GUIDELINES FOR THE FACILITATOR

In an Awareness Intensive the course leader is there as a facilitator or coordinator, not as a therapist. In this role the facilitator creates a space for the Awareness Intensive to happen.

· Be familiar with Osho's insights.

· Dynamic, Kundalini and other active meditations are part of an Awareness Intensive.

· Give yourself space and time to tune into the people there in front of you.

· Create a safe environment and help people to feel safe in the process.

· Create an atmosphere of presence, no judgment and allowance.

· Be centered, holding the structure, and encouraging with participants.

· If sometimes your judgments or irritations get focused on a participant, bring your energy back to the hara. Remain open and available – facilitating!

Reminders to give the participants:

· An Awareness Intensive requires focus and intention.

· Bring your total energy to the process, be total in your participation.

· As the communicating partner go on communicating – continuously and as thoughts, emotions, body sensations arise keep expressing them using your voice, gestures and body movement.

• Communicate everything, no adding, editing or censoring.

· It is not about reporting what you are finding, rather be it.

· Be aware of story telling, stay in the now.

· Do not relate to your partner. It is not a dialogue, don’t use the word “you” to your partner. Avoid nodding and smiling.

• Listen neutrally; stay within your own space without responding in any way. Be like an "empty mirror". Be present for your partner.

· There is no need for interaction in the process; you are doing it for yourself.

· Do not interfere into another persons process (e.g. “Shut up!”)

· If you feel sleepy, you can stand up. If the partner gets up, you get up! Use your voice a bit more and your breath.

· Mind will often try to interpret what is going on in a negative way, but something deeper may be happening that the mind can't understand.

· How do you know it is sleep or tiredness? Go behind that label, e.g. it could be boredom, or anger, etc., and make that an object of your communication. Use it. Often it is a negative judgment. This is actually only a problem if you are rejecting what is happening.

· Mind cannot understand meditation or direct experience and tends to doubt or question it.

• Keep on going deeper.
• When you have found who is in, come and present who is in.
• Accept what comes and communicate it – traffic or silence.

· Trust the process, it is scientific.

INTERVIEWS

Best attitude for the facilitator: care, availability, respect, openness, not-knowing.

First and foremost: Check technique precisely, are they doing the technique: taking the koan inside / intention / openness / communication … and find out where and if the person is missing a step.

Check the balance of their time spent on intent/experience and communication time.

Always find a way to validate the participant’s experience.

Always encourage to keep going, go deeper.

Validate realization when you are clear they are in it … and

As facilitator you can’t know, you don’t need to know.

When a participant does have a realization, it is important to communicate to their partner, to you, this grounds them deeper into the realization.

FACILITATOR TALKS

Date: 2014-12-29; view: 924