“The sedimentations of ancient family history, from a past that has been forgotten and erased, re-surface in the chronic impasses and in the deepest resistances in our day-to-day struggles.  Embedded in these confounding struggles are voices that have been silenced long ago, waiting to be heard at last.”

• We are the manifest, living presences of future lives long ago dreamed about or wished for by our ancestors far back in our past.  

• We carry out the fulfillment of their wishes and dreams, and we also carry their unresolved burdens, traumatic sufferings and unbearable shames and losses – that which they were unable face, resolve and live through.

• In our depth work, we become vital, living witnesses that can help our clients to recognize the ‘enduring and haunting presence of absence’ in their lives.  

• We use our own ’embodied awareness’ to help the client to see that the chronic struggles that seem to trap them in an ‘eternal present’ have their origins in a generational past that has been silenced and erased.

In this workshop, we will:

• Learn to recognize and engage with the ghost-like ‘elusive presences’ that are not quite in the tangible world, and not quite fully in the ineffable world.  Because of this, they have a deeply formative impact on our being and on our material lives.

• Deeply appreciate that the surfacing of these ‘presences of absence’ are not only the result of unresolved trauma from past generations, but also indications that something at last is trying to resolve itself through us, and is asking us to become more aware – in order to complete a healing task that has been frozen in time.

• Understand the radically healing and energizing power of moving a timeless, ghostly or haunting presence into active engagements, a livable history, and a creative future.

• Work with the four essential tasks for Trans-generational Healing:

         1 –  Acknowledging and mourning the profound losses and shame of those who came before us.
         2 –  Seeing how those losses are linked to deep psychological troubles in one’s own life.
         3 –  Learning how the transmission of trauma across generations can be transformed in the present.
         4 –  Understand the deeply transformative dynamic of one’s history being Actively Witnessed.

• Working at this level of depth requires the courage and tenacity of a practitioner who is able to stay present and available to events from a past that were unbearable to face.  Through sincere but misguided attempts to protect future generations,  they have been trivialized, forgotten or rendered silent.  

• It also requires directly naming what has taken place in the past. By speaking what has previously been unspeakable, and by bearing the unformed and unexpressed feelings related to traumatic events from the past, new ways to move forward in the present can now emerge.  

• Practitioners must be willing to become deeply engaged with something within the client that has been both impossible to permit and impossible to completely forget.  We do this by deeply and actively accompanying and witnessing our clients, not by fixing them.

PLEASE NOTE:  ALL PARTICIPANTS ENROLLING THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE PROVIDED WITH WORD DOCUMENTS THAT ARE TO BE READ PRIOR TO ATTENDING THE WORKSHOP.

THE READING WILL HELP YOU TO HAVE A BETTER WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE.  IT WILL GIVE YOU A USEFUL CONEXT AND FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE WORK WE WILL ALL DO TOGETHER DURING THE WORKSHOP. 

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About Our PSEN Approach To Depth Work As Practitioners:

This workshop provides participants with an in-depth exploration of our fundamental need as human beings to embody a life-giving and life-enhancing aliveness that re-ignites in us a zest for life – especially related to aspects of our humanity that have been wounded or inhibited, to move our lives forward.

• A basic premise of our PSEN approach is to look more deeply into our own unconscious depths, those areas and aspects of ourselves that are ‘as-yet-unknown’ to us.  We recognize that what we can’t see about ourselves holds power over us, and contributes to our compelling and disturbing troubles that elude resolution.

As practitioners, we can appreciate that our ability to keep ourselves interested and alive in the presence of our clients is both our job and our responsibility.  Our aliveness, in relationship to our client’s being, can also be a profound gift that supports our clients in life-moving, and potentially, life-changing ways.

• Our passionate involvement with the inner world of our clients creates the possibility of their deeper transitioning into life.

PLEASE NOTE:  This workshop will be conducted in English only.