« Barefooted and naked of breast, I mingle with the people of the world.
My clothes are ragged and dust-laden, and I am ever blissful.
I use no magic to extend my life;
Now, before me, the dead trees become alive. »

Chan master Kakuan, excerpted from: The 10 Bulls of Zen

Systematic and comprehensive, this training will awaken the facilitator in you. It will give you all the necessary tools to understand better and easily facilitate the 3-day awareness intensive process. Practice sessions as well as individual guidance for each trainee will help gain confidence in presenting the awareness intensive as well as to give feedback and direction to participants.

Key points of this training

• With specific structured exercises understand and assimilate at a deeper level the uniqueness of the awareness intensive communication technique.
• Grasp what a sound communication cycle is.
• Master the different aspects of the intensive and learn how to facilitate the active meditations.
• Gain easiness in conducting the awareness intensive individual interviews.
• Develop skills to respond to the many and various situations that arise in awareness intensives.
• Acquire a hands-on experience as an assistant during the 3-day awareness intensive included in this training.
• Become acquainted with the ethics of this process and its specific set of agreements as well as ways to organize awareness intensives.

The most difficult part in any training, whatever the topic is, is the first steps that follow the training. Implementing what was learned during the training can be overwhelming at first. To ease these first steps, a 3-day* awareness intensive is embedded in the training. This gives you an opportunity to jump in the heart of the matter while being supervised and supported in your new endeavor.
(*) This 3-day awareness intensive is open to everyone and has the same configuration as all awareness intensives. 

How the training unfolds
Day One to Day Three diner time → The first training steps
Each day, teaching aids, practice exercises, sharing time and active meditations will alternate to set the pace to the learning.

DayThree evening to Day Six diner time → Hands on experience
The 3-day awareness intensive included in the training will be an opportunity for you as a trainee to alternate assisting and participating.

• As an assistant, you will gain a better overview of what the awareness intensive retreat implies. You will facilitate different structures of the intensive and expand your ability to respond to the many and various situations that arises during an intensive.
• As a participant, with your newly acquired understanding of the awareness intensive communication technique, you will have the opportunity to deepen your own search.

Day Seven to Day Height  → Consolidating your training
The training will resume with a feedback on the experience of being an assistant during the intensive. Appropriate teaching aids, practice exercises, sharing time and active meditations will then continue until the last day when integration dyads will formally close the training.

After Day Height → Flying on your own with a post training support
After this basic training comes the possibility to facilitate awareness intensives on your own. This often raises many questions and sometimes insecurities too!
Therefore the training includes a follow up support during the first intensives that you will facilitate, either with direct supervision if you feel the need for it or by ways of questions & answers. It is often beneficial to share one’s doubts, one’s questioning during and after the intensive. This can take place within a physical meeting or by ways of communication medias, whatever best fit the situation.

Benefit of the training - what you will gain from participating
Besides acquiring the needed tools to facilitate 3-day awareness intensive retreats, the understanding that you have of yourself and the way you are functioning in life will be enriched. Your ability to facilitate awareness intensives and support fellow travelers on this path will be more efficient.
And… last but not least, this training can also become the dawn of a new era in your life.

Are there any prerequisite?
Only one → before taking part in this training, participating in at least one 3-day awareness intensive retreat is required.
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