The Year of Transformation

You will take an experiential journey to understand your own developmental history, unlocking your creativity, movement, and life force. This journey supports your aliveness and deep connection to self.  The theme for the year is, understanding personality development.  The mind, spirit, energy, emotions, and defenses are studied based on their interaction with the physical body.  This year is the foundation upon which the knowledge of Core Energetics is built. In addition to serving your personal process, what you learn, will serve as the foundation for further study in the practice of Core Energetics with others.

The structure of each weekend is a process group held on Friday evening, followed by classes during the day on Saturday. Individual sessions are required throughout the year for integration of your work.  The number required depends on your intentions for further study.  (See below.)

Courses

The Personality: An overview of the mask (pseudo personality,) lower self (destructive forces,) and higher self (real self, truth, love.)  An Introduction to the pyramid model of the human being in which mind, body, feelings, will, and spirit interact holistically.

Energy and Consciousness: An introduction to the concepts of energy and consciousness and exercises to help the student experience: charge, discharge, expansion, contraction, flooding, leaking, and stasis.  Principles of pain and pleasure, including breathing, movement, feelings, grounding, pulsations, life force, and streamings.  Energy centers and the energy field are introduced.

Orientation to the Body—The Segments: An explanation of Reich's seven body segments, and segmental armoring in relationship to the character defenses. 

Ego Functions in relationship to the Core: An in depth exploration of the concept of the ego in the CE model includes: the body as ego, transforming the ego, principles of self responsibility, the selfish aims of negative ego, helping the ego to be in service of the Core, ego development, and wounding in the different character structures.

Introduction to the Character Structures: An overview of the character structures; what they are; their relationship to each developmental stage; how their occurrence affects the energy flow, which determines the shape of the body.  The relationship of character defenses to psychopathology.

The Character Structures: Schizoid, Oral, Masochistic, Psychopathic, and  Rigid.  The second half of the year, May through October, is devoted to study of the structures.  Each one comprises its own course.

Ethics: Emphasis on Confidentiality.

For Personal Development : Students who are NOT interested in completing practitioner training are required to have 12 sessions with a Core Energetics Practitioner to help integrate the work.  Assignments will be recommended but not required.


For Practitioner training, Years 2, 3, and 4 : Students who complete this training, required assignments, and 24 sessions with a Core Energetics Practitioner are eligible to enter the second year in the Institute of Core Energetics four-year practitioner training in New York, which meets during five weekend intensives each year, at the Garrison Institute. For more information about the Institute of Core Energetics in New York, contact: Jim Johnston at 800 901 1770. Visit:  www.coreenergetics.org

Training Dates for 2010:

January 8, 9, February 19, 20, March 19, 20, April 16, 17, May 21, 22, June 18, 19,  July 16, 17,  August 6, 7, September 10, 11, October 8, 9.

Tuition $2700, Payment plans available.

"I don't know what all the ingredients are that make up a good teacher, but they have an extra spice that others don't.  Kate's energy changed our class.  She made learning "feel" interesting.  She inspired us to care about the work and gave us courage when we were exhausted.  Kate is big-hearted, energetic, funny, honest, articulate, and alive with the pleasure of self-discovery.  You have to have guts to do Coer Energetics.  You have to feel love to share it.  Kate has an abundance of both."

from Kristina L. Insitute of Core Energetics, graduate.