Exploring Your Underground Stream
Going Deeper Using Progoff’s Intensive Journal Method“Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel most alive…that is where God is.”
~ St. Ignatius of Loyola
Freedom Invites the Movement of the Spirit
St. Ignatius and his Spiritual Exercises are a path to interior freedom, a path to coming to know ourselves as God knows us recognizing that all of who we are is who God loves. This January you are inviting to go more deeply on this path as we gather for, Exploring Your Underground Stream: Going Deeper Using Progoff’s Intensive Journal Method.
Combining the work of Dr. Ira Progoff (Intensive Journal Method) and Dr. Richard Schwartz (Internal Family Systems), this program invites you to come to understand yourself which includes meeting and dialoguing with your inner child(ren). According to Schwartz, we are all influenced on a daily basis by how these “parts” feel even though we are unaware. According to Progoff, if we follow the trail of the thoughts and feelings that come up over and over in our dialogues, we will see the pattern of these thoughts and feelings.
Grow in Compassion for Ourselves (and Others)
In this 5-week program, you will learn to recognize what you inner child is telling you and how your inner critic is trying to help (even though it rarely feels helpful). For most of us, our “Getting on with Life” part pushes aside the tender feelings and underlying fears or concerns of our deeper parts. We needed to do this as a survival mechanism in our youth. But the young parts continue to make them selves heard by acting out until we allow them to be heard compassionately. All of our parts have a lot of wisdom to share – are you ready to listen?
Triggers Allow Us to Transform
You will learn (and practice) numerous journaling techniques from Progoff’s journaling method and gain skill in “connecting the dots.” These connections will take you deeper and enable you to get in touch with you unconscious which remembers everything. Bringing these connections to the surface offers the opportunity to be open to whatever healing is needed in your life. Bringing these connections to the surface offers the opportunity to be open to whatever healing is needed in your life.
Everything is Connected
Some of the specific journaling techniques you will learn are: how to dialogue with persons (including inner child), body, and situations; how to recognize what Progoff calls a “feedback lead” and what to do with them; intersections (or the road not taken) to learn what might still be unlived in your life; and exploring what Progoff calls “The Open Moment” which is where your life is leading you at this moment in time.
Living our lives as God calls us to live them – loving ourselves and others as best we can every day – invites us to understand ourselves more deeply. For it is in our growing in awareness that we grow in freedom to choose, kicking the “knee-jerk” reactions to the curve and choosing to respond in love to ourselves and those God places in our path.
This program will be held (via Zoom) on five consecutive Wednesday evenings from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. beginning on Wednesday January 15, 2025. Each session will include instruction, journaling, as well as both small and large group sessions for discussion and support.
A donation of $70 is requested. This donation includes all materials and certificates.
WVIS wants to make its programs available to all who want to attend. Partial scholarships are available by emailing WVIS Executive Director at exec.director@wvis.org.
SPACE IS LIMITED TO FIRST 20 PARTICIPANTS
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