Rehearsals For Living

This series will be happening when enough participants come forward who are interested in exploring the healing circle and their own lives within this Reel Healing context. Let us know if you are interested in beginning this fascinationg seasonal exploration, using a movie to focus on rites of passage at the changing of each season, and experiential group methods to allow rituals of real healing to emerge during these 3 day  workshops for the good of the individual and the larger community

Friday 3:30 to 9:30 PM, Saturday from 9:00 to 7:00  Sunday 10 to 3

Our personal stories are our personal mythologies and like movies they help us to made sense of our lives. Real healing movies can intensify and make more explicit the thresholds of change that we undergo,  and the myths that we live by, consciously or unconsciously.  By making our patterns of growth and change more conscious we can learn to create a life that suits our growing, creative, unique,  inner and outer life.

We will make use of a real healing movie at the beginning of the workshop, the template of the Healing Circle Model for rituals of change,  experiential group methods and lecturettes to explore rites of passage, which can be intentional rituals of healing at the changes of the seasons.  A ritual is a structured act that allows for uncertainty and the emergence of a new order, it involves  stepping into the unknown, an ordeal, a felt change in your way of being, and a return to the community for a  sharing of your newly won gifts. Therapeutic rituals are steeped in uncertainty and need warm ups, safety and structure to emerge. The underlying structure of ritual, which provides for stability, emerges from the inner needs of the protagonist. A protagonist is a person who protagonizes, or struggles for emergence from a habit of belief, emotion, behavior, or relational position that is no longer working for them. We are all protagonists on life’s stage and we need the support of the community to help us emerge into a new way of being with ourselves and others.  Intention, compassion,  courage , and group awareness allows for rituals of healing to emerge.

These workshops are not intended for entertainment, although they are met to be highly engrossing, as your unique participation will be part of the richness of your experience.  We are all creators of our own lives and your interest and concern for your own inner direction is built into this rich process. Psychodrama is a term coined by Jacob Levy Moreno, MD in the 1930’s. It is a combination of psyche, with is the word for soul, and dromos, meaning action. This work is about the soul in action, our individual soul and our communal soul. A more contemporary phrase would be The Soul in Action, or Living from the inside Out.

There are four different rituals of healing that relate to each of the four seasons.  The reel healing  series we will focus on four main rituals of change as they present themselves at the changing of each season. We will begin with the Fall , the passage from summer to Fall, a time of separating from what is no longer working for us or our community. This theme will be explored both individually and as a community, suing a variety of creative modalities that emerge from the needs of the moment.

Friday night soup and popcorn will be provided. Saturday and Sunday lunch and snacks will be potluck, tea is available.

Cost is $240 per person, however, there is a $40 fee reduction if you send in your registration and a $50 down payment two weeks in advance.  If you have special financial concerns we may be able to work out an exchange of services with you, contact us.

16 Continuing Education Units are available for Mental Health, School, Addiction and Family Therapists.

If people need to or want to spend the nights at our home in Bow, you are welcome to although a word of caution,  we do have trains that travel close to the house and may be disruptive to your slumber.

The Dates of the Full Series are close to the Solstices and Equinoxes, for instance, in 2011-2012 the dates would have been something like this:

October 7, 8, 9, 2011:  Rites of Separation, the training of attention and concentration, to say goodbye and leave behind what is no longer working for you. Fall Equinox
December 9, 10, 11:  Rites of Transformation, the difficulties, challenges and skills needed to move from dis-empowerment to empowerment, Winter Solstice.
March 16, 17, 18, 2012:  Rites of Incorporation, incorporating what’s been lost or stolen from you. where difficulties are enacted a second time, and this time you can intervene on your own behalf. conflicts are played out a second time and you are save yourself, Spring Equinox
June 22 23 24, 2012:  Rites of Continuity, where we clarify a new system of ethics, Summer Solstice