NEW EDITORIAL
BY GENEVIEVE SCHREIER
I was recently fortunate enough to take a solo trip to the west coast of Vancouver Island – the land of ancient cedars and shore pine bogs, long stretching beaches and the mighty Pacific Ocean with its endless horizon and powerful waves. One afternoon on this trip, in a particularly reflective place, I found myself at the ocean’s edge contemplating loss; how it surrounds us, how ubiquitous it is. And how, despite its inevitability, there seems to be so little room, space and permission in our society to feel and grieve our losses, large and small. There is so much pressure to ‘get over it’ or ‘on with it’, to simply adjust, ignore, or focus on the positives, completely eclipsing the crucial role that feeling our losses and missing plays in human adaptation.
There, on the beach that day, the tears came for me in a deluge; at first over a little specific loss, but expanding outwards until I felt as though I was weeping for all that had ever been lost and all that ever would be lost, all at once. There is something about where ocean meets the shore that has always provided the best accompaniment for the melancholy in me. As a teenager I clearly remember gravitating to the beach, unsure exactly why, only to find that, once sitting with those ocean waves, the waves of sadness would also come. For me, the power and vastness of the sea and its saltwater spray seems to beckon my saltwater tears.... TO READ THE REST OF GENEVIEVE'S EDITORIAL, CLICK HERE →
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To hear more from Genevieve on the theme of sadness, scroll down to the Free Resource section below to view the video recording of "Ode to Melancholy", Genevieve's presentation at the 2021 Neufeld Institute Conference. Genevieve will also present a session on a similar theme at our upcoming 2022 Neufeld Institute Conference on May 12-14, 2022 (registration to open soon). |
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What's included with a Scheduled Online Class registration?
In addition to a weekly live class with a Neufeld faculty member, you receive a 4-month study pass (or 8 months for Intensive courses) to our Virtual Campus featuring Dr. Neufeld's video material, discussion forums, study guides, supplementary resources, and much more. Participants view Dr. Neufeld's recorded presentations prior to the scheduled support session with a faculty member.
Class recordings
Not able to attend the live class due to a scheduling conflict? No problem! Classes are recorded so you can catch up later in the week when it works best for you.
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LED BY JULE EPP
THURSDAYS FOR 5 WEEKS
MARCH 10 TO APRIL 7, 2022
9:30 AM TO 10:30 AM PACIFIC
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Play – at least the kind that builds brains, forwards development, and serves our emotions – is becoming an endangered activity among those who need to engage in it most and this includes us as adults. The science of play reveals the mind of Nature and gets to the very heart of the developmental approach. Read the full course outline HERE.
This course is a foundational studies course and also serves as a prerequisite to several more advanced courses with play as the focus.
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EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT - Save 10% on $150 tuition if you register by March 3/22 and use promo code 690004 at the time of registration.
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LED BY LORI ABRAMOWITZ
FRIDAYS FOR 9 WEEKS
APRIL 22 TO JUNE 24, 2022
9:00 AM TO 10:00 AM PACIFIC
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Part III of the Power to Parent series focuses on the typical challenges of parenting. Every child gets stuck from time to time on the road to maturation. Dr. Neufeld helps equip parents to read the signs of a child in trouble, live with a sensitive child, cultivate resilience in a child, lead an alpha child, soften a defended child, discipline a stuck child, and more. Dr. Neufeld offers effective and safe practices that honour and preserve the relationship, even when the problems seem daunting. Read the full course outline HERE.
For this offering only, the prerequisite courses of Power to Parent I: The Vital Connection and Power to Parent II: Helping Children Grow Up are waived. All are welcome!
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EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT – Save 10% on $250 tuition if you register by April 15/22 and use promo code 691004 at the time of registration.
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We have a growing list of resources available in what we call our "seminar format" – filmed lectures or presentations that can be streamed or downloaded without having to access our virtual campus. To view the full list, visit Seminars & Webinars under the Resources menu on our website.
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NEW RELEASE
Session 1 – The NATURE of attachment
Session 2 – The WORK of attachment
Session 3 – The POWER of attachment
Session 4 – The INSTRUMENTS of attachment
Each session is approximately 1.5 hours in length.
A NOTE FROM GORDON:
I expect that some of you may be wondering why I would add yet another course on attachment to the mix. After all, most of the existing courses are saturated with material on attachment and there are at least four courses dedicated to the science of relationship – The Vital Connection, The Attachment Puzzle, Intensive II:The Separation Complex, and Becoming Attached. Besides there are many other presentations available, some even as free resources, such as Relationship Matters and Roots of Attachment. So what does this course have to offer that is unique and would justify taking six hours of one's time to view?
Part of the answer is that the material has aged, hopefully well, with the benefits that are supposed to come with age: not getting lost in the details, cutting to the quick, sensing the simplicity while achieving perspective, and being absolutely wowed with the wonder of it all. Last year was my 50th anniversary as a teacher, theorist and therapist. So it seemed fitting to tackle the ultimate challenge as it were – to articulate a working model of the most profound and powerful drive known to humankind. This model of attachment also holds the answers to how best to conduct oneself - as a person, parent, teacher, therapist - in a world that is coming undone. In many ways, it felt like I was laying down the conceptual foundations for my previous courses. Foundations should be laid first, but this didn't happen because it took me fifty years to get here.
I think I was also motivated by my increasing frustration with the recent proliferation of attachment theories that use esoteric language–making them inaccessible to those who need this knowledge the most–or focus on side issues like attachment types (secure, insecure, etc) that distract from the main dynamics and issues regarding the drive for togetherness.
A large part of my motivation was wanting to put the puzzle pieces together once more, this time with a greater appreciation of the critical role of attachment in survival, the pivotal role of feelings in attachment, and the facilitating role of play in attachment as well as the emotions that serve attachment. These were important missing pieces of the attachment puzzle that took me some time to gather.
I was also motivated I think by a sense of diminishing time to articulate what I see to the widest possible audience. Since attachment is the glue that holds everything together in the universe, I wanted to say things in a way that could reach into every nook and cranny of life. So I hope I have created a course that can be taken home as a parent, that can be taken to school as an educator, that can be taken to one's childhood in reflection, that can be taken to one's marriage as a spouse, that can be taken to the office as a therapist, that can be taken to work as a caregiver or a leader, and that can be taken to oneself to make meaning of one's life.
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REGISTRATION OPENS SOON
Watch for a special announcement coming to your Inbox in March!
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2021 Conference Session Recording
Happiness is easy to yearn for, both for ourselves, and especially, our loved ones. Who doesn't want those they love to be happy? We seek it, strive for it, welcome it—we have even built a multi-million-dollar industry around its pursuit. Yet happiness is but one of many human feelings. By the very same token, its counterpart, sadness, is avoided, escaped, and even feared. By negating sadness and melancholy, are we missing the very key ingredient in the unfolding of human potential? In this presentation, Genevieve will pay tribute to melancholy, making a case for changing our perspective on sadness and enabling us to come alongside this much-maligned feeling—both in our loved ones and in ourselves.
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Click image to watch Ode to Melancholy on YouTube
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