Advanced Training – Breaking Family Patterns
Playing "Happy Families"
Are you battling with family issues and problems - issues which “by all rights” you should have got over years ago? Or so that little voice in your head says!
Do you keep on repeating the same pattern? The same situations keep on cropping again and again.
This maybe in relationships, not necessarily romantic relationships – it could be relationships at work, relationships with friends, with authority figures, with clients, with money (particularly with money!!) or even in your living situation.
For instance:
- other people keep on letting you down
- other people aren’t respecting you or valuing you
- other people are stealing your thunder
- you “always have” bad neighbours, bad luck in love, or “bad” anything or you hear yourself say “I never have/can….”
- you feel you can’t make headway in your career
- you’re always in a poverty cycle…. whilst you see other people sail through life in all the areas you find so hard.
“Why not me?” you say. “I deserve to be successful in these areas, I’ve worked so hard. I’ve done ALL this work on myself and I’m still battling on the same thing”. Or “I felt I’d made a real breakthrough and I thought my life would really shift but then I found myself back in the same scenario. What is it going to take for me to really breakthrough of these issues and be done with it so I can really start living the life I want? Maybe it will always be like this – so I might as well resign myself. At least then I don’t get false hope.”
SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE
Whilst it is disheartening feeling you are swimming against the tide and not getting anywhere, the fact is that you are – it just doesn’t feel like it. The truth is that you probably did make the breakthrough, you probably did shift – but there was another very powerful force that has come into play. You have made a headway it’s just it doesn’t feel like it because – to stay with the swimming metaphor, a very powerful current is crossing your bow, and you’re going to have to swim like crazy just to stay where you are.
But if you give up either the tide is going to take you back to the shore – and then you really are going to be back at square 1 – and being back at square 1 after you’ve been at square 10 is a pretty painful place to be. Or even worse that strong current is going to take you out to sea and then you really are lost.
ANCESTRAL PATTERNS
I would suggest that this powerful current are family issues and problems or a deep wounding that is not going to heal over night. And you probably already know this. You’ve done enough work on yourself to know that your problems all boil down to those old patterns in your family, the role you play and you continue to play in your family and other relationships.
Maybe you are aware that it goes much deeper than than – it goes back to grandparents and beyond. This is a family or ancestral pattern - and knowing the reasons why is not going to produce the shift.
Something else is needed – something that will get at the unconscious root of the pattern and transform it.
I am setting up this advanced training for people who are committed to shifting these patterns at a profound level.
This training is also for people who know that they have work to do around family issues and are looking for a creative way of working with them. You may have experiences of family constellations work. This will build on your experiences and go the extra mile.
THE TRAINING
We will be working through Greek Drama, imaging and transformational embodiment work that will enable you to shift these patterns at a fundamental level. Greek Tragedy is full of family dysfunctions that make most family problems look, positively tame. This was deliberate because the Greeks knew that this served a very useful function in society. It enabled catharsis, purging of emotional trauma and cleansing of toxic emotions.
In Greek society the doctors didn’t give you pills to cure your unhappiness, they sent you to a Greek play. It was powerful medicine and it worked on all kinds of levels – health, emotional,mental and spiritual. The purpose of the play was to bring about healing – usually involving the gods in whihc they searched for restitution and resolution so that the natural order could be reinstated, that freed the charactrers in the story from being on the Wheel – constantly re-enacting the same same scenario over and over again.
This is why I am choosing to work with Greek Drama as a way of transforming your deep seated ancestral patterns. Each participant will have an opportunity to create their own Greek Drama, so they can see, witness the impact it is having on them and other family members. Following this there is an opportunity to bring about healing so that the natural order can return, and you can walk free from this scenario and truly create your life again anew.
THE STRUCTURE
The training will consist of 6-8 weekends (Saturday and Sunday) that will be spaced 4-8 weeks apart. In order to work at this level I can only work with 6 people – so I need your commitment in advance. If you’ve participated in previous workshops you will be familiar with the pattern of working. We will be exploring archetypes, stories including personal stories with dramatic distance – so we can work at a deep level without stirring up old trauma – so that old emotions and patterns can be released easily and even joyfully.
This is not the kind of training where participants are “falling apart” and where you need to regurgitate the old story over and over again. Healing can happen without mentioning the details.
The first half of the training will be focused on ancestral patterns – and we will also we working with a Greek Tragedy, exploring both its structure and relevance to your own Family or Ancestral Drama.
But the real work of the training will be in the second half. This is where we’ll be working with your Family Drama and transofrming it into a Greek Tragedy on an epic scale.
The cost will be £150 per weekend (£900 in total which normally is paid in 6 monthly installments) – and you will need to pay for all weekends even the ones you miss.
23rd/24th June 10.30am – 5.30pm
July 14th-15th 10.30am – 5.30pm
August 4th-5th 10.30am – 5.30pm
Oct 20th-21st 10.30am – 5.30pm
Nov 17th-18th 10.30am – 5.30pm
Dec 15th-16th10.30am – 5.30pm
To book: Please tell me about the reasons you wish to do the training, and why you think it would be right for you. If you haven’t worked with me before (and the training is aimed at people who have done significant other work with me) please tell me about that other work you have done. Entry to the course is through a 20-30 minute consultation on the phone (for current clients) and an individual session (£50) if you are new to me.
Looking forward to hearing from you
Claire Schrader
