EARTh Annual Convention 2010

Hans TenDam (Netherlands) (one day workshop)

"Prenatal and Natal Assembly"

We will explore different experiental tracks ("tapes") leading up to a successful human incarnation (like ours).

1. Body awareness. From the experience of the egg cell and the sperm cell trough growth and differentiation of the embryo and the fetus, till breathing outside the mother and the cord cut. We will not forget the placenta.
2. Psychic awareness. From the soul going down to the body, the choices involved, either voluntarily or involuntarily, till the connection with body and the "marriage" between body and soul, "till death does us part." (the Great Entrance)
3. Mother awareness. From the consciousness and subconsciousness of the mother, starting with the conception (no details, please!), through the first signals of being pregnant to the first eye contact, the first voice contact and the first holding of the newborn.
4. From the perspective of an outsider with good-will - if such an outsider has been there.
5. From the perspective of an outsider with ill-will - if such an outsider has been there.
6. Exploring the moments of connection between the different tracks, if they have not been experienced in the previous passes - if they happened in full. And if they did not happen or only partially happened, to make these moments happen. (assembling)
7. If the ill-will perspective is still around, and if it is obsolete or evil, to make the connection unhappen. (disassembling)

Clearly therapy proper is in the last two steps. This workshop is experiential, and worse: experimental. We will do a group session and elaborate on that in demos and in practice sessions among the participants that will make student-members envious of those wonderful human beings that graduated before them. We will hold our babies and do some hero-worship.