Workshop 6

Consultor biográfico. Coordinador de la escuela Esencia de formación de Consultores Biographical consultant.
Coordinator of the Esencia training school for Biographical Consultants. Argentina

Workshop 12

Narration and self–knowledge

Tools to develop creative biographical surveys through literary passages.

Goals:

To share a space for reflection and personal expression through reading and writing, addressing biographical experiences in the form of literary stories. To explore some possibilities that literature offers as an art form in biographical consultation. Fundamentals and description of the proposal. Our inner world is inhabited by images and words. When a work of literature moves us, it also inspires us, the desire to express our own inner world is awakened in us. If this expression happens in writing, we also activate the reflective capacity as a mediator between thoughts and words, giving us the possibility of taking control of our thoughts. Thus, the creative enjoyment of choosing words grows, combining them, clarifying their redundancies, ambiguities and contradictions, organizing them so that they reflect what we want to express, integrating the events of our lives into a meaningful story. In the workshop, we will work from a narrative approach, rehearsing writing as a way to explore and organize life experiences, connect with our emotions and feelings, house them and prepare ourselves to recognize what they have to tell us. We will use fragments of different literary works to inspire us to write about our lives. We will read, link, write and share, to deepen the paths of biographical inquiry.

Some possible approaches (for example) are:
– The spaces we inhabit
– The image of our mother/father
– Our likes and dislikes
– The challenges of the human encounter
– Our close relationships
– The crises
– The profession
– The current moment.

Patricia María de Luján Montenegro

I was born in the city of Rosario, in Argentina. I currently live in Cipolletti, province of Rio Negro, with my husband Ignacio, my daughter Isabella and my son Gian Battista. I am an English Teacher, Emergency Pedagogue and Anthroposophical Biographical Consultant. Since I was little I found in literature a familiar way of knowing the world. My father was a reader with an interesting bohemian-academic style—if there is such a thing—and my mother eloquently narrated fascinating stories to my brothers and me every night. This allowed my childhood to be spent surrounded by books and stories. As a teenager, I found in reading and writing endless possibilities to test myself in that world, to recognize my similar ideals, and to express myself. Already in my first work experiences as a teacher, I marveled at the potential of literature to make known other biographical worlds, different and distant, and at the same time so humanly similar. Since I can do it, I write, and I increasingly enjoy accompanying others in the creative writing process. As a biographical consultant, I find that, with the help of literary texts, in any of their genres, it is possible to unravel knots in our own biography in a warm and friendly way. This is what led me to present this proposal to share it with all those who wish to open that door in their practices as consultant.

Workshop 14

We will start with the question: what role do the first three septeniums or 7-year periods of the body and their corresponding biographical reflections on a soul and spiritual level play in our individual life lessons, in relation to the four organs and the associated psychic pathology? We will begin by diagnosing the human biography on the basis of the anthroposophical understanding of the human being under the motto “the seed of my body lies in the spirit…” We will review the laws of the ethereal formative forces in the course of life, to continue defining the healthy biographical laws of human soul life as the basis for social and spiritual life, and conclude by explaining, from an anthroposophical psychotherapy perspective, the different developmental disorders in the first three septeniums and their corresponding biographical reflections. We will continue to describe the relationship between the organs and their formative forces, under the motto “The seed of the spirit lies in my body…” We will look at the evaluation and regeneration of the soul-spiritual forces, based on the organs, during the night, to continue with the stages of maturation of the organ systems during the first three septeniums, and end by explaining the interaction between the polarities in the different organ systems, as well as the treatment for psychological symptoms due to diseases in these organ systems.

Josep Torrelles Capdevila.

I was born in Bellpuig, a small town in the province of Lerida, in Catalonia. My first lunar node, and after a profound crisis (an opportunity for change), led me to understand that my life’s mission was to help others. After my degree in Clinical Psychology, I completed a Master’s Degree in Behavioral Therapy in Madrid. My own process of inner search led me to explore other areas, first obtaining a Diploma in Regressive Therapy, then a Diploma in Floral Therapy from Dr. E. Bach, and later a Master’s Degree in Homeopathy. Two years later, I completed the International Master’s Degree in Classical Homeopathy awarded by the Vithoulkas Academy in Greece. I came into contact with Anthroposophy thanks to my dear friend Luiz Moreira, who invited me to stay in Demetria, Botucatu (Brazil), where I experienced the Spirit of Anthroposophy deeply. This experience became vital in my own biography, leading me to the ideal of wanting to introduce Anthroposophy into my daily clinical practice. To this end, I undertook training in Anthroposophical Biography with Blanca Sánchez de Muniain in Madrid, and had the honor of working with her on my own biography. I trained in Anthroposophical Psychotherapy with psychologists Ad and Henriette Dekkers in Madrid, obtaining the International Certificate of Anthroposophical Psychotherapist issued by the Goetheanum. This, together with the application of biographical work, meant a fundamental change in my daily clinical practice. Later, in Barcelona, I completed training in Anthroposophical Medicine and Anthroposophical Art Therapy, which gave me a comprehensive overview of the therapeutic potential of Anthroposophy. As a member of the Official College of Psychologists of Catalonia, I obtained the Europsy Specialist in Psychotherapy certificate from the EFPA. I practice daily in private consultation as a clinical psychologist of Anthroposophical Biography and Psychotherapy. I also work at the C.R.A.E. (Residential Center for Educational Action), treating children and adolescents from dysfunctional families. Co-founding member of Betula (Scientific Association of Anthroposophical Psychotherapy). Member of A.T.B.O.A.E.