Stage One Recovery
This is the beginning of coming to terms with a
primary addiction or repressed traumatic conflicts from childhood. It is the original relaxing of
denial. Stage One is the first year or two in
recovery that is necessary for one to begin to
stabilize, accept support, and neutralize problems
and wreckage from the past. It is a time of
sweeping change in a person’s life that results in
a massive psychic shift and often stimulates a
personal, spiritual awakening.
Stage Two Recovery
The process that a recovering person (who is
already well grounded in Stage One) enters to heal
and address their unconscious limitations and
barriers to intimacy, empowerment, personal fulfillment, and a full and richer life. Clarity produced
by the Institute’s staged model facilitate healing
from individual psychic prisons. Personal,
unconscious barriers surface and are guided in a
process of resolution. The catalyst for this healing
is generated by efficiently addressing the eight
“constellations of desire” presented in the second stage of
recovery.
Authentic Process
Authentic Process Therapy combines the wisdom and healing spirit of the community movement with clinical and transformative skills from many psychologies and pyschotherapeutic applications. Authentic means that all parties involved (including practitioners) bring their hearts, minds, and experience to matters at hand. Similar to healing traditions in indigenous cultures, community members attempt to speak from the “pit-of-the belly” or “speak their medicine.” The condition of being authentic, genuine, and trustworthy is the spirital core of the process.
Complete Recovery
Complete Recovery is a very personal experience that can only be fully appreciated after the threshold is crossed. There are states of being that accompany this experience. They include: body-mind-spirit connection, spiritual intimacy, meeting the world on its terms and your own, and the experiences of grace, synchronicity, and serendipity. When one consistently feels whole and complete as a human being they are in the state of complete recovery. In this state, we live our lives with a capacity for true intimacy, empowerment, and self-expression. We reclaim our authentic selves and human entitlements, including the ability to merge our sexual and spiritual lives. This happens when we have safely accepted and corrected unconscious self-delusions and integrated the many aspects of our complex nature. At the core of this experience is a new-born shameless presentation of the whole self in all its complexity. When we experience this state of being, we no longer feel embarrassed or ashamed, on conscious or unconscious levels, by our authentic personal histories and their effects on us. It is truly a recovery of spirit.
Constellation of Desires
This term emerged from two experiential research studies of several hundred men and women in Stage Two Recovery. These desires feuled their commitment to therapy and self-discovery. In being aware of these commonalities one’s growth and self-realization efforts are empowered by the clarity of their own intention. We desire:
- Help in accepting/identifying/expressing our complex feelings.
- To connect in more meaningful ways with others.
- The healing of our internaized sexual-spiritual split.
- To grasp our role in power dynamics, thereby resolving our difficulty wiht authority figures and intimates.
- To sustain consistent, loving relationships
- The shameless presentation of self.
- To discover our individual “life purpose.”
- To know “who we are” in a real and spiritual sense.
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