The
Institute.Org is our community's virtual home. We invite you to
come and hang out whenever you wish.
Who
We Are
My
name is Michael
Picucci, and I have been invited to be a focalizer for this
virtual community and website.
Collaborating with me and fine-tuning the content of this site
is the Native American author, Evan
T. Pritchard, who edited my last book, and Jane
M. Hart, a colleague and founder of The Healing Bridge research
project. They are both members of our healing
community. The other forty people in our core community also
support the words and resources shared on this website. This core
group is representative of a larger, eight-year-old community
of several hundred people. Additionally, our Board
of Directors and
Advisors guide us in staying true to our experience in a respectful,
holistic manner. We look forward to integrating many other voices,
and we encourage you to include your own voice by emailing us.
The Institute for Authentic Process Healing (IAPH) was born out
of a community of volunteers that evolved from the Institute for
Staged Recovery (ISR), founded in 1994. We'd like to welcome you
to our place on the Internet; a technological wonder that our
advisor, author Peter Russell, calls the "global brain." It is
our intention to be one lively neuron in this "brain," reminding
us that our personal engagement with each other can simultaneously
awaken both our own hearts and the global heart, as well, to the
spirit of healing.
Why ?...
We
wish to share with you what we have learned about reducing suffering
and supporting possibility. We do so in appreciation of the wonderful
resources we have discovered from our own experiences: We've learned
to look into our lives to see and hear with new eyes and ears.
These new perceptions, while disorienting at first, and perhaps
not quite what we expected, have led to profound transformation
of symptoms and suffering.
How ?...
We have begun to perceive our lives and our healing paths through the "felt senses," (internal body sensations) energy and wisdom of our own bodies.
Biological physicist and psychologist Peter
A. Levine defines felt sense as:
"The felt sense is a medium through which we experience the fullness of sensation and knowledge about ourselves...[it is] the vehicle through which we experience ourselves as organisms...the felt sense unifies a great deal of scattered data and gives it meaning".
According to Eugene Gendlin, who coined the term "felt sense"
in his book Focusing:
"A felt sense is not a mental experience, but a physical one". And by "physical" he means: "A bodily awareness of a situation or person or event. An internal aura that encompasses everything you feel and know about the given subject at a given time - encompasses it and communicates it to you all at once rather than detail by detail."
And So ?...
Many master teachers and facilitators have taught us how to honor
the felt sense in our bodies. We have entered into some new avenues on blind faith
and have learned that we are drawing on ancient roots, which serve to keep us
oriented and in balance. Sharing these gifts with you gives us the happy opportunity
to place our own lives and experience on the line for a greater purpose. As we
have healed and found wholeness in ourselves, we've claimed our inheritance of
abundance from the earth. We desire to become an uplifting influence to all who
visit with us.
As you peruse this site, please take a conscious breath, and let your spirit, your body, and your mind guide you through our many doorways. Take what serves you and leave what does not. You are always welcome to come back.
Authentic
Process Healing (APH) Is...
Authentic Process Healing (APH) is a paradigm that integrates
body, mind, and spirit in the journey toward wholeness. It is rooted in a the
notion best expressed by Peter A. Levine:
"While life traumas are a fact of life, they do not need to be a life sentence. In fact, trauma can be healed with appropriate guidance and support and even become a significant force for psychological, social, and spiritual awakening and evolution."
APH is deeply connected with the felt senses of the body and embraces
our inner wisdom to heal and guide our self-realization process. This process
is addressed through a variety of healing modalities. They are drawn from psychotherapy,
bodywork therapies, new understandings of physiology and the central nervous system,
and cultural/spiritual traditions that support us in reclaiming our emotional,
spiritual, and sexual wholeness. APH often utilizes communal healing--two or more
people with shared intentions, and without hierarchy--to provide a means for expressing
and encouraging our inherent but untapped healing powers.
APH Belongs to Each of US
No one entity owns Authentic Process Healing. We all do. It is an endowment from our living pulsating earth, or our creator, and it moves within us. The Institute for Authentic Process Healing is a nonprofit public entity, established by unpaid volunteers with some paid technical assistance. Funding to support the Institute's research and this website is through private donations and grants.
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