Training
Phoenix Training Transformative Breathwork:
the 'next level' tool in counseling work
OBJECTIVE TRAINING
You integrate various forms of transformative breathwork, with the right framework
before, during and after the breathing session, in both individual counseling programs and in group sessions and workshops, with the aim of profound and lasting catharsis for body, mind and soul. Hereby going deeper than what can be named with words, reaching pre-verbal and repressed parts, bypassing the inhibitions of the adult prefrontal cortex and bringing old impressions and suppression to expression (instead of depression).
During a session of transformational breathing, you will guide people through the process of the Phoenix: breathing with fire through everything that presents itself in body, mind, heart and spirit so that what is no longer needed can 'burn', after which resurrection from the ashes can take place, and one can walk back into life reborn.
ADMITTED TO TRAINING
Psychotherapists, body-oriented therapists, couples therapists and sexologists, physicians, paramedics and coaches who are familiar with deep conversation and/or bodywork.
Those who feel equally qualified through continuing education may request an intake interview.
CONTENT TRAINING
You learn to use transformational breathwork as a powerful tool in individual counseling, in couple therapy and couple counseling (for improvement of the relationship dynamics, also very interesting for sexual problems), and you also learn how to use this for group counseling and in group sessions.
Besides theoretical frameworks that are partly handled through self-study and assignments, the emphasis during and between the training days is on experiencing and practicing the breathing techniques, coaching methods and other skills such as creating the musical framework (Spotify playlists or using your own music and sounds), being able to deal with both 'dark' trauma issues and 'enlightened' transpersonal and spiritual experiences that often occur during breathing sessions.
In addition, there is also ample attention to personal development, since a good breathwork facilitator should have no fear of triggering clients and of what then emerges of sadness, anger, fear, freeze, flight, fight reactions and all forms of expression during the transformative process that takes place.
Of course, a good breathwork facilitator must first have enough breathwork sessions themselves as a client on the counter, have faced and felt through birth traumas and other survival strategies, have resurrected one's own phoenix from the ashes multiple times.
After module 1 you will be a Transformational Breathwork Practitioner.
After fullfilling all exercises and assignments of module 2 and participating in module 3, you will receive the certificate of Professional Master Practitioner in Transformational Breathwork.
PRACTICAL ORGANIZATION
-Starting:
Online meeting about 14 days before the start of the training, for all practical arrangements regarding the set-up of the training in general and module 1 in particular. Participants get to know each other here so they can arrange carpooling if applicable.
Also, a whatsapp group will be made for interactions between participants in preparation of the training.
-Module 1:
Wednesday (welcome from 4 pm, start at 6 pm) until Sunday (2pm)
Location: Les Puiselets 4, 08340 Baâlons, French Ardennes (2 hours by train or car from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris; 1 hour by train or car from Reims TGV station).
Included: all inclusive stay, use of meditative garden with labyrinth, sauna and hot tub as relaxation and integration time in between!
-Module 2:
Between module 1 and 3 there is a self-study and practice period, in which you will need an average of 4-6h per week to further deepen your understanding of this training: self-study via given study materials, making assignments, practicing with each other and with (test)clients.
There will be 5 online Q&A moments (duration around 1h-1h30): dates to be determined in consultation with the participants.
-Module 3:
Wednesday (welcome from 4pm, start at 6pm) until Sunday (2pm)
Location: Les Puiselets 4, 08340 Baâlons, French Ardennes (2 hours by train or car from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris; 1 hour by train or car from Reims TGV station).
Included: all inclusive stay, use of meditative garden with labyrinth, sauna and hot tub as relaxation and integration time in between, and special ritual ending!
At this moment, no English spoken training group is scheduled. Please reach out if you are interested!
If you are interested in an intensive training, we also offer a different pathway with just some days (for integration, rest and tourist trips) in between module 1 and 3; module 2 comes in this pathway after module 3!
COST PRICE
We opt for an intensive program in small group (6 people).
Participation price is 3300 euro (excl. VAT 21% and travel costs):
-150 euro per night for accomodation, meals, wellness facilities = 1200 euro for 8 nights
-2100 euro for training, textbooks and follow-up
This includes:
- all contact moments online and in France
- 2 extensive full colour textbooks on all breathwork forms and aspects, written by Patricia Vanoutrive
- exercises, practice documents, assignments, playlists
- review of submitted assignments
- all overnight stays in France with full board and use of wellness facilities
- special ritual ending
- certification after participating fully in the training, completing the assignments and practicing with each other and test clients
Discounts:
Fast bird discount: if you register and pay at the latest 3 months before the training starts, you will receive a discount of 150 euros!
Early bird discount: register and pay at the latest 2 months before the training starts, then you get a discount of 75 euro!
If you introduce another participant (and you both sign in and follow the training), you get an extra discount of 150 euro (can be combined with the fast or early bird discounts).
Email patricia.vanoutrive@proximus.be to sign up!
WHO ARE WE?
This training is organized by FENIKS, your life, your transformation.
This organization is a co-creation of Hans and Patricia, lifelong companions, blessed together with 4 beautiful daughters (now grown up).
Patricia Vanoutrive (°1970) is the trainer in the program. She is a doctor, teacher, developmental coach, NLP-er, breathwork trainer, trauma release facilitator, hypnotherapist, group therapist, rites of passage facilitator. She is certified in various forms of transformative breathwork through trainings at Innercamp and Inner Journey, and also attended breath workshops elsewhere for broadening and deepening her knowledge and expertise in this field.
Her long experience as a medical doctor, coach and guide of searching people on their life path, and as professor in higher education, together with her many and various further trainings and certificates, ensures a profound and versatile approach, both in guiding individuals and groups and in giving trainings.
Hans De Doncker (°1967) is the power behind the scenes and spaceholder of Les Puiselets, who will provide tasty and healthy meals, the maintenance of the beautiful nature and the vineyard at our training site, fire in sauna and hot tub and positive, grounded male energy in the background. As a former top manager and experienced people-manager, coach and nature coach, firekeeper and firewalking guide, he is (in addition to being a point of contact for practical issues large and small) also present for those in need of a listening ear or the embrace of a solid, big-oak-man.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
Module 1:
-anatomy and physiology of breathing and the (autonomic) nervous system
-learning different types of breathing exercises and specific applications
-learning and experiencing conscious connected breathing as a technique and methodology
-indications and contraindications
-installing safety and trauma-informed approach
-freeze, flight, fight and variants
-birth(trauma) as blueprint, rebirthing
-other frequent traumas
-trauma and survival strategies, split off parts, shadow parts, ... (how centrifugal force took place in each of us, and how we can reverse it into centripetal force and reintegrate what was split off)
-confrontation with trauma, sadness, anger, pain (in body, mind and spirit) during breathwork
-transpersonal and spiritual experiences during breathwork
-how to start the process even before the breathing session starts: questionnaires beforehand, creative and in-depth explanations to clients, intention setting, warming-up and grounding exercises, vibration raising exercises
-how to guide during a breathwork session
-how to close the process and start integration
-sound and music during a breathwork session
-individual guidance versus group guidance
Module 2:
-literature study: reading and processing texbook 1, and additional (scientific) reports and texts
-making assignments for your personal and professional development as breathwork facilitator
-practice: working with each other and/or with others
-learning to make your own playlists on Spotify
-4 online Q&A sessions for answering all kinds of questions about theory, assignments, practice sessions, ...
Module 3:
-to a deeper layer of breathwork facilitation, finding your individuality
-developing patterns in doing breathwork, and how to break through them
-specific applications, specific target groups (e.g. children and adolescents, seniors, in company), variations on classical transformational breathing (e.g. breathing with eye-contact), combination with other methodologies (such as constellation work)
-applications with couples: how to integrate and apply transformational breathwork in couple therapy and couple work, specific couple protocols
-working with the 7 belts of tension
-daring to trigger clients
-holding space, awareness of your own patterns in this, guarding your own limits and energy
-from intention to affirmation
-from impression and suppression to expression: preventing and overcoming depression
-each breathwork session is a rite of passage: over 'the night of the soul' via 'the little death' to rebirth, the phoenix rises from its ashes
-how to organize and facilitate a rite of passage for individuals and groups, including breathwork
-other ways to reach altered states of consciousness, next to or simultaneously with breathwork (e.g. cocoa ceremony in combination with breathwork)
-ritual closing and handing over of certificates
