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SOI Teaching Imagery for Practitioners | Invitation Only | with Catherine Shainberg
February 3 + 4, 2024 | 7:00 AM – 10:45 AM EDT (US) / 1:00 PM – 4:45 PM CET (EU)
Catherine is continuing her special training workshop to interested SOI Practitioners and Teachers who feel called to teaching. The focus will be about how to teach Saphire Imagery in both Imagery and DreamBirth classes and workshops. This is in response to the requests of many Practitioners.
As the School increasingly engages you all in teaching, it is important that the methods of teaching are also integrated into your repertoire, not just the content of class material.
Teaching is always different from the work of a Practitioner. While Practitioner work is very important, the skills required and the questions you have are adressed in Supervision class and when appropriate, in private sessions.
Catherine thinks of these two days together as “a supervision session for teachers…(and those called to it). It will be an open forum for you to bring exercises and questions to all of us.” This may be the first of many supervision sessions on teaching.
Over two sessions, Catherine will lead an open-format class to help address two types of questions:
Day 1 – Deepening Understanding | Writing Exercises | Look What You Have Done!
This session will engage us in experiencing the exercises you each have written since we last met. Please send your exercises, series of exercises written for a class, and workshop syllabuses with the names of the exercises you intend to use ahead of time to cs@theschoolofimages.org. As Catherine says: “We will all be experiencing your exercises. That is the best way to establish whether the exercises are doing what you intend them to do.”
Day 2 – More on Teaching Imagery | Goal-Making
This session concentrate on goals: your goals when you first meet a client; their goals, why it is so important for you to ask them to express those goals clearly. How are goals related to time – as in manifestation? What if your goals and theirs are different? We will see how your goal-making affects the client. You will learn how your lack of goal-making for the client can affect their ability to plunge into the work and yours to keep your client engaged in a long-term deepening and expanding of their consciousness. And then paradoxically how goal- making must be abandoned.
The skill of teaching Imagery is both more complex and in some ways more subtle than one-on-one work. The fact of group work vs individual work is one element of this difference, but also the purposes of this work. In teaching, other key elements come into play: the conceptual focus of each session and the overall class; the practical, mental and spiritual preparation for each session; choice and/or creation of exercises; selection of participants in illustrative exercises; choice of support materials, follow-up, “homework” and so much more.
Catherine Requests
Please send any exercises, class/workshop syllabi and questions you want to submit ahead of time. Best to send a week ahead (by January 26), so that she has time to review them and offer specific insights.
Catherine invites you all to this two-day, 10-hour workshop in which she will give you a glimpse into the art and skill of teaching Saphire Imagery as she sees it and does it and as you see it and experience it.
Catherine offers this free of charge but she does ask you to consider making a donation to the School.
Registration is required. Please register before January 26. Thank you!
SOI Teaching Imagery for Practitioners | Invitation Only | with Catherine Shainberg | Feb 3 + 4, 2024 | 7:00 AM – 10:45 AM EDT (US) / 1:00 PM – 4:45 PM CET (EU)
