Saturday June 4, 2016

3:00 - 5:00 pm

Workshops
D1 COMPLETE
CHARO ALTABLE VICARIO (Spain)
Theseus and Ariadne: transforming our rage in a creative way
Contributing to spread psychosynthesis in our culture through the education and transforming of  emotions, is my main interest, Very often, anger gives way to violence problems into human
relations. The myth of Theseus and Ariadne may help as a metaphor of psychic transformation.
Through visualizations, body exercises, drawing, rhythms and personal and group sculptures, we´ll try to be aware of the energy of that emotion (anger) take steps to transform it in order to create
another type of relation ship with ourselves, the others and the world.

D2 COMPLETE
RAFFAELLA DI SAVOIA (Italy)
Born to be happy. Happiness as a choice and as destiny
Sages and masters of all times and places tell us that we are destined to be happy, to realize our essence of joy.
And the pursuit of happiness has always been part of human nature. One thing is certain:  "Happiness" exists. But it is not donated.
The workshop is a starting point for training to happiness. Without wearing fake smiling masks but learning to choose it.

D3 COMPLETE
FREDRIK LUNDH (Sweden)
Compassion as focus for Psychosynthesis therapy
The importance of compassion, towards others and ourselves, is part of ancient wisdom. Yet we know from our work with clients, and probably in our own lives, how easily compassion can be replaced by self-criticism, worries and psychological numbing.
This workshop draws on Compassion Focussed Therapy developed by Paul Gilbert. His approach contains many elements familiar to psychosynthesis, as well as aspects that we can learn from.
The contents of the workshop will include the neuropsychology of compassion, practical exercises and case examples.

D4 COMPLETE
BRIGITTE MACÉ (France)
Sound, Meditation and Peak Experiences
A lot of scientific research has been made on the various states of consciousness, and how sound influences brainwaves’ frequency. I will briefly describe the main results and show a short video about cymatics, the science about sound and matter, to describe the interactions between sound and matter. Sound has been used in all cultures for meditative purposes, we can now explain how it works.
I will facilitate enhanced states of consciousness in the participants through voice, musical instruments and/or recordings.

D5
CARMELO PERCIPALLE e ANGELA MICCICHÈ (Italy)
Living "The Art of Peace"
We will use the aphorisms of the Master Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, as so many stimuli not only to study but also that can be experienced in body and soul, donating them to ourselves and to others. We offer an experiential workshop during which, using the techniques of aikido and psychosynthesis, we get to experience the feeling of peace, sharing of loving in a group setting. We will discover that we must above all make peace with those who we believed to be the enemy within us, represented by our faults that we can heal by applying specific methods of self healing. Apply, in fact, technical contact, dance, music therapy, guided imagery, breathing, meditation, harmonic movement.

D6
ENRICA PICCAPIETRA (Italy)
A journey in our Star
Starting from the historical question: Who am I? We proceed in the knowledge of going through emotions, feelings, desires, imaginations, intuitions and volitional acts, the evocative diagram of the Star of the Functions. The workshop offers an active journey inside the star during which we make direct experience and call into question every function. Through the story, the views, the activation of senses and other experiences, the Star little by little comes to life and traces the way for the expression of ourselves.

D7 COMPLETE
DÖRTE SCHREINERT (Germany)
Inner Leadership - new experiences from the mind
Expected and unexpected events taking place in our life challenge us and train our ability to adjust and find appropriate answers. The degree of connectedness to the knowing and healing parts of our psyche allows us to stay in a position of confidence and competence and act in accordance with the higher Self. This inner leadership enables us to get access to resources helping not only to overcome anxiety and stress and find answers to every days challenges, but also to become a creative and conscious leader of life.
In the workshop we will explore inner resources, dare to get in touch with 'weak' parts of the mind and find unexpected and reliable help in the higher regions of the mind.  We will work with elements of classical Psychosynthesis, enriched with methodology deriving from 'psychology of vision' and systemic techniques.

D8
MATT SHEPEARD (UK) e EVA SANNER (Sweden)
Peace Starts Within
The world needs peace – always, or maybe more than ever. Conflicts always stem from fear and not knowing enough about the other – wheather it is a conflict between two individuals in a couple, between countries or cultures. When we connect, we open our hearts and in feeling empathy for oneanother we may choose a more peaceful way to handle any situation.
In this workshop we meditate together on peace and connection, and we inquire how we as individuals promote or block peace in our lives and in the world around us. Psychosynthesis as a model brings the possibility for an awareness of the greater whole and a willingness to chose from that awareness is an important factor in peace work, a theoretical part about this will also be included.
This workshop is a further developed and shortened version of the workshop held at the EFPP Inspirational Day in Florence in November 2015.

D10 COMPLETE
CHRISTIANA WALL (USA) e BENEDICTA BERTAU (Italy)
Call of the Self in the Call of the Cosmos
Imagine what it would be like if the personal growth work we did had cosmic significance. If we carry the awareness that there is this larger impact, does it change our experience? Could it be that the Spiritual World celebrates this kind of engagement of our souls out of our own free will? As we shed light on the shadow, or learn to be more accepting, caring, and compassionate with self and other beyond the "self-help"
alone, does this add meaning, purpose and value to the process?
Join with us as we explore what Roberto Assagioli and his contemporaries say about this. And explore with us through a series of experiential exercises the difference in effect when we journey with the "Call of Self" for our own benefit and when we journey in concert with and for the Spiritual World and the future as it comes toward us.

Co- creative Group
D11
ANNA STRANO (Italy)
Is selling ethical? Questions for a new economy
In work and in life,we sell (offer) what we are.
Do we know how to do it well? What drives us? How to build right economic relations? How do we overcome the economic crisis? What values do we support with our work?
Let’s reflect together on Ethics applied to Economics in everyday life and formulate some guidelines.