Hero’s Journey® Foundation
Introducing HJ Group Facilitation @Lifebridge Sanctuary
We have arrived at a pivotal threshold crossing in our Group Process Learning
as we relocate our HJ Group Training to Rosendale, NY.
As a learning group, we now have an opportunity to go where we haven’t gone before.
Working With Intensive group Processes, transformational encounters, & The HJ Myth
WED, SEPT 24TH – SUNDAY, SEPT 28TH
WEd, April 22nd – Sunday, April 27th, 2025
5 Days Each
$1495
Two Weeks
Deposit required
What is Intensive Group facilitation?
Lifebridge Main Room Group Space
WORK WITH GROUP PROCESS, DEPTH FACILITATION, VITALIZING ENCOUNTERS & THE HERO’S JOURNEY® MYTH
We will all go where we haven’t gone before – experiencing a fresh new way to experience one’s self coming alive within a group.
Intensive group facilitation combines three essential features for human development, and applies them to short term, intensive groupprocess experiences.
1) A solid clinical and theoretical understanding of group process, as differentiated from an individual’s personalprocess.
2) An immersive experience into the mythic dimension of human experience through the personal application of the universalHero’s Journey® myth – living into your personal myth.
3) An approach to transformative processes that highlights a vitalizing aspect – a felt sense of what is happening within andbetween people, in the immediacy of the here and now moment – gaining an experiential understanding of how significant change is highlyinteraction-dependent.
We will engage the best of what we’ve brought forth in the past in working with embodiment, aggression, tenderness, loss and eros, along with new material on shame, desire, longing and vitalizing engagements.
Join a new two-week training year that starts in September 2024 and finishes in April 2025.
September 24-29, 2024
April 22-27, 2025
Community Learning
20 PARTICIPANTS
Two Staff
95 Acres of Nature
Past | Present | Future
FRESH Group Facilitation content
This new training group will blend fundamental group process skills, with a fresh synthesis of what Joseph Campbell called psycho-mythology:
A depth of psychological and emotional awareness, combined with interpersonal skills and artistic expression, woven through the hero’s journey myth.
We center our work around this primary, fundamental premise:
What can happen for each member of this particular group, in this particular group, at this particular time – that is unlikely to happen anywhere else?
In addition, there are very unique and particular facilitation styles to be cultivated in this type of group work:
- ENGAGE – Becoming a stabilizing as well as a disturbing force in interpersonal encounters.
- VITALIZE – Accompany, embody, experience and describe exactly what is happening in any given moment during a group process.
- TRANSFORM – Each member of the group training strives to become ‘a transformational vessel’ – an embodied ‘force of nature’.
TO READ MORE ABOUT THE FRAMES FOR THIS PARTICULAR WORKSHOP, AS WELL AS THE SKILLS WE WILL BE ENGAGING IN THIS TRAINING:
HJAP Training 2024 – Facilitating Intensive Group Work
Training Dates
September 24-29, 2024
April 22-27, 2025
Be Present | Deepen | Enliven In
Our new
Group Space
All of us at HJF are absolutely thrilled to be continuing and refining the very best of what we know about intensive group processes.
We are especially excited to be bringing this to our very new and very own Sanctuary space!
The Sanctuary’s main room will provide us with a rich variety of distinctive settings for our group processes.
The main group space offers quiet, privacy and spectacular views in the mornings and afternoons.
It also offers a particularly intimate setting for the evenings, allowing for more ritualized experiences and personal sharings.
We also have break-out areas for smaller group sharing, including CedarHeart Lodge – a beautiful stone-walled room with a fireplace, along with the Stone House Library for smaller group sharing.
The Light Filled Upper Room
The library group gathering space
Cedarheart Lodge Small Group Gathering Space
Courtyard Small Group Meeting Space
Cultivating Group
Presence and Purpose
By Providing Quality Training, Beauty, Expansiveness, Intimacy and Spaciousness
HJ Group Facilitation
@ Lifebridge Sanctuary
333 Mountain Rd, Rosendale, NY, 12472
90 minutes north of New York City