Gertrude Raven Croissier (Germany)
Workshop: Acceptance of guilt and self-forgiveness – steps of healing on the spiritual path
In difficult relationships – particularly in conflicts with parents, partners and children – our dearest wish is that the other person might admit his/her part in the drama, might admit his/her guilt. If that happens, forgiveness is – usually – easy for us. Normally, however, we wait in vain for the others to admit their guilt.
One of the most salutary spiritual exercises is to give exactly that which we so dearly wish to receive. We therefore admit our own guilt – which only exists at a personal level. We willingly accept our guilt so that it can be transformed and healed in the dimension of divine unity, the holistic Self, where guilt does not exist.
Healing in the sense of becoming whole requires the healing of personal guilt, because feelings of guilt make people ill. These feelings demand a – mostly unconscious – compensation for guilt: frequent consequences are a victim attitude, illness or loss of the zest for life. In acceptance of guilt forgiveness can transpire – self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others. The ability to accept guilt and self-forgiveness are an expression of emotional and spiritual maturity and open up an inner healing space, the space of love: the spiritual powers of truth, light and joy start to flow and fulfil the relationship with ourselves and with others.
This lecture presents a practical concept for healing guilt as an inner truth – not guilt held against us by others! – in five healing steps with therapeutical support and deep involvement: voluntariness, acceptance of guilt, admission of guilt and compensation for guilt help transforming personal guilt and forgiveness in the holistic self.
Bio:
Born in
1943, Gertrude Raven Croisser is a psychotherapist in private practice and a
teaching therapist at the “School for Transpersonal Psychology and
Psychotherapy.” She combines Systemic Therapy, body-orientated psychotherapy
and Holotropic Breathwork (Stan Grof) with ritual and elements of shamanic
healing into a holistic-therapeutic approach.
The focus
of her work is:
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Healing
of wounded womanhood and manhood
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Sexual
violence and pre-existential traumata
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Work
in the multidimensional space of consciousness
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Mythology
and archetypes of the soul
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Female
spirituality
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Deep
ecology and responsibility for creation.
She is
author of the book: Psychotherapie im Raum der Göttin: Weibliches
Bewusstsein und Heilung (“Psychotherapy in the space of the goddess: Female
consciousness and healing”), 2007.