What We Teach
School Pillars
Three branches, one training: the breath, the craft, and the maps that hold them
Our school rests on a holistic charter: body, emotion, spirit and collective held together, the body as the temple of the soul, the unconscious as a reserve of resources, change through acceptance, and therapy as a political act. From these grow three branches — Holotropic Breathwork and experiential work, counselling and psychotherapy skills, and consciousness maps and research — woven together across the four years.
Our techniques
The Transpersonal Therapist
Three branches, one training. Everything we teach grows from these pillars.
- Body, emotion, spirit and collective, held together
- The unconscious as a reserve of resources
- Change through acceptance, not against the problem
Holotropic Breathwork & Experiential Work
Working with non-ordinary states of consciousness and the group field.
Holotropic Breathwork The heart of the training: accelerated breathing, evocative music and focused bodywork open the door to non-ordinary states of consciousness.
The heart of the experiential training. Developed by Stanislav Grof, it combines accelerated breathing, evocative music and focused bodywork to enter non-ordinary states of consciousness. Breath acts as a “controllable stress” that gives access to biographical, perinatal and transpersonal material; sessions are integrated through mandala drawing, sharing and bodywork.
In the school’s language, the continuous breath puts you in contact with your boundaries — and boundaries are doors.
Working with Groups Where theory becomes lived experience — supervised practice, somatic work, and the group itself as a tuned field of co-regulation.
The residential intensives and weekly meetings are where theory becomes lived experience. In the group, students apply the frameworks studied in the lectures, practice one-to-one sessions with each other under supervision, and go through somatic and body-oriented work — movement, contact, trust and sensory exercises — alongside meditation and shared silence. The group itself becomes a tuned field: a container of co-regulation where each nervous system supports the others, and where the material that a single person cannot hold alone can finally move.
Trance, Ritual & Expressive Tools Drumming, guided imagery, mandalas and metaphoric cards let the deeper languages of consciousness speak past the rational mind.
Across the training, trance is treated as the working medium of transpersonal therapy: drumming and rhythm, guided imagery, dream-body movement, metaphoric cards, mandalas and drawing all serve to bypass the rational “critical factors” and let the deeper languages of consciousness — sensation, emotion, image, symbol — speak.
“The continuous breath puts you in contact with your boundaries — and boundaries are doors.”
Counselling & Psychotherapy Skills
The craft of the individual session, client by client.
The Central — Recognition of the Central Drama and the Essence Rainer Pervoltz, Stefan Dressler The school’s core one-to-one method: recognising the survival drama learned in childhood, and reconnecting with the essence beneath it.
The core one-to-one method of the school. The “old central” is the survival mechanism learned in childhood — a central drama built on separation and the conviction that life is not safe, guarded by the inner critic and endlessly replayed through the victim–perpetrator dynamic. The work is to recognise this drama in the body, in relationships and in communication, befriend its guardian, and reconnect with the essence: who we are beneath the survival strategy.
Rainer works within this method drawing on Process Work and Gestalt: tracking the edge between the known identity and the emerging process, reading resistance and body signals as information, and completing in the here-and-now the unfinished situations that keep the drama alive — “what is, can be, and what can be, can change.”
Inner Child Work — Regression to Progression Jure Biechonski Guided regression, empty-chair dialogue and family sculpting — because it is never too late to have a happy childhood.
Problems are created by the imagination, so the imagination can dissolve them. Through guided regression, empty-chair dialogue, family sculpting and projective techniques, the client meets the inner child, feels what was never allowed to be felt, and changes the decision taken in the original moment — because “it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” The frame includes parentification, the Drama Triangle (rescuer–victim–persecutor) and transgenerational patterns.
Counseling Skills & Psychotherapy Skills Jure Biechonski, Lyudmila Skartsesku The craft foundation: listening as the golden tool, the three phases of a session, and a resource-oriented way of working with the healthy part.
The craft foundation: listening as the “golden tool,” and the three phases of a session — Exploring and Focusing, Understanding, Action. Students learn open questions, empathy, paraphrasing and reflecting feelings, the client’s “mind code” and criteria, challenging, goal setting, and gentle trance induction (“you cannot work with the subconscious in an ordinary state of consciousness”).
The approach is resource-oriented: the answers to our problems live in our state of consciousness, so the session gives resources to the traumatized part instead of fighting it. Body-based exercises shift the client’s state, “windows” in the session open spaces of possibility, and healing is reframed as building mutual acceptance and cooperation between inner figures and subpersonalities — always working with the healthy part, never against the problem.
“Experience without a map gets lost; a map without experience stays empty.”
Consciousness Maps & Research
The contexts that give meaning to the experience.
Love as a Spectrum of Consciousness Love read developmentally — and the clinical question of how old the client is right now.
Love itself is read as a spectrum of consciousness — from possessive, infantile ponya through eros and philia to transpersonal agape, anoya and charis (grace). Clinically decisive: the therapist asks “how old is the client in front of me right now?” and attunes the intervention to that developmental level, moving the client from love lived as suffering to love lived as offering.
Maps of the Psyche Jung, Assagioli, Grof, Dressler The cartographies students learn to navigate: Jung’s Self and shadow, Grof’s perinatal matrices, Dressler’s central drama.
The cartographies students learn to navigate: Jung’s model of ego, persona, shadow, complexes, collective unconscious and Self, with individuation as the path of integration; the archetypes as forms without content that organize psychic life; Grof’s Basic Perinatal Matrices, linking the stages of biological birth to recurring patterns of experience in non-ordinary states; and Stefan Dressler’s map of the central drama — separation and unsafety as the two roots, the inner critic as storyteller and guardian, the five core beliefs, and the victim–perpetrator structure — which gives the one-to-one method “The Central” its theoretical backbone.
Ancestral Trauma Trauma lives at three levels — personal, ancestral and collective — and family constellations make the ancestral one visible.
Trauma is not the event but the nervous system’s frozen response to it, and it lives at three levels: personal, ancestral, collective. Family constellations — based on Bert Hellinger’s Orders of Love and the knowing field — make the ancestral level visible: representatives embody parts of the client’s system, revealing entanglements with excluded or forgotten ancestors, and healing sentences and movements restore the natural flow.
Because an ancestral or collective field carries more charge than a single nervous system can process, this work belongs to the group: co-regulation, ritual and a tuned field let frozen material finally move. “Trauma moves when we feel safe.” The framework also connects with shamanic and indigenous healing traditions.
Shadow Work What we split off in order to be loved does not disappear; we reach it indirectly, through patterns, triggers and projections.
The Jungian frame of the shadow: to build a personality that earns love and belonging, we split off the traits our family and culture could not accept, and lock them in a vault. Since the shadow is designed to stay hidden, we approach it indirectly through its three mechanisms — patterns, triggers and projections. The premise: the shadow is not negative; the vault of the shadow holds our most powerful suppressed energies, and integration (“I don’t want to be a good person, I want to be a complete person” — Jung) is the aim.
Psychedelic Studies, Harm Reduction & Integration A study track, not a practice of the school: history, set and setting, ethics, and the craft of integration.
A study track (not a practice of the school) covering the history and therapeutic renaissance of psychedelics — from Grof’s LSD research to current clinical work — together with set and setting, harm reduction principles, facilitation ethics, and the crucial craft of integration: somatic, narrative, creative and relational tools for turning an expanded state into lasting change. Holotropic Breathwork is presented as the non-pharmacological path through the same territory.
The Hero's Journey & the Evolution of Consciousness Campbell’s monomyth as the deep structure of transformation, repeating at every scale of a life.
Campbell’s monomyth as the deep structure of transformation — the call, the crisis, the descent, the return — repeating fractally at every scale of a life. Alongside it, the study of humanity’s evolving “tools of evolution”: myths, rituals, tarot, philosophy and science as successive maps for navigating what is real.
The Body–Mind Foundations Damasio, Porges and van der Kolk — why breath, body and safe relationship are the primary levers of change.
The scientific ground of the experiential work: Damasio’s homeostasis and the theory of feelings as the mind’s report on the state of life; Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, co-regulation and the vagal brake; van der Kolk’s work on how the body keeps the score of trauma. Together they explain why breath, body and safe relationship are the primary levers of change.
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