Menla Contemplative Healing

Contemplative healing has its roots in Indian and Tibetan wisdom regarding the nature of sickness, and health.

Through precise methods in contemplative healing we learn to:

~ Cultivate awareness, clarity, and an experience of inner balance,
~ Practice the art of not exhausting ourselves while remaining fully engaged in our professional and personal life. Renew our sense of spark and passion in our work,
~ See the healing potential in ourselves and in our clients,
~ Uncover an empathetic understanding of illness.
~ Reduce the negative impact of stress, worry, depression, anxiety and pain;
~ Minimize the stress in being a caregiver,
~ Listen more attentively to your clients and colleagues,
~ Learn to apply mindfulness of body, speech, and mind in our clinical practice and personal life.

Participants

This training is suitable for people engaged in healing and caring professions, as well as persons who care for chronically ill people; in particular for those people who engage in their profession with all their heart and have the tendency to overexert themselves and burn out.

The following are recommended for participation:
• Participants should have an active interest in improving the relationship between healer and patient. In this, work with speech and body language play an important role. Medical or care experience and training is very welcome but not required.
• No previous experience with Buddhism or other spiritual disciplines is required. All that is required is an openness for new ways of seeing our situation.

The following skills will be developed in a progressive manner:
• The skill to keep an open heart and a clear mind in difficult situations.
• Precision in perception, in particular the differentiation between pure sense perceptions and concepts and ideas that overlay our perceptions

• Special meditative and awareness exercises, perception and cognitive methods.
• Experiential process oriented methods. These will be presented by experienced therapists who will assist in the training.
• Group work. Between the seminars the participants will meet for discussion and exchange in contemplative healing groups

Menla Faculty

Dr. Phil Weber has worked for many years as a general practitioner with his own practice, in Boulder, Colorado, where he also teaches contemplative healing at Naropa University. Following his medical studies he studied Tibetan medicine for many years and he works with an integrative approach in his practice. He sees the western and the Tibetan systems as complementary.

Christoph Klonk works as a general practitioner and has been trained in Tibetan medicine and contemplative Psychology. In addition to his work as a Doctor, he is translator of Tibetan Doctors and Buddhist teachers, in particular Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, on who suggested that the principles of contemplative healing be presented in a training.

**Introduction Course: Awareness and the Art of Healing is a required course prerequisite to the Levels Training. This course is offered October 22, 2006.

6 Weekends ( Friday 7-9 pm , Sat and Sun 9am-5pm )
1 four day seminar

Menla Training costs:
$200.00 per weekend seminar (Accommodations and food not included) If you need financial assistance, please contact us.

Information/Registration:
Menla Holistic Health
35 Nod Road, Suite 106
Avon, CT. 06001
860 409 1501

Sponsor:
~ This training is sponsored by Tara Shedrup, Inc and Menla Holistic Health, contemplative education in psychology, healing and the arts, based in Avon, CT.
~ Intended Participants: Medical Doctors, Nurses, Social Workers, Naturopaths, Acupuncturists, Psychotherapists, Counselors, Case Managers, Addiction Therapists, Psychologists, Chiropractors, Physical Therapists, Healers, all those in the helping professions, and caring for loved ones who are ill.

What is Menla Training?

Menla 7 Levels

Level I The Hidden Fear of Health
November 10-12, 2006
Discover the sense of balance. It exists in everyone but is often covered over by our concepts of what we think our body should be instead of what our body- intelligence knows. We discover it through four gates: Unfolding of wellbeing, compassion, discriminating analysis and trust. Through this we also discover sickness inducing habitual patterns that prevent us from coming in contact with our basic health.

Level II Touching the Heart of Healing
January 12-14, 2006
We learn methods of working wit our own fear and pain and discover our wish to cover up as a spiral of suffering. We also can discover our own sensitivity and tenderness as the driving force of healing. This weekend is especially dedicated to the personal experience of being touched.

Level III The Threat of Illness
March 16-18, 2007
We face the facts of sickness and fear, and explore against the background of the principles of contemplative healing, the causal bodily and psychological dynamics of becoming ill in our own personality. For this we apply the experiential aspects of the tree life processes from the Tibetan healing arts.

Level IV The Discovery of Humor I Healing
May 11-13, 2007 or June 22-24 2007
The exploration of the personal life dynamic from the point of view of the present moment gives rise to intelligence and humor, that can help us explore the healing process, so that through mindfulness of our experience and perceptions we can bring forth our healthy aspects.

Level V The Struggle with the Body
August 17-19, 2007 or August 31-Sept.2, 2207
We discover the power and the depth of our own emotional resistance that prevents us from re-examining our habitual bodily patterns, and to overcome the elemental psychosomatic illusions of being sick. Through this we give rise to a discriminating awareness that explores deeper and examines.

Level VI Sickness as a Path
November 2-4 2007
Every sickness offers us a precious opportunity to gain deeper insights in our won personal body-mind-confusion. Accepting this confusion with humor/full clarity is our task. This strengthens our ability to take sickness as a path.

Level VII The Inexhaustible Healer
December 7-9 2007
The final weekend will provide us with an overview and practical advice as to how we can maintain a natural healthy balance in each moment of our daily life.

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Participants

This training is helpful for all people engaged in the healing and caring professions, those who care for chronically ill people, and in particular for those people who engage in their caring with all their heart and have the tendency to overexert themselves and burn out.

The following are further recommendations for participation:

• Participants should have an active interest in improving the relationship between healer and patient. Interest in working with speech and body language play an important role. Medical or caring experience and training is helpful but not required.

Contact Hours are offered for nurses, social workers and doctors.

The following skills will be developed in a progressive manner:

• The skill to keep an open heart and a clear mind in difficult situations.
• Precision in perception, in particular the differentiation between pure sense perceptions and concepts and ideas that overlay our perceptions.

“Approval for contact hours through the AHNA is based on an assessment of the educational merit of this program and does not constitute endorsement of the use of any specific modality in the care of clients.”

“This continuing nursing education activity has been submitted to the American Holistic Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.”

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