Sublime

In the beginning of every work the way we identify

In designing your workshops, you’re co-creating the conditions for self-discovery in a supportive community using liberating practices. You’re offering a safe space for individuals like Melanie to practice becoming choosers and deciders, and to realize that they have freedom in how to relate to themselves, others, and the world.

self-observation, realization, reorganization, and stabilization.

Whenever you get into an unoccupied channel, soon enough the figure at the edge comes up, and we wander back and forth between normal and altered states.

In contrast, EMDR, as well as the treatments discussed in subsequent chapters—internal family systems, yoga, neurofeedback, psychomotor therapy, and theater—focus not only on regulating the intense memories activated by trauma but also on restoring a sense of agency, engagement, and commitment through ownership of body and mind.

When I first started experimenting with this paradigm in my coaching, I noticed that when clients felt stuck it was often because they were attempting to change the mind/personality/psychology of either someone else or—more often—themselves.

When we’re in Self, we see the pain that drives our enemies rather than only seeing their protective parts.

Again and again throughout life we are working on the childhood dream, our personal myth. At first the evil one just terrifies us, then it threatens our existence in the form of chronic symptoms and, later, as we join it, it becomes a mysterious ally, which gives us the impetus to live.

Somatic Experiencing developed by Peter Levine, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy developed by Pat Ogden, and the work of Bessel van der Kolk.