Level 0: Childhood Reawakening

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Workshop description

Level 0: Childhood Reawakening

A seven-day guided, non-therapeutic spiritual workshop that helps you re-examine your childhood conditioning, and consciously take responsibility for breaking the parental patterns that shaped your ego and behavior.

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

— James Baldwin

Childhood Patterns and Spiritual Practice

Our first impressions of the world come from our parents. As these (understandably) flawed individuals do their best to train us to navigate the world, they inadvertently pass on their unresolved issues and patterns onto us, shaping the core of our person.

As children, we did not have the maturity to truly understand that our parents were flawed. We had only a need to depend on them as providers and protectors in an otherwise terrifying world. This often leads us to romanticize our parents, defend the destructive patterns we inherited, and unconsciously recreate the destructive patterns of our childhood with our partners, friends, the other people in our lives, and our own children.

Disclaimer: This workshop is not therapy

While this childhood reawakening workshop is intended to help us better understand ourselves, it is not intended as a form of therapy, or a replacement for any form of therapy. Rather it is a spiritual practice of looking deeply into yourself, understanding what is there, and taking responsibility for it.

We recommend that before attempting this workshop, you complete any form of therapy you may be undergoing and ensure you are in a stable and safe enough mental space to perform this kind of work.

Childhood Reawakening

As children, we did not yet have a logical adult mind with which to observe ourselves, or the cognitive capabilities to understand what is happening around us, often romanticizing our caretakers as a result of our need to feel safe. This often leads to our either integrating their beliefs and defending them at all costs, or else rebelling against them; a destructive pattern of limiting beliefs that many of us carry into adulthood, and some of us hold onto for our entire lives.

In this workshop, you will reawaken your childhood self under the guidance of our trained facilitator in order to observe the patterns and behaviors hidden in the precognitive part of your mind. You will have the opportunity to observe the vulnerable childhood self hidden in you and the way its fears and behaviors shape your decisions, actions, and interactions with others, as well as break the rose colored glasses and see your caretakers not as monsters or saints, but as people.

The facilitator will then lead you back into your adult self and authority with the knowledge gained from your regression and the tools to better observe yourself, manage these behaviors, and take responsibility for breaking these childhood patterns and beliefs so as to avoid recreating the unhealthy situations from your childhood in your adult life with your partners, friends, and other people around you, as well as avoid passing on these negative traits to your children.

The Facilitator

This workshop will be facilitated by Cheshire Cat, a facilitator for the Level 5 Ego Workshop and Level 4 Transmission Training, as well as the Women’s Retreat. A spiritual practitioner with more than 14 years of experience, and an intense familial background, Cheshire Cat has undergone years of therapy in various forms to better understand the physical, emotional and neglectful abuse to which she was exposed as she grew up.

This workshop is the culmination of not only her many years of spiritual practice and great spiritual understanding, but also her experiences in Shadow Work, EMDR, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, OCD Therapy, CPTSD Therapy, and Primal Therapy, resulting in a workshop intended to speed others through the process of understanding themselves and overcoming these patterns. For this workshop, Cheshire Cat will be joined by a licensed psychologist, who will act in her professional capacity to hold space for the participants and aid in ensuring the process flows smoothly.

A Grounded Perspective on Self-Understanding

This workshop does not require a belief in a religion, dogma, or the supernatural at large. It is a practical guided workshop on better understanding ourselves in order to facilitate our growth as human beings.

This workshop is non-sexual, however due to the tantric nature of our teachings, we acknowledge the importance of how our childhoods have affected our sexuality, and are open to addressing this without judgment in this workshop.

What you’ll learn in Level 0

Deep dive into the childhood part of ego theory and how it affects your cognition and decisions
Understanding of how this part of us influences our perceptions, decision making and behavior
Tools to avoid falling into the trap of unconsciously recreating core destructive patterns, and take responsibility for breaking them
How to better observe this part of yourself with understanding rather than judgment, and hold space for it without giving in to its illogical demands
How to better conduct core wounds without falling into addictions and destructive habits
A deeper understanding of yourself, your parents, your childhood, and your perception of the world
The freedom to be who you are and see the world as it truly is, free of the limiting beliefs of your childhood self
How to avoid passing on these negative traits on to your children

You may have previously heard of Primal Therapy. This workshop is not a replacement for Primal Therapy, and differs in that it is not a form of therapy, but rather a spiritual perspective on understanding childhood experiences and childhood destructive patterns. Unlike Primal therapy, this workshop will guide participants back into their adult framework, and focus on understanding and truly taking responsibility for the effects of our childhood on our adult selves.

Prerequisites