Personal Development Course
Introduction
The Personal Development Course is a series of thirteen weekends of intense Biodanza spread over about an eighteen month period. The depth and intensity of the course is sufficient to create deep personal change.
This is one of the most powerful and enjoyable processes of self transformation! We want you to focus on what you want from life and support you to get it!
Life is not logical. It is an emotional journey into more and more positive experiences of life. The Course and your Biodanza group accompanies you through this real transformation - with care and progressively strengthening your ability to live life positively. Life flows to those that love it. And we want you to love your life.
The Biodanza Personal Development Course 2013
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Cape Town |
October 16 - 17 |
Mythological –
Philosophical Aspects Biodanza |
November 20 - 21 |
Affectivity |
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Johannesburg |
October 2 - 3 |
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November 6 - 7 |
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Currently available in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
The Weekends
Each weekend is an experiential group process. It is supported by a workbook on each topic to provide the cognitive understanding of the experience and an opportunity to reflect on your life.
1. Biodanza: Definition and Theoretical Model
This introductory weekend starts the formation of the group process. You get to know others and possibly have your first intense experience of Biodanza. You will also get to know the theoretical model used by Biodanza for human development.
2. The Biocentric Principle and the Vital Unconscious
With Biodanza, you learn to put life first. Do you choose what feeds your life? Or do you choose what is toxic?
At the core of Biodanza are two key principles:
- The Biocentric Principle. This puts the expansion of life, in all its
manifestations, as the driving force behind all life; and
- The Vital Unconsciousness. This is the blue print of health and harmony
held within the cells
Both these principles of life are inherent in each person. Through vivencia, they are accessed and awakened. When fully restored at an instinctual level, there is an inherent capacity to choose what is healthy and to avoid or minimise what is toxic.
What this weekend aims to do is to raise your awareness of what is healthy in your life, what is out of harmony and to begin the process of restoring your instinctive capacity to choose what is good for you, for those close to you and for your life.
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3. The Vivencia – The Heart of Biodanza
Our capacity to live from passion, joy and enthusiasm is often squeezed out of us early in life. The intense experiences within a group process are aimed to open people’s sense of joy, self esteem and self confidence.
Ten minutes into a class, people have already found their sense of innocence. This is the source of people’s own inner joy – a joy similar to that of a two-year old – confident, strong and from the heart.
This weekend provides the cognitive understanding of vivencia as well as and providing an experience to reconnect you with your inner source of joy.
4. Biological and Physiological Aspects of Biodanza
With this weekend, you will learn how physical and emotional traumas enter the body along biological and physiological pathways. You will also learn and experience how Biodanza works gently to reverse these processes.
5. Mythical and Philosophical Aspects of Biodanza
This weekend is an opportunity to access the myths and archetypes within the collective unconscious. These images have been found to have tremendous transformative capacity.
By dancing and experiencing these myths and archetypes, it becomes possible for an individual to access that potential aspect of him or herself. What was deemed as impossible, has been directly experienced as possible.
6. Identity and Integration
At various times in life, we are forced to adopt ways of being that are not truly our own. We adapt to please, to avoid pain, and to gain approval. Our identity can become a mask or confusion.
With this weekend, we begin a process of accessing your identity and integration it to states of being. What is truly you begins a process of emergence.
7. Trance and Regression
This weekend continues the process of regression to a deeper level. Biodanza uses gentle forms of integrative trance to allow the participant to access the Vital Unconscious and their blue print of health and harmony at a subconscious level.
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8. Vitality
At this point in the course, participants have had a number of deep vivencias and it is now possible to work deeply with each specific line of vivencia. We start with vitality – the passion to reach out for what you want and need.
9. Affectivity
With this weekend, we work with your natural capacity to communicate affection and tenderness. What is being explored is the capacity to be in communication with another - to be seen and to see the other.
Many find that their relationships with friends, family and work colleagues are considerably better due to the increased capacity to communicate they receive through Biodanza.
10. Creativity
We often fall into a rut. What we did yesterday is the same as what we did ten years ago. But today it no longer works for us. It is non-optimal or even toxic to repeat the same thing when it no longer works.
Marriages, relationships and businesses fail because there is no creativity or innovation put into them. They die from lack of creativity.
This weekend is aimed to reawaken your creativity and how you apply it in your daily life.
11. Sensuality
Life can be pleasurable! To enjoy more every aspect of your life! What you eat, what you drink, who you choose to be with; what you do professionally and socially and where you chose to live. All these have a profound effect on how you experience pleasure and sensuality in life.
This weekend is designed to increase your capacity to reach for what is sensual and pleasurable in life for you.
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12. Transcendence
You will be moved by this course. And this weekend is an opportunity to experience your transformation and transcend what you were to what you can be.
13. Review
The final weekend brings the course to a closure and a place for you to review your progress and journey so far.
Completion of Course
This personal development course will have given you increased capacity for:
- Joy and passion for life;
- Self-confidence;
- Better communication with others;
- Intimacy within relationships; and
- In most cases, an overall state of well-being.
You will perceive the potentiality in life for joy, passion and health. You will be able to continue the process of self-transformation through regular Biodanza.
Further Training
These twelve weekends are the essential personal development necessary for a facilitator of Biodanza. To lead others in their personal growth, you must have experienced the impact of deep vivencia on you and your life.
On completion of these weekends, it will be possible to continue towards professional training as a facilitator of Biodanza. This is not for everyone and the experience of the above twelve weekends will clarify your desire to continue to pursue this as a profession.
At this point, the training will continue your own personal development but the focus shifts to learning the practical skills needed by a facilitator to lead a group. These skills are:
- Understanding the theory and methodology of Biodanza
- Your own ability to experience vivencia
- Your ability to demonstrate the exercises to others
- Your poetic enunciation (or introduction) exercises with imagery, a word, poetry etc.
- Your choice of music and understanding of how music impacts on a group process
- Your design of a class on the correct gradient and sequence for participants
- Your observation and reading of the group and individual reactions to exercises or the class.
This requires a further fifteen weekends of training, a supervisory period to assist you apply the material learned in your own group and a presentation of thesis.
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