Trilogos Diploma Certificate 1 - Trilogos Trainer

Contents

Impressum

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Prerequisites
1.3 Mentoring of the Certificate 1 trainees
1.3.1 Without mentoring
1.3.2 With a Trilogos mentor
1.3.3 With an external coach
1.3.4 With a Trilogos mentor AND an external coach
1.4 Four possibilities for working with the handbook
1.5 Training possibilities
1.5.1 Organizing a Trilogos reading group
1.5.2 Organizing a Trilogos training day
1.5.3 Using the training days of the Trilogos Foundation
1.5.4 Organizing independent training possibilities
1.6 Learning modules
1.7 Key qualifications to be acquired
1.7.1 Knowledge
1.7.2 Skills
1.7.3 General competencies
1.8 Exams
1.8.1 Initial evaluations during the training
1.8.2 Final exam
1.9 Legal
1.9.1 Personal liability
1.9.2 Insurance
1.9.3 Certificate of competency
1.9.4 Trademark
1.10 Forms
1.11 Training costs

2 Learning Module A Designing the training sessions
2.1 Lesson 1 Preparing the content of a Trilogos training session and writing an image journey
2.1.1 Chapter 1: Building a Trilogos image journey didactically
1st step of the image journey Relaxing the physical body
2nd step of the image journey Letting feelings and thoughts come to rest
3rd step of the image journey
4th step of the image journey Letting the inner world awaken
5th step of the image journey Experiencing a surprise or something unexpected
6th step of the image journey Starting one’s way back, asking questions
7th step of the image journey Bidding farewell, protecting oneself
8th step of the image journey Awaking and getting back to normal
2.1.2 Chapter 2: Knowing the contents of a Trilogos image journey
2.2 Lesson 2 Organizing a Trilogos training session
2.2.1 Chapter 1: Organizing a Trilogos training session
2.2.2 Chapter 2: Preparing for the event on site
2.3 Lesson 3 Conducting a Trilogos training session
2.3.1 Chapter 1: Welcoming the participants and introduction to the training session
2.3.2 Chapter 2: Guiding through the image journey
2.3.3 Chapter 3: Transitioning into the exchange round
2.3.4 Chapter 4: Facilitating the exchange round
2.3.5 Chapter 5: Concluding the training session
2.4 Lesson 4 Follow-up of a Trilogos training session
2.4.1 Chapter 1: Critically examining how you organize your training session
2.4.2 Chapter 2: Critically examining the content of your image journey
2.4.3 Chapter 3: Critically examining how you facilitate the exchange round
2.4.4 Chapter 4: Learning from experience

3 Learning Module B Holding book talks, presentations and roundtables
3.1 Lesson 1 Presenting selected books
3.1.1 Chapter 1: Preparing two book talks
3.1.2 Chapter 2: Holding book talks
3.1.3 Chapter 3: Following up on book talks
3.2 Lesson 2 Holding presentations
3.2.1 Chapter 1: Preparing and giving presentations
3.2.2 Chapter 2: Holding presentations
3.2.3 Chapter 3: Following up on presentations
3.3 Lesson 3 Guiding into the ensuing dialogue (roundtable discussion) by means of a brief presentation
3.3.1 Chapter 1: Preparing the presentation with roundtable
3.3.2 Chapter 2: Facilitating and guiding roundtables
3.3.3 Chapter 3: Following up on the roundtable discussion

4 Learning Module C Self-development
4.1.1 Chapter 1: Learning from experience
4.1.2 Chapter 2: Taking responsibility
4.1.3 Chapter 3: Eliminating the ego
4.1.4 Chapter 4: Strengthening your inner personal power within
4.1.5 Chapter 5: Developing discipline and perseverance
4.1.6 Chapter 6: Training perception, and using it to build personality and character

5 Exam requirements
5.1 Exam protocol
5.2 Certificate of competency: Certificate 1 of Trilogos Diploma Training
5.2.1 Permissions with this certificate

Literature

Internet

Appendix

Form No. 1 »Tasks and Responsibilities«

Form No. 2 »Graphological Report«

Form No. 3 »Astrological Evaluation«

Form No. 4 »Evaluation of Trainee«

Form No. 5 »Training Session«

Form No. 6 »Overall Assessment«

Form No. 7 »Preliminary Examination / Evaluation Criteria«

Form No. 8 »Fill Out Beforehand«

Form No. 9 »Discussion and Dialogue«

Form No. 10 »Learning List«

Form No. 11 »Follow-up Guide«

Form No. 12 »Fill Out Later«

Form No. 13 »Trilogos Training - Worksheet«

Form No. 14 »Budget / Participants«

Form No. 15 »Trilogos Training - Feedback«

Form No. 16 »Self-Assessment«

Form No. 17 »Application: Organization Trilogos Reading Group«

Form No. 18 »Participate in a Trilogos Reading group«

Form No. 19 »Organization Reading Group«

Form No. 20 »Trilogos Reading Group«

Form No. 21 »Exams«

Form No. 22 »Schedule«

Form No. 23 »Ethical Principles«

Form No. 24 »Help sheet: Emotional Aura«

Form No. 25 »Help sheet: Mental Aura«

Form No. 26 »Report to the Board of Trustees«

Acknowledgments

My heartfelt thanks go first and foremost to the two co-authors Monika Langenegger Ulmer (pedagogue, certified Trilogos trainer), who is responsible for the structured, methodical-didactic preparation of the workbook, as well as to Michael Noah Weiss, professor of pedagogy and a Trilogos training graduate and mentor, who has prepared, in fastidious detail, the contents of this Trilogos handbook.

I would also like to thank my Trilogos friends, Dorothe Hebisch (physician), Ernestine Zink (psychologist, trauma and art therapist) and Walter Zink (theologian and former director of studies at Leuenberg), who contributed to the editing of this manuscript.

Last but not least, I would like to thank Cathleen Poehler for her professional translation, and also Eliane Degonda for her professional and invaluable editing and final drafting of the handbook.

Linda Roethlisberger

Küsnacht, November 2021

1 Introduction

This introduction outlines and explains all the elements of the Trilogos Diploma Training Certificate 1 Course.

1.1 Background

The training for Certificate 1 of the Trilogos Diploma Training Course was developed by Linda Vera Roethlisberger. The concept behind this training, as well as all the content, including the exam at the end, have been standardized since 1995.

Since 1995, an interdisciplinary advisory board that has been working in the background has ensured the quality of the content, each board member from the perspective of his or her scientific discipline. Some members have served as external exam experts on the Certificate 1, Certificate 2 and Certificate 3 exams. (Please note that the board members are available, for a fee, to provide content-related information and to offer personal guidance).

In 1997, the first—and immediately successful—Certificate 1 final examination took place with an internal and external examination board.

This handbook was created on the basis of the learning contents and materials compiled for the Certificate 1 training, and by drawing on the trainees’ many years of experience, in order to accomplish the following:

- The trainees should be able to independently pick up the skills, knowledge and general competencies to create and guide their Trilogos image journeys.
- This handbook sets out guidelines in preparation for the preliminary exams and the Certificate 1 final exam. The trainee must pass these exams to acquire the title Trilogos Trainer.
- This handbook serves as a reference book, so that graduates of Certificate 1 may keep up their skills, knowledge and competences as Trilogos trainers.

1.2 Prerequisites

The following prerequisites apply in order to begin the Trilogos Trainer training (Certificate 1 of the Trilogos diploma training):

- You have relevant professional training as a psychologist, psychotherapist, doctor or psychiatrist. Under certain circumstances, you may also engage in the Certificate 1 training as a teacher, priest, pastor, social worker, life coach or in some similar role. This is to be determined in a personal conversation with the president of the Trilogos Foundation.
- You’ve completed the self-guided course In Touch With Your Inner Voice, by Linda Vera Roethlisberger, Levels 1‒3.
- You’ve passed Prerequisite I; in other words, you’ve had a psychological-graphological report (using Form 2, Graphological Report) drawn up and have noted your findings from it.
- You’ve passed Prerequisite II; in other words, you’ve had a psychological-astrological report prepared (using Form 3, Astrological Report).
- You’ve carried out and evaluated the self-guided Master Examination from the course In Touch With Your Inner Voice, Level 3, and you’ve discussed the results as part of a mediumistic consultation with Linda Vera Roethlisberger or a Trilogos-certified trainer—following delivery of Prerequisite I and II.
- As an organizer of a Trilogos reading group, you’ve successfully completed at least Level 1, lessons 1‒3, in the textbook In Touch With Your Inner Voice (see forms 17‒20).
- You’ve confirmed that you do not suffer from any known mental and/or physical impairments that could jeopardize course completion. The Trilogos Foundation assumes no liability for any psychological complications that may be associated with the diploma or the certificate training.
- You enjoy exploring new body-mind-spirit connections, as this exploration pertains to your everyday life.
- You enjoy accompanying people on their individuation path.
- You’ve attended at least one training day offered by Trilogos (see Agenda).
- You’re motivated to continuously work on yourself and are interested in lifelong, learning that follows the trajectory of a spiral.
- You’re interested in exploring, recognizing and experiencing new body-soul-spirit relationships, most importantly in relation to others, allowing you reflect on yourself in a new and expanded way.
- You enjoy communicating.
- You recognize the importance and responsibility of continually making meaningful connections between what you perceive and the quotidian, or the aspects of your everyday life.

1.3 Mentoring of the Certificate 1 trainees

As a trainee, you can complete the training for Certificate 1

- alone,
- with a Trilogos mentor and/or
- with an external coach.

It is you, who decides whether and what type of mentoring you would like to have.

1.3.1 Without mentoring

If you do not wish to receive mentoring—neither from a Trilogos mentor nor from an external coach—you may instead assimilate the learning content and objectives listed in this handbook independently and in a self-guided fashion. In that case, you can simply sit for the exams (see 5 Exam Requirements page 149 for more information). Once you’ve passed the interim exams, you’ll be eligible to take the final exam. And once you pass the final exam, you’ll have completed the training for Certificate 1.

1.3.2 With a Trilogos mentor

If you wish to be accompanied by a Trilogos mentor, please contact the Trilogos Foundation. In consideration of your place of residence as well as what resources are available to you, in terms of your time, the Foundation will clarify under which conditions, to what extent and at what price a mentor can provide you with training support.

For example, if you live in the north of Germany and are heavily taken in by your job, the framework conditions would be different than if you live in Zurich, close to the Trilogos Foundation, and have a half-day job. The first step, is therefore, to find a feasible mentoring arrangement. Depending on the situation, a good part of the mentoring can be done digitally, in other words, via email, Skype, Zoom or another shared platform.

The Trilogos mentor is familiar with the tasks assigned to a Certificate 1 mentoring. These are listed in Form 1 Tasks and Responsibilities (see Appendix).

1.3.3 With an external coach

If you wish to be accompanied by an external coach, you will have to organize this yourself. The conditions, scope and payment are determined exclusively between you and your coach—independently of the Trilogos Foundation. Ideally, you should choose a psychotherapist or a psychologist as your external coach. Representatives of other professions are possible if you so desire.

The external coach should take on the following tasks (see also Form 1 Tasks and Responsibilities):

- Inspect the space you’ve prepared on the day of the event (clean restrooms; choosing a well-ventilated room, setting up with a circle of chairs and provisions, such as water and snacks).
- Be mindful of how you greet participants as they arrive (welcome them, explain house rules, introduce them to the space).
- Intervene if, as you guide an image journey, something happens that you aren’t adequately reacting to (e.g., a participant has a panic attack).
- Intervene if, as you guide an exchange round, something happens that you aren’t adequately reacting to (e.g., a participant has a crying fit or becomes manipulative).
- Look to see whether each participant is leaving the training day/exercise session in a psychologically positive or stable state; if not, intervene accordingly.
- Conduct a follow-up with you about the training day/exercise session/lecture, examining your psychological competence in leading a group and discussing your personal development.

1.3.4 With a Trilogos mentor AND an external coach

You can choose to be accompanied and supervised through the training by both a Trilogos mentor and an external coach.

For example, you can hire an external coach with whom you meet in person (i.e., who lives close to your place of residence) in addition to a mentor who can be present at events (e.g., training sessions or lectures) via your preferred online platform, such as over Skype. When choosing this variant, Form 1 Tasks and Responsibilities provides information about the respective tasks of both the mentor and the coach. You will find this form in the Annex of this manual.

1.4 Four possibilities for working with the handbook

Among the possibilities elaborated so far regarding mentoring in the Certificate 1 training, there are four ways of working with this manual, addressing the different types of trainees as follows:

1) trainees wishing to work through this manual entirely on their own and independently
2) trainees wishing to work with an external coach
3) trainees wishing to work with a Trilogos mentor
4) trainees wishing to work with external coach as well as with a mentor

Important: This handbook will focus on the fourth variant only, as it covers all the other variants. In other words, regardless of whether a trainee works alone, only with an external coach or only with a Trilogos mentor, they can still use this handbook, which will guide them appropriately and cover all the elements in their chosen variant.

1.5 Training possibilities

1.5.1 Organizing a Trilogos reading group

Since a prerequisite for enrolling in this training is that you’ve already completed Level 1 of the self-guided course In Touch With Your Inner Voice with a reading group, it is advisable to continue working with that group. You may then work through all the practice sessions, lectures and book reviews prescribed in this training as part of that group.

1.5.2 Organizing a Trilogos training day

Another way to complete the necessary practice sessions and lectures for this training is to independently organize a Trilogos training day or evening at your place of residence. The organizational steps for this are described in this manual, while other, more detailed information can be obtained from your Trilogos mentor.

1.5.3 Using the training days of the Trilogos Foundation

Another option is to schedule your training sessions to take place on the same day as the training days of the Trilogos Foundation. For this, contact your mentor for scheduling.

1.5.4 Organizing independent training possibilities

If you decide to do the entire training for Certificate 1 independently and in a self-guided fashion, you must organize the necessary practice opportunities on your own and in complete autonomy. It is your discretion how you might proceed.

1.6 Learning modules

The training—and, therefore, including this handbook—consists of three learning modules.

You may work on these three modules in parallel, even though, in the handbook, they are listed one after the other.

All modules will be accompanied and discussed with you by your Trilogos mentor and your coach in the run-up as well as while you carry out the exercise.

1. Learning Module A

Design at least ten Trilogos training sessions with different contents, and successfully conduct and follow up on them as a facilitator with a group.

2. Learning Module B

Prepare, deliver and follow up on two book reviews, two lectures and one technical presentation including a roundtable.

3. Learning Module C

Use learning modules A and B for own personal development.

1.7 Key qualifications to be acquired

Upon successful completion of the Trilogos Trainer Certificate 1 training, you will have acquired the following qualifications:

1.7.1 Knowledge

- You’re familiar with all the tasks involved for holding a Trilogos training session, including those to be done in advance and those on site.
- You know the theoretical and practical components of a Trilogos training module and can apply them accordingly.
- You have basic knowledge of psychological and pedagogical approaches.

1.7.2 Skills

- You can independently write image journeys in the style and spirit of the Trilogos®Method, guide these journeys with a group and evaluate them.
- You can communicate mindfully, taking responsibility for what you say.
- You can initiate self-reflection processes within the participants of a Trilogos training session, as well as accompany these processes accordingly, so that the participants can acquire self-knowledge on their path of self-development and with respect to their everyday life.
- You are able to plan, conduct and follow up on Trilogos training sessions, presentations and roundtables in terms of the organization as well as the content.
- You can facilitate the exchange rounds of Trilogos training sessions as well as exchange rounds at presentations and roundtables.

1.7.3 General competencies

- You can independently deepen your competence as an exercise facilitator by keeping a list of items that will help you learn further and improve.
- You use all didactic-methodical elements of this training for your own development.
- You are aware of your individual human potential (PsyQ) and continue to bring this awareness to a further understanding of your greater personal competence and inner maturity (PsyK).

1.8 Exams

The final evaluation is structured as follows.

1.8.1 Initial evaluations during the training

You will be evaluated on a continual basis throughout each of the training modules (see also Chapter 5, page 149 of this handbook, which describes the prerequisites, such as interim examinations).

Your mentor will be responsible for evaluating your preparatory and follow-up work, while your coach will be responsible for evaluating your performance during the training.

- Learning Module A: In consultation with the mentor, two additional training sessions will be integrated, one about halfway through the training and the other towards the end, as interim examinations.
- Learning Module B: The book talks and presentation held as part of the roundtable are evaluated.
- Learning Module C: Together with the registration for the official final exam, you will submit a handwritten CV to the exam committee, including your motivation for becoming a Trilogos trainer. The CV should also contain a section in which you describe how what you learned and experienced in the course of the training for Certificate 1 has helped you in your personal development. For this module, you’ll be evaluated with regard to your overall motivation for and during this training.

1.8.2 Final exam

Once you’ve demonstrated a successful preliminary performance, you can register for the final exam. For the exam, you will be facilitating two training sessions, including an exchange round. Afterwards, you will be questioned orally and in writing about these two training sessions, as well as about the overall contents of the training.

You will find all information about the exam requirements in Section 5 of this handbook.

1.9 Legal

1.9.1 Personal liability

You have acknowledged the ethical, moral and spiritual principles of the Trilogos Foundation, and you now have decided to commit yourself to them and to serve as a living example of them. You are responsible and personally liable for all those actions (e.g., trainer activities, organizational activities) that you carry out in the course of the training. The Trilogos Foundation assumes no liability for any physical or psychological complications that may arise in connection with the diploma and thus with the certificate training—be it with you as a trainee or with you as a participant at events held in the course of this training.

1.9.2 Insurance

You must take out your own professional or non-professional liability insurance (personal responsibility).

The same applies to accident insurance according to the Swiss Federal Accident Insurance Act (UVG). Europeans are to comply with the respective legal regulations of their country of residence, be that Germany, Austria or another country.

1.9.3 Certificate of competency

The Trilogos Trainer Certificate 1 is a certificate of competency for guiding Trilogos training groups.

Therapeutic measures offered in the context of the training may only be carried out by state-certified psychologists and psychotherapists and by those in similarly affiliated disciplines.

The Trilogos diploma enables you to work independently and free of the Trilogos Foundation in your own practice and under your own name, and to integrate these with your main profession.

If you wish to benefit from the advantages and support of the Trilogos Foundation and become active as a Trilogos trainer, you must sign a license agreement with the Trilogos Foundation, to be issued to you upon request.

As a licensed trainer, you may work for the Trilogos Foundation in complement to or in replacement of any other professional activities. However, it is your responsibility—whether you have a Trilogos license or not—to familiarize yourself with the professional regulations of your country and to verify whether you are authorized, including with regard to any other training you might have, to carry out the desired activity. The Trilogos Foundation does not assume any liability for this, especially since the respective legal situations differ considerably, even between the German-speaking countries.

1.9.4 Trademark

The terms Trilogos, PsyQ, Trilogos PsyQ®, IQ+EQ+SQ=PsyQ and Trilogos®Method are trademark-protected and may only be used with the express permission of the Trilogos Foundation (license).

1.10 Forms

You will find the various forms in the Annex of this handbook. They will also be available for you in digital form once you have officially registered for the Certificate 1 level of the Trilogos Diploma Training program.

Following is a list of the forms, including a brief description of whom they are intended for and what they are used for:

- Form 1: Tasks and Responsibilities

Intended for: Trilogos mentor and/or external coach.

Serves: The clear allocation of tasks (i.e., the role of the mentor and the role of the coach).

- Form 2: Graphological Report

Intended for: Graphologists evaluating Prerequisite 1.

Serves: The graphologist’s evaluation of the trainee; the graphologist conducting this evaluation prior to the start of the Certificate 1 training.

- Form 3: Astrological Evaluation

Intended for: Astrologers evaluating Prerequisite 2.

Serves: The astrologer’s evaluation of the trainee, the evaluation conducted prior to the start of the Certificate 1 training.

- Form 4: Evaluation of the Trainee

Intended for: The Trilogos mentor and/or external coach.

Serves: The mentor’s and/or external coach’s evaluation of the trainee, conducted every three months.

- Form 5: Supervision Training Session

Intended for: The Trilogos mentor and/or external coach.

Serves: The evaluation of a training session held by the trainee. The mentor or coach uses this form as a guide while the trainee is holding the training session.

- Form 6: Overall Assessment

Intended for: The Trilogos mentor.

Serves: The mentor’s overall assessment of the trainee. The mentor fills out this form at regular intervals, approximately every three months.

- Form 7: Preliminary Examination / Evaluation Criteria

Intended for: Trainees of Certificate 1, the Trilogos mentor and/or external coach

Serves: As an orientation for determining the criteria to be used to evaluate the trainee’s performance.

- Form 8: Fill Out Beforehand

Intended for: Trainees in the Certificate 1 program.

Serves: The trainee in preparing a training session, as a means to record, in writing, what the trainee intends to focus on in the session and what the learning objectives are.

- Form 9: Exchange: Discussion and Dialogue

Intended for: Trainees in the Certificate 1 program.

Serves: As a guideline for the follow-up (e.g., debriefing with the Trilogos mentor and/or external coach) of an exchange round, after a training session, presentation or other event.

- Form 10: Learning List

Intended for: Trainees in the Certificate 1 program.

Serves: The continuous listing of didactic insights and learning objectives resulting from training sessions, lectures and book presentations, as well as from the debriefings.

- Form 11: Follow-Up Guide

Intended for: Trainees in the Certificate 1 program, the Trilogos mentor and/or the external coach.

Serves: As a guide for the follow-up (e.g., debriefing with the mentor) of a training session, presentation or other event.

- Form 12: Fill Out Later

Intended for: Trainees of the Certificate 1 program.

Serves: The trainee in the follow-up of a training session, to help them record, in writing, whether they’ve achieved the learning objectives, what they’ve learned and which new learning objectives they’ve identified.

- Form 13: Trilogos Training Session Worksheet

Intended for: Participants in the Trilogos trainings.

Serves: Participants in Trilogos training sessions, to guide them as they write down and evaluate what they have experienced. The trainees hand out this worksheet to the participants prior to the exchange round of a training session and collect it afterwards.

- Form 14: Budget

Intended for: Trainees in the Certificate 1 program.

Serves: For the rendering of accounts of a Trilogos event (e.g., training day). The trainee fills out this form and then sends it to the Trilogos Foundation.

- Form 15: Feedback Trilogos Training Sessions

Intended for: Participants in the Trilogos training sessions.

Serves: The participants in the Trilogos training sessions, to provide feedback on the training sessions. Trainees hand out this sheet at the end of a training session and collect it once everyone has filled them out.

- Form 16: Self-Assessment

Intended for: Trainees in the Certificate 1 program.

Serves: The evaluation of the trainees by the Trilogos mentor or by the external coach, to be done every three months.

- Form 17: Application for the Creation of Trilogos Reading Groups

Intended for: Trainees in the Certificate 1 program.

Serves: The trainees in applying for the founding of a Trilogos reading group.

- Form 18: For Participants of a Trilogos Reading Group

Intended for: Trainees of Certificate 1.

Serves: To inform the participants of a Trilogos reading group about what happens in such a group, including the designation of roles and responsibilities.

- Form 19: Organization of a Trilogos Reading Group

Intended for: Trainees of the Certificate 1 program.

Serves: The trainees in the didactic implementation of Trilogos reading group events.

- Form 20: Trilogos Reading Groups

Intended for: Trainees of the Certificate 1 program.

Serves: To inform the trainees about all the basic conditions of a Trilogos reading group.

- Form 21: Exams

Intended for: The Trilogos mentor.

Serves: The mentor in grading the performance of Certificate 1 trainees.

- Form 22: Schedule

Intended for: The Trilogos mentor.

Serves: The Trilogos mentor, to assist him or her in planning and in keeping track of the different activities of the Certificate 1 trainees.

- Form 23: Ethical Principles

Intended for: Certificate 1 trainees.

Serves: The trainees, helping them become acquainted with the ethical principles of Trilogos and how to live by its principles and learn them to other persons.

- Form 24: Help Sheet for the Emotional Aura

Intended for: Participants of the Trilogos trainings.

Serves: The trainees, who hand out this form to the participants in the exchange round on the topic of the emotional aura, and who collect it afterwards. The aim is to provide participants with support in more readily sharing their associations with others or in interpreting their perceptions about the emotional aura.

- Form 25: Help Sheet for the Mental Aura

Intended for: Participants of the Trilogos trainings.

Serves: The trainees, who hand out this sheet to participants at the beginning of a Trilogos training session, and who collect it afterwards. The form focuses on the mental aura in the exchange round, and its aim is to provide participants with support in more readily sharing their associations with others or in interpreting their perceptions about the mental aura.

- Form 26: Report to the Board of Trustees

Intended for: Trainers participating in, rather than leading, a reading group.

Serves: Among others, the trainers participating in a reading group, for self-organized supervision and self-evaluation.

When and how to use the various forms is explained at the beginning of each lesson, in the form of a checklist, as well as in certain places within the text of the handbook.

1.11 Training costs

Please contact us to inquire about the cost of the training.

Prospective trainees are asked to determine the additional costs for the external coach on their own and to, if need be, communicate those costs to the mentor.

When the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong. Chinese wisdom

2 Learning Module A

Designing the training sessions

2.1 Lesson 1 Preparing the content of a Trilogos training session and writing an image journey

Learning goal of the lesson. You should be able to:

- Write and prepare image journeys in the style and sense of the Trilogos®Method.

Forms checklist:

- Send Form 1 Tasks and Responsibilities to your Trilogos mentor and/or to your external coach.
- Fill out Form 8 Fill Out Beforehand and send it to your mentor.
- Send Form 4 Evaluation of the Trainee to your Trilogos mentor as well as to your external coach. These two people should fill it out regularly (every three months) and discuss it with you.
- Fill out Form 16 Self-Assessment and send it to your mentor.
- Take plenty of Emotional Aura or Mental Aura help sheets (Forms 24 and 25) to an exercise session on the (emotional and/or mental) aura. Hand out these forms at the beginning of the exchange round for that exercise and collect them afterwards.

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2.1.1 Chapter 1: Building a Trilogos image journey didactically

Learning goal of Chapter 1. You should be able to:

- Be familiar with the eight stages of a Trilogos image journey.
- Know all the didactic modules of each stage and can incorporate them into image journeys.
- Be aware of the possible repercussions of not following the guidelines.

2.1.1.1 The eight steps of a Trilogos image journey—content modules

Each Trilogos image journey consists of the following eight steps, whose order is most important:

1. Relax the physical body.

At the beginning of a Trilogos image journey, guide participants in relaxing their physical body.

2. Let feelings and thoughts become still.

Following the relaxation of the physical body, guide participants in relaxing mentally as well: in other words, letting their feelings and thoughts come to rest.

3. Connect with the Supreme Being/Creative Power (religio = reconnection) and meet the spiritual helper.

Religio is also called SQ activation. It has the purpose of activating/consciousness of deep trust (primordial trust or faith in God) in the participants. Religio also brings about real trust in oneself, in one’s own potential—PsyQ—which is also called the Higher Self.

Invite participants at this level to engage in an inner prayer, to perform their personal ritual to connect with God, Allah, Atman, the Supreme Consciousness, Nothingness—or whatever they might call this being or essence—to experience even deeper relaxation and even greater (primordial) trust. This ʹconnecting with the highestʹ is also called religio.

Following the religio, have the participants greet their spiritual helpers. These spiritual helpers will faithfully accompany the participants individually throughout the entire image journey.

4. The inner world awakens.

Support the participants—who are in connection with the Supreme Being and in the faithful company of their spiritual helper—in awakening their five inner mediumistic senses. In this way, the sensory channel of the participants to the spiritual world awakens, and you guide them to a given place, such as a sandy beach, the ocean, the spiritual workplace, a forest clearing, a cabin in the mountains or a castle. From there, the participants begin to engage in their individual manifestation of the spontaneously emerged fantasy place.

5. Experiencing a surprise or something unexpected

Let the participants—always in deep connection with the Supreme Being as well as in faithful accompaniment of the spiritual helper—discover ʹsomethingʹ at this inner place to which you have guided them: for example, a symbolic gift, images, colors of an aura, olfactory impressions, words, sounds, music, numbers, but also new worlds of consciousness, spiritual beings of all kinds, ideas, visions and even prophecies.

Whatever it is that the person experiences unexpectedly with regard to their perceptions at this place (impressions, pictures, feelings, sounds, etc.), these compose the essence. Guide the participants to take these intuitive, mediumistic perceptions with them as memories.

6. Making one’s way back, asking questions

On the way back to the starting point of the mediumistic journey, give the participants the opportunity to (once again) talk to their spiritual helper about what they have experienced and ask him or her questions.

7. Bidding farewell, protecting oneself

Guide the participants in remembering everything that has just come intuitively to mind and to bid farewell to their spiritual helper.

Remind participants to again mentally and thereby emotionally protect themselves.

8. Awakening, returning to the real world, recognizing and naming

what was dreamt

In the last step, guide the participants in awakening from their dream. During your guidance, make sure that each participant reactivates their physical body and arrives back in the real world, safe and sound.

Have everyone immediately write down what they’ve dreamed. This will lay the foundation for further important work: consciously recognizing and naming what was dreamt.

2.1.1.2 The eight steps of a Trilogos image journey – didactic modules

Examples of how to formulate each individual step of a Trilogos image journey can be found in the self-guided Trilogos course In Touch With Your Inner Voice. Each unit of this course contains at least one experience, in other words, an image journey in which all eight steps of an image journey are formulated.

The following list contains the indispensable didactic modules for a Trilogos image journey. Both the order and the didactic modules are important.

Preparation, welcome and introduction to the exercise

- Have rescue remedy drops, such as tissues, as well as emergency numbers, ready prior to starting the exercise.

Important because: If someone becomes very agitated, upset or begins to sob in the course of an image journey, it might be helpful to offer rescue emergency drops and tissues. Keep the number of a physician at hand, should that as well become necessary.

- Welcome participants.

Important because: All participants must feel addressed, and no one should feel overlooked, especially if participating in such a group for the first time.

- Start on time.

Important because: Trilogos trainers are role models and must act professionally. Do not give the impression that you can come and go as you please.

- Introduce the exercise session or day.

Important because: Without your appropriate introduction, participants might feel disoriented and somewhat lost.

- Specifically welcome guests who may already have attended the exercises several times but are not yet active course participants.

Important because: A person new to an existing group or someone not yet actively participating in the course should be included and made to feel welcome.

- Introduce the content of the exercise.

Important because: This helps participants, especially guests, know what to expect.

- Mention the guiding principle “Those who wish, may linger.”

Important because: Some, especially guests, might feel easily overwhelmed at having to take action or at having to get involved right away.

- Point out that the spiritual helper may be male or female.

Important because: This confirms the perceptions of any previous image journeys and may also open additional possibilities for perceptions in future exercises. No one should feel discriminated because of their worldview.

Use other names for ʹspiritual helperʹ, such as ʹspiritual companionʹ (see especially textbook In Touch With Your Inner Voice, Levels 2 and 3), ʹHigher Self,ʹ ʹinner wisdomʹ or ʹthe power of PsyQ.ʹ

- Briefly state the goal and purpose of the exercise.

Important because: Otherwise, participants will not know why they are to participate in this exercise now. Goals might be, for example, getting to know one’s own dream and symbolic language anew, training and checking one’s intuition or working out new approaches to developing one’s personality.

Individuation from a Trilogical point of view: in connection with the Supreme Being and in connection with the spiritual helper (Higher Self or PsyQ), as well as in relation to the other, such as another fellow human being or one’s individual school of life (health, work, relationships.)

- Make sure all cell phones are turned off.

Important because: A phone ringing during the exercise can pull everyone out of deep meditation and relaxation.

- Have participants take their glasses off.

Important because: If a person wearing glasses falls asleep, their glasses may fall off, disturbing others. Or, should a person wearing glasses have to cry, they would have a more difficult time wiping their tears.

- Have participants loosen their belts and tight clothing.

Important because: Relaxation is easier when nothing constricts or pinches.

- Invite participants to get comfortable in their chairs and to assume an upright posture.

Important because: Slouching, which will eventually become unconformable, will stand in the way of relaxation.

That said, emphasize that participants who have difficulty sitting (e.g., due to back problems) may make themselves as comfortable as they wish, such as by lying on their backs, on a mat on the floor.

2.1.1.3 The exercise: Describing an image journey

Basics about the selection of words and speech

- Carefully and sensitively, word-by-word, verbalize each stage of the image journey.

Important because:

If you initiate the body relaxation with “You relax now absolutely and completely,” this can be understood as a request instead of an instruction and result in the exact opposite, namely, tension, due to the pressure to perform. Instead, you might consider saying something like: “Your physical body is finding it easier to let go, allowing you to relax more and more deeply.”

For example, if you take participants into a forest, care must be taken to avoid the possible fear of a cold, dark, scary forest. Accordingly, try guiding participants not into ʹa forestʹ but a ʹpleasant, light forest.ʹ Similarly, don’t simply let participants ʹget into the waterʹ but, instead, guide them, so that they may ʹtread gently into the water that has attained a comfortable, balmy temperature.ʹ In order to find a suitable choice of language and words, it is recommended that you first make your image journey for yourself. Pay attention to words that are helpful and words that are counterproductive. It is best to record the exercise on an audio recorder and put yourself in the position of the participants while listening. You’ll be amazed!

- Become aware of the responsibility for your words.

Important because: Every single word has an effect in an image journey and influences the experience of your participants. Therefore, always consider in advance what you want to achieve with a respective formulation.

Not saying or forgetting words and phrases likewise has an effect. For example, forgetting to mention that the ʹblue curtainʹ (see Step 7 of the image journey page 46) has to be opened again makes it more difficult to return from the inner to the outer world, and return to everyday life.

- Be empathetic in your delivery.

Important because: If you present your instructions for the fantasy journey too quickly, participants can become stressed and tense—at which point even empathetic and sensitive formulations are of little help.

Use your voice to carry the participants through the exercise and maintain the connection to the group even during the breaks. This makes it easier for the participants to follow you.

1st step of the image journey Relaxing the physical body

- Have participants close their eyes.

Important because: Doing the exercise with your eyes open makes it difficult to engage more deeply with the content.

However: Should a beginner feel unsure, they may, of course, follow the exercise with open eyes or open their eyes at any time.

- Guide participants in relaxing the physical body.

In each exercise, the relaxation of the entire body is guided in a logical sequence. Let the body relax either from top to bottom or vice versa. In this way, no imbalances occur, which could lead to negative consequences in the respective exercise.

Important because:

Depending on the work content, it is not possible to pay attention to all muscles, joints or organs individually. Body parts (e.g., the legs) and groups of organs (e.g., all internal organs) can also be mentioned as a whole. This can give more space and time for the spine or the feet, for example.

But: Physical blockages must be allowed to remain. Again, the wording is crucial: “All physical blockages and tensions are now given permission to become calmer…calmer and…calmer,” rather than: “All physical blockages shall now disappear.” The latter version can cause exactly the opposite of what is desired, namely stress and overload, making the participant even more tense. An example: A participant with chronic back pain feels overwhelmed by a formulation such as “All physical tensions shall now disappear,” looking back at many unsuccessful attempts at getting rid of the chronic tensions in his back. By contrast, “All physical blockages and tensions are now given permission to become calmer…calmer and…calmer,” sounds more like an invitation, a possibility, and not like a command or work order that must be completed.

- Use a formulation like: “Any noise from the outside will recede into the background; my voice will be your constant companion. Rest assured that you may exit the daydream and awaken at any time. I thank you for your trust.”

Important because: Participants who forget the second part of the first sentence are likely to drift off or fall asleep. In the event of unexpected noise from outside (e.g., traffic, telephone ringing), the facilitator must respond to the situation. For example, by saying: “Your subconscious mind may increasingly turn away from the noise of the car, the noise on the street or the ringing of the telephone. And you may leave or return to greater and greater silence.”

Facilitators should be ready to spontaneously insert corresponding sentences into the exercises of the other levels as well, if necessary.

- Mention the phrase “The body may fall asleep, but the mind stays wide awake.”

Important because: When a participant loses sight of the fact that the mind must stay awake, there is a higher probability that they will fall asleep.

Even with the most careful word choice, someone may fall asleep. As an exercise facilitator, you are not omnipotent. Higher Guidance will see to it that participants get what they most need. At the very least, the request to return (Step 6 of the image journey page 46) will reach the latent sleepers (who are in deep relaxation) and will usually wake them up again. Below, you will find help on how to deal with unforeseen situations as an exercise facilitator.

2nd step of the image journey Letting feelings and thoughts come to rest

- Have participants relax their feelings first, then their thoughts.

Important because: Once we’ve quieted our feelings, our thoughts can also be quieted down more easily. However, when trying to work the other way around, we risk activating conscious thinking and analyzing, which in turn makes it difficult or even impossible to quiet down our feelings.

- Guide participants in balancing body, mind and spirit.

Possible wording: “Now that you have relaxed your feelings and thoughts to a greater and greater degree, your body, soul and mind can also regain the right balance.”

Important because: Just as the Trilogos®Method aims to harmonize thinking, feeling, faith/trust with action, it also aims to achieve a balance between the physical, psychological and spiritual levels.

- Guide participants to let go of the external world for the moment.

Possible metaphor: Close a blue curtain and leave everything that is not needed at the moment behind. Everything can be resumed again later if needed.

Important because: Closing the curtain makes it easier to temporarily distance oneself from everyday life and the worries, fears, hopes and desires associated with it. Without any such separation, participants will find it more difficult to concentrate on their inner selves.

3rd step of the image journey

Connecting with the Supreme Being/Creative Power (religio = reconnection) and meeting the spiritual helper

- Guide participants in connecting with the Supreme Being and allow them to experience protection, guidance and security.

With the invitation to engage in religio, each participant must feel addressed, the believers as well as the agnostics and atheists. For example, “Each and everyone is invited to connect in their very personal way with the Supreme Being, with God, with Allah, with Atman, with the eternal Creative Power, with nothingness or however you, yourself, might refer to this energy or spirit. Everyone feels and knows themselves to be protected, guided and secure in and through this connectedness with the Supreme Being.”

Important because: Those who do not feel addressed may develop an inner resistance, which could manifest in comments such as “What kind of esoteric nonsense is this?!”

If someone does not engage in the religio, this can lead to considerable difficulties during the course of the exercise, such as anxiety or, in the worst case, even a psychosis.

- Allow participants to welcome a spiritual helper.

Addressing different inner senses helps participants to actually perceive their spiritual helper (symbol for the power of the Higher Self). For example, “Perhaps you are not yet able to see the spiritual helper but are instead feeling his or her presence. Or you simply know that they are with you now—you believe in and trust in the presence of this positive force.”

Important because: If only one inner sense, such as seeing, is addressed here, participants might think that they do not have a spiritual helper at their side because they do not ʹseeʹ him or her or them. The encounter with the spiritual helper must therefore be guided—especially for newcomers—by addressing all the inner senses. The sentence “You believe in and trust in the presence of this positive force” is important, since if the participants are not (yet) able to perceive the spiritual helper, they will, nevertheless, and in this way, be guided to believe in and trust in its presence.

With the Trilogos®Method, we work exclusively with the spiritual helper, and by engaging in religio ! Any other inner work without a spiritual helper and without religio can quickly lead to active intervention in the inner dream experience. Tendencies such as egoism, repressions or wishful thinking are thereby strengthened instead of being made conscious and transformed. Only through cooperation with the spiritual helper and in connection with the Supreme Being does a passive-perceptive attitude become possible in such image journeys. And only through this Trilogical attitude can deep valuable realizations and insights happen.

- Do not refer to the spiritual helper as only male; be inclusive.

Important because: Assuming that all spiritual helpers are male would alienate and frustrate those participants who are perceiving a female spiritual helper, and may create an inner resistance on their part. These participants would then feel that they are not being addressed or become afraid that they are on the wrong track.

- Let the participants confidently decide whether the spiritual helper is right for them.

At times, participants may not feel comfortable with their spiritual helper. Such a situation must be remedied because trust in the spiritual helper is indispensable for subsequent work. One solution would be to ask the Higher Guidance for another spiritual helper. This can be expressed as follows: “Should the spiritual helper not be to your liking, for any reason, know that you may ask for another spiritual helper at any time.”

Important because: Sometimes participants are perceiving a spiritual helper with whom they are not comfortable. The helper could be, for example, the participant’s deceased father, who, as a ʹvisitor from the spiritual world,ʹ may only mean well, yet with whom the participant still has some unresolved conflicts. In other cases, a participant may simply be too overwhelmed about an apparition. For this reason, Trilogos trainers should go through the Trilogos basic training, autodidactically, using the textbooks In Touch With Your Inner Voice, Levels 1‒3, and/or complete a Trilogos coaching, allowing them to assist in resolving such conflicts with spiritual helpers who appear. With such assistance, a deceased father could then become a very welcome spiritual helper.

Since a spiritual helper who is perceived as uncomfortable is like an uninvited guest, the offer to ask for another helper must be made during every Trilogos image journey. The responsibility for one’s perceptions and experiences thus lies with the participants. That said, as a Trilogos trainer, it is your responsibility to point out to participants the possibility of asking for another helper.

4th step of the image journey Letting the inner world awaken

- Guide participants in creating a situation in which all of their five inner mediumistic senses are engaged: inner hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and knowing.

Important because: Participants should be able to perceive and experience the inner dreamscape/situation with all their inner senses. When a facilitator solicits one inner sense, such as inner sight, much more than the others, he or she will disadvantage participants with, for example, a more pronounced sense of inner feeling or smell. These participants may then simply perceive ʹnothingʹ and find it difficult to follow the subsequent course of the image journey.

5th step of the image journey Experiencing a surprise or something unexpected

- Invite participants to stay and linger.

Before engaging in psycho-spiritual work, offer participants, especially newcomers, the opportunity to linger: Should the newcomers neither wish to work Trilogically just yet nor become involved in something unexpected, they can simply be passive-active or ʹlinger.ʹ In that case, make them aware that they will nonetheless be picked up by the rest of the group, so that, at the end, everyone will return together to the here and now.

Important because: When beginners, in particular, are not given that opportunity, they can quickly feel pressured to participate in something they don’t really want to do or don’t think they’re capable of doing. The possibility of deciding for oneself must therefore be preserved, according to the motto: “Everyone is and remains the master of their own thoughts and feelings.”

- Tell a story.

An image journey needs a narrative, one that leads to something unex-pected and to the experience thereof. The narrative is partly based on the content of the image journey, to be discussed in Chapter 2.

The following modules should be incorporated into the narrative:

- Encourage participants to adopt a passive-perceptive attitude.

The individual participants should not try to actively intervene in their own experience but rather gratefully accept what they receive. Partici-pants should not spontaneously evaluate whether the experience is pleasant, positive or useful. Possible formulation: “Whatever it is that your spiritual helper now gives/shows/allows you that is inspiring you, accept it gratefully, knowing that it will become increasingly easier for you to adjust all your inner senses to it.”

Important because: Participants should wait and ʹlet it happenʹ instead of actively intervening. They should learn to accept what ʹcomes their wayʹ or ʹfalls upon them. ʹ It is completely unimportant how they judge it at the moment. If possible, participants should refrain from trying to create something ʹbetterʹ when experiencing something they do not like. An example: In a dream, a participant finds an amulet that she does not like, and she feels tempted to imagine a golden ring, for example, that is much more to her liking. Possibly, this person inwardly cherishes the desire to finally get married. Yet the rejection of the amulet and conjuring of the ring triggers a spinning in circles, as this enforces entrenches one’s own desires or fears rather than transforming or transcending them. In other words, active intervention serves to reject and repress, if not make impossible, new and unexpected impulses. Yet these impulses are necessary for the transformation of negative patterns and for indicating that something is ʹwaiting to be dealt withʹ. Perhaps they might even be related to the fulfillment of certain desires, such as marriage.

The failure to honor the passive-perceptive attitude can quickly lead to performance pressure and excessive demands, especially in exercises involving work done for someone else in the exercise group (A‒B exercises). In a psychometry exercise, for example, this might cause participants to feel pressured to perform immediately, in turn raising ʹthe fear of not being able to perceive anything yet againʹ.

However, if the spiritual helper is engaged, thereby activating a passive-perceptive attitude, participants will have an easier time in avoiding or overcoming any pressure to perform or the fear of failure. As a Trilogos trainer, you could formulate this in the following fashion: “We grateful-ly accept whatever it is that our spiritual helper imparts with us concerning the object we hold in our physical hands, as well as concerning its owner. Whatever they are, even when they are only a few, or inconspicuous, impressions, they are just right and important for you and/or the owner of the object, since you’re always working here under the principle of spiritual privacy.” When expressing yourself in this way, you are giving impulses—and the participants can trust that they are given exactly as is right and important for them. In other words, emphasis is placed on an open, passive perception and acceptance of the impulses, in contrast to an active imagining and ideation. The latter would provoke insecurity and doubt in the participants’ own intuitive perception and be undesirable in Trilogos’ image journeys.

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