Sophrology & The Silva Method: Exploration & Experiment
Experience Two Powerful Methods of Healing & Personal Development
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In this three-part course, you'll learn the basics of two highly effective methods for personal transformation: Sophrology and the Silva Method. With audio and video guidance you'll gain an understanding of how they work and why, and then you'll be shown ways in which to use their key techniques to help achieve your goals in life.
And in the final session you'll experiment by combining both techniques!
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"I’ve really enjoyed this course, and these two systems have their own individual approaches while complementing each other well in some aspects. Both Sophrology and the Silva method give us techniques of meditation and deep relaxation from which we can explore our emotional world and our subconscious selves. My favourite part, which is priceless in its value, is the technique for basking in happy memories, and this can be extended to looking at dreams of an idyllic future. Both bring these feelings into our present awareness through somatisation – which just gets better and better!
The entire techniques and philosophies may not be for everyone, but we can ‘take what we like and leave the rest’ and the Sophrology body scan tense and release techniques are very useful in other settings, and the Silva countdown technique for going deeper in consciousness can be applied almost universally in our meditations, Druidic light body exercises and general calming in states of anxiety. The two techniques can be adapted for both personal use and in helping others. This course is well worth engaging in, even if in the end you decide that the techniques may not be for you."
- Dr Diana Birch, Paediatrician & Medical Psychotherapist
Your Instructor
Philip Carr-Gomm is a psychologist, psychotherapist and sophrologist, and the author of over a dozen books, including Empower Your Life with Sophrology. He trained with Dorna Revie at the Sophrology Center, and holds a practitioner diploma in sophrology. He is the founder of The Sophrology Institute and a non-executive director of the Institute of Psychosynthesis, and has given sophrology workshops for the Lush cosmetics company, the Flour Pot Bakery group, the Body Holiday St.Lucia, the British Psychological Society, and the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership at George Washington University. His particular interests include working with sophrology as a way of deepening meditation and mindfulness practice, and working with ways to integrate sophrology into coaching and psychotherapeutic practice. See The Sophrology Institute.