Co-Creative Healing
Advanced Training for those in Healing Professions

A 6-module training

Module 1 and 2: 1-14 September 2012  Module 3: 24-30 November 2012 Module 4: 9-15 February 2013 Module 5: 13-20 April 2013 Module 6: 8 -15 June 2013 With Maria Olsthoorn and Susan Miles Apply online here

The training consists of six weeks, spread out over the year, with a two-week beginning in September 2012 and a completion week in June of the following year. The training provides a learning room to deepen your own healing process, expand on your skill-base, and your ability to work with others.

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Read Gael's testimonial - she is taking part in this year's training for health professionals. 

I would absolutely recommend this course, it is very powerful and healing. Fiona /April 2012 Read more

Our in-depth exploration and experientials are based on a substantial map of our energy field, the Character Styles of Johnson, as well as group work and therapy, with aspects borrowed from Core Energetics, Body Mind Psychotherapy, Gestalt, and Pathwork. We draw from a wealth of wisdom in energy medicine (the consciousness of the chakra's), energy therapy and eastern philosophies married with the invaluable spiritual and educational wisdom held within the energy field of the Findhorn Foundation Community. This personal and professional healing journey will strengthen your ability to hold a grounding, empathic Healing Container for yourself, others, and your potential clients.

Module 1 and 2
1-14 September 2012

Module 1
Fundamentals of Healing

An introduction, familiarizing and experiencing of the founding spiritual and educational principles of the Findhorn Foundation Community that serve as our springboard into a profound holistic understanding of the importance of all aspects of life and how they function together, connection to spirit and nature and the values of living and working in co-creation with all that is. 

Module 2
Grounding into Self

Through personal and group work, reflection, meditation and experiential exercises we will explore what it means to be grounded in our physical bodies and what keeps us from being present in the 'here and now'.

Module 3
24-30 November 2012
Self in Relationship

Week three integrates relationship with self, and explores who we are in relationship. It takes the participant on a journey of discovering who they are in relationship to others, partner, spouses, friends etc.

Module 4
1 week in February 2013
Self in relationship to the Divine

The week brings into focus our relationship with the cosmos, the source, God. We will ask ourselves the question 'Who am I' and explore what it means to be a divine being in a human body. We will practice the art of surrender and explore the self will versus divine will, authority and related issues and explore ourselves as co-creators of our own reality.

Module 5
1 week in April 2013
Self and the Life task and

This module focuses on the connection between the challenges we meet on our path and how they relate to the unique gifts that we have come in with, the experience we have gained from our individual journeys and how we contribute to life..

Module 6
1 week in June 2013
Celebration

This final week integrates our time of learning and brings the training to completion. The week offers a celebration of each participant’s journey of self discovery, deepening and skill learning. Each participant will present a project they have been working on throughout the year. Completion will be facilitated through group work and reflection on the year’s learning journey.

Each week is a rich mix of skill learning and deep personal healing. You will be facilitated into a personal healing journey whilst learning to articulate what is happening for you. You will be encouraged to surrender your defences and move into more meaningful contact with Self and other. In between weeks there will be homework assignments and your teachers will support you during a weekly online office hour over the course of the training. This training aims to facilitate meaningful and lasting positive change. It is suitable for those who already have a basic understanding of self enquiry and self responsibility.

Curriculum

The training will cover the following course content:

• Anatomy and physiology of the energy field
• Anatomy of the emotional wound
• What creates health and what is dis-ease?
• Character structures, our defenses and healing responses
• Tools for Inner Work (meditation. managing painful emotions, working with core beliefs and other)
• Understanding dynamics of the self
• Developing Healing Qualities
• Healing and Relationships.

Activities

The content will be enriched and supported by experiential learning and the following activities:
• Healing Circle
• Inner alignment (hara, intention, purpose, service)
• Movement and creativity
• Somatic Experience
• Practice sessions
• Other healing tools

The training also includes:

1. Homework between modules
2. Recording your inner healing journey
3. Ongoing weekly teachers support
4. Creative Project
5. Completion presentation
6. Practice Sessions

Each module provides a rich and balanced combination of presentations, activities and experiential learning and is based on a holistic approach integrating the mind, body, spirit and the human heart.

Course Outcomes and Objectives

Purpose
The purpose of the training is to transform  the relationship with the Self and in so doing build a solid container and the ability to hold whatever arises in the moment for the healing and awakening of yourself and others. This work on yourself is essential as an aspiration towards a deeper sense of presence with one's Self and with another. We cannot truly honour the other before we can honour, be in contact and know the Self. We call these integrated skills in that they include skills from each of the following aspects of the curriculum.

Objectives
To successfully complete the year each student must reach a set of objectives.

Awakening skills
Each student must demonstrate awareness of their personal process and the ability to reflect on it for themselves as well as share and dialogue with others (fellow students and teachers)

At completion of the year you will have demonstrated that:

• you can regulate and track your own energy field, for example, grounding. You will show your ability to track your grounding and ground yourself as and when required as well as assist others in doing so.
• you understand your core wounding.
• you are able to track when you are in defence.
• you are able to recognize your positive and negative choices in life, taking personal responsibility for their consequences.
• you are able to recognize the 5 Character Structures, their wounding, major defence systems and gifts, in yourself and others and respond to them as a roadmap for healing.
  

• your understanding of motion: 'in motion is e-motion'. Motion awakens the vital force of life and is fundamental to our overall well-being.
• your understanding of interconnectedness of body-emotions-mind and spirit.
• your ability to allow your withheld feelings to free themselves through the body.
  

• that you are able to use 'defence' to deepen into contact with Self and other.
• that you are able to use positive choice for contact, even in challenging situations.
• that you understand that defence serves to keep you separate, both from yourself and others.
  

• your contact with all levels of being.
• an embodied awareness of tools to come back into contact upon observing that you are in defense.
• an ability to be in your divine essence whilst being in contact with the divine essence of others.
• an embodied understanding of body-emotions-mind- spirit connection.
• understanding of your core wounding from an integrated perspective.  You understand that your wound serves as a gateway to your life task and your unique presence.
• embodiment of your genuine self at all levels of being.
  

• your ability to take initiative to positively create what you want to see happen.
• constructive participation in the life of the group.
• the ability to surrender to not knowing, not doing and the need to be in control.
• the ability to track the movement of 'expansion-pause-contraction-pause' in yourself and others and your surrender to the natural pulsation of the flow of life in you.
• pleasure, the ability to surrender to your divine presence and enjoy your creativity.
• that you recognize and honour yourself as a unique aspect of the divine.
  

• your understanding of the basic principle for the need for supervision and professional support in a professional practice.
• your ability to uphold clear boundaries, your own as well as those of others; confidentiality, commitment, time keeping, mutual respect, clear communication.
• strength in your own ethical foundation.
• Self care, you demonstrate respect for the Self through right exercise, nutrition, rest, relationships and nurturing on all levels of being. The body as a temple for the expression of your divine Self.
  

Cost: £3195 / £3695 / £4295 low/medium/high income

Please note:
Additional costs will be incurred for books and therapy sessions in-between the training weeks (participants will be asked to do 8 therapy sessions over the course of the training for their own well being).

Maria Olsthoorn: I am a Barbara Brennan trained Energy Healer, Process facilitator, Group Therapy facilitator and Supervisor. I draw on 30 years experience working with individuals and groups in a transformational spiritual and educational context. I love teaching and exploring the concept of healing and of the awakening consciousness. Training: I have been a member of the Findhorn Community since 1989. I give individual healing sessions as well as do Supervision work with practising therapists, I also facilitate Healing for individuals through Group therapy. I teach and facilitate workshops. Qualifications / Professional Body: Master in Fine Arts NL 1980 Teacher degree. Certificate Colour Therapy & Healing QINS ‘86 Tranformation Game Facilitator Findhorn ‘92 Diploma Aromatherapy & Massage SPICA ‘97 Diploma Nutritional Medicine PNMC ‘00 Graduate Brennen Healing Science 2005 Brennan Integration Work Advanced Studies '10 Member of British Complimentary Medicine Association. Fully professional and insured www.energyhealingscience.co.uk

Susan Miles has worked in the healing professions for 35 years.  She began as a Nurse in Westminster Hospital for 5 years before moving into community based care as a Health Visitor.  She then expanded into Complimentary Therapies and qualified in Colonic Irrigation, Massage, and Kinesiology and ran a successful private practice in London for 3 years.  She joined the Findhorn Foundation in 1991.  Her work currently includes running the long-standing Life Purpose Workshop, other brochure programmes, internal trainings and staff development work through individual mentoring and group supervision.  During her time here she has undertaken additional training in Process Oriented Psychology, Person Centred Counselling, Systemic Constellation work and Energetic Cellular Healing.   Her passion in life is to connect with and express her true self.  What makes her come alive is to be open and curious, to meet life with heartfulness and authenticity, and to affirm the power of positive intent.   She enjoys silence and stillness, walking and dancing, and quality time with friends

Contact Information:
Findhorn College, The Park, Findhorn, Forres, IV36 3TZ
Tel: 01309 690806,
E-mail: admin@findhorncollege.org