What is this Residency?

“From Neurons to Nations: learning to embody a spacious, wise and engaged relationship to ourselves, others and the world!”

A residency is a place where we learn to live well and wisely with ourselves, others and in the world. We practice with our inner and relational reactivity so that we can learn to respond appropriately instead. We get to cook, work and play with a diverse group of people coming from many countries. We will be practicing all sorts of awareness practies (mindfulness, compassion, movement, art, diary), engage in small-group circles where we focus on the way in which our present moment embodied experience is affected by the speech and presence of others, and community sessions where we explore emergent questions about our society, its greatness and the urgent challenges to address change. We will create as safe a container as possible to enable the emergence of embodied regulation, relational insights and embody an ambitious relationship to the world.

We emphasise learning & integrating: we will have propose several ways to learn the art and science of developing inner and relational resiliency through workshops and didactic sessions.  The immersion format allows for insights from structured experiential sessions to be integrated in relationships during the residency itself. The online sessions before and after we meet in Bergerac (France) allow for integration into one’s work, family and daily life because we want this process to impact your life in the long term! The residency includes time and space for you to continue your daily personal work and projects (up to 30-35 hours/week).

“It was amazing. In many ways, very joyful, very playful, meaningful interactions, whether it was in groups or dyads”
– Camille M., Researcher, 2023 Residency Participant in Bergerac

Register to join the info call on Wednesday May 22 @ 5:15-6:15pm CEST

Why Be More Relationally Embodied?

The quality of our relationships has recently shown to be an important factor for mental health. In school we did not learn how to build strong relationships, how to repair a connection when a rupture occurred, or how to express our needs for safety and emotional support. This residency aims to strengthen our way of engaging in relationships (towards secure attachment patterns) so that we can feel freer to be ourselves with others, and build strong bonds with others and the world. 3 Steps are proposed:

• Regulate: We will learn to self-regulate &  co-regulate, which means we learn to support one another to feel better together. We learn to feel better somatically (in our body), emotionally (feeling well-being) and socially (feeling more embedded with others). We embody a responsive, not reactive, connexion to ourselves and others.
• Restore: From this sense of connection, safety and confidence, our patterns of disconnection from others, and dysregulation and dissociation from our own bodies (related to previous traumas) can soften and be released.
• Respond: As we grow our nervous system capacity and relational abilities, we have more space, agency and possibility for new ways of engaging with the world.

The conceptual framework for group sessions stems of psychodynamic and attachment theories as well as systems, somatic, social and positive psychology to support relational resiliency. We emphasize “neuroceptive safety” which means we specifically attempt to modulate the containment of the group to skilfully face the challenges emerging, and embody the resources developed. For example, we start with a short embodiment practice at the beginning of the session to prime for somatic sensitivity and speaking from a place of experience. As the group builds in its quality of compassion, mutual support and enjoyment, it become a womb-like experience which enables a deep nervous system regulation for the group as a whole. Joining us in this residency, you benefit by:

• Sensing and caring for the different states of your nervous system (self-regulation)
• Find out how you are impacted by others in an embodied way (co-regulation), and liberate yourself from constricting relational habits
• Being able to express yourself more authentically with others (perspective-taking), understand and appreciate others’ point of view (empathy)
• Learning the basic processes of creating safe-group spaces and group interventions (facilitation)
• Inquiring skilfully, in an embodied way, into difficult questions we are facing today as a society and as a species

Register to join the info call on Wednesday May 22 @ 5:15-6:15pm CEST

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What Practices are Involved?

• Awareness Practices: One of the most important ways to become resilient and increase our ability to cope with challenges is to learn self-regulation. We will be practicing evidence-based practices such as mindfulness, compassion, somatic orientation, tai-chi, yoga and keeping a short daily diary.
  
• Workshops: Here we will practice basic embodiment and relational skills, incuding some nervous system and positive psychology practices of orientation, enjoyment, active listening, perspectival essentials, self- and co-regulation.
• Buddy sessions: Every participant will be paired with another residency participant to have a daily chat about how things are going. This is an opportunity to explore joys and challenges in the residency, as well as practicing some of the relational skills you are wishing to learn.
• Resiliency Circles (RC): These are the core practices in the residency, where we form groups of 6-8 participants with 2 professional facilitators, and we focus on the present moment emergence of our inner experience as we engage with others in the group. We get to feel news ways of relating to ourself, relating to others and strengthen our ability to be securely attached, which means that we can stay in connection with others whatever we are experiencing inside.
  • RC’s will have a didactic emphasis, where facilitators share the basics of how we create safe-enough group facilitation spaces and the group gradually learns to run with its facilitators.
• Meta-Circles (MC): In these sessions we meet as a whole community and explore the relevant themes, joys and challenges that are coming up in the residency, and in our societies. It’s an opportunity to feel into a larger group process of collective affect and social intelligence, regulate the comunity, and also have some time in the smaller RC group to integrate these experiences.
• Open Spaces: There will be a daily opportunity to propose skills that you would like to offer to the comunity, sing, dance and have fun! These sessions allow us to meet, enjoy and learn from one another without the professional facilitators, and self-organize as a community.
• Collective Care: We will spend about 1h to care for the beautiful house every day. Everyone will choose one small duty and collectively we will enjoy living in clean and cared for spaces.
• Personal Sessions: Facilitators are professionally trained in somatic regulation with many years of experience and you can benefit from their support by requesting 1h 1:1 sessions. These sessions will help you to integrate challenges you may be going through, emotions emerging as a result of interactions in the residency or general behaviour patterns which cause suffering. These are paid in addition to the residency fee (€100/hour) and you can have as many as the schedule allows for.

As you can see, we will have any opportunities to practice becoming weller and wiser 🙂 We will also allow for plenty of time for integration of these experiences and see how they can be transferred in our daily lives for long-term benefit.

Calendar & Schedule

There are 3 phases: first we meet online for 2 weeks, then in person, then online for 2 weeks. Participants joining us for 1 week in Bergerac will not join the in-person sessions There are 2 groups (all CET timezone):

• Group #1:
  • Online sessions Tuesdays @ 4:30-6pm: (before Bergerac) June 4, 11 & (after Bergerac) July 2, 9
  • In Bergerac: Mon-Tues-Thurs-Fri @ 4:30-6pm
• Group #2:
  • Online sessions on Thursdays @ 7:15-8:45pm: (before Bergerac) June 6, 13 & (after Bergerac) July 4, 11
  • In Bergerac: Mon-Tues-Thurs-Fri @ 7:15-8:45pm

In-person 2-week schedule in Bergerac

The in-person residency starts Sunday June 16th and Sunday June 23rd at 7:15pm, and ends on June 30th at Breakfast.

Note: As a condition for acceptance, in addition to all online sessions before & after the in-person residency, participants must commit to attend the workshops, all RC sessions and the Meta-Circles.

Where is it?

We will be meeting online (zoom) for the first 4 sessions, and the we are meeting in person in the lovely and virbant city of Bergerac, France. All sessions will take place at the Life Itself Bergerac Hub. The team will live offsite, and come in daily to facilitate the sessions.

Research

This residency is part of research programme, and we will be asking you if you would like to participation in our study. If you’re interested, we will ask your permission to use your data (anonymimized with pseudonyms) that will be collected throughout the residency. This data will include pre-residency questionnaires and input from your electronic diary entries. This is a preparatory project for a research programme led by Boaz Feldman at Harvard University, in collaboration with Marc Santolini, PhD. Since this residency is led by Boaz from NeuroSystemics, there is a conflict of interest. It provides funding to the study by receiving compensation from participants to the RER program to cover the rent of the residency location and the modest facilitator salaries. The PI of this project, Marc Santolini, does not have any ties to Neurosystemics and does not directly benefit from any positive result from this study, which moderates the conflict of interest. We THANK YOU very much for your help making science more personalized and helpful to build resiliency for all beings.

Prices

See below for price options. Please note that you will be asked to pay an additional €15 for membership registration of the hub when you arrive in person, to be considered in addition to the prices below.

Additional notes:

• Prices below include all meals (no prepared meals on week-end) and accomodation as well as training sessions and groups, unless stated otherwise.
• Discounts: We offer a 20% discount for CARE Training graduates, 15% discount for couples, and 10% discount if you refer a friend to register. For more information, please send us an email at bf@neurosystemics.org.
• Instalments: For instalment payment options, please send us an email at bf@neurosystemics.org
• Group preference: If you have a preference for Group 1 or group 2 in terms of session timing, please share this when you fill out the questionnaire.

Before registering and paying below, please fill out the googleform questionnaire here. We will then be in touch with you to conduct an interview.

Register to join the info call on Wednesday May 22 @ 5:15-6:15pm CEST

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Food

We will be offering fresh vegan dishes, with optional cheese and milk. We will try to accommodate food intolerances, yet please know that we do not guarantee adapting our menus accordingly. Please let us know as soon as possible so we can plan as best as possible.

Commitments

We ask that all participants practice committing to:

• Attendance: we expect everyone to do your best to attend all Resiliency Circle, Workshop and Meta-Circle Sessions
• Self-exploration: we’re hoping to be our most authentic selves here, especially mindful of substance use during all weekdays of the in-person residency.

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Klinik Mentorluk Programı (CMP)

NeuroSystemics olarak, bireysel ve grup merkezli somaik ve pozitif psikoloji uygulamalarına yönelik, karmaşık sistemler, sinir bilimi ve evrimsel psikoloji çerçevelerinden beslenen klinik eğitimler sunuyoruz.  CMP’nin amacı, bireysel mentorluk için sağlam bir yol sunmak, beceriler geliştirmek ve NeuroSystemics yaklaşımında klinik yeterliliği sertifikalandırmaktır. Bu yaklaşım, şu konulara odaklanır:

• Somatik, imgeleme ve anlam oluşturma yoluyla danışanların çok boyutlu öz düzenleme becerilerini desteklemek
• Şefkat, iyi niyetli görmezden gelme, cana yakınlık, neşe, sıkı duruş, şükran ve keder becerilerini geliştirmek
• Danışanların bizim varlığımız aracılığıyla ortak düzenleme yapmalarına ve sinir sistemi düzeyinde güvende hissetmenin ne anlama geldiğini öğrenmelerine yardımcı olacak terapötik bir duruş sergilemek
• Pozitif psikoloji yaklaşımıyla, danışanlarınız için doğru olana odaklanmalarını sağlayarak pozitif yönde pekiştirmek ve güçlü yönlerini geliştirmek
• Danışanların mevcut anda tam olarak nerede olduklarını ve müdahalelerimiz sayesinde nereye doğru gidebileceklerine – örneğin, yeniden travmatize olmayı önlemek için bir travmaya girişmek için çok erken olup olmadığını değerlendirmek – uyumlanmak için temel sinir sistemi aşamalarını belirlemek; örneğin, yeniden travmatize olmayı önlemek için bir travmaya girişmek için çok erken olup olmadığını değerlendirmek

Sertifikasyon Programı

Klinik Mentorluk Programı, klinik yeterliliği belgelemek için bu yaklaşımdaki becerileri geliştirme fırsatı sağlar. Ayrıca, aşağıda özetlenen Klinik Yeterlilik Kriterleri (CliCC) içerikleriyle (i) bireysel ve (ii) grup seansı uygulamalarında “Yetkin’ & ‘Uzman” olmak üzere, NeuroSystemics’e ait iki seviyede yeterlilik doğrulaması sağlar.

Fakülte (Boaz Feldman ve Heath Wilson), NeuroSystemics Klinik Yeterlilik Kriterlerini (CliCC) kullanarak katılımcılarla, gelişimlerini desteklemek için şeffaf ve üretken bir şekilde mevcut yeterlilik düzeylerini değerlendirir.

Program Pragmatiği

NeuroSystemics fakültesi, üretken bir yeterlilik oluşturma ve doğrulama sürecinde CMP katılımcılarıyla birlikte çalışır. Bu, 2 adımlı bir süreçtir. İlk adımda katılımcılar SENSE & SELF uygulama yeterliliğiyle başlar ve ancak bu adım “Yeterlilik düzeyinde” doğrulandıktan sonra, SOCIAL uygulama yeterliliği geliştirilebilir.

Bu programın tamamlanması, öğrencinin yeterliliğini garanti etmez. Katılımcıların ‘Yeterli’ veya ‘Uzman’ yeterlilik seviyelerinin gerekliliklerini tamamlamak için CMP uygulamalarını genişletmeleri gerekebilir. Fakülte ile yapılacak olan 1:1 seanslar için bir tercüman kullanılabilir. Kaydedilen seansları ve analiz içeriklerini yazıya dökmek mümkündür.

Seans kayıtları & analizleri için yönergeler

Kaydedilen seanslar:

• Kaydedilen tüm seanslar için, danışanın kayıt ve süpervizyon süreci için izni alınır (kaydedilen seansta veya yazılı olarak).
• Kayıt ekranında hem danışan(lar)ın hem de kolaylaştırıcı(lar)ın görülmesi gerekir.
• Lütfen ses ve videonun internet kesintisi olmadan yüksek kalitede olduğundan emin olun.
• Lütfen kaydı 1:1 oturumlar için maksimum 45 dakika olacak şekilde tutun.

Seans analizleri:

• Lütfen video kaydını hem danışan(lar) hem de kolaylaştırıcı(lar) görünecek şekilde Zoom’da bir “ekran paylaşma” seçeneği olarak görüntüleyin.
• Lütfen seansın tamamını izleyin ve seanstayken niyetinizi ve içsel sürecinizi anlatmak için kaydı durdurun. Bu, seans sırasındaki müdahalelerinizin ardındaki yorumlarınızı, hipotezlerinizi ve niyetlerinizi göstermeyi amaçlamaktadır.
• Lütfen ses ve videonun internet kesintisi olmadan yüksek kalitede olduğundan emin olun.
• Lütfen analizi maksimum 20 dakika tutun. 

Uygunluk

CMP, NeuroSystemics Fakültesinin NeuroSystemics Uygulayıcılarına (NSP’ler – CARE Eğitimi mezunları) ve eşdeğer 400 saatlik eği7me sahip diğer uygulayıcılara mentorluk sunması için yapılandırılmış bir programdır. 

“Bu uygulamanın faydaları her yöne ve tüm hayata ulaşsın ve onu beslesin.” 

• supported, held to explore appreciation for what is already here and now—even in a storm—and
• inspired to take that next step into the exciting, expanding unknown with your personal growth journey.

Resiliency Circles

NeuroSystemicsTM is a community-based methodology bridging ancient wisdom traditions, evolutionary neurosciences and systemic understanding to offer an integrative path to resilient healing, passionate living and awakening.

Resiliency Circles (RC) offer a unique environment to experience a safe, enjoyable and educational relational space. Trained professionals hold a compassionate and sensitive attitude to include all the parts of everyone present – orienting towards unconditional acceptance and appreciation. As the process unfolds, the RC’s therefore open the door to a palpable sense of peace, intimacy and connection with one another. As the group builds trust and learns to feel strong while sometimes showing vulnerability, the potential for healing, resiliency and awakening is exponential!

The purpose of an RC is primarily for individuals to experience and integrate a sense of belonging through their nervous system; the group work involves a psychotherapeutic process by including the missing and often alienated aspects of our being through the safe container held by the therapists and the quality of interaction between group members.

Practically, after a short introduction from the therapists, group members are invited to share freely whatever is on their mind/heart and there begins the free association conversation and spontaneous sharing. Each person manifests themselves differently, and the RC enables group members to embody a sense of belonging by appreciating the diversity of life experiences, points of view. Finally, as the group builds in its quality of compassion and enjoyment, it becomes a womb-like experience which supports deep nervous system regulation for all members.

Clinically proven benefits include:

• Reduction of stress, anxiety, depression, addiction and trauma
• Development of resiliency, emotional regulation and cognitive functioning
• Reduction of chronic issues such as sleeping problems, chronic pain
• Embodiment of social belonging and meaning

Who is the RC for?

Anyone wishing to

• Enrich their relational skills
• Develop new ways of feeling empathic, non-judgmental and compassionate
• Be seen, be heard and welcomed in a genuine atmosphere of vulnerability
• Learn how to be in groups with greater levels of ease, comfort and confidence
• Enjoy a safe space
• Form meaningful relationships

Date

Fee

5O Euro per session (financial support can be discussed with Heath and Rebekka for those in need)

Un cadeau/A gift

Le don de l’enseignement est considéré comme le plus grand des dons dans la tradition bouddhiste. Il nécessite beaucoup d’expérience, de réflexion et de ressentis pour élaborer une perspective dharmique, un modèle conceptuel de la sagesse et des propositions stratégique pour pratiquer. Cela se traduit par l’accomplissement d’années de retraite de méditation silencieuse, de nombreux séminaires, des formations dans diverses traditions et une motivation soutenue. Ressentons-nous de la gratitude pour cette offrande de l’enseignement ? Une ouverture du cœur peut-elle se faire sentir ?

The gift of teaching is considered the greatest gift in the Buddhist tradition. It requires a lot of experience, reflection and feeling to develop a dharmic perspective, a conceptual model of wisdom and strategic proposals for practicing. This translates into completing years of silent meditation retreat, numerous seminars, training in various traditions, and sustained motivation. Do we feel grateful for this offering of teaching? Can an opening of the heart be felt? 

Une pratique du coeur/A practice of the heart

Le dāna est une invitation à observer nos propres sentiments. L’enseignement reçu a-t-il été bénéfique ?  Quelle valeur accordons-nous à ce qui a été reçu ? Ce qui importe dans la pratique de la générosité n’est pas le montant que nous donnerons, mais plutôt l’intention avec laquelle nous donnons. Un dāna, aussi petit soit-il, ne sera jamais insignifiant si la motivation de générosité qui l’accompagne est authentique. Que veut-il dire d’être généreux ici et maintenant?

Dāna is an invitation to observe our own feelings. Was the teaching received beneficial? What value do we place on what has been received? What matters in practicing generosity is not how much we give, but rather the intention with which we give. A dāna, no matter how small, will never be insignificant if the motivation of generosity that accompanies it is genuine. What does it mean to be generous here and now?

Un activisme contemplatif/A contemplative activism

Dans nos sociétés principalement ancrées dans le néolibéralisme capitaliste, l’argent est devenue un fin en soi et tout devient marchandise. La tradition du dāna que le bouddha a mis en place il y a 2600 ans avait pour fonction de promouvoir une co-dépendance entre les monastiques et les laïques. Les laïques subvenaient aux besoin des monastiques s’ils considéraient que ces derniers leurs enseignaient le dharma (l’enseignement du bouddha) judicieusement. Il y avait un rapport de confiance, de bienveillance et des liens personnels tissés entre eux. Les monastiques recevaient plus des robes, des logements et de la nourriture que de l’argent. L’argent dépersonnalise l’échange et donneur et receveur, en utilisant une devise tierce. Aujourd’hui l’argent est indispensable, mais peut-être est-il possible de se remémorer de ce lien principalement convivial et chaleureux qui caractérisait la relation de soutien entre les laïques et les monastiques. Donner/dépenser de l’argent peut aussi être considérer comme un vote pour quelque chose. Combien dépense-t-on sur la technologie, sur le divertissement, sur ce qui nous apporte de la sagesse et de la bienveillance? Que souhaitons-nous soutenir et encourager dans notre société?

In our societies mainly anchored in capitalist neoliberalism, money has become an end in itself and everything becomes a commodity. The dāna tradition that the Buddha established 2,600 years ago had the function of promoting co-dependence between monastics and laypeople. Lay people provided for the needs of monastics if they considered that the latter taught them the dharma (the teaching of the Buddha) judiciously. There was a relationship of trust, kindness and personal bonds established between them. Monastics received robes, lodgings and food more than money. Money depersonalizes the exchange and gives and receives, using a third currency. Today money is essential, but perhaps it is possible to remember this mainly friendly and warm bond which characterized the supportive relationship between lay people and monastics. Giving/spending money can also be seen as a vote for something. How much do we spend on technology, on entertainment, on what brings us wisdom and kindness? What do we want to support and encourage in our society?