The Grace Touch Technique (GTT), a faith based approach to hands on healing, helps restore the mind and body with the innate spiritual potential. The approach is based upon integrating the “ I Am Meditation” and hands on healing to relive physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual duress. Both the Grace Touch Practitioner (GTP) and Grace Touch Receiver (GTR) are active during the healing process. The healing method activates the GTR personal responsibility to making conscious choices to open themselves to experiencing grace in all aspects of their life or dis-ease process.

The Grace Touch Technique helps the Grace Touch Receiver:
· Reconnect with God within
· Release Automatic Negative beliefs, behaviors, emotions
· Restore divine qualities within the limbic system and mind-body connection

I AM mantra meditation
opening oneself to a state of GRACE

I trust in the I Am That I Am
I love and accept the I Am That I Am
I respect the I Am That I Am
I give and receive love from the I Am That I Am
I speak and hear truth from the I Am That I Am
I see truth from the I Am That I Am
I know truth from the I Am That I Am
I express my divine purpose from the I Am That I Am

Donna Evans Strauss © 2010

LIVING FROM GRACE
A Transpersonal Psychology Approach

Year 1

Conscious Counseling Skills

The role of the unconscious and conscious relational interplay between the healing practitioner/counselor and client can be one of the most transformation aspects of healing. Learn the significance of the dance of relationship and the reparative healing moments. Identify what professional and familial healing role you are playing in your client’s life. You will learn to identify and map out the client’s ego development, the effectiveness of your healing relationship, how to identify and work with both benign and malignant regression, how to work with projections, how to work with transference as a healing vessel, understand and identify the difference between counter-transference and projective identification, unveil projective identification and the evocation of your client’s spirit at work. In addition, learning the dance between interpretation and holding within a healing session. Discover how to guide client’s deeper with simple statements, pauses, and holding states of consciousness.

Brain Chemistry and Consciousness Healing: The Practitioner and Client

Explore the mystery of positive and negative love bonds held deep within the brain chemistry. Enhance your therapeutic skills by unlocking the keys within the brain for releasement of life long patterns. Work closely with the client to uncover the hidden resistance to making healthier life changes. Identify and work with hidden cellular brain patterns while helping the client rewired or reorient the client’s brain toward the divine. Our brains are originally wired for the divine; learn how to help restore the client’s brain functioning with different states of consciousness. Learn how the chakra and brain system work together for highest functioning.

Conscious Family Systems Healing

The cellular embodiments of familial patterns are identified through working with genograms, enlivened energy psychodrama release work, uncovering and release of individual and familial soul growth patterns. Learn Soul Growth Transmission Healing (SGTH)

Group Consciousness and Energy: The Transformative Effect

Group Consciousness represents a transformational vessel for healing. Each of us belongs to many different types of groups from work, family, recreational, school etc. Groups have effects on our health and well-being. Learn the fundamentals of group dynamics and how to become an effective group leader.  Explore and work with challenges of Co-leading groups and the underlying effects of the leader’s relationship on the group.

Chakras, Energy and Psychological Disorders

The great mystery of the psyche has baffled many of scientist and theologians, and great work has been done to classify specific psychological disorders and the application of treatment plans. Learn how the chakra systems work with each psychological disorder and your role as healer, counselor, psychologist, nutritionist etc. Identify the difference between a classical character structure-- soul growth defenses and DSM psychological disorders as soul growth issues. Learn how to hold and work with professional and energetic boundaries while creating a healing environment.

LIVING FROM GRACE
A Transpersonal Psychology Approach

Year 2

Year 2 Overview

In year two, we will cover Conscious Couples Counseling, Conscious Family Counseling, Conscious Counseling with Children, Sexuality and Healing, Consciousness and healing of both male and female aggression, advanced group consciousness and leadership.   In this year, you will be required to assist in leading the group to set up Psychodrama  Work Scenes, that reveal the hidden negative love bonds, also you will learn how to release these hidden bonds in the “Here and Now” work. You will learn how each group member benefits from a group work scene.  This work will look different from individual therapy in the group.  We will also work with Dr. Ormont’s Group therapy object relations model.  Moreover, we will continue reading the materials from Year 1. There will be other reading materials assigned that address masculine and feminine aggression and addressing sexuality issues as a therapist or healer.

Family Dynamics 2

Continue to work with God Realization Genogram to uncover the hidden negative love bonds that hold family members hostage to old unhealthy patterns of behavior.  Release the positive potential of each family member through exploring and releasing patterns, praying for and releasing Bardo states, working with healing cords that bind people through the generations.  Restore God Realization as the foundation of unity consciousness and source of all divine qualities.  Explore working with the couple’s transference, your counter transference, and projective identification.

Couples Counseling

Learn to compare family genograms and identify both healthy and unhealthy patterns that affect a couple’s life together. Help the couple identify main images and wounding that effect deepening their relationship and recreate painful situations.  Identify the primary and secondary relationship cords to uncover the unmet needs and bring the couple closer to healing.  Explore your own beliefs, images, and bias’ that affect your treatment plans.  Explore professional ethics within couples work and how to work with a team approach when necessary.

Sexuality and Healing

Uncover and explore your client’s deeper psychological and physical issues around sexual expression and their roots in different stages of development. We will explore how the brain is wired for the pleasure response and the masculine and feminine sexual drive.  We will cover an in depth review of both positive and negative sexual fantasies and their roots within interpersonal struggles of the roles of masculine and feminine, childhood developmental, abuse and neglect.   Help couples or single clients enrich sexual intimacy by releasing and freeing up the energy consciousness that bonds them to unhealthy patterns.

Working with Both Male and Female Aggression

In our culture today, learning emotional intelligence, understanding, and working with aggression is primary to building healthy and meaningful relationship both at home, school, and work.  Explore the hidden secrets behind female aggression and the detrimental effects on family, friends and co-workers. Learn to identify the hidden aggressive behavior behind actions and words.  Identify and work with male aggression to release the hidden potential of masculine energy, satisfying and intimate relationships and productivity.  Explore work with different types of aggressive behaviors and the underlying hidden feelings that are never expressed.

Advanced Group Consciousness and Leadership: 
Group Psychodrama Scenes

Unlock the hidden potential within your leadership in a group. Dr. Ormont’s, object relations approach to group work teaches us how to build bridges between group members for successful healing. We will use his model to explore ways the group leader can effective move group members towards healing. Be prepared to take the group into new levels of communication and spiritual advancement.  Furthermore we will use psychodrama techniques to encourage group members to release long held negative patterns held within the ancestral heritage.  Generational Healing techniques within the group work will be explored and you will experience a hands on approach to leading the group.

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