Is a creative therapy space, where you are welcome as an individual, a couple, or a small group. The set-up of the Salon is to work with Parts Therapy (and particularly Voice Dialogue), Somatic Resonance, and creative and spiritual tools from various traditions.
Your host (Elke Van Campenhout) will help you to speak through, and embody the different voices that play a part in your life, in an informal, safe, and supportive setting. Depending on your question and the direction the sessions take, we might start to include more or less bodywork, breathing, and other somatic tools in the work.
Voice Dialogue
The Parts work (Voice Dialogue) is a way to allow you to discover different parts of yourself. Often we think of ourselves as one, as a ‘stable’ identity, a person that acts a certain way and believes in certain things. But quite often, we find ourselves dumbfounded by the obstacles we encounter or the behavior that ‘breaks through’ the surface of our self-understanding. In Voice Dialogue we think of a person not as one individual, but as a conglomerate of different parts. Every part has a different function, a specific set of beliefs and behaviors, and even a personal view of your past life and future potential. By becoming more aware of your primary ‘selves’ (the ones you are aware of, and that make up your functioning ego), and your disavowed selves (the ones that are running the house from the basement), you get a clearer insight into inner and relational conflicts, obstacles and unacknowledged needs.
Somatic Resonance
Somatic Resonance is not so much one methodology as it is a set of skills that we developed to listen to the body as a source of information, as well as a powerful tool for healing and transformation. Often the body is a whistle-blower, indicating an inner need or outspoken wound. By working through the proprioception of the body, we can often come to feel how to move through a difficult phase. For this, we use techniques like Focussing, creative visualization, Body Dialogue, and others.
Creative and Spiritual Tools
Elke Van Campenhout was an artistic worker, artist-researcher, and mentor for most of her life. Working with artists, and inventing various methodologies for exchanging, mentoring, and creating work, gave her a lot of tools to look at a process in development. In her sessions, she makes use of these, as well as techniques that came on her path in her life as an experimental monk in The Monastery live: especially techniques for breathing, moving, and relating out of the Tantra, Buddhist, and contemplative traditions.
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