Location: Wajid Meditatie Centrum, Den Haag
Hours: 20
Study Load/Credits: 0.75
Instructors: Vedanta Aspioti, Nikolaos Athanassakis
Essential qualities are our innate resources that we come in touch with when we begin to experience ourselves beyond our conditioned mind and ego defenses. They are fundamental human virtues such as love, compassion, courage, wisdom, joy, presence, innocence and others. In this course we will reconnect with the Black Essence, which has the qualities of power, peace and intuition and learn how we can implement this essence in our own healing and in working with clients.
Course Goal
The aim of the course is to teach the students about the Black Essence, how to recognize the psychological issues due to the lack of this capacity or because of the way we got cut off from it and how to work with resourcing clients with these core qualities.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course the students will be able to:
1. Explore the Black Essence through inquiry, mirroring and feedback
2. Utilize exercises that facilitate letting go of defenses, tension and self-image,
3. Discover and experience different aspects of one’s ego structure
4. Differentiate between power that is life-affirmative and negative aspects of power such as rage, hate and destructiveness
5. Explore the shadow side and reclaim the power trapped in the unconscious
6. Employ meditation as a resource for clearing the mind, finding the still point and opening towards choiceless awareness and objectivity
Education Method: Lecture/Theory, Exercise, Meditation, Group therapy process, Practice, Inquiry
Testing (Formative): Reflective assessment