Wild Awake

Wild Awake is a hands-on, experiential and practical training for inner development. It is designed specifically for the collective challenges we are currently facing. 

This programme weaves together what I consider, both personally and professionally, to be the most effective core practices for developing essential capacities to navigate change and understand our common humanity.

You’ll learn how to connect with a steady centre and come into ‘creative’ relationship with deeply challenging states whether ‘in here’ or ‘out there’. Develop confidence and build resilience, within a safe and grounded community setting.

COURSE STRUCTURE

Week 1 

Introduction to Focusing. Focusing is a mindful and compassionate process that is relational and embodied. Focusing enables us to create space to come into a different relationship with ‘parts’ and move towards greater integration.

Week 2

Movement Mantra is an embodiment practice I learnt from the work of Gilligan and Dilts. Having developed this further, it is specifically aimed at changing your relationship with ‘an unruly inner part of yourself ‘ or dysfunctional pattern, without using the mind.

Week 3

I will demonstrate and share a Generative Change practice which effectively that teaches you: 

• How to open to a state that enables connections to occur between seemingly contradictory states (usually locked in the body/mind).

• How to build the generative states needed to make meaningful change.

Week 4

Through Poetry and Creative Writing exercises we will explore how to open to the space beyond and beneath conflict and seemingly incompatible parts. This will involve a deeper listening that invites all guests to ‘the guest house’ developing our capacity for equanimity.

Week 5

A chance to take a look at the mythic dimension of life which can bring perspective, meaning and a sense of shared humanity. We will explore this through a practice I designed many years ago, called Collective Life Stories.

I meant to stop and tell you also how much I enjoyed the Wild Awake course! Everything I learned and practiced was valuable and really is deeply connected with how I like to learn and also teach myself, although I have some growth needed here. The experiential activities were helpful, and this perspective of holding duality and seeing even more beyond duality is something I’ve since worked with a lot. It’s essential. I really appreciate your teachings.

- Christina - licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist

Art Credit: Sarah Gillespie