This training is an inspiration for life and a way to enjoy the journey to its fullest. Breathing is the gift of life which has huge potential to be our friend and ally. Heart based, the training is designed to support you in returning to your true self, in finding your unique path and giving you the tools to bring fulfilment to that journey.
The focus is on creating loving relationships with ourselves, others and our world and practicing this in a safe, nurturing space. Our relationships at home and at work bring challenges as well as rewards. To bring more joy and celebration into our life, our relationships need to become lighter, more playful, and less ponderous but at the same time capable of greater depth.
You may choose to take the E.L.S. as a Rebirther Training, gaining the knowledge, the understanding and the confidence to guide others in this journey or learn these skills purely for the joy of mastering and enjoying your own life.
HOW WILL THE E.L.S. BENEFIT YOU? IT WILL GIVE YOU:
Recognition
of breathing as a simple daily practice as well as a magnificent inner
healer with limitless potential.
A thorough working understanding of Spiritual Purification - balancing earth, air, fire and water.
A way to come home to your point of stillness and the power and wisdom that arise from this.
A deepening trust in your intuitive nature.
A strong sense of self-esteem.
Recognition of your creative gifts and talents and an ability to cherish and share them generously.
The
knowledge of essential basic energy management.
The joy of conscious community.
Clarity of vision and purpose.
The courage to risk, the courage to dare, the courage to tread your chosen path.
Essential Life Skills
CONTENTS OF THE TRAINING
Nine modules over 10 months
Module One: 4 days
Introduction and community foundations. Setting goals.
Theory and practice of Conscious Connected Breathing.
Spiritual Purification - a fundamental basis of personal and
space clearing management.
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Module Two: 3 days
Power of the mind and core beliefs
Module
Three: 3 days
Birth and bonding.
Module Four: 3 days
Inner child, infancy and family patterns.
Module Five: 3 days
Relationships and intimacy.
Module Six: 3 days
Money power and sex.
Module
seven: 3 days
Silence and meditation
- connecting with the inner and outer elements,
coming home and
remembering who we really are.
Module eight: 3 days
Death and rebirth, rhythms and cycles.
MODULE NINE: 5 days
Ethics and practice. Professional qualities, dynamics and support.
Personal presentations and completion - emerging through Art.
Details of the Training 30
days, fully residential over ten months.
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This will be a small group of 10 participants to ensure the highest quality and individual attention.
About You:
You may be beginning a journey of self exploration, looking for new ways to make your life work or you may wish to become a professional Rebirther.
You'll be excited about sharing this journey with like-minded, supportive people and the joy of creating community.
You may have a project and be looking for inspiration and the courage to follow it through, or you may be a therapist interested in new skills.
You may be searching for all these and more. You'll be open and willing to discover that there are undiscovered qualities, talents and passions in you that you never dreamt of.
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About
Anne Smith Anne has worked in the field of Adult education for more than ten years, training trainers in: the fundamental concepts of empowerment; groupwork; equality of opportunity; self and professional evaluation and assessment. She
brings a depth of compassion an4 playfulness into her work that
creates a beautiful Her
wisdom and knowledge of group dynamics, and what makes people
tick, encourages them to explore new choices in relating to themselves
and others.
The
Essential Life Skills Training... This training has been running for the past seven years and continues to change and evolve with differing participants and dynamics. This is its joy, it even seems to have a life of its own at times! The aims of the training are both as a profound personal journey and as a Rebirther Training. The Rebirther Training aspect is multi-level, reflected by the past experience of the students. The core of the training is breathwork, namely Rebirthing or Conscious Connected Breathing. We also include Pranayama and encourage learning from the breath itself. This is a small training with a maximum of 11 participants, 1 apprentice trainer and 3 trainers resulting in an intimate group. This gives an experience of how to relate to others in day to day life from the position of a valued member of a family. I believe that all humans desire true heart connection and healthy, happy relationships. Another emphasis of the training is Spiritual Purification with a strong focus on building a daily meditation practice, and we encourage the participants to develop their own daily programme during the course of the training. The training runs over a year in nine modules, 30 days, including 3-day weekends each month with longer modules at the beginning and end. I find it effective working in this way as it gives the participants the opportunity to integrate the training into their everyday life and practice. They receive the support they need from the trainers, and also from their peers in the form of buddies. In addition, they are required to have rebirthing sessions between modules. As trainers we teach from our experience, live what we teach and walk our talk, so we completely involve ourselves in the group, the rebirthing processes, sharing etc. The
apprentice trainer is an experienced rebirther starting to run
his/her own workshops, one year seminars etc, and at times on
the training this is a very challenging position, given the way
that we work. They start more as an assistant and feel their way
towards trainer status, bringing their expertise and ideas into
the training.
The subjects covered range through the life process; conception, birth, infancy,family patterns through childhood, puberty, independence/interdependence, power, sex and money, death/rebirth, rhythms and cycles.
She brings this emphasis into the group to illustrate individual behaviour patterns within a group growing towards true community. This is invaluable. On successful completion of the training and presentation of their portfolio, students receive a certificate. Our professional body in the U.K. is the British Rebirth Society. At the completion of the training some of the students may be ready to present themselves as Professional Rebirthers provided they have fulfilled the prerequisites for professional membership. Others may continue their training by joining the second year of the ELS as an Apprentice Practitioner. We encourage the students to join the society as an Apprentice Rebirther member as soon as they start their professional practice. We support students in honouring their own timing in becoming a professional Rebirther and many take a year or two off to integrate the changes into their life situation. Others may integrate it into their existing practice as, for example, a Psychotherapist, and continue their supervision as part of that practice. Whichever route they take it is imperative to continue their supervision and support. The essence of this work is our personal soul journey, our humanness and spirituality. Using the breath in this way embraces the Mystery, allowing an unfolding unique to each of us. This is a training for life and whether we choose to be breathworkers or continue using this practice purely for ourselves, is equally relevant.
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Gilly's
search for truth and meaning has led her to explore personal
freedom within relationships, and her passionate belief
in the empowerment of the individual permeates all her work.
issues
and pinpointing the essential with his highly perceptive
mind.
| Acknowledgements
and Appreciation |
| The
perfect springboard for creating positive change and growth in ones
life Thank you Gilly and thank you David Joe Roberts - Musician and songwriter |
| Gilly Montgomery is one of the most powerful and catalytic mirrors I have worked with. Especially from Gilly I learnt to be OK with the sometimes terrifying parts of the process of growth and change and to enjoy some of the less popular emotions!!?! Melanie
Joy Williams - Singer and songwriter |
| David Montgomery, with his deep understanding of personal relationships, is a master at holding and focusing group energy. His unassuming manner belies his talent for honing in on the key issues and pin-pointing the essential with his highly perceptive mind. Gary Kurtz - Film Producer, Star Wars |
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the solid support and inspiration I received on the E.L.S., I
have found more of my own truth, creating a life in alignment
with my deepest joy! Florence Peake - Rebirther, dancer and artist |
| I hope that what I have written will encourage someone else to join the journey into more love and life! 'Even when I feel sad and helpless I can create miracles.' Being part of Gilly's first E.L.S. last year, was one of my best created miracles! The nine monthly gatherings at her beautiful Catcott home gave me the needed time and space for unserving patterns to emerge, be seen, acknowledged and changed in a steady, deep and nurturing way. Gilly's
love, uncanny wisdom, laughter and example are experiences I choose
to embrace with much gratitude - and courage! |
| The Essential Life Skills training was an absolute gift towards developing as a professional breath worker, and on a personal level the course quite simply transformed my whole life. The training helped me to develop understandings about values that have become the foundation of my life, namely self-acceptance and the power of awareness. Grayem Gee - Lecturer |
Working
with Gilly - and it's always WITH - participative, accepting,
developmental and unlimiting, has helped me love my own strengths
in action and at rest.
For me, the true gift that I feel I have received from Gilly and David's training has been not in the techniques that they have shown and taught me and others. Yes, they are wonderful tools to help and I am grateful for them. The gift has really been in the offering: an incredible openness and love, and their intuitive abilities to respond to someone in exactly the right way at the right time; the nurturing and exceptional support; the gentleness and expansive nature, which they bring to all their work, and to all the people who come on the trainings; the honouring that I feel when I see they are not afraid of being a real part of the group, and going through their own process - they do not step aside like many other facilitators; they enter into the moment with us all. The ELS training was an incredible space, which held me so that I was able to work with my shadow - in joy, not in fear - and really come to love that beautiful part of myself, which is such a creative force for me. I waws only able to see the beauty of it through Gilly and David's non-judgmental support, honest encouragement and heart-felt love. I feel blessed that I was able to participate in the ELS training and give gratitude for being shown how to work from the heart - for that is what Gilly and David do in all their work - come from the heart. Rashon Chowdhury |
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