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Integral Consultation: Wholeness of Soul, Spirit, Body, Earth, and the Divine
(For the time being, enrollment in Integral Consultation is closed as at this the time openings are filled. When there are openings available, this notice will be removed. Thank you.)
Integral Soul/Spirit Direction consists of a series of Twelve one-hour telephone sessions, each session devoted to the development of a particular capacity for experiencing and living within soul/spirit awareness. We work toward relativizing the supposed separation between the earthly world and the spiritual world. We recognize the intertwining of the two worlds and work to develop this awareness, solving the impossible dilemmas of leaving the world for subtle and spiritual awareness and leaving spiritual awareness to navigate the so-called practical world.
This work is based upon 40 years of working with individuals in soul/spirit awakening and is based in the depth psychology of C, G. Jung, the Archetypal Psychology of James Hillman, Phenomenological Psychology, and most of all in the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.
The theme of the practices and the conversations are:
1. Awakening to Full Inner-Body Awareness
2. Awakening to the Seven Regions of Intersecting Soul, Spirit, and Body
3. Stopping Thinking, illuminating Intuition
4. Expanding Body-Awareness
5. Entering the Silence
6. Entering the Stillness
7. Entering Heart-Awareness
8. Developing Soul/Spirit Awareness- from Unconsciousness to Wholeness
9. Surrender to the Spiritual Worlds, Receiving from the Depths
10. Awakening to Living in Creative Intuition
11. Sustaining Wholeness of Awareness
12. Wholeness as integral body, soul, spirit, earth, and divine awareness
Each of these tools requires time and devoted daily practice, along with guidance. In one-on-one sessions, we do practices together with each of these tools. We carefully track your inner development and how inner development seamlessly coordinates with changes in your life, relationships, work, and spiritual ideals. People typically find whatever religion or spiritual practice they are involved with opens in new and deeper and much more practical dimensions and that their beliefs have not been interfered with in any way.
ACCOMPANYING READING:
Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness by Robert Sardello
Heartfulness by Robert Sardello
The Art of Cultivating Spiritual Imagination (monograph) by Robert Sardello
A Soul Way of Forgiveness (monograph) by Robert Sardello
Contemplative Listening (monograph) by Robert Sardello
Contemplative Action (monograph) by Robert Sardello
All books and monographs available from the books and monograph sections of this website (see top menu).
HOW DOES IT WORK:
We meet for an hour session once a week. Time is mutually worked out. In the session, after we have worked three or four sessions with the soul/spirit assessment, we will do practices of entering the Silence, for a time, then move into practices of Heartfulness and then into practices of the Stillness, and then bring these into a creative synthesis of Spiritual-Earth Presence, and culminate with a new form of meditation for encountering the Divine. Approximately half of the time of a session involves doing a contemplative practice and working with speaking that deepens. The rest of the session concerns therapeutic work with particular regions of your life in relation to spiritual development and self-knowledge.
HOW LONG DOES IT LAST: We meet once a week for 12 weeks.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST: The cost is $1100 for twelve one hour sessions.
QUALIFICATIONS OF ROBERT SARDELLO, PH.D. Robert Sardello has been engaged in the research and practices of spiritual psychology since 1992 when he and Cheryl-Sanders Sardello began the School of Spiritual Psychology. Before that, he was Director of Studies at the Dallas Institute of Psychology, where he developed spiritual and cultural psychology. He was a licensed psychologist in private practice for over 15 years and co-director of a program in Spiritual Direction for the School of Spiritual Psychology. He has taught numerous courses in spiritual psychology and worked as an independent teacher in the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Philippines, and Australia.
Robert is the author of eight books and eight monographs on the research and practices of integral spiritual psychology and teaches spiritual psychology at the Christine Center in Wisconsin and the Alcyon Center in Maine. He sparingly accepts invitations to offer soul retreats in various locations.
This work is not counseling or psychotherapy.
Booking: Send a letter telling of your interest in this work to
Robert Sardello: spiritualheart@heartfulsoul.com
In the letter include some of your educational background, your present work, what form or forms of spirituality you practice, for how long, if you practice a religion, and which, what your religious interests and concerns are, whether you have been in psychotherapy, what kinds. If questions arise based upon your letter, I will contact you by email to set up a telephone conversation. Include a phone number.
Once registration is received you will be informed of acceptance, or perhaps a phone call will be suggested to speak further concerning your application. Then, upon acceptance and receipt of payment, I will call you and we will set up the day and time of the telephone sessions.
