My view of human nature includes spirituality as an integral part of being human. We exist in a span between an essence, a free lifeenergy, we are created with and in, and a personality created in a collaboration between genetic, biological imprint and factual influences through our lives from conception till we die. This is my perception, based on interpretation of my own sensory experiences, supported by the teachings I have recieved from different spiritual teachers (Jes Bertelsen, Andy Schneider, Eric Cassirer).
I am interested in supporting the connection between the essential part of being human and the personality. Resource-oriented skill training (ROST) is one way to support this bridge building, making it easier for the personality to lean into the essence/the free lifeenergy and live in resonance with it – contrary to getting overwhelmed, flooded, chaotic, or inflated when the essential energy emerges.
I am engaged in the vertical and the horizontal axis of the human body as paths to open up to, or lean into, the essence – and into a greater field around us - and to the ability to contain and cope with the energy that becomes available to me.
I am engaged in our mutuality with both reptiles and mammals - and with the existential choices we as human being potentially have available related to our biology. This engagement is expressed in my emphasis on inner authority and making consicous the powerful dominance/submission dynamics. Therapy cannot remove these powers, they are part of our biology, our survival reactions. We can make them conscious, own them and make choices related to them. I see this process as an always present existential and ethical challenge.
I am engaged in the diaectical relationship between the individual and the system/context. The methodology I am working with and further develop is inspired by both developmental psychology, holding an individual perspective - and systemic thinking. (My primary systemic inspiration comes from SCT , Systems Centered Therapy). I consider both perspectives important - and I have an ongoing discussion with myself and my co-trainers about the balance between them. In any given moment, where do we find the potential for change or stabilization - or where is it easiest available - in the individual or in the system?