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5 Core Survival Strategies Workshop
PERSONALITY MAPS ATTACHMENT STYLES AND PATTERNS
Discover how you got stuck and how to get free
Heal your core wounds
Learn the skills you missed
Reconsolidate early childhood experiences
Communicate effectively with others
Develop emotional maturity
Become all you can be!
Steven Kessler’s the 5 Personality Patterns gives us a map of personality that allows us to easily understand ourselfs and others. It shows us what people caught in each of the five survival patterns want and fear, and how to interact with them successfully. It shows us how to soften our conditioned habits of attention, return to presence, and develop emotional maturity.
5PP lays out that map and shows us the path back to your true self. Once you know where you’re going, the inner journey becomes much easier. Without a map, you may have been walking in circles for years. With a map, you can find your way home.
5PP helps us connect deeply into the soul of our soma and truths and illuminates through direct experience, in ourselves, how our bodies have adaptations to the positive and negative forces in our environments in such a way that it both protects us and also allows us to adapt, defend against parental anger or rejection, and maximize whatever crumbs of love or attention available to us. We can identify our strategies as they show up in the body as patterns of structure, posture, movement, gesture, emotions, energetics, sensations, tensions, memories patterned thoughts, images, visions..etc. We develop character strategies around childhood wounds experienced at critical periods of development.
These core survival strategies are reflections of underlying, mostly unconscious, limiting core beliefs that help us to explain or conform to parental expectations and/or unmet needs.
Through experiential body based presenting and discoveries as well as therapy, and safe relationship. We can become highly attuned to looking at and experiencing our bodies as an expression of soul and spirit, conscious and unconscious manifested.
Anyone who has raised children, or been a child ;), will immediately recognize these developmental stages. We see these core developmental and survival strategies as a response to the environment’s success or failure in helping the child master each developmental task, keeping in mind that we all have all the strategies, as there are superpowers and protections in each one.
We all are born into the world with a unique a birth experience, and experience ourselves through our mothers and caretakers and families and environments, with different ancestral threads and multidimensionaliti’s. We all move through all stages of developement in our own unique way. There no ‘one’ strategy that handles all the challenges a child faces.
Most of us have a mixture of strategies.
Over the next few weeks we will be looking at these individual character strategies in more detail, and will see how they provide another way for us to understand ‘the wisdom of the body’ in ourselves and all our relations.
THE HEART OF TRANSFORMATION
THE HEART OF TRANSFORMATION
A training for Guides in Somatic Assisted Self Discovery
For coaches,
psychedelic guides
psychedelic integration coaches,
facilitators,
teachers,
healers,
practitioners,
body workers,
therapists & clinicians
May 5-7 & May 26-28
2023 Berkshires, MA
Somatic Assisted Self Discovery (SASD) is aimed at developing and deepening an embodied relationship with the felt sense, and adds the dimensions of working with feelings, emotions, sensations and experiences we merge with, supporting us to differentiate from those states, and in developing a relationship with an observer that can support these states.
In this therapeutic approach, there is an ability to focus on where in the body we may experience the residual stress from the original trauma and through a special kind of mindfulness, focusing on releasing the charged energy created by the event or felt experience.
By focusing where in the body the unreleased charge is stored, we allow our autonomic nervous system to complete the natural process of energetic discharge equilibrium and insight.
In somatic assised self discovery, we practice authentic relating and present moment experience for clues about implicit beliefs and the reactions and strategies that influence our Life Experience.
The nature of trauma and healing is to appreciate that unhealed trauma occurs because the whole survival response is not completed.
Many people stay stuck in automatic survival responses and can stay stuck for years.
SASD supports to shift and change even deeply entrenched tenacious states.
In this training we discover nourishing experiences that we are not having in present time due to imprinted belief systems.
Trauma can be defined as any unresolved autonomic nervous system response. It’s about the nervous system’s response to an event, not necessarily the event itself. Events can affect each of us very differently.”
SASD is a gentle and profound inquiry practice that teaches a step by step approach to being with all of our inner states with curiosity and compassion.
Working in this kind of field of inquiry supports coming to know ourselves more deeply, builds our capacities to hold the paradoxes of life and in a more healing way, with an exceptionally attuned way of being with difficult, divided states, including inner critics and restrictions around energy flow.
This is an approach that is important for anyone who is holding space for healing to know about and appreciate.
What is missing in most of our relationships to self other and the world is curiosity over defense and the inner and outer relational conditions that support the emergence of what is unconscious, what is wanting to heal,& meeting those moments with empathy which creates the conditions and right relationship for integration, and the safety required for the needs of these states to support organic change.
We deepen into working with Presence, titration, parts work, gestalt, with demos and practice experiential exercises to deepen your embodiment and self knowledgeand to practice holding space applying SASD inquiry practices in partner work
First Weekend
May 2023,
Berkshires MA
May 5-7
Friday, Sat, Sun 10-6:30
* Principals
* Understanding, practicing and mastering mindfulness, awareness, presence
connection and authenticity
* Creating a safe container/Agreements
* Practicing tracking
* Practicing Verbal Prompts
* Practicing Accessing
* Practicing Experiments in session
Second Weekend
May 2023 datesTBD
Berkshires MA
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10-6:30
* The nature of Trauma and meeting trauma responses
* Strong Emotions
* Internal Family Systems Parts Work
* Taking Over for Parts
* Psycho Magic / Psycho Drama / Gestalt
* Practicing Experiments in session
Organic Vegetarian Lunch Included
Housing not included
Deepening Intimacy + Harmony | An Embodied Couples Experiential
Discover true nature through the relationship as a spiritual practice. Embracing Our Personal Relationships with Our Spiritual Nature.
This course starts with foundational concepts and practices based upon understanding the core 5 survival strategies that exist and manifest in our personalities and deeper layers of seeing and experiencing ourselves in the world.
The understandings of our patterns help us understand the primary and ancestral experiences that inform and influence the lens we perceive the world from and how we interact relate react or respond in relationship to self other and the world. We also learn what engenders compassion and evolution and what blocks it. As the course progresses, we work with more advanced practices and processes that help us bring more compassion and care towards ourselves and our partner into our everyday lives.
We want to learn how to be with each other in a way that will deepen and expand the relationship, give it the freedom, and the opportunity to develop its potential. Just as our soul can develop, our relationships can develop.
A relationship between two people is a kind of soul, a type of field of consciousness; it can either be blurred to its true nature or it can be transparent to it. Transparency and congruence of the individual and couple allows the luminosity of true will or true nature to manifest within the relationshipand through it.
Such transparency requires both people to be sincere in their interaction, caring about what happens in and to the field. A question we love to ask is How are we feeling about the quality of our connection? We recognize that, “In the same way that I care about my soul and how it is going to manifest, I care about the soul of my interaction with you. I have the opportunity here to discover and experience your truth, and mine, and to learn how we can both develop further through our relationship. The more I come to know you, the more I come to know myself. ”When we are by ourselves, we experience our authenticity differently than when we are with another. And our experience of being with someone varies depending on whom we are with.
We can be authentic and real in any situation, but what arises in us will differ depending on whether we are alone or interacting—and each interaction is unique.
Each Person, each relationship, each interaction, is special is unique with special gifts preferences, woundings, truths etc, Each interaction is an opportunity for life to manifest its possibilities.
SCHEDULING + CURRICULUM OVERVIEW:
FALL RETREAT: Early October
PREREQUISITE- Read the Five Personality Patterns by Steven Kessler
FIRST RETREAT DAY, Friday Evening 2 hrs 5-7 EST
ORIENTATION + LAUNCH + COMMITMENT TO GROWTH BLESSING
SECOND DAY RETRAT, Saturday - 5.5hr 10-12pm 2-4:30pm EST
5PP REVIEW + GROUNDING
Introduce and review the deeper framework in Steven Kessler’s 5 Personality Patterns - We will explore the nature of trauma, and the way intense feelings are directly rooted in our childhood and family constellations are the subconscious emotional material that is most intimately being worked with in relationships - doorway into intimacy.
A respect for the scope of these feelings, their origin, and how they manifest in the body, thoughts - and that they are a younger parts that need to be treated with love and care and compassion so they can reconsolidate and be embraced, felt, and integrated in new ways.
THIRD DAY RETREAT Sunday 2.5 HRS 10-12:30EST
LOVING PRESENCE + SOMATIC AWARENESS IN THE BODY - AN EXPERIENTIAL EXPLORATION
This day is to highlight the power of presence and really identify and examine and experience and clarify the nature/ feeling / results in one’s own direct experience of presence.
FOURTH DAY RETREAT Saturday, 5.5 hrs 10-12pm 2-4:30pm EST
DIVING INTO THE EMOTIONAL BODY -
SUBCONSCIOUS SOMA - CLARIFYING CORE WOUNDS IN OUR DIRECT SOMATIC EXPERIENCE + BRINGING PRESENCE AND INQUIRY
We have already identified our core pattern - now we are going to dive into the core underlying emotions - and getting somatically comfortable with titrating and gradually becoming conversant and then fluent with the felt sense and experience of them in the body, and meeting them… safe context and container to be able to inquire and deepen.
What are the core dances that have already been problematic in the relationship - and how do they relate to the core pattern? How can we better deconstruct these dances when they’re happening, create names for them, and instate knowledge and preventative measures to support them in dissipating.
FIFTH DAY RETREAT Saturday 5.5 hrs 10-12pm 2-4:30pm EST
PRESENT MOMENT CONTACTING IN RELATIONAL SPACE + MEETING CONFLICTS + NEEDS + FEELINGS
We inhabit our abilities to meet each other in hearing about what the other person’s core feeling is in the moment
We explore different ways we can healthily respond to core feelings:
Supportive options that open space and creativity to flow
Titrate conflict in conversations
Conscious somatic experiments that help to support eachother… learn how to keep checking in as things come up…keeping it fun curious and interesting.
Bottom lines, boundaries, and agreements
Carrying out agreements. bringing our partner on board to help and support carrying out the prescription of the agreement.
Making requests.
Apologies, Making repair - and formulate and request apologies.
SIXTH DAY RETREAT Friday night, 3HRS 10-1EST
PSYCHIC CONVERSATIONS, THE CONTINUED DIALOGUE
Awareness of the psychic conversations that are happening all the time - We will learn different ways to contact what me might THINK is happening or the STORY that we’re having…in order to open a deeper conversation.
SEVENTH DAY RETREAT Saturday, 2.5 HRS 10-12:30 EST
CLOSING INTEGRATION RITUAL & CELEBRATION
RETREAT TUITION: $555 to attend online via Zoom.
The retreat container is sacred and we ask you to honor it as such. You will find that giving yourself this special time and participating fully will be life changing.
To register for online participation, click below for details and the registration link on our new Events Page
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BONUS WINTER IN PESRSON RETREAT:
JOURNEY
Beginning of the 1st TRIP day - review, and do one breakout exercise…
2nd Day - Integration in the morning - then people hang out throughout the day… walks, hikes, lounge, connect with eachother…
Arrive in the evening, one night where we have an orientation, logistics: what the next day and a half look like…
Dinner or snacks? Dinner could be nice. Land in person.
Where people are right now since the last time we met online - get the shapes of what they are bringing into the ceremony, what they are intending for - what questions they might have… what their prayers are… have everyone witness eachother in that.
The following morning… we will have the ceremony - it will last 7 hours.
HOUSING OPTIONS:
$1222 per couple for the full retreat…
3 nights - 4 days.