Workshops
Registration for the workshops takes place at the venue on the first day of the congress!
Introductory Workshop Cacao Ritual – Ursula Meyer
To live a life in love and freedom is a great joy
Cacao in its pure form has a heart-opening effect, is an aphrodisiac, and has a very connecting effect if you can allow it. Whenever our balance is threatened, the blockages that are indicative to opening our hearts again become visible. The fundamental longing to reconcile ourselves with our self and our fellow human beings leads us within.
The Cacao is drunk together in a meditative ritual.
As a companion to spiritual and essential truth, this natural substance shows us what we are ready to see or explore and supports us in manifesting this directly in everyday life. The connection to reality or truthfulness in each moment leads us into a new way of acting, or into stillness.
As psychological and spiritual counsellor, Ursula Meyer supports people through individual counselling and in seminars.
Shamanic Plant Medicine - About Singing and Listening to Plant Spirits - Lisa Franziska Hofmann
The use of magical plants is found in many cultures and places around the world. In various forms of application, plant medicine is used for healing, expansion of consciousness and for initiation rites.
In recent years, particularly South American culture and its plant medicine have gained a lot of attention. The plants from the jungle, from the Andes and the ubiquitous tobacco travel the world and remind us of ancient ways in which we can connect with the greater whole.
The shamanic approach to plant medicine invites us to remember that everything is is animate. There is a spirit within the plant. If we meet this spirit with respect and address it appropriately then this presence can teach us and initiate us into mystical levels.
In these encounters, we find a wisdom, the memories and songs of our earth mother that can be heard in the plants.
This workshop enables us to sample the field of shamanic plant work. As usual in the tradition, different senses are addressed.
Psychiatric nurse
Craniosacral therapist
Shamanic medicine woman.
Tantric Music Making – Juliana von Steegen
The process of a psycholytic session includes a number of phases, one of which is the expression round. After the participants have spent the day practising stillness and feeling, they are invited in the evening to express themselves authentically - to show themselves through expression from the innermost and the moment.
In the workshop we want to go deeper into this aspect of psycholysis and dedicate ourselves to "tantric" music-making. We will be helped by simple musical suggestions that are less about skill and more about mindfulness, feeling and listening - with the intention of creating a field of connection and diving into deeper states of consciousness.
Afterwards we will have the space to share and express ourselves in a very personal way. Please bring (if available) an instrument, poem, or song.
Breath, Body and Consciousness – Jürgen Christian und Ilona Neumann
Through the breath, one comes into contact with one's own body.
This creates a new vitality, intensity, and intimacy of experience.
If the body is the temple of the soul, then perhaps the breath is the runway.
Experiencing my body, a pulsating "being in the flesh", is a gateway to the present, to the possibility to heal, or in other words, to being complete and to love as a whole person.
And we would rather develop the capacity for this wordless experiencing than refine our self-concepts.
Being able to be a good host to everyone is the discipline.
› Co-founder of Skan Body and Breath Work
› Psychotherapeutic healer
› Bonding therapist
› Private practice for body-centred psychotherapy since 1980 in individual and group settings in Germany, Switzerland, and other countries
› 40 years self-employed experience in psychosomatic and psychiatric clinics.
Spiritual being with 56 years’ experience as exponent of the art of living, mother, product manager, voyager, warrior, and willing student of life
- Psycholytic therapist
- Tantrika
and much more
Ritual: Sacred Plants as Supplement to Psycholysis – Felix Pansegrau
For all open-minded people, this is an opportunity to experience the holistic effects of sacred plants from South and Central America. Three different senses are addressed: Sananga for the sense of sight, chilcuague for the sense of taste and rapé for the sense of smell. A certain willingness to suffer may be brought along, as all the plants used here convey a certain component that can be classified as unpleasant and painful. Through conscious handling, the appropriate attitude of mind, in combination with the necessary trust and sustained integration, it is possible in this framework to get to know the entire spectrum of the healing potential of the respective plant and to transform it into self-healing. Please bring relaxed clothing, a bucket, spring water to drink and a healthy open mind.
Sweat Lodge Ceremony
The sweat lodge is an ancient community ritual for purifying body, mind and soul. It invites us to get back in touch with our own nature and the nature around us.
Through the elements of earth, water, air and fire and in a protected setting (the sweat lodge), we create a space in which this natural connection can become possible again.
The invitation is first and foremost to move beyond the limitations of thinking and into feeling, sensing and listening.
The sweat lodge is built from willow poles like an igloo and covered with blankets. In the middle of the hut is a hole into which heated stones are placed.
Please bring: Two hand towels and a bath robe.
This workshop last longer than the others and therefore begins earlier than other workshops at 14:00 (in parallel to the lectures)!
Johannes Kappes, born 1952
Trained in body therapy
Trained in psycholysis by Samuel und Danièle Widmer-Nicolet
Batchelor degree in education and since retirement a passionate carer of children
Living for 16 years in the Kirschblüte Community
Lutz Deibler, born 1964, father of one child
Living for more than 10 years in the Kirschblüte Community
Since 2006 completed a range of psycholysis and Tantra training courses conducted by Samuel und Danièle Widmer-Nicolet
Previous shamanic training at the Deer Tribe Metis Medicine Society
Currently employed as sustainability specialist at the Alternative Bank.
Awareness as Orientation framed with Warrior Texts - Marianne Principi and Peter Füss
Awareness means being in the here and now.
Together we want to find the state of heightened awareness. This is the prerequisite for exploring reality more deeply and being able to look at things from a different perspective.
Our process is supported by various elements, among which we use the warrior texts derived from the Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda.
Peter Füss is a free-lance computer scientist and lecturer at a college for applied sciences
Both have lived in community for more than 20 years and dedicate their lives first and foremost to self-knowledge.
The Use of Music in Psycholysis – Romina Mossi
The course of psycholytic experiences can be decisively influenced by the targeted use of music. But which music is suitable for psycholytic work? Which music supports inner stillness or confrontation with one's own feelings or processes, and which music brings us into contact with the pain of the world and opens the gates to the wholly Great? At which meditation phases or chakras is which music is played? And how can musical treasures be discovered? Together we will set out on the path of ‘music with heart’ and engage in its passionate dance with psycholysis.
I am a person with many passions, which include music and psycholysis, the themes of my workshop. Initially personal distress and then love brought me into contact with the psycholytic psychotherapy of Samuel and Danièle Widmer Nicolet. As a biochemist with a doctorate, the interaction of the human mind with substances is pure fascination for me, and my past as a top athlete gave me access to ‘music with heart’, to which I have always responded with renewed admiration and gratitude.
Contraindications and Complications in Psycholytic Psychotherapy and Substance-Assisted Self-Experience - Karsten Prause
After a short theoretical input, this seminar will use a group supervision setting to discuss critical situations occurring in the context of working with psychoactive substances.
Karsten Prause has been pursuing scientific research into psychoactive substances and their possible applications in different settings, for different indications and in a transcultural context for many years.
Iboga - Mystical Entheogen from Africa– Tobias Erny
The root bark of the Tabernanthe iboga shrub, which is relatively unknown in the western world, has long been considered a sacred medicine in Western Equatorial Africa.
It is used for initiation, as a catalyst to spiritual progress, and enables communication with realms beyond our world. The pharmacologically induced near-death experience is central element of the African Bwiti cults.
Due to its unique neuropharmacological properties, iboga facilitates withdrawal from various drugs and has gained a reputation as a powerful tool in psychotherapy. Microdosing with iboga is becoming increasingly popular and is used for a variety of physical and psychological medical conditions.
This workshop offers the opportunity to deepen the topics of the lecture, to ask questions and to discuss them together.
Fascinated by their enormous possibilities, he immersed himself deep into research and work with traditional plant medicine.
Together with the team at Nachtschatten publishing house, he published the German standard work on iboga. He organises conferences, gives lectures on the subject and is currently working with the Beckley Foundation on a study using iboga microdosing aimed at making life easier for Parkinson's patients.
In addition to his educational work at universities, conferences and other events, he is a board member of the Global Iboga Therapy Alliance GITA) - a non-profit organisation dedicated to spreading knowledge about iboga and its alkaloids. In particular, its aim is to support the sacramental and therapeutic use through sustainability initiatives, scientific research, education and knowledge sharing.
