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Rituals in psychotherapyUmberta Telfener
utelfener@gmail.com
www.systemics.euSlide2
A common ritual: creating your safe place
Lets stand up, imagine the last time you felt very
very
well in situation in which you were alone. Where were
you?
P
ut
words to how you felt.
Go back to the situation, what did you see, hear and feel. Which was your posture, try and replicate it.
Connect a symbol to this feeling of wellness
We
will try and anchor itSlide3Slide4
A way of finding connections
A ceremony with magical intent
A way to connect to the extra dimensional world, to a higher self
A shift
to the right brain hemisphere and to a higher attention (going in
ϐ
and
ϑ
state)
A basic
means to enter an inner world, where normal limitations of time and place don’t apply.
There are spontaneous and intentional ritualsSlide5
To follow a
ritual
means
to use certain gestures, sounds, words, prayers, visualizations…
Some i
ntentional and repetitive ‘moves
’ to work
on some theme/ problems alerting the extra dimensional
/
subconscious world
.
T
o
create a link, to bridge the boundaries
between many worlds Slide6
The sacred journey of rituals
The spiritual/magical dimension
Insights, connections,
Psychic
domain:
The world of
inner world others: social outer
world of relationships
Slide7
The aim is to center oneself and to reach a unitary state, a connectionSlide8
Rites of passage
Are culturally shared steps through a door to a higher level of consciousness . A ‘trip’ as an appropriate way to enter `hidden’ knowledge, to share the `knowing’ and to be part of the group that `knows’.
It is important to experience something out of the ordinary, that impresses the initiate and makes him/her aware that it has reached a `higher’ level.Slide9Slide10
Awareness
Awareness is the means not the purpose
Becoming aware is not only a psychic event but allows the individual to inscribe into the universal. Allows the integration of the universal order, the contract between singular and
universalSlide11
Rituals allow to:
Create a cybernetic brain: many hearts and minds together
Access to emotions through doing
Introduce oneself as a participant observer
Reflect of implicit premises
Make distinctions and give words to instinctive actions
Accept/touch with hand complexity
Enhance/learn a double positioning: be within and outside
Transform structure in a process and make possible new narratives emerge
Change lexiconLook for the relational configuration, identify the danceLook for the local coherence
Trace resources ………………………………………..…………………………………………..Slide12
Look for an object that can represent your pain/problem or yourselfSlide13
A ritual doesn't offer a structured goal/concept/ chore but acts as a mirror that reflects the awareness level of the
subject.
Utilizing active practices allows to make every happening a shared experience and to create new order/disorder/interaction/organization
It offers an opportunity to improviseSlide14
Rituals allow
for
new narratives to emerge: from the
people involved,,
from the therapeutic encounter, from the encounter in the here and now. Allow to speculate the future,
to
connect the past with the
present.
Meanings emerge from the coordination of the coordination of actions and meanings since every understanding process has a constructive and social natureWe need to act reflexivelySlide15
Make a protective object for yourselfSlide16
Embodiment
Physical actions, steps, postures, dances, help to ‘anchor’ resolutions and belief
system’s
changes (embodied cognition). Repeating gestures helps to connect body and
mind
Rituals can also be seen as a support to structure the chaos around, to deal with
disorder
(order from noise, from disorder)
Especially if repeated often, they provide a structure and thus
safetySlide17
Repetition and rhythm
With the repetition of certain
mudras
(gestures), visualization, special breathing, auto-suggestion, mantras (specific words that have a deeper significance), symbols,
patterns
,
in a ritual we develop
a whole repertoire of tools for what we
can call “the communication with the self”.Slide18
Affirming and anchoring
Rituals are not rational but
help making connections.
They function as communal memory, containing culture and cosmology. They were the vault, the carrier of shared memories, probably long before there was symbolic language.
They help a
nchoring
experiences and insights and bringing them back to reminiscence in an automatic modeSlide19
T
here
are many ways to perform a
ritual:
some
are
very specific to a special culture, others are more universal.
There is no all-in-one
layout.
All ritual formats are intended as solemn ways to come into contact with the hidden, inside and outside yourself. A ritual allows to perform repetition, to enter an altered state of mind and to center oneself as a support for one’s own intuitive and sacred mind.How do you choose which ritual to perform?Slide20
Many rituals contain the same elements. These are:
purification,
transformation, healing
, the creation of a structure and
a connection,
making a
link …
It is important to separate from
daily reality (habits), to create a division between daily routine and the place of the ritual, by actively organizing it, but also by some extra relax, fasting or by seeking out a quiet place in nature, in company of a few significant others or on one’s own. Slide21
Phases
Dedication
, making clear for what reason and purpose the ritual is and who is addressed to
Preparation
,
creating the sacred
space
Purification
- physical and psychological cleansing, asking for mercy and forgiveness
Celebration, what are the modalities we have decided for honoring and performingDevotion,
making oneself small, letting go of the ego Petition
, making an offering, a proposition and maybe ‘a deal’ (asking for Grace / Healing / Blessing) Transformation: the liminality phase that seeds withinSlide22
Thank you for your attention!!!