Seminars

In addition to individual private therapy, Joel conducts weekend group seminars.  Group work (community healing) can be very powerful and helpful.  We come to see other members of the group as mirrors of ourselves and leaders in taking us to deeper places within and to much greater self-understanding and self-acceptance.

To register in any seminar or for further information, please contact Reena Taank, Seminar Coordinator at 604-689-4532 or reena@telus.net.

Weekend Programs

Healing The Original Pain Of Your Life: The Inner Child Seminar  "Examining Your Relationship with Yourself."  Healing The Original Pain Of Your Life: The Inner Child Seminar helps us to discover the unhealed wounds and emotional damage that we still carry by returning to the most formative people, events and moments of our lives. 

Relationships: The Work of Love Seminar  "Examining Our Egos' Operation in Matters of Love."  We explore the ego defense system, a way of being that helped us survive the worst hurt and emotional injuries of our young lives, but now in turn is a major part of what's causing them.

Long Term Intensive Programs - Where the Real Work Gets Done

Shifting the basis of our identities, our priorities and our relationships from an ego based paradigm to a spirit and heart led one does not occur within the confines of any two day seminar. A vigorous, ongoing practice is required to sustain and reinforce the significant shift in consciousness which the weekend seminar participant will glimpse and temporarily experience. For those serious and committed individuals who realize that laborious and extensive work is required to become skilled at a whole new way of being, the long-term intensive programs are recommended. These include:

Intimacy and Desire: Exploring Stuck Places in Your Love Relationship: There is a part of us that trusts nothing and no one. It believes the truth about life is that we are born alone and die alone; that we must survive on our own and by ourselves; that it is foolish, moreover dangerous, to totally trust or depend on anyone for help or unwavering love. Many aspects of our lives are adversely affected by these beliefs, none more so than the primary love relationship. Read more...

Family of Origin: Truly healing the relationship with our fathers and mothers is the single most powerful thing we can do to make our inner world a safer and happier place to be. Until we do, we see and recreate versions of them everywhere.

Open Programs in Healing Your Relationship with Yourself and Others: Applying ourselves to the Inner Family Recovery Model, these are intensive, process-oriented programs that devote their attention to the further understanding, healing and integrating of the Inner Family.