Level II - The Life Journey

Going deeper, with the advanced formats of The Wholeness Work®

The essentials at a glance

  • Level II deepens the foundations from Level I with group processes such as the Life Journey and with work on roles, identities and polarities.
  • You develop the ability to integrate attachments and aversions, and to work with more complex themes such as projections onto yourself and onto other people.
  • The prerequisite is a completed Level I; the two-day training costs € 490,- and is held in Vienna or live online, in German.

Deepening your Wholeness Work practice

In Level II we build on what you learned in Level I and go further into integrating everything in us that is divided. You get to know advanced formats that carry your practice into new territory.

The Life Journey is a central element of this training, a guided group process that many participants say helps them “bring it all together”. You come to understand how your coping mechanisms work and how you can transform them.

After this training you are able to work with more complex themes, among them attachments and aversions, roles and identities, as well as the integration of the “self as object” and of the “Other”.

PREREQUISITE

Level I completed

Level II builds on the foundations laid in Level I. Taking part requires that you have completed Level I.

€ 490

Two days of intensive training

What you learn in Level II

The Life Journey

A guided group process that helps you “bring it all together” and understand your coping mechanisms.

Roles & identities

Transform the different roles and identities you live in, for more flexibility and access to your full potential.

Letting go of attachments

Integrate attachments and aversions. Here you work with polarities in The Wholeness Work for the first time.

Direction of Gaze

A new kind of integration: learn to dissolve subtle effort with the “Direction of Gaze” format.

“Where am I really standing?”

Find the place of strength and presence in your inner space: the “Where Standing” process.

Self & Other

Integrating the “me” (the self as object, the victim position) and the “you” (the projection onto the Other).

The Level II curriculum in detail

Day 3: Freeing yourself from preferences & aversions

  • Coping mechanisms & the Life Journey:
    Identify your primary coping strategies and understand how you respond to stress
  • The Letting Go process:
    Integrate attachments and dependencies, work with polarities and transform aversions
  • Integrating identities and roles:
    Become more flexible in your different roles and gain access to the full potential of each identity
  • Direction of Gaze, dissolving subtle effort:
    A new way of integrating, by dissolving the “Direction of Gaze”

Day 4: Making room for presence

  • The “Where am I really standing?” process:
    Arrive at the place of strength and presence in your inner space, with good access to your resources
  • Integrating the “me”, the self as object:
    Work with limiting concepts of the self and transform experiences of being a victim
  • Integrating the “you”, the Other:
    Find the energetic match in yourself and transform projections and reactions to other people
  • The underlying assumptions of the Wholeness Work:
    Understand the deeper principles and how your practice keeps developing

Special formats in Level II

The Life Journey of awareness

A powerful group process that deepens your understanding of how the typical, formative phases of a life unfold and what they leave behind. Many participants report that this process helps them “bring it all together” and integrate the Wholeness Work practice they have built so far.

A guided group process on the first day

Working with polarities

In Level II you work with polarities for the first time, integrating attachments together with the aversions that belong to them. This opens a new dimension of the Wholeness Work and makes deeper transformation of persistent patterns possible.

New in Level II: the Letting Go process

Understanding your coping mechanisms

One of the central insights in Level II is understanding your primary coping strategies. You learn to recognize:

  • How you typically respond to stress
  • Which “direction of escape” your awareness takes
  • Where you move to inwardly in difficult situations
  • How these patterns came about
  • Why they help and hinder at the same time
  • How you can transform them with Wholeness Work

This work draws on the story of Nasrudin and the carpet: our coping mechanisms are both what “saves” us and what “trips us up”.

How the formats are taught

Demonstration

You watch Ralph guide each process and see how a format is adapted to the person in front of him.

Practice in pairs

Hands-on practice with other participants, so you experience the formats yourself and guide them yourself.

Q&A and discussion

Time for questions, discussion and integrating what you have learned, with personal support.

Who is Level II for?

For your personal development

  • You have completed Level I and want to go deeper
  • You would like to transform persistent patterns
  • You want to integrate the different roles you live in
  • You are ready to let go of attachments

For your professional work

  • You want to learn the advanced Wholeness formats
  • You work with more complex client themes
  • You would like to work with relationship themes
  • You want to resolve patterns that run through generations

Frequently asked questions about Level II

For some people it helps to leave two or three months, or even a whole year, between Level I and Level II, to practice the basics and let them settle. Others find it useful to take Level I and II together in one compact four-day block. There is no general rule; follow your own sense of timing.

Level I teaches the foundations: dissolving the everyday sensation of the ‘I’ and the basic formats. Level II goes deeper and works with more complex structures such as roles, identities, polarities and the integration of the “self as object” and of the “Other”. It builds on Level I and widens your practice considerably.

After Level II you have a solid foundation for working with clients. Many people begin here to bring Wholeness Work into their existing practice. For full integration and comprehensive professional competence we recommend Level III and IV.

The Life Journey is a guided group process that works with the metaphor of an inner journey. You come to see how you leave “home” (open awareness) when you deal with challenges, and how you can find your way back “home”. Many people say this process helps them integrate their whole Wholeness Work practice.

Your next steps

1
Complete Level I
If you have not done so yet
2
Book Level II
Deepen your practice
3
Level III & IV
Deep integration & time paths

Ready to deepen your Wholeness Work practice?

Level II carries your practice further and gives you powerful tools for far-reaching transformation.

On successful completion you receive the Level II certificate