The Facilitator Path - Certification in Transpersonal Psychology and Holotropic Breathwork
The path of the facilitator finds you along the way.
The steps you may explore below.
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The Holotropic Breathwork Method -
Self-Experience
Experiencing a workshop with a Grof Transpersonal Training® certified facilitator is an excellent starting point for your personal and professional training journey. For the facilitator path minimum 10 Holotropic Breathwork sessions as breather and sitter are required.
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GTT Modules - Learn & Expand
At Grof Transpersonal Training® modules you dive deep into Transpersonal Psychology and Holotropic Breathwork and learn the theory and practice needed to support others in expanded states of consciousness. For the certification participation minimum 7 modules are required. 4 are mandatory modules.
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Consultations - Reflect & Grow
Online or in-person consultations with GTT facilitators are confidential spaces for you to reflect your inner journey. Once you start apprenticing, consultations may be used for supervision with GTT staff. To reflect on your experiences with facilitating processes, supporting challenging situations, addressing dual relationships or ethical challenges. For certification minimum 10 consultations are required.
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Apprenticing - Practice Facilitator Presence
As apprentice you start practicing your facililitation skills under the supervision of GTT certified facilitators in Holotropic workshops or Grof Transpersonal Training modules. It is possible to start apprenticing after three modules, one of which must be The Power Within module.
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Evolve with GTT
Certification Intensive
The Closing Certification Intensive marks the culmination and final stage of Grof Transpersonal Training® in Transpersonal Psychology and Holotropic Breathwork where candidates walk through a threshold of initiation. The two week long Certification Intensive takes place every two years.
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Personal or Professional Path
You may follow Grof Transpersonal Training for your personal as well as professional path. As it is a deep transformative journey for anyone who enrolls, it is up to you how to use the training beyond certification. Some choose to become Holotropic Breathwork facilitators and offer their own workshops, other built it into their existing professional field be it psychotherapy, counseling, coaching, bodywork, management or leadership. Many say it changes the way they approach their personal and professional life and improves the way they relate to their clients, patients, colleagues, family members and friends.
As one trainee put it:
"What we learn here is so much more than facilitation techniques, it is presence. Getting to know the mechanisms and often trauma induced patterns that prevent me from being present to myself, my environment and others. And slowly removing those obstacles, rewinding the patterns, moving through dissociation, regulating the nervous system, clearing the lens of projection and learning compassion and love. Compassion for myself and others.
It is in this space of humbleness where I learnt to be present for others and support them along their path. And this is true not only for my work as Holotropic Breathwork facilitator, but also in my professional field with colleagues and clients as well as in my private life be it with family members or friends.
Somehow Grof Transpersonal Training® is a 360 degree education that is truly life changing and transformative."
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Walk the Talk - further development with GTT
As in any other professional field it is important to keep doing the work for oneself and to keep learning to be able to support others. For your certificate to stay valid it is required to attend regularly Holotropic sessions (2 sessions/year) and GTT modules as participant and/or facilitator. Furthermore Grof Transpersonal Training is offering mentoring for facilitators.
As one of our colleagues says: "I do this for myself, for my psycho-hygiene and as an act of self-care. In order to support others I also need to regularly experience my own vulnerability and the care and compassion needed in such a space. It is a joy to return to workshops and modules with my colleagues."