Authentic Movement for the Wounded Healer
Sat, Feb 03
|Studio Valencia
A respectful space for mental health professionals to reflect on how to use wisely our power, and to embrace our humanness and vulnerability, in community, through the use of expressive arts and Authentic Movement.


Time & Location
Feb 03, 2018, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Studio Valencia, 455A Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
About The Event
Philosophy:
The mythological image of the wounded healer is very widespread. Psychologically it means not only that the wounded has a healer within themselves, but also that there is a wounded in the healer. The healer and the wounded are two aspects of the same archetype. However, when this two-pole archetype is split inside the therapist, the psychic process is blocked. When as therapists we think that weakness, illness, and wounds have nothing to do with us, we become only-a-therapist and we leave our clients to be only-patients. But for healing to happen, as therapists, we need to be able to experience wounding as an existential possibility in ourselves in order to constellate the healing factor in our clients.
Structure:
This 2-part workshop is an opportunity for mental health professionals, only, to embrace both poles of the archetype of the wounded healer within us.
In the first part, the experience…
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Gift economics
This workshop operates on gift economics, generosity-based “All-Dana” model. Dana is the ancient Pali language word describing generosity arising effortlessly from deep gratitude. At the end of the workshop, you are welcome to contribute what feels right for you.
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