CURRICULUM YEAR 2

Curriculum Year 2: 2019-2020

2019- 2020 SCHEDULE

MODULE 1: FOCUS ON LOVE AND SEX – 14 CE Credits

Friday October 4 – Sunday, October 6, 2019

Day One: Sexuality & The Life Force

• Negative beliefs about sex.
• Sexual problems and energy blocks
• Unify the heart and pelvis.
• Balance active and receptive sexual energies.
• Enhance pleasure.
• Sexuality and physical health.
• Surrender to feelings.
• Sexual fantasies and dreams.

Day Two: The Rigid Personality Structure– Perfection, Sexuality, Relationship Problems

• Parental sexual wounding. Am I perfect enough?
• Techniques to unify the heart and the pelvis.
• Techniques to open the heart and develop intimacy
• Helping to heal from affairs and build trust.
• Body readings to identify the rigid character structure

Day Three: Full Day of Group Process and Group Supervision

 

MODULE 2: THE FOUR STAGES OF THERAPY – 14 CE Credits

Friday November 1 – Sunday, November 3, 2019

Day One: The Four Stages of Core Energetics

• Journey with your client from beginning to therapy’s end, pass through each of the four stages.
• Create a holding environment, confront the mask, release and transform the lower self, bask in universal love, discover the life path, and say goodbye.
• Transform energy patterns that result from childhood harm and abuse.
• Lower-self expression. Learn to tolerate involuntary muscle movements.
• Experience the Higher Self: self-responsibility, love, creativity, truth, and higher consciousness.
• Use of visualization, meditation, prayer, and ritual.

Day Two: Ego Functions: Creativity versus Negativity

• Identify the role of the ego in promoting growth and change.
• Differentiate between a healthy, creative ego and an unhealthy, unfocused, negative ego.
• Exercises to transform the negative ego.
• Tools to achieve life goals.
• Work with the ego in the body.

Day Three: Full Day of Group Process and Group Supervision

 

MODULE 3: FOCUS ON BODY READINGS; STORIES BODIES TELL – 14 CE Credits

Friday February 21 – Sunday February 23, 2020

Day One and Day Two: Core Energetic Body Readings

• Develop skill in core energetic body readings; understand a person’s character, current behavior, and early wounding.
• Learn how nurture, nature, culture, energy, modeling, and unconscious processes shape bodies.
• Read the body’s energy flow, muscular blocks, posture, harmony, aura, chakras, and developmental stages. • Discover the frozen history in the body.
• Find out what the skin, fat, eyes, height, coloring, facial expression, and temperature reveal.

Receive body readings from the teacher.

Practice body readings with each other.

Day Three: Create a Treatment Plan

• Construct a treatment plan based on body reading findings.
• Collaborate with the client.
• Review techniques to use with each of the five personality types.
• Conduct assessments using body readings and begin the session.
• Practice working with a variety of techniques depending on what you see in the body

Remember bodies are plastic. They can change.

 

MODULE 4: FOCUS ON BODY CONSCIOUSNESS, EPIGENETICS, AND PSYCHOSOMATICS   – 14 CE Credits

Friday April 3 – Sunday April 5, 2020

Day One: Body Consciousness and Epigenetics

• Experience the early movements of the developing child: cell vibration and breathing, navel radiation, sucking reflex, creeping and crawling.
• Learn healthy movements that underlie somatic interventions and restore integration.
• Discover how the skeletal system, bones, and joints relate to gravity, provide support and enhance movement.
• Understand the relationship between the brain & body, and review results from neuroscience.
• Explore the neurobiology of the heart and brain.

Day Two: Psychosomatics, Health, and Wellness

• Identify emotions that underlie specific illnesses.
• Learn the physiology of stress and its relationship to the mask and lower self.
• Review theories supporting a mind-body connection.
• Explore the cutting edge work of psycho-neuro-immunology.

Learn about cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure and many other illnesses. Study John Pierrakos’s theory about the relationship between these illnesses and characterology.

Day Three: Full Day of Group Process and Group Supervision

 

MODULE 5: LEADING CORE ENERGETICS GROUPS – 14 CE Credits

Friday May 1– Sunday May 3, 2020

Day One and Day Two: Facilitating Core Energetics Groups

• Leading a core energetics group.
• Body therapy and energy techniques for groups.
• Dysfunctional behavior in a group (Examples: I am right, you are wrong; I am weak, take care of me).
• Group leadership mistakes (the manipulative, helpless, or know-it-all practitioner).
• Group practice sessions. Try your hand at leading a core group.
• Ethics, guidelines, and member selection.
• Build a healthy and cohesive container.
• Increase the energy in a group when it is diminished.
• Experience a group mandala.
• Relational dynamics between group members.
• The individual process in a core group.
• Group members confront their masks and release their lower selves.

Day Three: Full Day of Group Process and Group Supervision

Module 6: Full Weekend of Review: Emphasis on Leadership and Higher Self

Friday July 10 – Sunday July 12, 2020

Day One and Day Two:  Review, Review and Review

Day Three: Full Day of Group Process and Group Supervision

 

 

 

GRADUATION

• Ceremony and presentation of individual projects to family and friends.

REQUIREMENTS

• Attendance and participation in discussions and experiential exercises is required.
• Absences excused by the director and made up at a later time.
• Homework handed in or emailed to the instructor prior to the training weekend.
• Trainees keep a journal during or following each training weekend sharing personal experiences, emotions, and thoughts. Since the journal is handed in at the end of each year of training Include only personal information that you are comfortable sharing with the instructor.
• A final video of your work with a client is required two weeks prior to graduation.
• Because personal information is shared during the training, confidentiality is required.

Twelve personal core energetics sessions with a certified Core therapist are required for each training year.