An eco-psycosyntheis training in the art of evoking Self through nature based story and how to facilitate this for others using the unique tools of sacred mirroring

Let your story be witnessed. Let your soul be blessed. We walk the mythic path of reflection, seeing with the heart and evoking the archetypal through story, action and amplification of the mythic.

Modules:

There will be an initial online gathering to meet one another and contract our group agreements together before we meet in person.

Module 1: HOLDING THE MIRROR
We begin by gathering, grounding, and inviting in the soulful, sacred lens. Through Soulmaking walks, intention setting and telling the story we learn how to re-enchant our experience and bring the mythic to life as a way of blessing and being blessed.

Practice: The Guides building blocks – The Soulmaking Walk, the Story Telling Circle and the Blessing Mirror.

Module 2: POLISHING THE MIRROR
We discover the four directions (north, east, south and west) as a ground for holding the experience of a Soulmaking Walk. We learn and experience how nature introjects into us naturally and how we place our Self into the natural world.

Practice: Changing mind/body state to encounter self-realisation. Practice mirroring the story - creative and performative acts of mirroring for enchantment and mythic amplification.

Module 3: REFLECTING THE MIRROR
We deepen our personal Blessing Mirror practice by bringing the experience of mirroring into the body. We work with nature based ceremony and bring together ceremony, story and mirror.

Practice: The art of nature based ceremony using our unique way of pilgrim on the land and vigil as tools.

Module 4 will be a practicum where you will take the guides chair in small groups and offer a Blessing Way experience to the rest of the group. There will be an opportunity to work with your trainers in supervision to finalise your offering to the group.

Module 4: BEING THE BLESSING MIRROR AND GRADUATION
This is your opportunity to put into practice what you’ve learnt and who you have become as a blessing mirror to others who holds space for the blessing way. This weekend will be all about practice.

Learning Outcomes:

You will learn how to sit in the guides chair and to practice and offer to others the fundamentals of The Blessing Way:

1. A Soulmaking Walk with intention.

2. A Story Telling Circle for bringing the story of the walk back over the threshold.

3. Offering a Blessing Mirror to amplify the mythic and archetypal in the others’ story.

4. Using the Blessing Way in ceremony.

You are learning how to develop your own I-Thou relationship with Nature, your Presence and your Being. It is an inner journey as well as a practical how to journey.

This training has eco-psychosynthesis at its heart. What we mean by that is that the work is held within Nature and within a psychological and spiritual growth context with deeper synthesis as its aim.

We imagine some people will undertake this training as ground to work with others, some for their own psycho-spiritual development and to deepen their relationship to Nature others for both reasons.

Course Director and Lead Trainer:
Alexandra Hatfield

Trainers:
Fi Macmillan
Magnus Lunqvist

Facilitators:
Konran Morrison

Assictants:
TBA