Facilitated by Jean-Claude Audergon 

Gill Emslie, Andy Smith and RSPOPUK faculty team

London  25th - 30th August 2012                         Saturday 10 am - Thursday 4 pm

“..... the struggle to be yourself against inner forces and outer rules, determines in part the length of personal life. ….  it is a contest with self doubt and society over dropping into dreamtime, It is the precursor to a culture in which we create and dream together.”.  Arny Mindell, 2003 

A six-day Process Work facilitator training - The Shamans Gift will delve deeply into personal calling, bringing a deeper understanding of oneself and bridging the individual and community worlds.

It seem a little absurd in today’s world to focus on a shamanic training, based as it is on imponderables like good omens, inner perceptions and other dynamics that you can’t really prepare yourself for - so Why Such a Training? Unlike today’s accepted pressure to acquire only linear knowledge and learn under stress, this approach requires the individual’s willingness and ability to follow her or his body instincts to survive and live on this earth. It requires a connection to nature, your inner nature however irrational and non-linear – and the outer world. From this place of deep connection, we will learn to facilitate ourselves and the communities that we live and work in.   

We will focus on

• How to apply skills in organisations, organisational development, community work, individual coaching or psychotherapy.
• The role of the facilitator working with world issues as a modern shaman
• Stepping out of our usual selves or ‘stopping the world’ to find freedom in facilitation.
• How to relate to our own inner world and using this awareness to facilitate
• Fluidity in our interactions together at different levels of experiences in this world: interpersonal, relationship, community and group culture.
• The calling and the edge to facilitation
• Facilitating from the ‘dreambody’.
• Non-linear interventions with privilege, rank and prejudice.
• Deepening connection to the Path of Knowledge and the Path of the Heart. Discovering what that means for you.
• Getting to know ‘the hunter’, who seeks out signals and develops a ‘second attention’.
• Living ‘the warrior’ who finds power but is not seduced by it.
• Finding the ‘ally’ within - the inner figures and possibilities we can become.
• More skills to facilitate Cultural Change

The Shaman differs from others in his culture and family by his ability to heal himself and then others.

The lineage of today’s facilitator in our world is among other influences, the shaman. The shaman’s gift to today’s facilitator is to make her or him at home with the inner world and through that, to become familiar with their inner diversity, delve into dimensions of personal and subjective experience, connect with these and access their healing potential. 

Encountering this experiential knowledge the individual or group experiences itself in its full potential and resourcefulness. 

Being at ease with the different dimensions of inner human experience is fundamental to facilitation, it emphasises the diversity of people in their inner and outer experience and so enables them to interact together. Culture, class, ethnicity, privilege, rank, prejudice and the underlying dynamics of these, need the modern facilitators ability to deal with the linear world we are in and to also bring in the subjective personal world of our body perceptions, the ‘dreaming body’ dimension.

Following one’s inner nature is not everybody’s choice, but to a degree, we can all learn to ‘stop the world’, and we can all benefit from it.

If you are a therapist, coach, trainer, team leader, community activist or leading a project, Process Work theory, ideas, tools and skills are here to access and frame your experiences and unfold their usefulness in daily, personal and professional life. By its very nature, this work is highly imaginative and helps you access your own inner creativity in ways more different than you might expect. 

Process Oriented Psychology
or Process Work, developed by Arnold Mindell has roots in Jungian Psychology, Taoism, indigenous wisdom and modern physics.  Its methods reflect a dedication to accurately follow the way of nature, bringing awareness into the patterns structuring our lives; including those parts normally unseen, unappreciated, disturbing or marginalized. By bringing awareness into this soup of interactions, a surprising and crazy wisdom emerges.

Jean-Claude Audergon, MSC

Is a Psychotherapist, Author and co-founder of the Process Work Schools in Switzerland and the UK as well as CFOR (Force for Change) which organises multi-cultural forums, facilitator trainings, post-war reconstruction and recovery projects; www.cfor.info

Gill Emslie is a Process Work facilitator based in Findhorn and teaches internationally in Spain, SE Asia & Latin America

Andy Smith, is Process Work Facilitator Psychotherapist and co-founder of Diversity Matters which works in Social Work and Health Systems to facilitate change

To register or for information:

Intensive Fee: £580.
By July 15th: £550 
Organisational rate: £850.

Venue: Irish Centre, 50 Camden Square, Camden, London. NW1 9XB

Register or contact us: +44 (0)20 74350756

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We can send an invoice for the deposit of £100 and/or direct you to on-line registration.

If you have special needs, please  let us know. If you would like assistance to find a place to stay in London, please get in touch.