Richard Harvey
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Courses for Deepening Spiritual Development
This page lists all courses in date order. The courses are intended for further exploration and deepening on your inner journey with the support of an ongoing group. They take place in a beautiful and peaceful setting in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Southern Spain at weekends.
These courses generally require some previous experience of personal growth. They are open to both individuals and couples. For more about working in groups see interview about group therapy. If you are in any doubt about the suitability of these courses for you, please contact us.
Please also see workshops for themed groups and An Introduction to Inner Work if you are new to inner work. For training with Richard see the Psycho-Spiritual Training Group. The calendar listing provides dates of all courses and workshops.
Summary of Courses
THE INNER JOURNEY
Holistic Awareness Practices for Psycho-Spiritual DevelopmentFor: People who wish to develop the tools for exploring the inner world.
Duration: 2 weekends over 2 months see details
TOUCHING THE ETERNAL
The Three Stages of Awakening Presented in Three Parts For: For practitioners, teachers and healers seeking ideas, methods and challenging concepts to support and embellish their chosen approach.
Duration: 3 weekends over 4 months, each weekend lasting 4 days see details
PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE
The Way of Awareness and TransformationFor: Practitioners and people with a serious commitment to their personal development and spiritual growth.
Duration: 7 weekends over 7 months plus introductory day see details
The Inner Journey
Holistic Awareness Practices for Psycho-Spiritual Development
For: The Inner Journey is a course for people who wish to develop the tools for exploring the inner world. Beyond the conditioned behavior and emotional patterns of our personality lies our authentic self. To live from this authenticity we must be psychologically whole. We must meet ourselves on all the levels - emotional, mental, physical, spiritual and soulful. Through confronting the dark and powerful, dazzling and profound aspects of ourselves, our personal struggle and suffering comes into clear perspective and we can attain the wisdom and inner peace that are inherent in the full flowering of a human life and live our full potential.
In This Course: We ask how do we identify with the character which we created to defend ourselves from the world? How do we attract repetitive life experiences which 'justify' these defenses and patterns? How do we resist being who we are and submit to a contracted existence? This course is a synthesis of experiential and teaching experience which consolidates and supports the process of deep understanding and insight.
Methods: The course weekends are themed to meet the needs of the individuals in the group. Methods may include bodywork, group sharing, guided imagery, breath and energy work, meditation (moving and still), dialoging, drawing, dreamwork and mythwork, dyad work, ritual, awareness practice, primal integration, character exploration, gestalt and individual work within the group.
Format: Each weekend follows this general format: Saturday is for group process time and individual work; Sunday includes an informal talk followed by a seminar and experiential work on the theme and further process if time allows.
- Duration:
- Two Weekends over Two Months
- Dates:
- Course on 26-27 May and 23-24 June 2012
Course on 13-14 October and 10-11 November 2012 - Price:
- 400 euros per course
- Booking:
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Touching The Eternal
The Three Stages of Awakening, presented in three parts
For: For practitioners, teachers and healers, this three-part course offers ideas, methods and challenging concepts that should help and embellish your chosen approach. However in Part 3, the Spiritual Practices are specific and intended to be effective in the spiritual process of transcendence and attaining to the divine. If you already have a spiritual method and philosophy that is adequate for your aspirations, we respectfully ask you not to attend Part 3 of Touching the Eternal since that part is for people who wish to engage sincerely with a new radical transforming spiritual method.
In This Course: Ego-forces are now so powerful and insidious that, unless we are keenly developed in inner vision and awareness practice, we cannot gauge the hazard for modern humanity in the present era. The creative powers of being are almost entirely submerged beneath the need for self-aggrandizement, blame and guilt, animalistic lower energy concerns, selfishness and self-concern.
Only an inner and spiritual revolution of radical, profound inquiry can bring about a transformation of sufficient proportions. This takes great courage, application and persistence. The process involves the loss and heroic ordeal of all that we hold dear for Truth or God, Compassion and Love. These transforming aspects of the Divine are almost totally eclipsed today, but there is hope if we can take responsibility for our awakening, liberation and realization using intelligent, inspired and authentic means.
The Three Stages of Awakening—a “Divine Psychology”—is presented in this course in three parts, and in its newest, most complete form to date.
Methods: The course consists of interactive group events.
Format: Each of the three parts takes place over a weekend, starting on a Friday and ending on a Monday. You may take any part separately as a complete course in itself or all three parts as a complete training. The three weekends cover the following themes:
Part 1: Personality, Ego-attachments and the Relative World
Part 2: The Work of Authenticity, The Ego and True Purpose, Surrender of the Self
Part 3: Spiritual Practices, Transcendence and the Divine Person
- Duration:
- 3 four-day Weekends over 4 Months
- Dates:
- Part 1 on 24–27 February 2012
Part 2 on 27–30 April 2012
Part 3 on 22–25 June 2012 - Price:
- 400 euros per Part, 1200 euros for the complete course
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Psycho-Spiritual Development Course
The Way of Awareness and Transformation
For: Practitioners and people with a serious commitment to their personal development and spiritual growth. This course offers an intensive and deep training which is both a self-training and a foundation for working with others. The Psycho-Spiritual Development course is for people who have previous experience of inner work, and all participants should be in ongoing individual therapy.
Introduction: The basic philosophy behind the course is that we are conditioned in our early years and this is not who we are; through honoring, releasing and re-visioning our past experience we can shed the residue of restriction and dependence; transformation is available to us when we can let go of old habits based on fear and desire.
Behind our conditioning, our behavior and our personality is our authentic self—that part of us which is beyond the world of outward show and materiality. To live from this authenticity we need to embrace our wholeness. The goal of inner work is to live our full potential as true human beings. We are emotional, mental, physical, spiritual and soulful organisms. When we meet ourselves on all of these levels our suffering and striving comes into a clear perspective as we access the wisdom and inner peace which are inherent in the full flowering of a human life.
In This Course: We start with understanding ourselves: how we identify with the character which we created to defend ourselves from the world, how we invite and repeat certain life experiences to 'justify' these defenses and the patterns which we perpetuate and how, through fear and desire, we resist becoming all that we can be and truly are and settle for a compromised and limited existence.
Our work on ourselves is enhanced and strengthened when we work with a therapist, counselor or spiritual guide. Working with others in a course intensifies and accelerates this experience further, by challenging and supporting our inner growth process. We need to both experience and understand how we live our lives. So this psycho-spiritual development course synthesizes experiential and teaching experience; the experiential work consolidates and supports the intellectual process. Our focus is on keeping the work vibrant and alive through emotional/body work to balance intellectual understanding; feeling and experience to enhance insight and knowledge.
Methods: As well as exploring the themes of a human life from birth to transformation, the process time responds to the present needs of the group and the individuals that comprise it. Methods may include bodywork, sharing, guided imagery, breath and energy work, meditation (moving and still), exercises in truth, dialoging, drawing, dreamwork and mythwork, dyad work, awareness practice, primal integration, character exploration, centering, gestalt and individual work.
Format: There is an introductory day and foundation weekend, followed by six weekends over six months plus partnering with one other group member and meeting each week to exchange process time. The addition of a 4/5 day group can be decided upon jointly by course members during the six months.
Each weekend follows this general format: Friday evening is for personal sharing; Saturday is devoted to group process time and experiential exploration of the weekend's theme; Sunday includes an informal talk followed by a seminar and further experiential work and process time, ending wih integration and a final sharing session. The six weekends cover the following themes:
Weekend 1: Layers of Consciousness
Weekend 2: Facilitating Process
Weekend 3: Ways to Awaken
Weekend 4: The Seven Conditions for Healing
Weekend 5: The Way of Awareness and Transformation
Weekend 6: The Transpersonal Psychology of the Self
The Introductory Day and Foundation Weekend are opportunities for prospective course members to meet and make a decision by the end of the Foundation Weekend whether or not to commit to the six-month course.
If you are interested in the Psycho-Spiritual Development Course please write with your reasons for wanting to do this course, along with some details of yourself and your life.
- Duration:
- Six Weekends over Six Months
plus Introductory Day and Foundation Weekend - Dates:
- Introductory Day: 25 November 2012
Foundation Weekend: 07–09 December 2012
More details and dates will be published later
- Price:
- Introductory Day: 100 euros
Foundation Weekend: 225 euros
Six-Month Course: 1,350 euros - Booking:
- The complete course consists of the Introductory Day, the Foundation Weekend and the Six-month course. To make a booking you will need to use the booking form and pay a 50% deposit, with balance paid on/by arrival. If you cannot make the full balance payment for the Six-month course, it may be possible to make part payments over the duration of the course.
At this point you can book:
Either: book the then
Or: book together
Two places are made available at a reduced fee to people who sincerely wish to participate in the group and cannot pay the full fee.
Organising Workshops, Courses and Events Internationally
Richard is available to run workshops on therapy and spiritual growth internationally. If you would like to organize an event or invite Richard to facilitate an existing group please contact us.
Richard also works with existing groups, businesses and communities who are experiencing difficulties in achieving their aims. For full details of his group dynamic approach see Facilitating Groups and Communities.
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What clients say
Working with Richard was one of the most profound and healing experiences of my life. I was experiencing spiritual emergency in my personal process and I couldn't have had a better spiritual guide to be my companion along the way. He could go wherever I needed to go. He could hold the space for me to do whatever I needed to do; working from his intuition and with great wisdom, love and care. I went on to work with Richard in his spiritual development groups as well as on a one-to-one basis. He has been a huge blessing in my life for which I am most grateful.
J.K.
When experiencing a crisis I reached out and came across Richard. As a therapist he challenged my fixed ways and was the guide who kept me focused. He works closely with his instincts and that helped me to believe in my own. To sum up how he helped me isn't easy as there was so much that we uncovered. I like to think of my experience with him and the others in the workshops as a book that I dip into that sets me on way each time I toddle off course! I have learnt so much about myself and others and for that I thank him. A.L.V.
General information about courses
The Venue
Unless otherwise indicated, courses take place at Cortijo Llano de Manzano, Canar, nr. Orgiva, Spain. See information about the location.
Times
Saturdays: 10am to 6pm
Sundays: 10am to 4pm
Psycho-Spiritual Development Course weekends also include Fridays: 7 to 10.30pm
Prices
For prices, see individual course details, and click on the links to make a booking.
Booking
Click on the links to make a booking.
You will need to pay a deposit of 50% of the course price with your booking—this deposit is not refundable if you cancel for any reason. See how to book for further information.
Food and Refreshments
Tea, coffee, herb teas and biscuits are provided. Please bring your own light lunch.
Getting There
Please see our Travel Information on how to get to the area and to Cortijo Llano Manzano itself.
Accommodation
All courses are non-residential. If you are traveling to attend and need help finding accommodation please click here.
Related information
- Calendar Listing of All Workshops and Courses
- Workshops for Personal and Spiritual Growth
- The Psycho-Spiritual Training Group
- Retreats for Personal and Spiritual Growth
- Books on Spiritual Growth by Richard Harvey
- Interview on Group Work and Group Therapy
- Facilitating Groups and Communities
