The Psychology of Love
Counselling Skills Training with Nishant Matthews
2011-12, start: September 2-5, 2011
Inside the familiar world of Personality, there is another world, the world of Being. Here we
see with clear eyes, feel with a tender, strong heart, and think with an open, trusting mind. We recognize the fundamental goodness in our
selves, and we can see that in other people as well. Love is as natural as the sun coming up in the morning. We don’t live in perpetual need of
love, because we freely give love. In fact, we know that deep inside us, we are love.
The Psychology of Love Training recognizes this love as the basic truth in all of us. It also
recognizes that this basic truth has been hidden under the thoughts, feelings, fears, desires, and busyness of our Personality systems. Even
while it is mostly hidden, we also know that our deepest longing is to live the truth of the love that we have inside us.
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How do we come to know the reality of this love?
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How do we feel it? Hear it? Live the truth of it?
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How do we bridge the reality of inner love with our outer personality? How can the reality of love inside us be a strong support for living our lives courageously, creatively, heartfully, and with a good sense of humor?
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How do we live our love in such a way that it supports other people to also know the love inside themselves?
The Training Courses
Part 1: September 2-5, 2011
Psychology of Love - The Friend
a. Understanding how we came to separate from ourselves
b. Learning how to journey inside the self, from the false to the real
c. Learning the skills of protecting our self from our own judgement
d. Learning to relate to others from the Friend place inside ourselves
e. Discovering and living the flow of energy from the core self
Part 2: November 18-21, 2011
True Nature —learning how to productively relate with yourself and others
a. Understanding and releasing super-ego patterns
b. Heart Presence skills - how to be heartful with yourself and others in difficult times
c. Working with difficult emotions like anger, fear, and grief
d. Learning to ground the personal heart in the bigger, impersonal heart Part 3: January 27-30, 2012
Identity—what it is, what it isn’t, where it comes from, and why we are so addicted to it
Also a glimpse into what happens on the other side of identity
a. Hear presence skills
b. The ability to ground in the present time heart while exploring memory and future
c. The earthed heart
d. Learning to go to the boundaries of Identity
e. The art of compassion "Whatever I feel must be in others also..."
Part 4: April 13-16, 2012
The River—the trust that allows life flow.
Every river reaches the ocean. Every feeling that is allowed to flow will flow in the direction of Love.
a. Connection with the Bigger Field of Love consciousness
b. Exploring the connection of the personal with the Impersonal
c. Dying and being re-born...on a daily basis
d. The heart skills which can explore into the Flow of Being
These courses will be a valuable training for your own personal living, as well as a time of learning
counseling skills for working with other people. You will learn to work from 3 different positions, to have 3 different points of view available
for your understanding of yourself and other people.
1) Human (Friend)
The ability to relate as a friend. Offering an open-hearted, non-judgmental point of view. As a
friend, we realize we are basically all the same, all of us are in the same boat together and that through the path of friendliness we can learn
how to open the doors into our own Being and the Being of others.
2) Inspiration Place
This is the ability to look at the situation with fresh, clear eyes. To see things as if we are
seeing them for the first time, to discover life and people without carrying so much memory and mind. As we learn the art of discovering, we get
the kind of inspiration that comes "out of the Blue." In learning to trust Inspiration, we come to know the presence of Grace and Impersonal
Love, that we are part of something bigger than just our separate, individual selves, and that this bigger something can also be our best
Friend.
3) Professional
A professional understanding of the psyche as a manifestation of Love and Being. A clear map of how our
psychological systems are organized and how these systems work.
The Training Program Overview
The Psychology of Love is a training program in the art of living in contact with your True
Nature. This training is both to familiarize you with the reality of True Nature, and to give you the skills and understanding to help others
also discover and live in their True Nature.You could call it a training for living in active Compassion.
Participation is open to people who have some experience in working with emotions and the
underlying spiritual dimensions. Please contact the organizers and/or Nishant if you have any questions about your own personal
situation.
The program is designed as an integrated, whole unit. It may be possible to participate in one section at a
time if there is place available, but the most benefit will come from following the entire sequence of development.
Dates:
September 2-5, 2011 The Psychology of Love
November 18–21, 2011 The Friend
January 27-30, 2012 Wholeness
April 13–16, 2012 Identity
Location: Riddersviks Gård, Stockholm, Sweden
Route description: Riddersviks Gård is located in Hässelby in
Western Stockholm, 19 km from central Stockholm. A route description will be sent to you after your application has been
registered.
Course fee:
Private participants: 30.000 SEK course fee (7.500 SEK x 4), vegetarian food and accommodation. VAT (moms) included.
Companies: 45.000 SEK course fee (11.250 SEK x 4), vegetarian food and accommodation. VAT (moms)
included.
For additional 350 SEK per module, you are guaranteed a single room.
It is possible to pay for each module separately.
Application: Send your name, address and telephone number to
divine.events [at] telia.com and pay 4.000 SEK application fee (from Sweden) to bankgiro 257-8011, (from outside Sweden) IBAN
SE406000000000024448282, BIC: HANDSESS. Your place is guaranteed only after fully paid registration fee. All fees should be paid 14 days prior to
the start of the course. There is no refund for cancellations less than 1 week before the beginning of the course.
Information: The course language is English. Priority is given to participants
who are registering for the entire sequence. If space is available, it is possible to attend individual courses.
The courses begin at 10 AM on Friday (last course Wednesday) and end Sunday around 5 PM.
More info:
Lisa Edwards, phone +46-(0)8-662 11 94, GSM
+46-(0)73-960 42 80, divine.events [at] telia.com
Recommended reading:
Nishant Matthews: The Friend:
Finding Compassion with Yourself, O-Books, 2010.
For more information on Nishant's book The Friend, please visit The Friend website.
You can watch an interview with Nishant on www.conscious.tv here: |