The Spiral & The Stillness: A Clinical & Mythic Encounter. Moving from Roger’s “what if” to the “what is” of our Here and now
A 4.5 Hour Experiential Workshop for Facilitators and Therapists
Being as a decolonial act to constant striving.
The Invitation In a world that is shaped by relentless "doing" ; holding space, analyzing, and intervening; where do we go to simply be ? You are invited to a potent group initiation that bridges the person-centered theory and Carl Rogers flavor of an encounter group with the primordial wisdom of the Ancient Mother Spiral.
Using and embodying the three Rogerian core conditions; empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard; as our essential soil, we will navigate a shared descent into the present moment. Through silence, emergent poetry & art , and tending to group emergence, we move past the professional mask to encounter the Flow.
We are combining Rogers' famous Encounter Group ; the practice of being raw and real in the 'here and now'; with the Ancient Mother Spiral. Think of this workshop as a collective womb where growth can occur based on spontaneity.
The Rogers method provides the safety and the 'unconditional' atmosphere, while the Spiral guides our descent from our social masks into the silent center of the Great Mother. Moving from the “what if” of Rogers to the “what is”.
Workshop Aims & Objectives
To provide attendees with an experiential taste for co-emergence, allowing them to explore the intersection of humanistic psychology and archetypal jungian dive in the unconscious hidden in the here and now, with the aim to deepen their capacity for "being" with clients, and why not deepen a sense of being in life.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this 4-hour encounter, participants hopefully will be able to:
Embody deeper the Core Conditions: Experience the physiological shift that occurs when the core conditions meet the deep ancient unconditional essence in us
Be introduced, theoretically & experientially to the Ancient Mother Spiral as a group process
Navigate the "Here-and-Now": Practice the "Encounter" technique of speaking from immediate, unfolding experience to bypass intellectualization and cognitive fatigue.
Understand a bit deeper Archetypal Scaffolding: Understand how the "Mother Spiral" acts as a containment tool (the temenos), providing a safe structure for deep, unstructured psychological processing.
Taste or have glimpses of the "Effortless" Silence: Cultivate a tolerance for prolonged shared silence, recognizing it as a "pregnant" space where the group's collective intelligence begins to organize itself.
Mitigate Compassion Fatigue: Use the "Spiral Return" to practice healthy integration and "shedding" of the group process, essential for maintaining professional longevity.
Why this why now?
For the therapist, the spiral represents the map of the soul. For the facilitator, the encounter represents the breath of life. Join us to reconnect with the actualizing tendency; the innate drive toward growth that exists when the "soil" of the group is perfectly held.
Leave with a renewed nervous system and a deeper map for holding space.