Our ways to engage with reality

Get to know your cohort and the Steward!

In this week you will:

• Join your 2-hour Group session with your peers and led by a Steward 
• Meet your assigned peer for 30-60 minutes for Peer-to-Peer Practice
• Engage individually in Self-Practice for 30-60 minutes

Circling brings Meditation to the interpersonal space and vests you with tools and techniques to hold space and form deep connections. It's also a great tool for insight.

In this week you will: 

• Learn & apply meditation and circling techniques in the 2-hour Group session
• Practice circling with your peer for 30-60 minutes during Peer-to-Peer practice  
• Go deeper individually using meditation and circling techniques during Self-Practice

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy developed in the 1980s. In it, the mind is seen as made up of different parts that often pursue conflicting agendas. IFS brings these parts and their agendas into harmony.

In this week you will: 

• Learn & apply IFS in the 2-hour Group session
• Practice IFS with your peer for 30-60 minutes during Peer-to-Peer practice  
• Engage with yourself using the IFS framework during Self-Practice 

Meditation gradually shifts one's essence from existing in "doing" to existing in "being". It also opens up oneself to the highs and lows of life, while vesting oneself with the tools needed to fully dive into the lows without drowning, and simultaneously rejoicing in the highs without clinging.

In this week you will: 

• Learn & apply Meditation in the 2-hour Group session
• Share your experiences and meditate together with your peer for 30-60 minutes during Peer-to-Peer practice  
• Meditate during Self-Practice 

Art therapeutic methods are great tools to release stress and to gain an insight into our emotional and mental system. They also lay bare resources one has to deal with taxing situations. This reflection also helps with one's communication, emotional affect, and the relationship with oneself and others.

In this week you will: 

• Practice Art Therapy in the 2-hour Group session
• Communicate via art with your peer for 30-60 minutes during Peer-to-Peer practice  
• Engage with yourself using art therapeutic exercises during Self-Practice 

Share your emotions and stories in a safer space with your group.

In this week you will:

• Share your emotions & feelings and reflect on the past 8 weeks in the 2-hour Group session
• Connect with your peer for 30–60 minutes during Peer-to-Peer Practice
• Engage with your challenges individually during Self-Practice

The individual check in gives you a space to bring up and reflect on whatever seems most relevant for your growth journey. 

In this week you will: 

• Reflect on the journey in your 60-minute 1-on-1 session with your Steward
• Share your journey with your peer for 30-60 minutes during Peer-to-Peer practice  
• Check in with your journal and via other ways of reflection during Self-Practice

Have you ever met someone new and gotten bored by playing the "get to know each other" game: "What do you do for a living?"?
Relating to ourselves and others deeply is one of the most joyous activities we can engage in, yet not a lot of us are trained in it. As a consequence, we tiptoe around our own and others' emotions, instead of relating authentically.
In this facet, we focus on inter-being: deepening the relationship with ourselves and others.

We share with you ...

• Authentic relating - Interpersonal meditation - Circling
• Giving & receiving feedback

We spend a lot of time either running away from our emotions or towards them. Our emotional patterns are often the invisible conductor, steering our lives from the backseat yet having full control.
In this facet, we focus on increasing awareness of our emotional landscape and finding ways to deal with emotions more skillfully, including ultimately accepting that understanding emotions takes away the magic they bring with them.

We share with you ...

• Art therapeutic methods
• Internal family systems, an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy

If someone told you, there's something you can do that doubles your life expectancy, most people would give a lot to get it. Expanding one's awareness is a tool that has the same effect: our lives get richer and fuller, and we thus feel more nourished by our experience of being. Ultimately, it allows us to leave the confines of our body and mind.

We share with you ...

• Meditation

Bringing it all together in this facet, you'll learn how to become a sovereign agent in perceiving, relating to & sensemaking of the world. Ultimately, this will allow you to embody your newfound truth and bring it forth in life to live #ALifeWellLived.

We share with you ...

• Efficiency of heart & mind
• Purpose & vow