IPA – Kontemplation

INTERNAL PRACTICE AND WORK LIFE

Professional and meditative supervision course in communication and immersion

A course for people who want to bring qualities from meditative immersion into their working lives.

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This course is about uniting the participants' inner practice with their work in the world - whether this work is a working life, a study or another form of engagement. Who are prepared to be part of a group for a long time in which we will support each other in both personal immersion and in that this immersion can be expressed in the individual's professionalism in their own way.

The course is designed for participants who, for example, teach or/and work creatively, are therapists, or work in other care functions.
Or who are otherwise concerned with uniting their individual immersion with their outward engagement.

Making clear one's professional and human core competencies and exploring how these can be connected to a meditative practice is an essential part of the process.
An important focus will also be the connection between internal and external sustainability, which is one of today's major tasks.

Supported by the teaching and the group, each participant will work on a communication project that is relevant to – and based on – the individual's professional expertise.

The course will encourage and support participants to establish a regular meditative practice.
The meditative and personal integrity - the clear sense of self - that can come from such a regular practice is crucial when one wants to express qualities such as presence and warmth in one's work life and everyday life.

HANNELI ÅGOTSDATTER · PETER HØEG · STEEN HILDEBRANDT · JEANETTE LYKKEGÅRD · JEPPE HEIN · KIRSTEN ROTBØLL LASSEN · MICHAEL STUBBERUP

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The course's two focus areas

IMMERSION INWARDS

The part of the course that concerns individual immersion will include systematic training in meditation, body awareness, contemplative exercises from Growth Center Pedagogy centered on the so-called pentagon, and relationship skills.
We will carefully review how to prepare, structure and conduct a retreat on your own, but with the support of a community of practice.

OUTDOOR COMMUNICATION
individual dissemination projects

The communication part aims at how one carries the individual meditative qualities and experiences out to one's immediate surroundings and from there further into one's professional life, including in written and other creative forms of expression.

The aforementioned dissemination project plays a key role in:
We suggest that this project be placed in extension of the individual's professional skills and work/study/main interest so that it does not become an 'extra project', but can be realized in the individual's daily life with support from the work and practice community. And thus can be anchored in and enrich the individual's everyday life.

It will be up to the individual to formulate the ambition and goal, whether the project is a writing project, a book, a teaching project, an art project, a web idea, a video project, documentation and dissemination of an immersion process, or something else.

The teachers and the team will support this clarification process.

COURSE SCOPE >>

TEACHERS

COURSE LEADING INSTRUCTORS

Hanneli Ågotsdatter and Peter Hoeg

▪ Study groups and writing workshops are led by Jeanette Lykkegaard and Kirsten Rotbøll Lassen - who are also the program coordinators of the course.

GUEST TEACHERS

▪ Professor and management researcher Steen Hildebrandt who teaches the connection between internal and external sustainability.

▪ Michael Stubberup, teacher, author and founder and daily manager of the rehabilitation network Synergaia, teaches, based on neuropsychological research, the establishment of an inner compass.

▪ Visual artist Jeppe Hein who teaches creativity, presence and warmth.

AIMING WITH THE PROGRESS

To stabilize and deepen a meditative practice and to move towards integrating this into everyday life and into one's professional life.

That the participants learn about the so-called pentagon and other central parts of the Growth Center's pedagogy and deal with how to teach/mediate basic presence and cordiality training.

That the participants experience and have the opportunity to develop in a practice and work community with like-minded people. And in a trusting atmosphere, gain experience in holding space for others.

That the participants learn a set of contemplative exercises that can be carried out in everyday life and used within various professional fields.

That the participants work creatively both with introverted exercises and with ideas for bringing these exercises into the world.

SCOPE OF THE COURSE

MODULES · ONLINE SESSIONS · WORKING COMMUNITY

4 modules of four days which takes place in the course room Sol15 at Solbakkevej 15 in Nørre Snede.

12 online zoom meetings 2-3 hours each (group supervision, reading groups, writing workshop).

Individual supervision
Supervision, where participants have the opportunity to present experiences and challenges from their own work to the world, will be included in all modules. Just as all participants will have the opportunity for individual supervision with Hanneli and Peter - the individual supervisions will primarily take place online and will be agreed with the individual when the course is underway.

Structured peer supervision in smaller groups.

Immersion in individual communication project:
During the course, each participant will work on a self-selected communication project, which can be a teaching course, a creative project, a writing project or something else.

For this project, you will receive support both in small groups (peer supervision) and from the teachers.
At the end of the course, the participants present the projects to each other.
The course is structured so that participants will receive both support for and feedback on the project from the instructors and teammates.

OPTIONAL MODULES

7-day retreat at Rødegaard at Mols Bjerge (see more under PRACTICAL INFORMATION).
Individual guidance before and after a possible self-organized five-day retreat.

SUPPORT IN ESTABLISHING AN INTERNAL PRACTICE IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Online Sunday Meditations
To stabilize and deepen a meditative practice and to move towards integrating it into everyday life and one's professional practice is part of the aim of this supervision course. As part of supporting this otherwise individual process, we invite online drop-in meditation every Sunday at 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM.

This is voluntary and open. You do not have to register, but participate to the extent that can naturally function with your existence.
More information about this on the first module.

PREREQUISITES

It is a prerequisite that you have, or are willing to establish, a daily meditative practice from the beginning of the course.

Furthermore, you are prepared that it will be part of the training in communication that you will be asked to, and given the opportunity to, for short periods of time, hold the space for others, that is, the entire group or in smaller groups.

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TEACHING COURSE

We meet four times physically in Nørre Snede, as well as for twelve online learning and community sessions.

The physical modules span four days, from Thursday morning to Sunday after lunch.

The online sessions take place on Zoom and are led by one or more of the teachers.

Collections in Nørre Snede

MODULE 1 ·
Immersion in practice

First module · Immersion and meditative practice

In our first module we welcome you – and we get an initial overview of the process.
One of the most important things here, where it all begins, is to establish the group: That means from the beginning to be aware of creating the atmosphere of non-performance-oriented kindness and cordiality, which is the atmosphere that best supports both meditative, creative and professional processes.

In the first module, we also discuss how to build, maintain and deepen an individual meditative practice - the care for such a regular personal practice is a central part of the foundation of Inner Practice and Working Life.

We also set out from the beginning what the individual projects might be.
We will especially encourage that these projects become natural extensions of something the participants are already interested in and working on, and do not become an extra burden on an already demanding everyday life.

And then in the first module we also introduce the way we work with writing practices, with the inner judge/critic and how together we can create a space that is less judgmental and critical than creative spaces so often are.

From the first module, we establish what we call family groups - smaller work and practice groups, often composed according to the types of projects that the participants want to work on.
We will establish, dissolve and form new groups of this kind several times during the course, in which we can support each other in both professional and personal development and in practice.

A crucial part of the pedagogy of this course is the connection between inward immersion and one's expressions and actions in one's relationships and in the world at large.
As a slogan goes, 'We go inward to be able to go outward.'’
What this connection is like and how to train it is also a central topic in the first module.

And so, from the start, the so-called pentagon is introduced – which is about training body awareness, awareness of breathing, of heart feelings, of creativity and of consciousness as such.

Between the first and second module

Here are what we call project workshops – which are creative writing rooms – and study groups, led by Kirsten and Jeanette respectively. These sessions are online, and they are structured as a support both for individual practice and – especially – as a support for formulating the project you want to work on. Towards the second module, participants submit and share drafts of a description of their individual projects.

TEACHERS:

HANNELI ÅGOTSDATTER

Presence yoga and heart practice

PETER HOEEG

Meditation and creativity

JEANETTE LYKKEGÅRD

Reading groups, supervisor and coordinator

KIRSTEN ROTBØLL LASSEN

Project workshop, tutor and dance

MODULE 2 ·
Internal and external load-bearing capacity

Second module · Internal and external sustainability

This module is taught by professor emeritus and author Steen Hildebrandt.
And here we will meet the artist Jeppe Hein, who introduces himself and his working method - which we will unfold together with him in the third module.

The second module is also where we will deal with collective creative processes, how to initiate them, and how to give each other feedback.
Overall, in all modules, both physical and online, raising awareness of the way we can provide each other with supportive mutual sparring and supervision plays an important role.

We will also work more deeply with the pentagon in the second module.

And with how a retreat is structured, both group retreats and individual retreats.

And then we get to shuffle the cards and form new family groups.

Between the second and third module

At this time, the participants will be working on their projects. Here again are project workshops, study groups and online supervision with Hanneli, Peter and Steen Hildebrandt. The individual supervision interviews are also located here.

Retreat experience is a part – a central part – of this process. It can be obtained by participating in one of Kontemplation's retreats, of which there are six or seven spread throughout the year. Or by organizing a retreat yourself – which you can do alone or in a smaller group.

TEACHERS:

STEVEN HILDEBRANDT

Internal and external sustainability

HANNELI ÅGOTSDATTER

The pentagon and anchoring in the heart body

PETER HOEEG

Meditation and mindfulness training

JEPPE HEIN

Creativity and presence

JEANETTE LYKKEGÅRD

Reading groups and program coordinator

KIRSTEN ROTBØLL LASSEN

Project workshop, dance and program coordinator

MODULE 3 ·
Creativity and the nervous system

Third module · Creativity and the nervous system

The third module is a creative saline injection for all of us – and for the project processes.

Jeppe Hein teaches creativity and presence, how it is possible in a landscape of colors and sounds, rather than words, to dance and flow between a creative expression and a movement towards the source of creativity.

Michael Stubberup shows with exercises, experience and theory how deeply rooted meditative and creative processes are in the nervous system. And how significant this knowledge and experience is for group processes and for the connection between inner and outer sustainability.

TEACHERS:

JEPPE HEIN

Spontaneity, play and inner listening in creative flows

MICHAEL STUBBERUP

Nervous system

HANNELI ÅGOTSDATTER

Meditation, silence and mindfulness yoga

PETER HOEEG

Writing practice and meditation

MODULE 4 ·
Internal communication and project presentation

Fourth module · Internal communication and project presentation

The fourth module rounds out, anchors and concludes the course.
This is where we present our projects to each other.
Here we look back on the time we have spent together, on the experiences we have had.
Here we take stock, both of our project and our professional and meditative process.

This is also where we look forward:
Towards what our intentions are for the future.
Towards the importance and possibilities of being part of creative work communities and meditative contexts. Towards the significance of having creative and spiritual playmates.

TEACHERS:

HANNELI ÅGOTSDATTER

Meditation and project guidance

PETER HOEEG

Meditation and project guidance

STEVEN HILDEBRANDT

Project guidance

JEANETTE LYKKEGÅRD

Project guidance

KIRSTEN ROTBØLL LASSEN

Dance and project guidance

Online modules

ONLINE MODULES ·
Writing workshops, reading groups and group supervision

Online group supervision and teaching

Hanneli and Peter facilitate our online sessions with teaching, practice, group supervision and peer supervision. Steen Hildebrandt is a guest lecturer one of the sessions.

Online project workshops and reading groups

Creative writing rooms and study groups led by Jeanette and Kirsten.
These sessions are online, and they are structured as a support both for individual practice and - especially - as a support for deepening one's knowledge and formulating the project one wants to work on.

FACILITATORS:

STEVEN HILDEBRANDT

HANNELI ÅGOTSDATTER

PETER HOEEG

JEANETTE LYKKEGÅRD

Reading groups

KIRSTEN ROTBØLL LASSEN

Project workshop

TEACHERS

HANNELI ÅGOTSDATTER

PETER HOEEG

KIRSTEN ROTBØLL LASSEN

JEANETTE LYKKEGÅRD

GUEST TEACHERS

JEPPE HEIN

MICHAEL STUBBERUP

STEVEN HILDEBRANDT

IPA · CHEF

MIKKEL STRANDBYGAARD

is an architect and furniture designer - and in addition has a passionate interest in cooking.

Mikkel is the head chef on the supervision course Internal practice and working life, where he prepares nutritious and tasty vegetarian food with a focus on ecology, aesthetics and sensuality.

Mikkel's cuisine is undogmatic and has an eye for both taste and satiety – and he always strives to take into account the special needs of participants with allergies and intolerances. Many of his recipes can be found on Kontemplation's blog.

IPA · CHEF

MIKKEL STRANDBYGAARD

is an architect and furniture designer - and in addition has a passionate interest in cooking.

Mikkel is the head chef on the supervision course Internal practice and working life, where he prepares nutritious and tasty vegetarian food with a focus on ecology, aesthetics and sensuality.

INTERNAL PRACTICE AND WORK LIFE

Professional and meditative supervision course in communication and immersion

A course for people who want to bring qualities from meditative immersion into their working lives.

The course's two focus areas

TEACHERS

AIMING WITH THE PROGRESS

SCOPE OF THE COURSE

TEACHING COURSE

Collections in Nørre Snede

MODULE 1 · Immersion in practice

MODULE 2 · Internal and external load-bearing capacity

MODULE 3 · Creativity and the nervous system

MODULE 4 · Internal communication and project presentation

Online modules

ONLINE MODULES · Writing workshops, reading groups and group supervision

TEACHERS

GUEST TEACHERS

IPA · CHEF

MIKKEL STRANDBYGAARD

IPA · CHEF

MIKKEL STRANDBYGAARD

MODULE 1 ·
Immersion in practice

MODULE 2 ·
Internal and external load-bearing capacity

MODULE 3 ·
Creativity and the nervous system

MODULE 4 ·
Internal communication and project presentation

ONLINE MODULES ·
Writing workshops, reading groups and group supervision