Integrated 2-Part Training

South African practitioners are invited to attend the training on scheduled workshop days through a locally structured participation pathway.

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Workshop Days:
Part 1: 14 - 18 March 2027
Part 2: 21 - 24 March 2027

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The full pathway brings together both training modules, tracing a deliberate progression, from observing the primitive foundations of the psyche to integrating intergenerational insight into embodied clinical presence.

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Participants move through guided wildlife immersion, somatic reflection, structured dialogue, and neuroscience-informed teaching across both parts, allowing experiential insight to translate into grounded therapeutic practice.

Attending both modules offers continuity, sustained group process, and deeper integration across the complete arc of the training.

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Part 1

The Living Mirror – Observing the Wild Within
Workshop Days: Monday, 14 March – Thursday, 18 March 2027

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Step into the wild and deepen your clinical presence.

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Part 1 is the first of two Immersive Trainings for Therapists held in the South African bush. Participants may attend this training independently or continue into Part II the following week.

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Through guided encounters in nature, therapists explore observation, instinct, and the primitive foundations of the human psyche. At the heart of this experience is a central inquiry:

What does it mean to observe and to be observed?

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Set within the vast landscapes of Nyosi Wildlife Reserve, this four-day immersive training invites therapists into both experiential and didactic exploration. Observation is examined not only as a clinical skill, but as a lived relational process.

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How does being seen alter nervous system responses, identity, and behaviour?
How does the act of observing shape what emerges within a relational field?

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Using animals and natural systems as living mirrors, participants explore brain development, instinctual behaviour, and what we might call the “animal hierarchy within.” Attention is given to our biases, preferences, and judgements toward certain animal behaviours and how these reactions mirror our relationship to our own primitive parts.

 

Participants examine:

• Projection onto animals and its parallel to projection onto clients

• The clinical impact of disowned or idealised instinctual energies

• The role of hierarchy, safety, and vigilance in nervous system regulation

• How presence and perception shape therapeutic encounter

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Nature is not a backdrop it is a co-facilitator in the learning process. Animal behaviour, environmental shifts, and embodied responses provide immediate feedback on awareness, regulation, and bias. Focused teaching is interwoven with immersive practice in the wild, creating a dynamic blend of advanced professional development and personal restoration.

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This training is ideal for therapists seeking depth, embodiment, and expanded clinical awareness beyond traditional classroom learning.

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Included Activities

• 2 game drives

• One full-day bush immersion with bush picnic

• Guided fynbos walk

• Four structured training days

• Lunch on training days

• Workshop tuition and materials

• CPDs (pending approval)

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Not Included:

• Accommodation or overnight stay

• Early morning or late evening lodge-based experiences

• Rest-day excursions

• Dinner events

• Personal travel costs

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​Part 2

What the Elements Remember
A Framework for Conceptualising Intergenerational Trauma & Healing

Workshop Days: Sunday, 21 March – Wednesday, 24 March 2027

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Part 2 builds on the immersive foundation of Part I and moves into structured clinical application. While nature remains a relational container, the focus shifts toward working directly with intergenerational trauma, inherited resilience, and the conscious reworking of legacy.

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Using the symbolic and therapeutic framework of the four classical elements — Earth, Water, Air, and Fire — this training integrates theory, embodied practice, and creative modalities within a coherent clinical model.

Expressive arts processes are central to this experience. Participants engage sandtray work, poetry, alternative photography, guided integrative practice, and embodied practices to access and integrate ancestral narratives at cognitive, somatic, and relational levels.

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Across four elemental movements, participants explore:

• Earth — lineage, belonging, and cyclical time in transgenerational patterns

• Water — somatic memory, emotional inheritance, and parts-informed integration

• Air — narrative, attachment, loyalty dynamics, and inherited relational atmospheres

• Fire — transformation, release, renewal, and the re-authoring of legacy

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Drawing from trauma-informed practice, Contextual Therapy, attachment theory, epigenetics and parts-based approaches, therapists deepen their capacity to conceptualise and work with ancestral burdens and resilience in clinically grounded, culturally respectful ways.

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Nature continues as a relational partner in the learning process; however, Part 2 offers a more explicitly structured framework for integrating intergenerational insight into clinical practice.

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This training is ideal for therapists seeking an embodied, depth-oriented framework for intergenerational healing that integrates rigorous theory with creative, experiential methodology.

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Included Activities

• 1 game drive

• One full-day bush immersion

• Four structured training days

• Meals on training days

• Workshop tuition and materials

• CPDs (pending approval)

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Not Included:

• Accommodation or overnight stay

• Rest-day activities

• Evening events held outside structured daytime sessions

• Dinners

• Personal travel costs

 

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Participants may attend the complete training pathway (Part 1 and Part 2) or enrol in either Part 1 or Part 2 independently.

For South African day participants, evening gatherings and optional immersion activities may be booked separately, subject to availability.​​​​​​​​​

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