Morning course

Description:

In the Foundation Stone Meditation, the threefold nature of the human being is revealed in its relationship to the surrounding world and the Spiritual Hierarchies.

Throughout it we are invited to engage in a carefully structured practice path and collaborate with the Spiritual Hierarchies to renew and enliven the ancient mystery calling “O Human Being Know Thyself”.

Practice Spirit-Remembering (Past).

Practice Spirit-Recollection (Present).

Practice Spirit-Beholding (Future).

We will dedicate each of our days together to one of these practices and seek to discover their meaning as a spiritual foundation and a way forward to dealing with the challenges of our time. We’ll find out how to embody them in our professional work with the Biography impulse.

Through content and in small group work, we will explore what helps and hinders us in turning our insights into a strength in our personal lives and in biography work.

Anita Charton

She began her professional career as a psychotherapist and, after becoming enthusiastic about the biographical impulse in 1984, became one of the pioneers in the development of biographical counselling as a new profession in an international context.

In addition to her ongoing private practice, her field of work included extensive seminar activities and the development of the first training courses in Biographical Counselling and Biographical Coaching in England and Switzerland. She worked for many years in an anthroposophical drug therapy facility and a specialist clinic for tumour diseases. In 2003, she co-founded the International Trainers Forum for Biography Training (ITF) and coordinated it until 2020.

In recent years, as a contributor and mentor, she has focussed primarily on accompanying biography training courses of colleagues.

She divides her life between Germany, England and her adopted home of Egypt.

Joop Gruen
(*1954 in Hoorn, Netherlands) is based in Arlesheim, Switzerland.

He is an experienced trainer and coach specializing in biographical work and dialogue-based approaches. He holds extensive training in supervision, coaching, and organizational development, as well as systemic consulting and therapy.

He is the founder of WIE – Workshop for Individual Development in Basel, Switzerland. His professional activities include biographical and conversational work, training, seminars, individual and couples counseling, supervision, coaching, and organizational development. He has also worked internationally.

He is a founding member of the International Trainers Forum for Biographical Work (ITF) and the Swiss Professional Association for Biographical Work (BBAS).