and focuses on essential group work required to cross the threshold into the Group Self.
C9
KEITH SILVESTER (UK)
“Integrity” in a time of complexity
Although 'integrity' is usually associated only with moral or ethical behaviour and conscience, this is a transpersonal quality affecting many other spheres of life too -such as aesthetics and design, intellectual and academic rigour, and social relations in the age of the internet. A foundation of such a quality is a psychological integrity of which psychosynthesis has much to offer, as it addresses both the formative unconscious and the superconscious. In an age where we are increasingly interdependent, an appreciation of integrity that links psychology with other more 'everyday' areas of life is essential. In this workshop, participants will be invited to examine integrity in different areas of life using a three-level model of personal and social development: the presentational, the conventional and the dialectical.
Coaching course: Pt. 2
(People are welcome to attend one or both parts of the Coaching Course and follow up Coaching options, towards full training and certification, are available)
C10 COMPLETE
DOROTHY FIRMAN e JON SCHOTTLAND (USA)
Engaging the Whole Person: Psychosynthesis and the Choice to Change
The field of coaching has oriented many helping professionals towards the importance of setting and manifesting goals. Psychosynthesis has always had the theory and methodology for that work, through the concepts of Purpose, Will, Self, and particularly, as it relates to this workshop, the psychological functions.
In this workshop, we will look at the power of working as guides through all of our own psychological functions, noting where our strengths are and what needs strengthening.
We will also explore how inviting non-dominant psychological functions into our clients' experience helps to open them to new and greater possibilities. In the end, we will be noting, what we already know, that it is in the wholeness of our own being that we grow and change.
Co-creative Group
C11
ANTONIA DALLAPÈ (Italy)
"I have a dream":what psychosynthetic world do you dream?
The mode will be brainstorming basically: starting from the activation of the imagination about the "psychosynthetic dream" which each of us carries in his heart.
The center of the group will be a crucible in which to lay all our psycho-dreams: words, projects, drawings, actions...
Subsequently, using a synthesis technique we will start from small groups to the large one: this in order to distill the dreams and find common threads. The distillation that will emerge will not be the sum of all our dreams but definitely something more. The group will be the distiller and the crucible itself.
