Next modules: June 15 to 20, 2009 - in Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Spiritual Emergency: Embracing Unexpected Transformation - Mandatory module - 50 hours with TAV SPARKS, Álvaro Jardim and Staff Understanding spiritual emergency is one of the major contributions of the Holotropic perspective.  Whether you are a professional or a layperson, someone interested in working with people in transformation crises, or primarily in your own growth, this module offers a rich experience and valuable information.  In addition to differentiating between psychosis and spiritual emergency, we’ll also explore the intensely practical aspects of who, in these kinds of crises, can benefit from Holotropic Breathwork, and how best to work with them in their emergencies.  The workshop includes discussion of the concept of spiritual emergency, its manifestations and forms, historical and anthropological perspectives, treatment strategies, and work with family and friends. June 22 to 27, in Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil The Spiritual Quest, Attachment and Addiction - Elective module - 50 hours with TAV SPARKS, Álvaro Jardim and Staff New ways to look at psychology and spirituality are offering exciting possibilities in the recovery movement, both for individual seekers and for those who work in the treatment field.  This workshop explores a whole continuum, from the idea of addiction as an extreme form of attachment, which affects everyone and which is crucial to spiritual seekers of all practices, to the more articulate forms of addiction: substance, process, relationship, and more. Through theory, discussion and experiential exercises, we’ll look at 1. the disease paradigm of recovery; 2. the wellness paradigm and the transpersonal recovery center; 3. implications of perinatal and transpersonal dimensions for recovery; 4. the 12 steps as a world yoga; 5. addiction as spiritual emergency; 6. addiction as shamanic crisis; 7. recovery as a mystery school; 8. psychedelics and recovery; 9. recovery and the feminine; 10. addiction from the homeopathic perspective; 11. recovery as death/rebirth; 12. addiction and the global crisis; and more.

The Power Within: The Practice of Holotropic Breathwork with Tav Sparks and Staff: Dora, Alvaro, Mayara and Sonia

Part A - 1st. module group - happened from march 3 to 8, 2008 Mayara, Marlos, Elisa, Ricardo Cassis, Thomas, Raul, Alvaro, Wendel, Débora, Hércules, Ricardo Cohn, Antonio Vazsken, Ivana, Tav, Daniela, Sonia, Ultan, Dora and Evane. Part B - 2nd. module group - happened from march 9 to 14, 2008 Evane, Ricardo Cohn, Alvaro, Mayara, Dora, Ricardo Cassis, Débora, Sonia, Marlos, Maria Alice, Raul, Eunice, Tav, Thomas, Hércules, Wendel, Daniela, Ivana and Antonio Vazsken.

Disciplines and Subjects

Mandatory Modules (all four are required)

The Practice of HB - Part A (50 hours)
In this module, Holotropic theory comes alive. It’s where we experience the essence of the practice first hand. We not only discuss the principles that support and inform the practice of Holotropic Breathwork.  But we go beyond theory to show why Holotropic Breathwork is such a special method for personal exploration and healing. This is a unique opportunity to move to deeper levels of your own inner process and also to learn what’s behind the Holotropic approach to working with others. As you become acquainted with accompanying others on their journeys, you will also discover how to translate the Holotropic theory into a tool for enriching your everyday living experience.

Topics include: 1) the power of the Inner Healer; 2) the Holotropic Breathwork lineage; the history of the healing potential of non-ordinary states; 3) the importance of facilitator presence; 4) an inside look into the framework of a Holotropic Breathwork session; 5) how to encourage and support the integration of the Holotropic experience; and 6) Holotropic bodywork, including: its history, theory and practice, - demonstration of bodywork, - hands-on work by participants, - discussion of specific challenging situations that facilitators encounter, - ongoing exploration of the way Holotropic Breathwork can change our everyday life.

The Practice of HB - Part B - Music and Transcendence (50 hours)
This module is an exciting and transformative journey through the world of music.  Sound and rhythm have always been vital creative and spiritual tools for transformation.  Music has even been called the language of the soul.  This is a special opportunity to learn first hand the music structure that defines Holotropic Breathwork in such a special way.  In addition we’ll also explore other exciting strategies that help make the Holotropic perspective an essential tool for everyday living. 

This module covers: 1) Holotropic music: its history, theory and practice: detailed discussion of three-part music structure, with demonstration of specific pieces for each section, the sound system quality & power requirements; 2) Holotropic group work; its history, theory and practice; discussion of common group experiences & challenging situations; 3) COEX systems: how we work with multi-level patterns; 4) Demonstration of relaxation; 5) Facilitator self-care; 6) Practical workshop information--venue; pricing; promotion; brochure; and types of workshops.    

The Architecture of Psychopathology (50 hours)
This module explores the traditional understanding of various forms of psychopathology of psychogenic origin, as well as the new insights into their nature and dynamics that have emerged from experiential psychotherapy and the work with non-ordinary states of consciousness.  This work has revealed that psychogenic disorders cannot be adequately explained in the context of biographical models, but have also significant perinatal and transpersonal dimensions. This module includes discussions of various phobias, inhibited and agitated depression, suicidal behavior, obsessive-compulsive neurosis, conversion hysteria, sexual dysfunctions and deviations, impulsive disorders, psychosomatic illnesses, and addictions.

Spiritual Emergency: Embracing Unexpected Transformation (50 hours)
Understanding spiritual emergency is one of the major contributions of the Holotropic perspective.  Whether you are a professional or a layperson, someone interested in working with people in transformation crises, or primarily in your own growth, this module offers a rich experience and valuable information.  In addition to differentiating between psychosis and spiritual emergency, we’ll also explore the intensely practical aspects of who, in these kinds of crises, can benefit from Holotropic Breathwork, and how best to work with them in their emergencies.  The workshop includes discussion of the concept of spiritual emergency, its manifestations and forms, historical and anthropological perspectives, treatment strategies, and work with family and friends.

Elective Modules (New elective modules may be added from time to time) (it are required three modules of any modules cited below)

Transpersonal & Holotropic Perspectives of the Schools of Depth Psychotherapy (with Stan Grof) 
In this module, presented in our training for the first time, we will review the history of depth psychology and the lives and work of the founders of its major schools (Franz Mesmer, Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Wilhelm Reich, Alfred Adler, Otto Rank, Sandor Ferenczi, Melanie Klein, and others). Matthew Stelzner, the resident astrologer of this module, will bring in the astrological perspective and discuss the correlations between the lives and ideas of these pioneers and major aspects in their natal charts and important transits We will critically examine, which ideas in depth psychology and psychotherapy have been validated by modern consciousness research and which of them have been refuted, revised, and transcended. An attempt will be made to outline a blueprint for psychology and psychotherapy of the future integrating those insights about consciousness and the human psyche that have withstood the test of time.

Frontiers of Science and the Cosmic Game (with Stan Grof)
Exploration of the challenges that work with non-ordinary states of consciousness presents to traditional science and discussion of the revolutionary developments in science with which the new observations are compatible (new paradigm). Outline of the philosophy and cosmology emerging from modern consciousness research.

The Experience of Death and Dying: Psychological, Philosophical and Spiritual Aspects (with Stan Grof)
Accompanied by slides, Stan will explore with the group observations from various areas of modern consciousness research. Thanatology, anthropological shamanic studies, psychedelic research, experiential psychotherapies, and work with people in psychospiritual crises (spiritual emergencies) all have important implications for understanding the psychospiritual aspects of death and dying. Focus will be on such topics as the process of psychological death and rebirth, psychedelic therapy with terminal cancer patients, the shamanic initiatory crisis, aboriginal rites of passage, ancient mysteries of death and rebirth, near-death experiences, survival of consciousness after death, instrumental transcommunication, karma and reincarnation, and eschatological mythologies. Using a cross-cultural selection of slides, Stan will explore the ancient books of the dead - the Egyptian Pert em Hru, Tibetan Bardo Thödol, the Mayan Ceramic Codex, the Aztec Codex Borgia, and the European Ars Moriendi.

Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy (with Stan Grof) 
Focus on such issues as psychological significance of the trauma of birth, the death-rebirth process, dynamics of the perinatal and transpersonal matrices of the unconscious and their symbolic language, psychological meaning of the experience of death, and others. The seminar will include an extensive slide show illustrating the symbolism of the death-rebirth process from a cross- cultural perspective.

Psyche and Eros (with Stan Grof)
This module explores the observations from modern consciousness research (psychedelic therapy, Holotropic breathwork, and the study of individuals in spiritual emergencies) that provide new insights into the complexity of human sexual experience. We will examine the perinatal and transpersonal roots of variations and deviations of sexual behavior, archetypal roots of sexuality, and transpersonal forms of erotic experience (satanic, oceanic, and tantric sex). Special attention will be paid to Tantric science, art, and ritual.

The Roots of Violence and Greed: Psychospiritual Perspective on the Current Global Crisis
Since time immemorial, violence and greed have been important forces driving human history. With technological progress and exponential population growth in the twentieth century, they have become a threat for survival of life on our planet. It is imperative to gain a deeper understanding of the roots of these forces in the human psyche and to find ways of reducing their impact in the worldWe will explore how consciousness research and transpersonal psychology offer new insights into extreme forms of human violence, greed, and social pathology, such as wars, bloody revolutions, terrorism, suicide bombing, concentration camps, and genocide.  A slide presentation will demonstrate the astonishing similarities between the symbolism of posters and cartoons from the time of wars and the visions accompanying the reliving of birth and the experience of psychospiritual death and rebirth.

Inner Healer, Outer Life - Holotropic Breathwork & Everyday Spirituality (with Tav Sparks)
Holotropic Breathwork is a powerful catalyst for change.  But a breathwork session itself is only the beginning.  What's even more exciting is that it can be a blueprint for how to live everyday life in a more creative and healing way.  This is the first workshop specifically devoted to exploring this exciting new life practice.  Along with breathwork, art, music, dance and integration, we’ll be focusing on:  using the inner healer as a guide for true personal empowerment; healing the patterns uncovered in breathwork; relationship yoga; “sitting” for your partner as an archetype for interpersonal relationship; fulfillment through service in the world; making our lives a conscious spiritual practice; the awakening of creativity; the reemergence of the epic soul -- our lives as epic journeys.

The Spiritual Quest, Attachment and Addiction (with Tav Sparks)
New ways to look at psychology and spirituality are offering exciting possibilities in the recovery movement, both for individual seekers and for those who work in the treatment field.  This workshop explores a whole continuum, from the idea of addiction as an extreme form of attachment, which affects everyone and which is crucial to spiritual seekers of all practices, to the more articulate forms of addiction: substance, process, relationship, and more.
Through theory, discussion and experiential exercises, we’ll look at (1) the disease paradigm of recovery; (2) the wellness paradigm and the transpersonal recovery center; (3) implications of perinatal and transpersonal dimensions for recovery; (4) the 12 steps as a world yoga; (5) addiction as spiritual emergency; (6) addiction as shamanic crisis; (7) recovery as a mystery school; (8) psychedelics and recovery; (9) recovery and the feminine; (10) addiction from the homeopathic perspective; (11) recovery as death/rebirth; (12) addiction and the global crisis; and more.

Death/Rebirth in Modern Popular Culture (with Tav Sparks)
Explore personally and through demonstration and discussion how the journey toward wholeness manifests through current cultural phenomena, and how film, music, dance, art and literature can be signposts for an emerging spirituality.  Topics include: The re-emergence of the Divine Feminine; The global crisis: violence and greed; Power and the perinatal in film: a video show; The shaman, Dionysus and rock and roll; Virtual reality, cyber-space, and science fiction; Culture of the future: the global village and the world festival.

Movie Yoga: The Holotropic Experienced Through Film (with Tav Sparks)
This module is an exciting opportunity to experience the Holotropic in film.  For years, Tav’s passion and knowledge about movies have infused GTT workshops.  Participants have found movie watching to be an integral part of the inner process.   Based on material from his forthcoming book Movie Yoga:  How to Transform Yourself While Sitting on Your Sofa, Tav will present a complete system of movie watching from the Holotropic perspective.

This workshop is for those who want another avenue to take the Holotropic into everyday life.   Watch together, breathe together, and learn how movies can become a fun and exciting transformative practice, as you experience the perinatal journey through film.   This is sure to be an adventure, so bring the popcorn and your Inner Healer. 

The Ringbearer and Moving Toward Wholeness: Transformation in the Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy (with Tav Sparks)
This workshop uses Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings and Holotropic Breathwork to create a deep personal experience of being a Ringbearer in the twenty-first century. The popularity of this movie demonstrates planetary culture’s striving toward a new world myth, as well as our yearning to discover the deeper dimensions of what it means to be human. Interwoven through our experience of the films, we will explore: The Fellowship characters as mythic dimensions of ourselves; Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey; Carl Jung and the realm of the archetypes; the re-emergence of the epic soul; film as catharsis and spiritual path; death/rebirth in modern popular culture; Holotropic practitioner as Ringbearer; art, ritual, dance, meditation, and role playing. Seeing the films beforehand is not required.

Shamanism (with Diane Haug)
Shamanism is the most ancient of humankind’s spiritual, medical, and psychological disciplines. A visionary tradition, shamanism is a practice utilizing altered states of consciousness to contact the spirits of the natural world. With life on our planet in danger and out of balance, shamanic cultures have much to teach with their respect and reverence toward nature. This module will provide a broad introduction to Shamanism as it relates to both our personal healing journey and modern psychology. In addition to using Holotropic Breathwork as an experiential tool for exploring the healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness, this workshop will include the use of meditation, guided journey work, movement, silent time in nature and mask making.

Language of the Soul: The Art & Practice of Integrating Deep Inner Experiences (with Diane Haug)
To integrate is 'to make whole'. The value of deep work in non-ordinary states of consciousness is, in part, dependent on our ability to reflect on and work with the material we are offered. In this workshop we will explore the theme of integration from both a personal and professional perspective. In addition to Holotropic Breathwork, participants will be introduced to a variety of tools useful in further exploring the themes / issues / insights that have emerged during sessions. These will include meditation, journal writing, movement, mask-making, Soul Collage and more. This module will be highly experiential and invite participants into a realm of creative self-expression. "Although transpersonal experiences are potentially healing, their effects are often temporary unless an effort is made to stabilize the insight gained. The task, therefore, goes beyond the induction of such experiences to the task of integrating them effectively into everyday life." Frances Vaughan in "Healing and Wholeness: Transpersonal Psychology" from Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision.

The Power of Archetype: Integrating Astrology & Holotropic Breathwork (with Matthew Stelzner)
This workshop provides an overview of the essential elements for beginning your own astrological practice, and will show how astrology can be especially useful with Holotropic Breathwork.  It is designed for both the absolute beginner as well as those who are quite skilled in astrology.  We will be covering the following and more, using a variety of media, and including demonstrations from participants’ charts and the charts of well-known events and individuals: 1. How astrology has influenced Stan and the breathwork, and how Stan’s work has influenced astrology — astrological insight into perinatal matrices. 2. Using astrology for insight into challenging breathwork experiences. 3. Astrological archetypes experienced through film clips, and through music. 4. Astrological insight into 9/11 and our current moment in history. 5. Comparing the spiritual insights gained through astrology with other wisdom traditions. 6. How to read a chart and calculate transits.

Ecstatic Remembrance (with Jai Uttal)
This workshop combines two ancient technologies for entering into deep states of consciousness for inner exploration and contact with the collective unconscious. One technique is, as in each Grof Transpersonal Training module, using the breath in Holotropic Breathwork sessions. The other technique is the ancient one of chanting. Jai Uttal uses call-and-response chanting, vocal and rhythmic exercises, and storytelling to invoke a sacred space for non-denominational prayer and heartfelt expression. This is an exploration of the heart and a way of attaining ecstatic awareness by repetition and remembrance of the Divine. No previous experience is needed; this is an exploration of the heart, independent of vocal or musical technique.

Trauma and Transformation (with Kylea Taylor and Diane Haug)
Deep healing work such as Holotropic Breathwork is often chosen by trauma survivors. Other participants uncover and work to resolve traumatic incidents in the course of personal exploration through Breathwork. This module engages the body, emotions, and spirit as well as the mind through case presentations, transformative inner work, community, and personal creativity. The facilitators have worked since 1988 with trauma survivors in Holotropic Breathwork groups. There will be presentation of historical, anthropological, and psychological perspectives on trauma and abuse, including social incidence and impact, symptoms of PTSD, DSM IV diagnoses in the spectrum of dissociation, the application of state specific memory to non-ordinary states, treatment approaches that complement Holotropic Breathwork, and trauma recovery as a transformative rite of passage. Special attention will be given to ways of facilitating and integrating Holotropic Breathwork experiences to transform the pain of trauma, self-care in the prevention of vicarious traumatization for the practitioner, especially if the practitioner is also a survivor of trauma, and the role of art and of community in the transformation of trauma.

Cosmos & Psyche (with Richard Tarnas)
As Jung suggested, astrology possesses an extraordinary capacity to illuminate the archetypal dynamics of the human psyche.  During their thirty-year collaboration, Rick Tarnas and Stan Grof have repeatedly seen consistent correlations between specific planetary positions and a wide range of psychological states.  Besides providing invaluable insight into both the timing and the archetypal character of personal transformation, these correlations suggest that the relationship between the cosmos and the human psyche is very different from the conventional disenchanted worldview. 
Topics of this module will include:  precise descriptions between the timing of individual psychological transformation and planetary transits; the phenomenon of synchronicity; instructions for calculating and evaluating one's own transits; a look at major past and current planetary alignments; and coinciding archetypal patterns in history and culture.  Rick will address the relevance of this work to the depth psychology tradition initiated by Freud and Jung, and present an overview of the evolution of the Western mind as illuminated by this “return of soul to the world.”

Participants will get both a theoretical framework and practical information that can be immediately useful in their own lives.  Prior background in astrology, though useful, is not necessary.

The Ethics of Caring (50 hours)
An Ethic of Relationship / Profound and Intense Client Experiences / The Special Needs of Clients in Nonordinary States of Consciousness / A Model for Examining Our Vulnerabilities / Money / Sex / Power / Love / Truth / Insight / Oneness / Vulnerabilities to Unethical Behavior / Keys to Professional Ethical Behavior / Expanding Ethical Consciousness in Community / Creating Ethical Guidelines.

Module for Certification (with Tav Sparks) (10 days - 100 hours).
This intensive programme of ten days is offered, periodically, for those participants who accumulated 150 hours of experience in general Holoropic Breathwork with professional facilitators certified by the GTT, completed the seven modules and 10 hours of individual sessions. This module, led by Tav Sparks and Staff, combining didactic and experiential sessions with facilitation supervised, in pairs, aid in sessions of Holotropic Breathwork and extensive periods of questions and answers on many relevant topics.

Tav will be present personally, in all theoretical and experiential sessions, in addition, experienced facilitators will be available to the reports in small groups, supervision and individual sessions private.

Participants in the seminar that are approved will receive a certificate that confirms its training in Transpersonal Psychology and Holotropic Breathwork, saying that they have sufficient knowledge and ability to coordinate Holotropic sessions. This certificate isn’t a therapy license, the facilitators scripts that perform therapy must comply with the legal requirements of their respective states or countries.
We reserve the right to deny certification to anyone who does not meet the requirements of the training programme. We also reserve the right of taking back the certification if there is the facilitator certificate in accordance with the principles of the Principles of Holotropic Breathwork and not follow the ethical agreements signed by who at the beginning of training, agreeing to follow.

Professional Experience
Professional experience earlier in the arts of healing in the field of mental health (Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Body Therapy) is highly desirable, but not essential. In some cases, very motivated students, who do not have professional background, may be admitted to the program, after an evaluation, case by case.


Physical and Emocional Condition
The format of the training includes experiential sessions with Holotropic Breathwork (HB). This is a very powerful method, which may involve various levels of physical stress and intense emotional experience. Therefore, we can not accept the entry of people with serious cardiovascular problems, such as a history of heart attack or heart surgery, arteriosclerosis, vascular aneurysm or severe hypertension; pulmonary disease (emphysema, tuberculosis); debilitating systemic diseases or glaucoma. Pregnancy and epilepsy are also contraindicated for HB. The format of this programme is educational and could be therapeutic, although this approach is used as an aid in psychotherapy. We suggest that those interested in holotropic sessions for therapeutic personal goals, seek the work of some of the professionals who have been trained by us. The final decision of acceptance in the training programme will be taken by Alvaro Jardim, after considering all data for the application.


Individual Sessions
During the period of training, the participant must complete 10 hours of individual sessions with facilitators certified in HB. He can mark these sessions with one or more facilitators.


Working under Supervision
To become a HB facilitator certificated the participant also need to act as auxiliary of HB on 05 workshops, coordinated by certified facilitators. If you do not want to coordinate workshops for HB, supervised this work will not be necessary. In this case, the participant receive a certificate of participation from Grof Transpersonal Training.


Professors
All teachers will be facilitators certified professionals at Holotropic Breathwork. We are confirming the names of teachers that follow:

Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist with over forty years experience of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness (induced by psychedelic substances and various non-drug techniques) and one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology. His web site, initiated in October 2007, is at www.stanislavgrof.com. He is the founder of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA) and its past and current president. In this role, he has organized large international conferences in the United States, the former Czechoslovakia, India, Australia, and Brazil. At present, he lives in Mill Valley, California, conducting training seminars for professionals in Holotropic Breathwork and transpersonal psychology and writing books. He is also Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco and at the Pacifica Graduate School in Santa Barbara and gives lectures and seminars worldwide. In 1993, he received an Honorary Award from the Association for Transpersonal Psychology (ATP) for major contributions to and development of the field of transpersonal psychology given at the occasion of the 25th Anniversary Convocation held at Asilomar, California.  In 2007 Stan was awarded the prestigious Vision 97 award from the Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Foundation for his pioneering work on the frontiers of human consciousness. He has published over 140 articles in professional journals, as well as 17 books which have been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Russian, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, and Chinese.

Tav Sparks is the Director of Grof Transpersonal Training and leads most of the training events in the United States and worldwide. He has been the primary faculty member since the training began in 1989. Since 1985, Tav has led numerous workshops internationally in Holotropic Breathwork and in transpersonal approaches to wellness and recovery. He is the author of The Wide Open Door: The Twelve Steps, Spiritual Tradition, and the New Psychology; the training manual Doing Not Doing: A Facilitator's Guide to Holotropic Breathwork; Through Thunder - A Poetic Death Rebirth Journey and seven screenplays combining the transpersonal perspective with modern popular culture. His current project is the book Movie Yoga: How to Turn Your Local Cinema into a Temple of Transformation. Since 1990, he has been program coordinator for three conferences of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA) and served as a member of the ITA Board of Directors. www.holotropic.com

Kylea Taylor, M.S., M.F.T., was one of the three initial incorporators of AHBI and has served on AHBI's Board's Executive Committee from that time on. She was Editor of its newsletter, The Inner Door, from 1991 until her retirement from day-to-day involvement in AHBI at the end of 2006. She also worked on all of AHBI's past conferences and spearheaded the project to complete AHBI's website renovation. She is the author of The Breathwork Experience (published also in Italian and Spanish) and The Ethics of Caring(Hilfe fur die Helfer in German), The Holotropic Breathwork Workshop Manual, and she is the editor of the recently published AHBI anthology, Exploring Holotropic Breathwork. Taylor started studying with Stan Grof in 1984 and has been a staff trainer for the Grof Transpersonal Training, Mill Valley, CA since 1993. For 11 years she did monthly public Holotropic Breathwork workshops in Santa Cruz, CA, where she has a private therapy and consulting practice. Kylea is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC# 34901) in private practice in Santa Cruz, CA. www.hanfordmead.com

Diane Haug, MA, LPCC, is a licensed therapist living in rural northern New Mexico. Her background includes a decade of working with adults and children dealing with life-threatening and terminal illness. Having completed the Grofs' first three-year training program, Diane has been involved with transpersonal psychology and the Holotropic Breathwork since 1986. As a senior staff member with GTT, she has been involved in teaching modules internationally (Scandinavia, Europe, Russia, South America) and in the United States. Diane has developed GTT training modules including Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy and Healing and The Art of Integration. Diane has a strong interest in using Holotropic Breathwork within a wide variety of contexts. Most recently, those have included a Bioneer's sponsored invitational gathering of "Unreasonable Women for the Earth"; an annual women's retreat at the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico; a year-long "Gender Reconciliation and Social Change" training; "Breathwork and Psychodrama" through Southwestern College in Santa Fe, NM; and an indigenous healthcare program in the rural Philippines. Diane is currently involved in collaborations with other transpersonal teachers including Wes Nisker, Roshi Joan Halifax, Luis Eduardo Lun , and Ralph Metzner. She is presently on the advisory boards of both the Satyana Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and WASIWASKA: Research Centre for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art and Consciousness in Florianopolis, Brazil. On a personal note, Diane 's interests include Buddhist practice, the wisdom traditions of native people, eco-psychology, permaculture design and building, and gardening. In addition to her work with GTT, Diane maintains a practice that includes both private and group work. www.holotropic.com

Álvaro Jardim is a psychologist, psychotherapist and certified as a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator, and has been involved with Transpersonal Psychology and the Holotropic Breathwork since 1997. He made Advanced Training in 1998, and worked with Stanislav Grof and Tav Sparks in U.S.A., Europe and in Brazil. Alvaro maintains a practice that includes both private and group work. He is a Specialist in Human Values and Transdisciplinarity by Universidade Salgado de Oliveira, in Brazil. He is a Coordinator of the Grof Transpersonal Training program and is authorized by GTT to give the training in Brazil. He developed the project and coordinated the Specialization in Applied Transpersonal Psychology, structured on Stanislav Grof's Theory, in the Universidade Católica de Goiás. He signed a contract of Scientific Technician Cooperation with the Universidade São Marcos, in São Paulo, SP, Brazil, in 2004. From November 2003 to November 2006 he was part of the Board of Directors of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International. Holotropic Breathwork in Brazil, by Alvaro Jardim and Carmen Maciel, was published by the The Inner Door, and in the book Exploring Holotropic Breathwork, edited for Kylea Taylor and published by the Hanford Mead Publishers, Incorporation. Alvaro Jardim and Carmen Maciel intervistano Stanislav Grof, was published by Giovanni Fioriti Editore, in fascicle 4, vol. 3, pag. 265 of the Magazine Psicologi(a) and Comunicazione del Studi Center di Psicologia and Letteratura, in Rome, Italy. Alvaro signed a contract with a company and works with a project to the light of Stanislav Grof’s methodology for people with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in São Paulo, SP, Brazil, since March 2007. www.aljardim.com.br

Sonia Frederico Augusto is psychologist, graduated by the Universidade de São Paulo. Especialist in Organizacional Psychology - Instituto Sedes Sapientae. She is a facilitator certified in Holotropic Breathwork by the Grof Transpersonal Training (1997). Graduated in English - Sociedade Brasileira de Cultura Inglesa (1972 to 1997). Translator of Psychology and Human Sciences books, since 1993, more than 20 titles publisheds by diverse publishing companies, among them "Adventures of Self-discovery ", by Stanislav Grof (Summus Editorial). Interpreter specialized in Transpersonal Psychology and in Spirituality. Intermittent interpretation: courses and pronounced lectures by Stanislav Grof and Tav Sparks, since 1995, in Sao Paulo and in Goiania. Simultaneous Interpretation: Yoga Seminaries, Holy Writ Indian Spirituals and Hindu Philosophy, carried through SYDA Foundation (since 1999). www.estruturaetexto.com

Antonio Fernando Cabral Della Coletta, Bachelor´s Degree, BA Economics, Universidade Mackenzie, 1995 and E-Business International Consultant: 2002 - US Dept of Commerce, Washington DC, EUA; 2003 - International Certified E-Commerce Consultants, License #1694; 2004 - Development Gateway Foundation-KTC, Seoul, South Korea. Professional experience in companies as: General Eletric do Brasil, S.A., HERTZ Rent a Car, American Airlines, Inc., Rosenbluth International, Claro Telecomunicações, Upaid Brasil Ltda., TIM w.e., SEBRAMI Holding, and many more. Professional with 21 years of work experience mainly in management and executive director. Career developed in industry, tourism, and telecommunication and technology industries, acting directly in areas such as: strategic planning, new business development, corporate marketing, and marketing products, sales, administration and finance. He is fluent in English and Spanish languages.

Target Audience
Students graduate in any higher education courses, in any area of knowledge.

Registration
Through the registration form requested by interested.

Workshop Local
Espaço Natureza Arco-Íris
Estrada do Mikami, 245-16
Bairro do Carmo - São Roque - SP
Fone: (0 xx 11) 4714.0623
E-mail: arcoiris@espacoarcoiris.com.br
www.espacoarcoiris.com.br
mapa via google
Instructions: Exit of Sao Paulo by Rodovia Raposo Tavares (SP-270) going to the exit 45 (at Vargem Grande Paulista). At exit 45 below in the direction of Ibiúna by Rodovia Bunjiro Nakao (SP-250) to Km 48. Start right where the signs indicative starts for the Nature Area Arco-Iris. Further details of the map can be viewed on location in the www.espacoarcoiris.com.br


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