Do you work with groups as facilitator or therapist and you are interested in getting training in AVP techniques so you can use them to improve your professional practice?

Have you participated in AVP workshops, but you want a more intense experience which generates a deep impact in your life, giving you the tools to succeed in your battles with higher awareness and more energy?

This program is for you!

Intensive Training in

AVP Techniques

Introduction

During twenty years of workshops and seminars around the world, psychologists and therapists who have participated in our work have frequently made comments in the sense that the AVP techniques would be a very good complement to their therapeutic practice, both with individuals and groups.

Also, many participants who regularly come to our workshops have been willing to have experiences of high impact in a longer intensive program, which implies stronger work and therefore deeper inner changes of perception and awareness.

In order to respond to this interest, we are presenting for the first time the one-month Intensive Training in AVP Techniques, which will take place from November 1st to 30th, 2000.

Location

This program will take place in different locations of the Mexican Republic, some close to or around Mexico City and some others in remote areas. Mountain woods, the desert, Ancient Toltec sites, Indigenous areas, and eventually the ocean will be some of the locations for the work.

Structure of the program

The main part of this program has to do with doing some of the main AVP Techniques at a deeper level than in regular workshops. Also, the understanding of those techniques with depth enough to be used with other people will be an important part of the program. The program is action-oriented and the only limit for the depth of the work will be provided by the participants profile and performance. In this sense this work will be focused on getting deeper into the AVP experience and learning to be able to share.

Program

The program includes the four following parts:

First Part: Techniques related to the first stages of participants coming to the workshops, having to do with the first levels of heightening awareness. This part will include, among others: Basic techniques for working in nature, communication and connection with the unknown, first approaches to the Other Self. Examples of techniques included in this section: Walks of attention, Introducing my ego, Race to the unknown, The Bed of Strings, Connecting with the mountain, etc.

Second Part: Deeper techniques to overcome the boundaries coming from the description of the ego and from social imposed patterns. In this part of the program, working with nature is lead to the realization and connection with the Poderios through the practice of the New Toltec tradition. This part will be connected, as well, with overcoming emotional vices and energy-wasting doings. Examples of techniques for this part: The Burial of the Warrior, how to work in sacred places, Recapitulation, etc.,

Third Part: This part is about going beyond personal growth by achieving perception beyond the ordinary, to be able to not only expand our personal limits in life, but even to change the core of what gives sense and direction to our lives. Examples of techniques for this part are: Flying and ropes work, tribal dynamics, encounter with Indigenous communities, working in sacred places, not-doings of the personal self, not-doings of perception, walks of attention of the second level.

Fourth Part: In the final part of the program the work will be devoted to integration of all the works done by now, and the projection of the experience in the everyday life after the training, so that coming back to your life may take place in a fluid and powerful way. This part will include also, some technical training for those wanting to use some of the techniques in their professional practice.

At some point in the program may be a few days for resting, according to the instructor’s perception of what is more suitable for the group.

Note: This program will authorize you to share techniques not mentioned otherwise with other people, with the only requisite of letting your clients know about AVP and the origins of the techniques, but doesn’t entitle you to make business by training others. A written commitment in this matter will be required to enroll in the program.

Requisites:

Good general health and reasonable good shape, so that you can make long walks and work in Nature.
Smoking, consumption of spirits and liquors and illegal drugs are not allowed during the program. Additionally, it is highly recommended to stop the consumption of any of the mentioned substances at least two months before and after the training.
Completing the application form (even if you have filled it out before for any other AVP program).
Bring all the required equipment. List of equipment will be sent to you one month before the course, together with the extra information document.
Read carefully and accept the special cancellation policy for this activity which will be applied with no exceptions.
Going to the course with an open inner attitude, willing to face the unknown and making the required efforts to meet your other self and integrate with the other people who will share this challenge with you. You have to come ready to relate with people who may be very different than you, and even to make a best friend of that person that you would normally reject, in the spirit of not-doing and “in lak ech!” (you are my other self).

Training Fee:

Ask for details by writing or calling to our office.

The group will be small. You can reserve your place by paying 50% of the fee.

Your enrollment will be effective at the moment when your proof of payment arrives to the AVP office in México. (Faxing the deposit slip to our office is the simplest way). This means that your enrollment day is not the day you place your payment at the bank, but the date we receive the proof of payment in our Mexico City offices.

Fee includes: Lodging and food, most of the materials you will use during the training, and transportation (meals and transport on the days of rest are not included).

45% Discount is available for those who have undertaken the training for instructors of the basic workshop.

Cancellation Policy:

Due to the logistics of this course and that the amount of expenses is very different than our regular workshops, and mainly because many of the services involved should be paid a long time in advance, the cancellation policy is more strict than the one for most of our activities. Please read it carefully because there will be no exceptions even in the case of unexpected events. Feel free to contact our office if you have any doubt.

- There will be no refunds over 50% of the full cost of the training in any case.

- If you cancel and ask for a refund, prior to 40 days before the scheduled date for starting the training, you will be entitled to receive whatever you have paid beyond 50% of the cost of the training.

- If you cancel and ask for a refund within ten days of the scheduled date of starting the training, you will not receive any refund but whatever you have paid beyond 50% of the cost of the training will be kept as a deposit for any future event organized by AVP Mexico that you want to participate in.

- With no exceptions, no other refunds will be authorized.

Training Instructors:

Víctor Sánchez
Manolo Cetina

Support Instructors :

Armando Cruz
Alberto Treviño

For enrollment and questions contact:

El Arte de Vivir a Propósito

Phone / Fax: 52 - 5 - .

e-mail: (find new email address cliking in "contact" in main page) y -

General Coordinator: Víctor Sánchez

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