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What
Is A Percept Training?
Our Percept training is usually a 7-day residential
experience. Group sizes vary between twenty to thirty participants, depending
on the facility. We design the training to allow participants time for rest
and discovery. Trainings include indoor activities done individually and
as part of the larger group, outdoor activities, meditation, yoga, movement,
and dream work. Participants engage to the degree that thery feel is appropriate
for them. We hold our trainings at secluded, peaceful, yet expansive resorts,
lodges, or retreat centers. All meals are included as part of our community
building experience.
All of the experiential activities are designed to encourage participants
to move through their
next step in a four-step process that includes:
- Awareness: In our Percept trainings we try to stimulate awareness
as a full bodied experience, not just a cerebral glimpse at ourselves.
We do this through engaging in multiple sensory experiences-a wide variety
of activities intended to stimulate, deepen, and reorganize your sense
of yourself.
- Acceptance: Our training environments exclude all praise and blame,
which makes it much more likely for participants to accept that
which they become aware of. The attitudinal environment we create, of
openness and curiosity, replaces the more common environment of judgment
and certainty.
- Awaiting: We design our training as 7-day residential intensives,
because this allows enough time for people to await themselves-to
be surprised as their internal reorganization takes place. In our culture,
waiting is less and less common, as we seek immediate gratification.
We believe that in the urgency of our times, something precious is lost-a
deeper part of who we are.
- Action: The last step in this four-step process, which is never final,
is acting in a new way. To do this within a learning community,
which is how we view our training, provides a rare opportunity to be
witnessed as the distinct individual that you are now.
During a Percept training, we create experiences that are designed to stimulate
core issues for the participants; these issues have to do with self-identity,
abandonment, and contact. These experiences are gentle in nature, because
we believe people discover more when they feel safe. Many of the experiences
are non-verbal and there is a good deal of emphasis on movement. The movement
is a metaphor, celebrating the idea that we are not really stuck, but that
we have temporarily become habituated in our patterns of living.
The processing of these experiences is then done verbally--using the Percept
language--in a way that promotes understanding and integration, so that
participants step more fully into themselves. Speaking in Percept is a chance
to say ourselves in a new way and a chance to construct new meanings for
ourselves.
Next... The people behind
Percept
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