Masters Apprenticeship Program

INTENSIVE IMMERSION & TRAINING

IN MY WAY OF WORKING

(INCLUDING CORE-LEVEL SHADOW-WORK)

 

Since 2000 I’ve led many trainings, which have mostly been focused on deep-diving personal work for each participant, with teaching/practice times, however brief, naturally emerging from such work. There hasn’t been all that much time devoted to this, because I’ve given priority to whatever personal and interpersonal work was needed.

Cutting back on such work — so that there’d be more time for teaching — never felt right to me, given how relevant and strongly called-for it was. Proceeding with a teaching when group members were at a crisis point wasn’t something I could do with good conscience — plus I saw, again and again, how valuable it was for the others in the training to intimately witness this work and track the why and how of its evolution afterward.

Even so, I wished during every training that I could put more time into transmitting and teaching the foundational elements of my way of working.

Now, as I approach my mid-70s and my energy levels are dropping — I need more recovery time after each group — I know that if I am going to effectively pass on what I know before I die, I need to change how I conduct my trainings. The essential, deep-diving work must be there — given that those wanting to work in the context I do need to fully engage in such work — but so too does the teaching in more substantial ways than before.

And so for those who have already done some training with me, I am offering Apprenticeship programs, in which there’ll be ample time not only for the work but also for the teaching and in-depth practice of it. More and more, I am considering this to be my one chance to truly pass on what I know.

The goal of the Apprenticeship is to prepare participants to be able to work with others in the spirit of my way of working — intuitive, integral, deep-diving, both personal and collective — making this a central part of the work they will be doing.

THE STRUCTURE

The Apprenticeship will feature three 9-day modules, one approximately every 7 or 8 months, along with supportive online work and supervision throughout the entire program. Attending all three modules is mandatory.

For each module, there will be two sessions daily, the morning one being devoted to personal work (with a thorough explanatory unpacking of each piece of work shortly after it’s completed), and the afternoon one being devoted to teaching and to the practice of what’s being taught/demonstrated.

Topics for each module will include dream-work, the optimal use of catharsis, emotional literacy and savvy, relational health and deepening, awakened sexuality, core-level breakthrough and healing, awakened leadership, and spirituality that’s free of spiritual bypassing. Shadow-work theory and practice will have a central place in all that’s being faced and worked with. And there will be plenty of focus on how to work with optimal effectiveness with clients.

Between modules there will be (1) individual Zoom sessions with me every second month; (2) participants engaging in one-on-one session-giving practice with each other at least once every two weeks; and (3) half-day group check-ins and supervision every month, which will include guidance for sessions that participants are doing with each other and their clients.

All of the between-modules work is mandatory — this is a program of exceptionally deep immersion, needing as much continuity between modules as possible.

THE MODULES

Module One: Introduction and deep dive; core elements of my way of working; shadow-work stripped down to its foundational basics; incomplete sentence study and practice; conducting one-on-one sessions; Gestalt theory and practice, in the context that I use it; introductory bilateral eye-work; getting more at home with my way of working and each other; psychospiritual deepening and the outgrowing of spiritual bypassing.

Module Two: Gestalt improvisation and creativity; shadow-work and Gestalt; the skillful use of catharsis; bodywork basics; the role of incomplete sentences, Gestalt, and bodywork in bilateral eye-work; one-on-one sessions featuring eye-work; shadow-work and eye-work; subtlety and multidimensional opening in deep work; conducting one-on-one sessions; introduction to working with groups without a preconceived structure; spiritual revelation.

Module Three: Triadic Gestalt; connecting bodywork with psychological and emotional dynamics; further developments in eye-work; further group facilitation; Gestalt, empathy, catharsis, and creativity in group work; the far reaches of dream-work; collective shadow; integration; ongoing considerations, including follow-up in the years following the program.

THE PREREQUISITES

  • Have done at least one of my Foundational Professional Trainings
  • Feel a deep resonance with my writings and way of working
  • Feel strongly called to make my way of working central to their way of working
  • Are deeply committed to their own healing and awakening
  • Are deeply committed to being truly effective guides for others
  • Envision themselves carrying forward my way of working after I die

Tuition: $12,000. Required deposit is $1500. Extended no-interest payment plans available.

Starting Date: Fall 2023 TBA

Location: Asheville area, North Carolina TBA

 

Note that completing this program is a prerequisite for further training: advanced eye-work, couples work, advanced group facilitation, etc.