The accreditation programme for Absolute Specialists April
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The accreditation programme for Absolute Specialists offers
training in mindfulness techniques and heartful practice. Accredited
practitioners will:
- Have a deep,
experiential understanding of
heartful practice
- Use the practice
appropriately to support clients in their own journey of self-awareness
- Be confident in using the
techniques in a creative and responsive way
- Work according to
Absolute’s ethos and ethics
- Continue to develop their
own heartful practice and offer their best to their clients
The programme consists of the following:
- 10 half-day
workshops
- 8 two hour
discussion sessions
- 10 one to one
supervision sessions
- 6 peer group
supervision sessions
- Telephone
support
- Bi-monthly
networking with Absolute Specialists and others interested in heartful
practice
- A reward system
for introducing clients and practitioners to Absolute
- An Absolute
manual with scripts of the techniques
- Accreditation as
an Absolute specialist
- Presence on the
website, use of the Absolute brand, opportunity to collaborate with other
Absolute Specialists
1.The workshops - 4 hour sessions introducing:
Healing Meditation
This guided meditation will help
you to connect with your body and acknowledge any emotional or physical pain
that is present. You will be guided to bring to mind the time that you first
felt this pain and may identify its original cause. You can then go through a
campfire and heart to heart process and begin to heal the pain.
You will benefit if you have an
illness or are in physical pain, if there is a trauma in your past that you
feel is unresolved or if you are a practitioner interested in learning more
about this powerful healing tool.
You do not need to have had any
experience of mindfulness or spiritual work to benefit from this meditation, it
is a gentle introduction to The Journey and to the work of Absolute
Specialists. You will be paired with an experienced practitioner who will
support you as you embark on this healing journey.
The Enquiry
This is an opportunity to
practice active listening and exploration with a client to help them become
aware of a deeper, and often unconscious issue that is influencing their
current dis-ease. This workshop introduces supervision in practice,
person-centred supervision, triads, peer supervision and mentor-led supervision as ways to deepen your
own heartful practice. You will work in triads and experience the role of client,
practitioner and observer in this supportive and insightful workshop.
The Pain Release Technique
The Pain Release Technique is a
simple mindfulness meditation. It brings profound and immediate results in
clients suffering chronic physical pain such as fibromyalgia, arthritis and
wounds as well as emotional pain such as acute anxiety, grief, anger and
depression.
It takes only a few minutes and
can be used during the consultation to:
bring immediate relief from
mental anguish or physical pain
ground the client so that the
pain can be viewed more objectively
open the client to a deeper
awareness and understanding of their pain
It can be taught to the client
who can then use it when they need it. Feedback is very positive with most
clients enjoying better sleep, less pain and a more positive mood and less reliance
on pain killers, sleeping pills and other medication.
By the end of the workshop you
will be:
confident in using the technique
aware of the depth of the process
clear about the benefits of using
the technique in your own practice
Questioning judgements
Often our clients are stuck
because they have fixed judgements and beliefs that they accept without
question. This wonderfully simple technique allows them to see how unhelpful
these fixed thoughts can be and how much freer they would be if they dropped
them.
The workshop is based on 'The
Work' developed by Byron Katie: www.thework.com. In it you will have an
opportunity to experience and gain confidence in the technique and explore how
you can integrate it in to your practice.
Of all the techniques I have
learned in recent years this is the one that has transformed my practice the
most dramatically. You can use it with people who are very 'in their heads' and
cannot connect with their heart, you can use it with people who are highly
intellectual and unwilling to do 'spiritual stuff' and with those who are still
stuck 'in their story' despite years and years of therapy. The results are
profound and after realising that they have a choice about whether they follow
the dictates of their minds or not your clients will have made a permanent and
irreversible shift and will be more open to other modes of healing.
The Wounded Child
The Wounded Child process is a
gentle meditation that allows your client to recognise the part of them that is
in need of support and then to give it that support. When a part of us is in
pain we close off and our minds become separated from our hearts and our deeper
wisdom. This process allows the mind to open and access the loving support that
the heart offers, we can then be more trusting, free and loving.
Sounds simple, and it is, but the
results are profound.
In this workshop you will see a
live demonstration of the technique and then get to give and receive a process.
Afterwards there will be an opportunity to explore how you can use it in
practice to give added support to your clients.
Know Your Own Mind
Do you know your deepest fear?
What unconscious belief drives you? What this costs you?
Find your ego's nemesis and
explore it, challenge it and let it go.
In this workshop we will identify
the four basic fears of the ego and you will get to recognise which is yours at
the moment. We will then explore the many subtle ways that this fear has
affected your life's path and how it has separated you from love, truth and
happiness.
Then, having exposed it you can
be guided through a process that will allow you to surrender to it, experience
freedom from it and gain access to your own inner wisdom.
We will be working in triads and
using the Pain Release Technique, so you will need to attend a PRT workshop
before attending this one.
The Heart to Heart
The heart to heart is a guided
meditation. It has profound healing potential.
The heart to heart gives clients
an opportunity to say what they really needed to say in a painful situation but
couldn't at the time. It is a wonderfully healing process for someone who is
grieving, feels disempowered or abused. It allows them to express themselves
and let go of harboured feelings. Once the pain is released the client’s heart
will open and they will feel freer and able to gain a more objective and loving
understanding of events. As with all the other processes in the heartful
practice series it is gently but profoundly healing and offers an opportunity
to resolve and move on from painful events.
The Memory Reframe
The Memory retake is a guided
meditation. It has profound healing potential. When we are faced with a
situation that overwhelms us we tend to suppress the emotions it evokes and
return to 'cope' mode as quickly as possible. Having successfully supressed it
we tend to leave it there and just carry on with our lives, yet the unexpressed
and unacknowledged emotion remains frozen in time and can have a profound and
lasting effect on our health. When we close of to our feelings we close off to
our hearts and this makes us feel separate, unsupported and fearful leading to
irrational fears, judgements and inner conflict and to physical and mental
dis-ease.
Where this suppression occurs in
early childhood there may be no conscious memory of it yet its effects can be
particularly debilitating.
The memory retake meditation can
be used on people of any age from about 7 upwards. It gently accesses the
memory and the associated emotions and then it allows the sufferer to put the
event into a healthier perspective and realise that they need no longer fear
it. They are then able to open to their hearts and feel a profound sense of
peace, safety and happiness. The technique is particularly useful after trauma
and, along with other techniques, for people who have been bullied or abused.
The Life Visioning Process
Having cleared away pain, fear,
saboteurs and conflicts using other heartful practices the thinking mind often
needs some convincing that things have happened subconsciously and that the
change is permanent. The life visioning process allows us to physically
experience how different the future will be now we have cleared the dis-ease
and we are in touch with our hearts.
The process is useful when we
want to set an intention for the future and then work towards it.
This will be a joyous and
affirming workshop which will support us all as we move closer towards living a
life that is truly congruent with our deepest values.
Accreditation, CPD, ethics and safety in practice
This workshop will look at you as
a practitioner. What are your skills and experience, what do you offer clients,
which areas could you develop further and how will you support yourself in
practice so your presence in grace can inspire your clients.
On a more practical level we will
be looking at the accreditation process, ethics, safety and the law.
2.The discussion groups – 90 minute
structured sessions
Heartful boundaries: looking at
our ego response in sessions and how we honour and support ourselves and others
in the group. Introducing the Four Agreements.
Heartful being: how do we live
with integrity in our social lives and in our personal relationships.
Introducing Ho oponopono
Heartful practice: how do we work
with integrity and bring integrity to our work. Introducing the Optimal Healing
Technique
Heartful networking: effective
communication and relationship building
Heartful marketing: attracting
clients
Heartful charging: honouring what
we offer and bringing integrity to our fee structure and contracting
Heartful involvement with
Absolute: what level of involvement do we want with Absolute after accreditation
Heartful CPD: what will support
us and develop us heartful practitioners in the future?
3. One to one supervision
These are currently with Clare and other supervisors will be
offering this support in the near future.
4. Peer group supervision
These will be groups of 3 to 5 people who are at a similar
stage of their progress through the accreditation programme. They will be
structured triad sessions where each person has the opportunity to practice the
role of client, practitioner and observer.
The chief purpose of the sessions is to deepen your experience with the
techniques but as everyone has a chance to be a client there will be an
opportunity to bring an issue to work on. Part of the learning is to keep the
issue within the time boundary to be fair to all. As a rule the sessions will
be held in one of the group’s home or clinic, perhaps in rotation.
5.Telephone support
Clare and other Absolute specialists will be available for support over practice
and personal development issues throughout the programme.
6. Bi-monthly networking with Absolute
Specialists and others interested in conscious practice
There will be time to network and socialise at all Absolute
events: we are a team and offer friendship and support to each other. Please
meet outside of these events as well and get to know everybody.
This is valuable in itself and helps build a supportive
network of like-minded friends. It is also a way to get to know your fellow
associates and to understand what they offer so you can refer to your contacts
with confidence.
7. Referral reward scheme
If you secure work for another absolute specialist you will
be rewarded with a percentage f their fee. If you bring a guest along to a
workshop you will receive a £10 reward. Further details on charging and rewards
will be discussed with you if you decide to practice as an Absolute specialist.
8. Manual
As the year unfolds you eill receive sections of a manual so
by the end of the year you have a written reference for all the processes.
9. Accreditation
Accreditation will be granted upon receipt of a written
reflective piece completed once you feel confident in using the techniques with
clients in an appropriate and creative way. The piece will include examples of
how you have applied the techniques in practice and a critical appraisal of the
results achieved and how you might have improved on the process. The piece will
also consider your own heartful journey thus far and your CPD needs and plans
for the following year. You will be offered an annual review with an Absolute
Supervisor where you can reflect on your CPD in the previous year and on your
needs for the following year.
The Director of Absolute Specialists reserves the right to
withhold accreditation until you have undertaken further personal development work
to address any areas where this is deemed necessary. You have the right to
appeal.
All Absolute Specialists – associates and accredited
practitioners- must hold appropriate public liability insurance and agree to
abide by the Absolute Specialists code of ethics and conduct.
10. Presence on the website and use
of brand
As an absolute specialist you will be entitled to a page on
the website and you can use the Absolute brand on your promotional material.
