TAE and the art of living
An invitation for discovery & deep ‘self-evolution’
Dana ganihar | baruch brenner
Short description:
‘TAE and the Art of Living’ is a process that invites you to turn towards and explore your inner knowing, accumulated from years of rich life experience, and then walks with you step by step to carry this inner knowing forward into your life.
Background:
We can sense implicit uniqueness in every human being . This uniqueness transcends familiar terms such as talents, interests, or acquired expertise. Therefore, we chose to call it a human’s ‘soul-print’, much like the singularity of a human’s fingerprint. A soul print is part of the secret of a person’s life. And though it cannot be defined and fully exhausted – it is something we can sense. It is possible to notice that something of this ‘soul-print’ continues to cultivate or appear through a person’s every life event or chosen areas of interest. A ‘soul-print’ sometimes incites feelings of alienation from others, but it is only through this ‘soul-print’ that it becomes possible for humans to ‘taste’ or ‘understand’ the world in their own unique way.
This ‘soul-print’ has been with us from the moment of our birth and perhaps even before that…(for generations, since ancient times…). Every person has already made real-life decisions inspired by this soul-print, guided by an internal yet unaware ‘voice’. Now it is time to turn the unknown into a conscious inner understanding.
What extraordinary yet intuitive ‘knowing’ resides deep within you?
Would you like truly embody your ‘soul-print’?
Our human life is a co-created work of art, where the process of creation is enabled as we turn towards a different kind of order; towards an infinite order. TAE steps can support us in carrying forward this extraordinary creation.
What is Thinking at the Edge (TAE)?
Thinking At the Edge (TAE) was developed by Eugene Gendlin and research colleagues as a method enabling direct access to implicit knowledge in one’s field of expertise and interests. It assumes that each one of us has the potential and responsibility to create regenerative knowledge for ourselves and for the society we live in.
The approach guides practitioners in expressing the potential in something that wants to be born. It is a movement from a felt sense of knowing, which alludes definition, to a ripening of new and articulately defined concepts and theories.
Shakio Institute believes in applying the TAE steps to enable a self understanding of our life. This is why we have created the ‘TAE and the Art of Living’ course.
About the course:
The objective of this course is to enable participants to develop a mini-model that articulates the unique gifts they have to share with the world.
By the end of this course participants will…
- Develop a rich and intricate understanding about the uniqueness of their ‘soul-print’
- Obtain clarity regarding the ways in which their unique gifts can be realized in this lifetime, be it professionally or personally, and
- Look back at events in our life with a new perspective.
“It’s a ‘game changer’ when you understand and find that you have an inner knowing! This inner knowing is the heart of your life, and actually is creating your life.” – Dana and Baruch
course details:
10 consecutive sessions on Sundays
course starts on February 4th
Dates: Feburary: 4,11,18,25, March: 3,10,17,31, April: 7,14
time: 19:30-22:00 (Israel), 17:30-20:00 (London), 9:30-12:00 (LA, California), 12:30-15:00 (New york)
Join the course
Price: 350$
All motivated students will be accommodated. Please write to us if in need of financial assistance to: info@shakio.org
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Testimonials
Rachel Getz Salomon, cultural researcher, critic and curator:
“The course opened my eyes and heart and lots of windows to realms of language and experience, extensive, deep and fascinating. I feel this course is a must for research students. It is really a springboard for research and writing.”
Anat Zilberman, architect:
“There is an underground river full of knowledge and wisdom that runs beneath everything we see …. The TAE helps to turn it into a spring! Everyone in the field or field in which he researches / finds / creates ….”
Itai Tal – director, producer and screenwriter:
“One of the best and most significant courses I have done in my life. I think everyone and in particular creators and artists should do such a course, at least once. The course helped me discover and reveal places in a script I could not see before. The encouragement to stay with the ‘nothing comes’ and the fact that the course was very practical, helped me to crack characters and plot lines over and over again in each of the sessions.”
Veronica S. Urioste:
“I really appreciated from this course the fact we did it in weeks. It enabled me to have the experience of the process. I could see how I was starting to do different things in my life. What really has come out from this exploration is…I have a different experience of thinking now. It’s not that I’ve lived without thinking, but it has a different meaning, felt sense, edge…and I am using it now! Connecting with the innate functional capacity of thinking from a felt sense has been transforming. Thank you”
Pětr Nawka:
“I am now much more in close relationship to myself, and I can see my relationship to my soul-print…This soul-print is not only touching my mind, but also my body and the world…I am becoming more aware that it is all the time with me. Since getting more in touch with myself is being much more in touch with the world.”
Milagros Paredes:
No one ever taught me how to think in a way that honored who and how I am in the world. This course taught me how to reclaim what I was taught to devalue, dismiss and discard. Often I was lost, looking elsewhere for language because I didn’t have my own language for what I do. Dana and Baruch taught me how to reclaim my lived experience; and they showed me that valuing whatever language speaks to my lived experience is essential. In this course I was often in tears, the grief of being invisibilized coalescing with entering truths that opened up in me and that opened me. I experienced liberation.
A door has opened for me now – I feel liberated… and found. I have more power now. This course taught me something I will never forget and won’t ever let go of
ABOUT US
Shakio is a space for collaborative exploration founded by Dana Ganihar, an experienced Focusing instructor and a teacher of the philosophy of Eugene Gendlin, and Baruch Brenner a multidisciplinary artist, rabbi and certified Focusing instructor who investigates and teaches performance art and Jewish mysticism.
Dana and Baruch have been teaching for the second year at the TAE academy and are authorized to give a proficiency award in behalf of the international focusing institute.
Baruch Brenner is an Israeli Focusing facilitator, theater director, actor, singer, teacher and an ordained Orthodox Rabbi. Over the last 25 years, he has been a leading innovator in integrating Jewish and spiritual practices with experiential work in theatre, movement and vocal arts. He was the artistic director of the Vertigo lab in the eco-art village, and a research fellow and member of Jerzy Grotowski theater ensemble.
