| Tools for Life's Journey (One-day courses) |
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Helping My Helpers Help Me
Get the most out of asking others for help. Whether your helper is a coach, counselor, spiritual director or PRH accompanist, tools developed for PRH Helping Relationship enable you to clarify what you need and take ownership of the process. In this one-day workshop, you will:
- Learn to prepare and present your issue to your helper
- Practice the specific attitudes that enable you to be effectively helped
- Identify your unique motors for growth, your deep motivations and aspirations
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Boundaries: Respecting Self and Others
Understand healthy growth needs in yourself and others; explore areas of your life and relationships where you have difficulty saying "no" or asking for what you need. Identify the beliefs and experiences that undermine your ability to advocate for yourself, and discover your realistic steps toward respectful self-care. |
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Write for Your Health
Journaling about personal feelings and experiences can help you be healthier, happier, and even smarter! In this workshop you'll learn to use reflective writing to gain personal insights and develop a greater sense of well-being. You can use these new skills to improve your own health, or practitioners can acquire new tools to work with their patients and clients.
We will explore the various elements of "expressive writing" and the extensive health benefits it provides. Then, with step-by-step instructions, you will try two methods: one developed by James W. Pennebaker to express uncomfortable experiences, and PRH Self-Analysis, a reflective writing method that focuses on positive experiences. You will build proficiency in using both methods by distinguishing between your thoughts, feelings, and memories – plus, identify three types of personal insight that result from reflective writing. |
Courses |
Series One
(Introduces growth methods) |
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Becoming More True to Myself
Find meaning in your everyday life, using creative expression
Make sense of your life today, so you can remain more in touch with who you are. Explore your relationships, work, and where you find meaning in your life in order to clarify your sense of purpose. Recognize what is blocking you from being more true to yourself, and discover new steps for your daily life that will help you be fully yourself. |
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Clarifying My Relationships
Explore your experience in relationship
Focus on your relationships with those you love in order to review and clarify what you experience with each one. The resulting insights will enable you to increase your capacity to give and receive love. |
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Discovering the Core of My Identity (Who Am I? part 1)
What is essential in the personality
Become aware of your self-image and how it is affecting your daily life. Discover your deep motivations, creativity and spirituality, and your positive core. Learn and practice tools of self-reflection that will help you grow more confident in the ways you live and express yourself. |
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Freeing Life in Me
Explore inner life and its obstacles using creative expression
Explore your positive qualities through line, color, and form. Using creative expression as a method of self-discovery, grow in understanding of yourself and the life within you. In a safe and respectful environment, discover what helps or hinders your growth and expression of your positive core. Art experience is not necessary. |
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Growing in Personal Solidity (Who Am I? part 2)
The important realities of the person
Understand yourself better in your reactions, behaviors, feelings, thoughts and intuitions. Explore the way your human, natural and material environments affect your growth. Map out action steps for gaining better access to your positive core and for progressing in your personal development. |
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Helping My Children Become Themselves
Discover how to develop your child's unique personality
Parents explore ideas and patterns that influence their relationships with their
children of all ages. Needs and aspirations of the child are examined, including
the need to be loved and guided, and to be a child in a secure environment. Parents
identify their next steps in supporting their child's development. |
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Listening to the Messages from My Body
Learning to identify sensations and explore their meaning
Grow in awareness of your body and its messages through simple relaxation and movement exercises. Learn to focus on your sensations to uncover the truth of your experience by using PRH’s written self-analysis method |
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What is the Meaning of My Life?
Explore the unfolding of your life and its direction
Reflect on your experiences and your history, so you can see more clearly what gives your life meaning. Grow more aware of when you experience meaning in your life, and find your next steps for living what is most meaningful to you. |
Series Two
(Prerequisite: completion of Who
Am I? workshop, Discovering the Traits of My Identity, or Growing in Personal Solidity. Additional
prerequisites may apply, as noted.) |
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Exploring My Inner World
Training in PRH self-analysis
PRH Analysis is the essential tool for growth in PRH Education. Learn to identify and explore sensations (feelings that have bodily resonance) that are the key to perceiving and understanding one’s internal reality. Step by step, participants learn and practice this tool for ongoing self-discovery and development of their positive core, the being. Gain ease in identifying and analyzing positive and painful sensations in order to live with clarity and authenticity. |
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Leading My Life
Observe and adjust patterns of daily living
Increase self-awareness by identifying your helpful and unhelpful functioning at each of your pivotal centers (Being, “I”, Sensibility, Body, and Deep Conscience). This thorough exploration will help you understand yourself better and choose behaviors that are helpful for you. You will clarify your life goals and your next steps to attain them. |
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Making Good Decisions
Learn the PRH method for decision-making
Discover your in-depth conscience, an essential component of good decision-making. Learn to analyze your current challenges so you are better able to make and verify decisions that will help your being grow. Practice awareness in ordinary, daily decisions and recognize your path in larger, life-decisions. |
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Relating to Money and Possessions
Clarify your relationship with money and your possessions. Distinguish current needs and wants from reactions and patterns based in the past. Gain inner freedom, finding your next steps to align your life with your values and aspirations. |
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Way to the Being… Way to God
Advance your spiritual quest using creative expression
Using line, form, and color-- open to your experience of relationship to something more than yourself. Explore your deep aspirations for relationship to God (or however your experience of transcendence names itself – inclusive language is honored throughout). Discover and expand your experiences of transcendence in your daily life. Art experience is not necessary. |
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Exploring My Present Relationships
Understand your current relationships -- creative expression
Grow more able to fully engage in your relationships. Express your experience of your current relationships, using line, form, and color. Allow these expressions to reveal important aspects of your being and your growth. |
Monthly Growth Groups |
Hone your PRH analysis skills and continue your growth
Small groups of men and women meet monthly to support their growth
using PRH tools and reflective writing methods, and to share
in a safe supportive environment. Costs are $50.00 -$35.00 (sliding
scale) per meeting. Prerequisites: Completion of at least one
PRH 30hr intensive course and recommendation of instructor. |
NEW… Creative Expression Growth Group
Set aside a Saturday morning each month to explore your identity, relationships, spirituality, and purpose. Using color, line and form reveals depths of experience you were previously unaware of. Reflective writing helps you identify and express what you discover. (Optional) group sharing supports you in standing tall in your experience and respecting the uniqueness in you and others. |
Annual Growth Inventory |
This annual inventory provides a series of guidelines for written analysis that will help you to:
- Observe your growth process over the past year
- Identify aspects of being that are emerging
- Identify what is blocking growth
- Recognize and solidify your progress in healing
- Discern the next steps to take for growth
Ask for a copy of the workbook to use on your own, or join us for the annual Inventory Retreat weekend in Port Townsend the 3rd weekend of January. |
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| Current Workshop Schedule |
