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Undefended
Love: The Foundation Course
March
8 & 9 2008
 14
C.E.U.s for MFTs and LCSWs
Intimate
partnership is a profound vehicle for spiritual and self-realization.
Our potential to be fully human - to be entirely ourselves
in the presence of another - requires that we forge, rather
than find our soul connection, compose rather than control
ourselves and each other, and dissolve rather than resolve
the issues that emerge in our relationships.
This capacity to live a liberated life - to be free to
love and be loved without conditions - is a developed
capacity, available to anyone who is committed to awaken
to their own potential and nurture what is best in another.
This eloquent and life-altering workshop offers a new
vision where relationship becomes a pathway guiding us
back to that unique, authentic, one-of-a-kind identity
we left behind in childhood but that still resides as
the Essential Self in each of us.
The
map offered in this course helps us utilize the profound
benefits of "Undefended Love" - how to be emotionally
present even when we feel exposed or vulnerable; a way
to relinquish the many strategies we have employed to
feel safe and in control; a way of finding the courage
to love without guarantees or requirements; a way to cut
through personal differences and grow a common ground
of being that nourishes and sustains intimacy. The focus
of this workshop, open to couples and individuals, is
on shifting our center of gravity away
from our conditioned personality (the places where we
feel stuck, confused, hurt and defensive) toward our essential
self (who we are as free, whole, connected, peaceful,
powerful and joyful).
Through
spirited experiential techniques ("Inviting the Demons
to Dinner," "Lifeboat Messages," "Calm Water Practices"),
we will go beyond formulaic approaches and popular trends.
For example:
 On
being undefended: Before we can have a meaningful relationship
with another, we have to have a meaningful relationship
with ourselves. Learn the three capacities that allow
us to be undefended:
1.
The capacity to know who we are below images and ideas
of who we are.
2. The capacity to sustain our experience of ourselves
regardless of what our partner is feeling.
3. The capacity to express who we are at ever deepening
levels even if we know we will not be welcomed there.
On
emotional reactivity: Learn to
recognize the root of emotional reactivity, why we leave
the present when we are triggered, where we go and
how to interrupt the chain reaction.
On
intimacy: All couples want to be
close, but over time, maintaining a close, "companion- based"
relationship can limit us, preventing intimacy. To seek
the deepest level of connection with another involves
finding and freeing the essential self within.
On
problem-solving: Learning to deal with problems as they
come up is a good beginning; but learning to dissolve
problems at their core is the life-altering experience.
Learn how to use the problems and difficulties that emerge
in relationship as entry points to deeper connection.
On
gender roles: Learn why there is
no difference between men and women when it comes to healing
the cracks in our identity, rediscovering our essential
self and deepening our intimate relationships with others.
To
register download registration form
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