“Early experience is not fate, if we can make sense of our past – if we integrate our narratives, we can free ourselves from what might otherwise be a cross generational legacy of pain and insecure attachment.”

Daniel Siegel

About this workshop:

During these 3 days experiential workshop we will examine the different attachment styles, such as secure attachment, insecure avoidant, and insecure ambivalent attachment, as well as disorganized attachment. We will experience how these attachment styles, based on our early experience with our caregivers have shaped our basic assumptions and expectations in life.

With this material at hand, we will dive deeply into a felt sense of being in our bodies and living from an embodied and present place, by becoming more aware of the subtle tendencies towards either rigidity or chaos, depending on our early learnings.

We will learn to make sense of our experience through the lens of our attachment styles and find fluid ways of living our lives with more resilience, as well as enhancing our window of tolerance.

Curiosity, openness, acceptance, and love being at the heart of secure attachment we will intend to bring these qualities to our work with each other, so that we can experience feeling felt by another, which is a crucial factor for secure attachment.

• During this 3 days’ workshop we will work with deep listening, a way of listening which is deeply receptive and embodied, which knows when to stop and wait and when to open a door for our clients. 

• Together we will attempt to deepen into a felt sense of a shared field of awareness flowing between us and mutually informing us. This requires of us to deepen our receptivity and respect for life as it is and as it is presented to us by our clients. We will challenge deeply held implicit and unconscious assumptions which are in the way of our being present with one another. 

• We will honor each person’s uniqueness and inner wisdom while at the same time experience each other as an integral part of a larger web of interconnectedness. Rather than knowing anything at all, we will be entering a state of unknowing from where something new can emerge. 

• We will refine our experience of embodied and relational presence with one another, which will sharpen our ability to meet each other with free and open awareness. Our bodies and our ways of moving and being will give us cues and a deeper understanding of each other’s interior. 

• We will also work with an approach of mindfulness to move away from chaos or rigidity and to find more balance and integration in our interior. 

This workshop is held in English with French translation. It is open to practitioners and anyone who is interested in deepening their understanding of their inner workings.

More About PSEN Depth Work For Practitioners:

Living systems need to be disturbed in order to be grounded and enlivened enough to change.  Disturbance comes through the ability of the individual to feel and think differently from others, and differently than their own fixed ideas and rigidified beliefs.

As a practitioner, the ability to be a grounded support, and yet also a disturbing force for another, provides our clients with the following:

• A sense of being seen and directly engaged where they currently are, while at the same time being challenged to take worthwhile risks and lean into new potentials, in ways that are unlikely to come from within themselves.

• Introductions to and demonstration sessions of various methodologies of PsychoEnergetics process facilitation – our uniquely crafted body-mind approach to in depth psychological work .

• An approach to and in-depth exploration of our fundamental need as human beings to grow beyond our limited sense of being, and through passionate encounters, to reconnect to a zest for life that can renew us, and move us forward.

• An opportunity to engage practitioners in the depths of their own psyches while having a felt sense of a lived energy through sensations in the body, in order to better support their clients in becoming more whole and alive.