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Contacting and working with the profound in groups
What is the Transpersonal?
With the transpersonal, we contact the bigger, profounder, more
meaningful parts of ourselves, which take us beyond the everyday
limitations of human experience into the realms of such things as
the will to meaning, vision, purpose, goals, insight, creativity,
imagination, intuition, faith, trust, conscience, values, love, and
joy.
Stanislav Grof calls the transpersonal, “experiences
involving an expansion or extension of consciousness beyond the
usual ego boundaries and beyond the limitations of time and/or
space”.
It involves our ability to self-transcend, to go beyond our
limited ego, to witness our experience, to achieve some level of
surrender and non-attachment, to reach out to others in compassion
and connectedness. It is accessible to all, and is of great
contemporary interest.
Facilitating the Transpersonal
In working with groups, the transpersonal is inherent in all
contact, and the facilitator who is alert to and works with the
transpersonal has accessible an immeasurably powerful tool to take
the group to deeper and more powerful levels of learning,
understanding, meaning and transformation.
This 2-day workshop is a joint enquiry into the transpersonal in
groups and helps develop options for facilitating at this level. We
will work partly experientially and partly through group review and
discussion, theoretical input and small group supervision. In part
this workshop will build on material covered in the Group Process
workshop but this time extended into the transpersonal
dimension.
The methodology will be partly to experience some processes and
then to de-brief and discuss their utility. We will look at a range
of different techniques and approaches. We will also look at
different views about the transpersonal but also, as a crucial part
of the work, consider our own experience and our own maps. The
perspectives of Wilber, Heron, Rowan and others will be
included.
Where appropriate, there will also be opportunity for personal
development, since this is seen as a major part of the development
of facilitator skill in this kind of work.
Further detailsFor further details, contact The Empowering Partnership Ltd, 21 Fynamore Gardens, Calne, Wilts. SN11 0UA. Tel. + 44 (0) 1249-813188; or contact us by e-mail:
john.gs@empoweringpartnership.com
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