Training in Aberdeen
Training in Aberdeen - from February 2017
There will be an introductory evening on Friday 10 February from 6:30 to 8pm in Rosemount. Contact me for details. We begin fortnightly training meetings on Fridays from 6 to 10pm: 3, 17, 31 March, 14, 28 April
Please explore this website fully and especially the training page so that you have an idea of how we will work. I will interview all participants to ensure that we have a safe and aware group to work with. There is no entry or leaving point or date. Your process and rhythm is personal and we respect this.
As we develop a Shamanistic practice we are aware that all the 'techniques and tools' we use are deeply affected by our own 'person', This means that our story, our strengths and weaknesses, our neurosis, our skills, ...are all present and influencing any work we do. These influence how we hear and diagnose, how we interpret, the kinds of tools we choose and the ways we tend to use them. This is the same for everyone, and is mostly unconscious.
If we want to have an effective and ethical practice then we must be conscious of our own strengths and weaknesses. This is for safe practice especially as we begin to develop our sensitivity, to do journey work and to use more powerful tools.
Ongoing Homework - Work on the personal Biography of your body and emotions and your family tree. Remember the homework is without any pressure, all work is at your own rhythm, in your own way.... it is your work for yourself. I do not mark anything. This is not like school homework, done, marked and forgotten. This is an ongoing process. I am still working on these, exploring and discovering my deeper roots, pains and hidden strengths, making peace with myself. These are some of the basic tools we use.
History of the body:
Your gestation and birth, breastfeeding, illnesses, accidents, ... stories and feelings about your body and its basic functions (eating, peeing, defecating, digesting, farting, mucuses, odours, ... movement, touch, genitals, ... teeth, hair, ...), operations, illnesses, abilities, aesthetic appearance, ageing, ...
History of the emotions:
The primary emotions are Anger, fear, joy, love, sadness. Other emotional experiences like exhilaration, jealousy, hate, ... are usually combinations of the basic 5, one being repressed and distorted by another. Which were allowed and not in your early family? Who expressed what and how? Then in your later relationships what happens with the emotions ... with partners, at work, with men, with women, ... ? What happens when other people express the emotions? Emotional intelligence is expressing the right emotion to the right person at the right level in the right moment (from Aristotle)
Family Tree:
These are your ancestors, they are your roots and genes. A great part of your power lies in fully belonging to your ancestors, taking them into your heart, honouring them, asking for help and support. Explore gently with respect: names, locations, dates of birth, marriage and death, .... then other important information like: excluded people, abortions, extra relationships, illnesses, alcoholism, those who went to war, those who were in the church, ... professions, .... "I am because they were. I am fruit of many generations of longing, of desire for life ... with its pains and specific family neuroses".
The Training and homework for the next sessions
- Working with the Medicine Wheel to support the inner child .. . recognising and supporting the inner adolescent
- is likely to include; hug-therapy, emotional construction, shamanism emerging from our roots in the Earth, body, family and ancestors
- The Dance and Medicine Wheel l will work with the Inner Child and Adolescent- This counts as part of training
- Preparatory Homework will be ... without any pressure, all work at own rhythm, in own way....:
* beginning to write/draw a 'biography of the body and emotions'
* identify and differentiate your inner dialogue between the Inner Child and the Inner Adolescent
* beginning work on the 'Family Tree'
There will be an introductory evening on Friday 10 February from 6:30 to 8pm in Rosemount. Contact me for details. We begin fortnightly training meetings on Fridays from 6 to 10pm: 3, 17, 31 March, 14, 28 April
Please explore this website fully and especially the training page so that you have an idea of how we will work. I will interview all participants to ensure that we have a safe and aware group to work with. There is no entry or leaving point or date. Your process and rhythm is personal and we respect this.
As we develop a Shamanistic practice we are aware that all the 'techniques and tools' we use are deeply affected by our own 'person', This means that our story, our strengths and weaknesses, our neurosis, our skills, ...are all present and influencing any work we do. These influence how we hear and diagnose, how we interpret, the kinds of tools we choose and the ways we tend to use them. This is the same for everyone, and is mostly unconscious.
If we want to have an effective and ethical practice then we must be conscious of our own strengths and weaknesses. This is for safe practice especially as we begin to develop our sensitivity, to do journey work and to use more powerful tools.
Ongoing Homework - Work on the personal Biography of your body and emotions and your family tree. Remember the homework is without any pressure, all work is at your own rhythm, in your own way.... it is your work for yourself. I do not mark anything. This is not like school homework, done, marked and forgotten. This is an ongoing process. I am still working on these, exploring and discovering my deeper roots, pains and hidden strengths, making peace with myself. These are some of the basic tools we use.
History of the body:
Your gestation and birth, breastfeeding, illnesses, accidents, ... stories and feelings about your body and its basic functions (eating, peeing, defecating, digesting, farting, mucuses, odours, ... movement, touch, genitals, ... teeth, hair, ...), operations, illnesses, abilities, aesthetic appearance, ageing, ...
History of the emotions:
The primary emotions are Anger, fear, joy, love, sadness. Other emotional experiences like exhilaration, jealousy, hate, ... are usually combinations of the basic 5, one being repressed and distorted by another. Which were allowed and not in your early family? Who expressed what and how? Then in your later relationships what happens with the emotions ... with partners, at work, with men, with women, ... ? What happens when other people express the emotions? Emotional intelligence is expressing the right emotion to the right person at the right level in the right moment (from Aristotle)
Family Tree:
These are your ancestors, they are your roots and genes. A great part of your power lies in fully belonging to your ancestors, taking them into your heart, honouring them, asking for help and support. Explore gently with respect: names, locations, dates of birth, marriage and death, .... then other important information like: excluded people, abortions, extra relationships, illnesses, alcoholism, those who went to war, those who were in the church, ... professions, .... "I am because they were. I am fruit of many generations of longing, of desire for life ... with its pains and specific family neuroses".
The Training and homework for the next sessions
- Working with the Medicine Wheel to support the inner child .. . recognising and supporting the inner adolescent
- is likely to include; hug-therapy, emotional construction, shamanism emerging from our roots in the Earth, body, family and ancestors
- The Dance and Medicine Wheel l will work with the Inner Child and Adolescent- This counts as part of training
- Preparatory Homework will be ... without any pressure, all work at own rhythm, in own way....:
* beginning to write/draw a 'biography of the body and emotions'
* identify and differentiate your inner dialogue between the Inner Child and the Inner Adolescent
* beginning work on the 'Family Tree'