Training
This counseling service encompasses training programs that offer in-depth learning on a variety of topics. Ongoing counseling sessions can be supplemented with training, or training can be requested independently. Learning formats include lectures, seminars, and workshops.
Demonstrated is a map of key programs and related topics. This selection is not exhaustive, and is continuously being expanded, and is intended to serve as an inspiration for you. If you are interested in training, you are welcome to select a program or a specific topic. You can also suggest your own new topic.
The specific training program, consisting of a topic, specific content, and suitable learning formats, will be tailored to your interests and needs.
Relationality
What it is about being with each other
This program is fundamental. Through anthropological, socio-philosophical, psychodynamic, and neurobiological lenses, our human mode of existence, i.e., human beings as relational beings, is explored in depth. This involves observing internal and external relational worlds, their modes, origins, and development. Key topics include: attachment, relational consciousness, capacity for relationship, identity, resonance, alienation, object relations, interpersonal neurobiology, etc.
Trauma
What it is about wounding in relationships
This program focuses on traumatic wounds in relationships. It addresses both pre-existing wounds that are brought into relationships and develop a life of their own, and traumatic wounds that arise within the current relationships. At its core, the program explores how to recognize and acknowledge trauma responses and how to address them individually, pedagogically, and therapeutically. Key topics include: abuse, violence, loss, betrayal, neglect, emotional coldness, hostility, ignorance, mobbing, bullying, attachment trauma, relational trauma, trauma adaptation, etc.
Peaceability
What it is about negotiation and diplomacy in relationships
This program focuses on peaceability and, within that, on the art of negotiation. It explores what it means to develop the ability to observe and reflect in difficult, heated, and contentious situations; to recognize and acknowledge different positions; to take one's own position, to hold and demonstrate it, and, if necessary, to revise it. The program explores the principle of “Sachlichkeit” as a human attitude, as a tool for observation, reflection, and communication. Key topics include: negotiation, inner diplomacy, self-regulation, integration, nonviolent communication, etc.
Dynamics
What it is about challenged relationship systems
This program focuses on interactions, patterns and dynamics in specific relationship systems. At its core, it explores how relationship systems are challenged by particular events, developments, and conditions. Key topics include: grieving systems, neurodiversity in partnerships, families and other social systems, emotional legacies in family systems, addictive behaviors in families and partnerships, etc.
Feelings
What it is about facing difficult emotional states
This program focuses on recognizing, understanding, and dealing with difficult emotional states such as shame, envy, fear, anger, and rage. It explores the internal and external relational dynamics underlying these difficult feelings.
Betrayal
What it is about deep ruptures in relationships
This program focuses on breaches of trust and shattered assumptions. At its core, it explores what it means for partners when relationships are betrayed and shaken in their fundamental beliefs. It also explores the possibilities and limitations of repairing betrayal in relationships. Key topics include: betrayal trauma, infidelity, affairs, deception, etc.
You are invited to recommend your own topic.
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Traumatized fields
What it is about being in shattered worlds
This program focuses on socio-cultural and historical trauma. It examines the social contexts and collectives in which traumatic societal wounds reside. It explores how these wounds are passed down as cultural burdens, how they organize social identity, community and relationality, and how these manifest in everyday life over time. Key topics include: war, displacement, ecological crises, natural disasters, political crises, colonialism, poverty, etc.
Codependence
What it is about creating unequal bonds
This program focuses on a relationship mode in which partners' behaviors are consciously and unconsciously supported and enabled, contrary to one's own inner convictions and values. It explores relationship patterns, dynamics, and often serious consequences of saying “yes” because one suppresses, doesn't hear, or fears not having the right to express an inner "no." Key topics include: disempowerment, power in relationships, grandiosity, self-esteem, silencing, enabling, addictive behavior, self-betrayal, etc.
Uniqueness
What it is about owning a self
This program focuses on personality and integrity in its unique expression. It explores how healthy relationships can contribute to shaping one's personality, developing one's self, and becoming visible within it. It also explores the opposite: when relationships, i.e., certain relational stances, patterns, and dynamics, undermine self-development and self-expression. The program delves deeply into the question: how much difference can a relationship tolerate? Key topics include: self-esteem, personality development, personality traits, ontological security, relational integrity, etc.
Safety
What it is about basic trust
This program focuses on the topic of attachment. At its core, it explores the significance of our early attachment experiences, and within them, basic trust, for personality development, particularly our relational self. Key topics include: attachment styles, attachment trauma, secure and insecure attachment, attachment and self-development, trust and basic trust, etc.
Love
What it is about feeling alive
This program focuses on the driving force that connects us as human beings, that allows us to live and feel alive with each other. Through anthropological, philosophical, psychodynamic, and spiritual lenses, the phenomenon of love is explored as a unique way of connecting with the world, with people, with nature, and with other things. It asks what enables love, what hinders it, and how it can be found and nurtured.