Saturday April 7th – 9am to 6pm with 90 minute lunch break
$195 for Integral Center members
$295 Regular Price
Scholarships available
Experiencing the Flow is the title of Rassouli’s painting just like the subject of the workshop I am offering you. Flow happens when you are yourself and act out of the moment. To be in the flow is to be directly connected to your source and to become an expression of it. For that, you have to let go of your ego and your persona then nothing remains but the expression of your uniqe self. The yellow color represents this stage (SDi), combined with Csikszentmihalyi’s flow concept and Bence’s flow principles. It adds up to magical and sacred group moments; to a space where healing and transformation occur. In our Integral Flow Experience workshops I provide a safe container for that work and make sure, that all the participants in the group can get connected right from where they are.
“I found this work exquisite and unique and I feel blessed that I can be a part of it!” (Christina)
Flow is a heightened awareness of what is, of what is with the self and the other person, expressed in the we-space and turned into a vision-logic group exercise. It’s the combination of meditation and groupwork through movement, dance, bodywork, contact exercises and group-psychotherapeutic techniques.
“It’s very interesting, exciting and playful. It is deeply communal, an experiential thing.” (Steve)
People usually experience these states of mind during meditation retreats, psychedelic or holotropic sessions. In the flow groups we utilize the power of the group consciousness. When you reach the moment of full self expression, coupled with equanimity then you „fall into the flow”. It’s a state of mind and perception. You see synchronicities around you and you perceive causation being so complex that you realize there is actually not one cause behind the phenomenon but many. At that moment your rational mind drops and gives way to perceiving a higher reality of multicausality, and you arrive at an integral level of consciousness. Multiple perspectives are seen in vision-logic fashion, expressed through movement, play or speech. The prerequisite is a highly aware mind and a compassionate open heart. It comes into being when the heart center and the third eye get connected. Spiraldynamics calls this stage system-flow and designates it with the yellow color.
Integral perspective turns into a perception of the mystical ground behind all phenomena, which I call „The Field”. In our groups we experience and play with this. In the Wilber-Combs lattice this is the position of the integral-psychic. The primary focus area of our work is indicated on the chart below.
Thursday Evening March 28th 6-9pm – “The Jazz of Groupwork”
The three hour format has a four-fold structure to hold and enable the flow.
We open up the evening with an opening circle, to share and connect, and let things come up.
In the next phase we do a nonverbal playful contacting part, to turn on subtle sensitivity to each other and establish heart centered presence. We use music, movement, dance and gestalt style exercise here.
This leads us to the next phase when someone will be selected for an individual work, and the group takes part in that.
In the last phase we sit again in the circle to share, process, and close.
With those who will return next week, in this three-hour format we also prepare ourselves for the daylong next Saturday.
Saturday Day-long – April 7th
We start the day with an opening circle, to share and connect, and let things come up.
The one day format enables us to get into deeper exercises, like the “sufferers and healers” flow work.
After the warm up encounter exercises we engage into the “sufferers and healers” process, that naturally and effortlessly opens people up and invites any issue that separates you from fullness.
The work might develop into a “general work”, where everybody is processing at the same time, or sometimes it turns into an “individual work”, where we focus on one person. At times two or three people are worked on at the same time. Different levels of experiences are present at the same time, some people are in therapy mode, some people are in celebration mode and the facilitator weaves these threads into one group process.
In the last phase we sit again in the big circle to share experiences, process, and close.
Bence Ganti, M.A is an accomplished International teacher/therapist/healer, holds an MA in psychology and has a degree in clinical psychology. Being the founder and CEO of the Integral Academy in Hungary, a foremost European school of integral psychology, he has a decade long experience in experiential group work, scholarly teaching and community building based on second tier integral principles. As a trained individual and group therapist, following the Wilberian integral scheme of development, he deals with issues, ranging from neurotic (level2-5), normal (level 4-6), self-realized (level6), and also deals with spiritual issues including spiritual crisis (level 7-10). Bence is a long-time practitioner of Buddhist vipassana meditation, practiced in the West, in India and in Burma. Over the years, Bence has developed his own group work style called Integral Flow Experience or Integral Flow Therapy, where he uses psychological techniques combined with witnessing awareness and psychic intuition developed over the years during meditation. This creates a truly integral fashion of groupwork. His integral lectures and workshops are sought after internationally. Due to the gracious flow of life he received a green card on a green card lottery, and he spends more and more time in California. He offers now his programs in the US.
“I’d like to thank you the fantastic work that you did on me. It was fascinating how you brought this whole thing out of me so quickly without even knowing me. How did you know that you had to pick me, and to facilitate my process?” (Eve A.)
“As you called me into the circle, I felt a huge energy coming through me. Then when you put Gabriel behind me, I felt deep trust and then the chanting of the male and female voices completely washed me away… Suddenly I experienced my rebirth.” (Eve K.)
