INNER JOURNEY CENTRE
86 Toms Creek Rd, Ellenborough, NSW Australia 2446
Phone & Fax: 02 6587 4356 •
Email: ijc@ceinternet.com.au
The
Inner Journey
Many
people are sensing and joining in a ground swell of energetic  movement
- toward more conscious, wholistic living.
This
way of being in the world requires that an inner journey be made –back
to our beginnings, into our depths of being and potential, into the more-than-personal
of ourselves and then back into daily life.
It
is a journey that develops its own rhythms of inner exploring and outer
living, relating to self, to others, to the whole of creation.
It
is a journey, a quest that includes many journeys, many questings.
This journey is to one’s unique being, to holding one’s life
in one’s own hands, to making adult ethical choices, to standing
in one’s own ground of being in the society, history and planetary
moment we are in.
The
journey moves beyond self-realisation to experiencing the connectedness
of all life:
- inner connectedness of mind and heart, soul and body,
- outer connectedness with others, all–creatures and creative spirit,
- connectedness where ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ fall
away in the oneness of the web of life.
Steve
and Patricia support this invitation towards full conscious living.
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The
Programs
Individual
Sessions
At times it is most appropriate for persons to work on a one-to-one basis.
These ‘sessions’ involve sharing with the facilitator one’s
presenting life issue, deciding with the facilitator how best to be present
to this issue, being present, and then afterwards taking time to integrate
new states of consciousness or learning.
Group
Work
When a person is able to work in a group, there are many advantages. Group
energy can be very supportive, eg. a person who is reticent may feel the
group energy gives them permission to be expressive,
There are important times of group sharing. As each person shares their
experience and is responded to by the facilitator, each one can see from
a wider perspective.
Specific
Group Work
Groups can be age or gender specific, eg Men’s Group, Children’s
Group.
Groups can be theme or method specific, eg loss & grief or sandplay.
TERC
for Children
Patricia
and Steve work with children, in individual facilitation or group work.
This includes acknowledgment and understanding of stages of growth plus
an adaptation of the methodologies used in general TERC practice.
Parent/carer
consent, understanding and support is integral to this unfolding life
journey of the child.
Patricia
co-authored with Mark Pearson two books, Emotional First-Aid for Children
and Emotional Release for Children which are now being widely used by
counsellors, teachers and parents.
(Patricia’s book Emotional Release for Children is available from
Patricia or from the
Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd. (ACER) 19 Prospect Hill
Rd, Camberwell Vic 3124)
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Training
Courses
Patricia and Steve offer several training programs for counsellors.
•
Practitioner Training in Transpersonal & Emotional Release Counselling.
This is a 1200 hour training spread over three years.
Successful completion of this training fulfills the training requirement
for full membership in the Association of Transpersonal and Emotional
Release Counsellors Inc.(a constituent member of PACFA)
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Certificate Courses.
Portions of the Practitioner Training course are offered as certificate
courses for enrichment, refreshment, expansion of counsellors, parents,
carers, therapists, and/or for incorporation into other counselling models.
Transpeersonal and Emotional Release Counselling for Children and Sandplay
Certificate Course are among these.
Retreats
Individual
and group retreats are offered, usually of six or eight days.
These are special times of focusing on one’s inner experiences,
opening to the mystery of one’s life . receiving inner guidance
and energetic resources
for one’s life in the world is equally relevant to retreat times.
The retreat can be a time of deep, silent contemplation OR a mix of contemplation
plus breath and energy process work. Both forms incorporate an individual
companioning time each day with Patricia or Steve.
Principles.
Principles incorporated in all Transpersonal and Emotional Release Counselling
include:
- Each person has an inner guidance mechanism that supports healing and
growth towards wholeness
- Each person has developed blocks to full health, wholeness, flow of
energy.
- The exploration of blocks and the opening to inner guidance is helped
especially by the four supports of:
- Breath. A generous flow of breath supports a build up and flow of energy
at all levels of body, mind, heart and soul.
- Movement. Physical movement and expression support an embodiment of
experiences, emotions and insights.
- Sounding. Sounding supports energetic connection with experiences and
the release of held trauma, belief patterns and emotions.
- Witnessing. This function of the mind enables powerful identification
with experiences and also to dis-identify from a particular experience.
Methodologies
Emotional Release Counselling uses several methods to support a client
to be present to their experiences as fully as possible.
This variety of methods enables clients to work from their strengths,
develop new ways of being present to their experiences and integrate.
Some methods have a strong focus on the physical body (eg bioenergetics),
some a strong focus on symbol and image (eg sandplay), some a strong focus
on accessing deep levels of consciousness (eg Transpersonal Breathwork)
The main methods used are:
Transpersonal Breathwork, Meditations, Sandplay, Dreamwork
Bioenergetics, dance movement, massage,
Voice Dialogue, Reaction and Projection Processing
Hurt Child / adult energy separation, Journalling and Mandala Drawing
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Facilitators
 Patricia
and Steve offer a personal presence that includes:
- many years experience in personal companioning and group facilitation
- professional training in Transpersonal and Emotional Release Counselling
- the fruits of their own inner journeying that support them in being
in the world and journeying with others.
- Other facilitators, trained in TERC join the Ellenborough team as appropriate.
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