Complementary Modalities Series
This series is aimed at introducing the health care professional to the science behind the complementary modalities that are becoming so popular with consumers today.
Participants will attain personal growth through knowledge and experience that will better enable them to care for themselves and their patients.
Healing VS. Curing
This workshop studies the components that have led the medical community to the relationship between healing and curing. The study of healing the whole individual as well as the health professionals themselves is becoming a major shift in the paradigm of health care today. Allowing the patient to play an integral role in their healing will have optimal outcomes for patients as well as their caregivers.
The Science of Energy Lecture
Come and learn the reason energy therapies are becoming a part of health care today. This program will study energy based on past and ongoing research in the field using a new holistic approach. The study of energy will be undertaken by examining how energy plays a role in everything we are and everything we do.
The Mind / Body / Spirit Relationship
Mind /body/spirit dynamics should be understood by health professionals, to promote personal development as well as to fully understand the patients they are caring for on a new advanced level. Holism includes the health care professional as an important part of the environment in health care.
Spirituality and Health
What is your definition of spirituality? Does this relate with health in any way? Come and find out the answers to these questions and more in an enjoyable environment. Explore the research that has been done to correlate the effects of meditation, support systems, prayer and overall spirituality on health. This program will assist the health professional to understand the correlation between spirituality and health for both personal growth and in promoting wellness and healing in the patients they serve.
Upcoming Workshops
Menla Training Level 2 – Advanced
The Menla 2 Advanced Training series takes us to the next level of insight, skills set, discovery, and explorations into the inner workings of our subjective world. It is an invitation to move beyond the confines of linear thinking into more relational, and ultimately a non-conceptual, non-dual experience. Through these road maps and stages, we can eventually access an authentic healing presence, and know what healing really means.
Module 1.1
Preparing the Ground, Part 1
LOCATION: Westend, Hartford, CT.
DESCRIPTION: Christoph Klonk, will lead us to an intensive practice weekend where we will prepare the 'ground of experience' into the profound practices and techniques in the Advanced Menla Program.
Module 2
A Wakeful Heart
LOCATION: Westend, Hartford, CT.
DESCRIPTION: Gaining strength and resolve to be in touch with the full range of our abilities for our sake and the benefit of others, moment by moment; we delve deeper to wake up and stir the deepest longings of our true heart's calling. This weekend we invite ourselves into the gateway of being touched by our 'wakeful heart.'
Module 1.2
The Ground of Experience, Part 2
LOCATION: Westend, Hartford, CT.
DESCRIPTION: Christoph Klonk and Phil Weber will lead us to an intensive practice weekend where we will uncover the 'ground of experience' into the profound practices and
techniques of Menla Level 2.
Module 3
Ways to Give in...
LOCATION: Westend, Hartford, CT.
DESCRIPTION: Do we find ourselves easily 'giving in' to our good intentions...or is it the other way around? What are the ways that hinder us to be the best that we can be...in body, heart, and mind; and the ways that can help? Here, we'll bring up the courage and alertness to look with 'fearless' awareness into ourselves, and the places we hide. Together, we'll explore contemplative interventions that will stick to help us on the path of our intent.
Through precise methods in contemplative healing we learn:
• Cultivate awareness, clarity, and an experience of inner balance,
• Practice the art of not exhausting ourselves while remaining fully engaged in our professional and personal life. Renew our sense of spark and passion in our work,
• See the healing power in ourselves and in our clients,
• Uncover an empathetic understanding of illness.
• Reduce the negative impact of stress, worry, depression, anxiety and pain,
• Minimize the stress in being a caregiver,
• Listen more attentively to your clients and colleagues,
• Learn to apply mindfulness of body, speech, and mind in our clinical practice and personal life.
Participants
This training is helpful for all people engaged in the healing and caring professions, those who care for chronically ill people, and in particular for those people who engage in their caring with all their heart and have the tendency to overexert themselves and burn out.
The following are further recommendations for participation:
Participants should have an active interest in improving the relationship between healer and patient. Interest in working with speech and body language play an important role. Medical or caring experience and training is helpful but not required.
Intended Participants: Doctors, Nurses, Social Workers, Naturopaths, Acupuncturists, Psychotherapists, Counselors, Case Managers, Addiction Therapists, Psychologists, Chiropractors, Physical Therapists, Healers, Massage Therapists, all those in the helping professions, caring for their own health, or the health of loved ones.
The following skills will be developed in a progressive manner:
• The skill to keep an open heart and a clear mind in difficult situations.
• Precision in perception, in particular the differentiation between pure sense perceptions and concepts and ideas that overlay our perceptions.
• Universal and basic principles of the science of mind and mindfulness-awareness training, including cultivation of loving-kindness and compasion for self and others developed over 2500 years within the Buddhist tradition, is combined with modern process work in the clinical and therapeutic environment. The methods that will be presented include:
• Healing meditative and awareness exercises, including perception and cognitive methods, and group work psychology
• Experiential process-oriented methods.
• Application of the science of perception techniques in clinical practice
• Between the seminars, the participants are invited to meet for discussion and exchange in local contemplative healing groups
Menla Faculty
Phil Weber, MD is a Senior Adjunct Faculty at Naropa University. He has served as Clinical Instructor in the Dept. of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Medical Center, and Medical Consultant to the NIH task force for Alternative Medicine. He has practiced medicine for 30 years and is a Family Physician in private practice in Boulder, Colorado.
Christoph Klonk, MD has been a Family Physician in Germany for 27 years. He received a 3-year training in Medical Psychotherapy at the North Rein Medical Academy in Düsseldorf., Germany, and a 3-year course in Contemplative Psychology
