Curriculum
Professional Enrichment Program Curriculum
The next 3 year program we will be offering will be held in Toronto. It will start in the fall of 2011. If you would like to register please email Sandra Pribanic: imagosandra@successfulrelationships.ca
YEAR I:
ROOTING FAITH IN OUR FIRST YEARS
At the moment of conception, two dances begin. One dance is between each of us and our primary caregivers. This first dependent, wordless experience shapes our love map for future intimate relationships. The second dance is between us and the Mystery of our own destiny. Within the safety of our group container we explore the complex and too often wounded ground of our pre-personal and personal past, and embrace the transpersonal unfolding of our unique inner calling.
The first year focuses on:
- Knowing yourself in the three primary modes of being: pre- personal, personal and transpersonal
- A deeply personal understanding of Object-relations, brain development and our
attachment style as they are rooted in infancy and early childhood. - How certain aspects of development unfold from inherited deep structures (crawling before walking, babbling before talking) and how other aspects move in spirals to be re-visited through our life crises until transformed
- How our Practice of Presence witnesses the body-mind –heart telling the stories of the layers of our lives
- How mutual resonance creates a containing environment in which to fall apart and come back together
YEAR II
THE WORLD OF TRAUMA:
RESTORING THE BODY-MIND-SOUL CONNECTION
Trauma can be very subtle and cumulative (strain trauma) or very sudden and shattering (shock trauma). Chronic mis-attunements between infant and caregiver strain the child’s sense of realness and rhythm of self and agency. Physical and sexual abuse, catastrophic illness, and the disasters of nature and war are shock traumas which disorganize both our personal and collective existence.
In trauma, aspects of the self split off, freeze over, and are locked away into safe-keeping. Working with trauma is nothing less than restoring the body-mind-soul to a new beginning of on-going possibility.
This year focuses on:
- The neuro-biology of early traumatic attachment.
- How Practice of Presence is rooted in limbic attunement and affective resonance.
- How trauma colors our experiences of hope and despair, shame and resilience.
- The unique life altering effects of early sexual abuse.
- Understanding addictive and psychosomatic attempts to cope with the overwhelming effects of trauma.
- How traumatic memory disrupts ongoing identity, brain chemistry and basic physiological functioning.
- Creating transitional/transformative space allowing the soul to re-emerge, to unfreeze and reclaim the vitality and trust of spirit.
- Techniques of deep listening, meditation, imagery, dream work and mind-body centering.
YEAR III
THE self, THE SELF, AND THE COLLECTIVE
In our last year together, having deepened as a community, we will explore how we each balance the autonomy of self, the guidance of Self, family and connection to community. We will also look at the transitions that mark the phases of our lives as we approach the termination of our learning community.
How do you hold the Mystery of your transpersonal self and bring its guidance to ongoing pre-personal and personal work? How do you unfold awe, gratitude and the sense of the sacred on all three levels?
To mark your graduation, you will create a project illuminating your integration of CIL learnings and your personal path.
Our focus will include:
- The energetic dynamics of family systems, including genograms, family sculpting, siblings, long absent and sacrificed members, and ancestral echoes in our lives.
- The individuation process in which the egoic self comes to be guided by the timeless Self.
- Integrating the shadow and other ‘not-me’ parts of the self.
- Creating rituals of passage for life transitions including conscious aging and dying.
- The conscious practice of repair, forgiveness and compassion
Finding creative balance for the tensions between the I, the Thou and the collective.
