Flower Essence Therapy Course - Part 1
5 days
April 14 to April 18, 2008
9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Course Program: Part 1
Advance Preparation
The Flower Essence Therapy Course is a 76-hour intensive. The course begins with home preparation before the Tucson workshop dates. Since the workshop is so rich in information, a reading and contemplation guide will be sent to registrants to prepare for the course. The advance preparation requires about twelve hours of reading and contemplation.
The books that will be used are:
The Art & Technique of Using Flower Essences, and
The Alchemy of the Desert, Second Edition.
Day 1: Monday - April 14, 2008
Selecting Flower Essences
Selecting flower essences is an art. This module gives the participant the tools and methodology necessary for pinpointing core issues and selecting the appropriate flower essences, whether you are a beginner or experienced in using flower essences.
Whether you use a pendulum, kinesiology, the Desert Alchemy® cross-reference, or any other method for selecting flower essences, this workshop will provide you with the necessary foundation. It is appropriate for beginners as well as experienced flower essence users.
Includes:
- A method for finding the core of a healing project or awareness crisis.
- How to use a pendulum and other intuitive methods for essence selection.
- The art of essence combining and making customized formulas.
- An introduction to the attunement process, the most important tool for working with flower essences.
Day 2: Tuesday - April 15, 2008
The Desert as a Healer
The experience of intimately attuning with the desert is powerful and life-changing. We will spend this day in the desert, exploring some of its remarkable qualities and how they support us in healing. We will make in-depth use of the attunement process to easily and profoundly experience a self-empowering relationship with desert nature.
Includes:
- An introduction to the unique environment of the desert and its healing qualities.
- Adaptation strategies of desert plants.
- Building or enhancing an intimate relationship with nature.
- Attunements in the desert with native plants.
- Flower essences to support us in many types of crisis, intense life challenges and extreme situations.
Day 3: Wednesday - April 16, 2008
The Essence of
Caring for the Soul
This is an exploration of soul and its importance in honoring ourselves and others and its role in the healing process. Whether we want to work with flower essences professionally or for self-help, learning to honor the soul is the foundation for effective healing support.
Includes:
- A deeper understanding of discomfort and pain.
- Developing a view of life and healing that embraces responsibility for ourselves and our world.
- Working with recovery from addictions.
- The three stages of transitions and transformational processes and how to support them.
- In-depth study of specific Desert Flower Essences.
Day 4: Thursday - April 17, 2008
Emotional Awareness, and
The Relationship between Psyche & Soma
Flower essences are a language that can help us to understand and accept our inner life and our soul urges. Why do we have emotions? Why is it important to know what we are feeling? How do emotions affect our well-being? How can we give and receive emotional support? What does true support feel like? In today''s fast-paced world the frequent changes and transformations demand that we constantly evaluate, make decisions & adjustments. How can we use our feelings and intuition to improve our decision-making process and alleviate overwhelm?
Includes:
- Emotional awareness: what it is and why it is necessary.
- The relationship between Psyche and Soma: How do our emotions, attitudes and beliefs affect our health?
- How can we change our lives by changing our attitude?
- Recognizing our feelings: how can they support rather than encumber us?
- Identifying and resolving and releasing past emotional traumas.
- Thinking with your heart: uniting intuition and feelings with our mind.
- Flower essences that support us in emotional self-care.
Day 5: Friday - April 18, 2008
Individuation & Co-Creation
"Individuate to co-create" is perhaps the desert''s strongest message to humanity. What does this mean? Knowing ourselves is paramount to having fulfilling relationships. We will create a foundation for working with individuality and creating harmony in relationships.
Includes:
- The root of loneliness.
- Flower essences that help us with knowing ourselves and helping us to have fulfilling relationships.
- Working with self-esteem and self-empowerment.
- Flower essences for women''s and men''s issues.
- How we can relate soul to soul in any kind of relationship.
- Detaching and recovering from undesirable relationships.
"Cynthia, you were wonderful as a teacher, and I was so honored to be a sponge to your knowledge of the plants, your connection to and understanding of their spiritual presences, and I am just very thankful that there is someone out there who is doing this work!"
~ A. M., California
"My expectations were met far beyond what I could imagine. I most appreciated the focus of the awareness of the Care of the Soul and the essences representing the femenine aspect of the Creative Divine."
~ C. M., Hawaii
"The knowledge and the depth of the wholistic approach of the human and spiritual experience made it easier to go into life once again with a renewed spirit."
~ D. D., Texas
"It was not just a workshop on flower essences, but more a workshop on life!"
~ W. K., Arizona