Undefended Love: The Foundation Course | Feb. 16 & 17th, 2019
Open to Everyone (with or without partners, in a relationship or single)
Facilitator: Jett Psaris
To register for this course contact Jett directly at 510.777.9998 or jett@jettpsaris.com
Intimate partnership is a profound vehicle for spiritual and self-realization. Our potential to be fully human – to be entirely ourselves in the presence of another – requires that we forge, rather than find our soul connection, compose rather than control ourselves and each other, and dissolve rather than resolve the issues that emerge in our relationships.
This capacity to live a liberated life – to be free to love and be loved without conditions – is a developed capacity, available to anyone who is committed to awaken to their own potential and nurture what is best in another. This eloquent and life-altering workshop offers a new vision where relationship becomes a pathway guiding us back to that unique, authentic, one-of-a-kind identity we left behind in childhood but that still resides as the Essential Self in each of us.
The focus of this workshop is on shifting our center of gravity away from our conditioned personality (the places where we feel stuck, confused, hurt and defensive) toward our essential self (who we are as free, whole, connected, peaceful, powerful and joyful).
Through spirited experiential techniques (“Inviting the Demons to Dinner,” “Lifeboat Messages,” “Calm Water Practices”), we will go beyond formulaic approaches and popular trends.
The spirited experiential techniques and map offered in this course helps us learn how to:
- be emotionally present even when we feel exposed or vulnerable
- relinquish the many strategies we have employed to feel safe and in control
- recognize the root of emotional reactivity, why we leave the present when we are triggered, where we go and how to interrupt the chain reaction
- find the courage to love without guarantees or requirements
- cut through personal differences and grow a common ground of being that nourishes and sustains intimacy
- know who we are below images and ideas of who we are
- sustain our experience of ourselves regardless of what our partner is feeling
- express who we are at ever deepening levels even if we know we will not be welcomed there
Recommended reading: Psaris & Lyons, Undefended Love
General Information
This non-residential, weekend intensive will be held at: The Sacred Stream Center, 2149 Byron Street, Berkeley, CA.
Hours for the intensives
On the Sat. morning of the intensive, please plan to arrive at 9:45 for registration.
The intensive will take place on Saturday and Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm.
Fee for the intensive:
Regular Registration (After January 1st, 2019): $475 per person
TERMS OF AGREEMENT
Attendance:If you cannot attend the entire workshop [i.e. arrive on time and stay throughout the weekend to its close on Sunday evening], please do not register at this time. These intensives are designed in such a way that late arrivals or early departures affect the work both for the person unable to attend the entire weekend as well as for the other participants in the course.I will arrive on time and stay through the entire course.
Saturday Night: The course is rigorous so please plan to rest quietly on Saturday evening if at all possible. Saturday night will be your time to rest, integrate the material from the first day of the course and prepare yourself to continue the exploration on Sunday.
Cancellation and Refund Policy:
If a request for cancellation is received in writing 30 days or more before your course start date, the course fee is fully refundable. If written request for cancellation is received in writing less than 30 days before your course start date, $100 is non-refundable, regardless of the reason for withdrawal. If a written request for cancellation is received in writing 7 days or less before the course start date, $200 is non-refundable, regardless of the reason for withdrawal.
I have read and agree to the cancellation and refund policy.
Lunch, Snacks, Water Bottle, Journal and Pen!
Please bring your own lunch and snacks. The Sacred Stream Center does not allow food or drinks, (other than water) in the group room so bring a water bottle! You will need a journal and pen as well. No electronic devices – phones or iPads, etc. – will be allowed in the meeting room to ensure participant confidentiality. There will be an hour break for lunch and there are two cafes within 2 blocks of the Center if you prefer not to bring lunch with you.
I will remember to bring my lunch, snacks, water bottle, journal and pen!
Fee for the intensive:
Registration: $475 per person
To register for this course contact Jett directly at 510.777.9998 or jett@jettpsaris.com
“The seminar was a Hemingway experience: ‘The earth moved.’ It was a most profound and moving experience. I was able to get in touch with a whole side of myself that I didn’t know was there and now afterwards, it just keeps revealing itself more and more. My work now is to make it all an integral part of me.”
Ann Gaviria, Bogota,Colombia
Dr. Adrian Bartron “I’ve taken workshops all over the world and this was, simply put, the most transformative experience of my life.”
Kim Li-Chang “When I take other workshops I get to learn the material the teacher is presenting. When I take a workshop with you, I get to know my-Self.”
Chris Zimmerman “The metaphors and language you use are so loving, inspiring, and paradigm shattering all at the same time! I feel like I was immersed in a new life force during the retreat and that my heart is beating in a new rhythm now as I move back into my life.”
Xavier L “I’m not sure that I have words big enough to express my gratitude for this beautiful work.”
Nicole Boxer-Smith “I am deeply moved by the work I experienced this weekend on intimacy… It has facilitated a new inner strength that I cannot fully describe. What I can say is that I feel lighter, my neck and lower back free from the weight of my previous defense of holding myself rigid to protect from the fear of connection and uncertainty. Through this new inquiry about vulnerability and flexibility, I have accessed a deeper connection to my essence which I now somatically feel in my body. Thank you so much!”
Mike Thomas