Our Courses in India
With the Association for Holistic Biography Work in IndiaIn 2021, the Training Program in India is conducted online.
Comprehensive Learning Packs are supplemented by online guided group-work in real-time.
The following Modules are offered in 2021:
Trials and Thresholds
Mission and Meaning
Mental Health Crisis
In 2022, the final Module of the Training is offered:
3 Ways of Learning
See details below.
Contact
- Sandhya Durai
Sandhya.durai@gmail.com
Association for Holistic Biography Work in India - See also our accredited Tutors for individual assistance
Trials and Thresholds
Awakening to initiation through life.
Reflecting on Peak, Abyss & Transition experiences.
Group-work: 17 – 21 March, 2021
Mission and Meaning
Life as a spiritual journey.
Supporting the Self in search for meaning.
Group-work: 14 – 18 July, 2021
Mental Health Crisis
Biography work in learning, coaching & therapeutic settings.
Understanding the spiritual structure of human frailty.
Group-work: 22 – 26 September, 2021
3 Ways of Learning
Learning for life, learning from life, initiation through life.
Designing effective learning processes.
Group-work: 9 – 13 February, 2022
Online Biography Gathering 2020
The Association for Holistic Biography Work in India hosted the 1st Virtual Biography Gathering online for 4 days in November. Each online session lasted for 4 hours, and featured 3 presentations.
Contributions were received from colleagues world-wide, and covered a interesting range of topic. The Gathering was beautifully hosted by the Association, and there is interest in another online Gathering in 2021. Participants were present from 15 countries, including: India, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, USA, Egypt, Hungary, Netherlands and Brazil.
One of the goals of the Gathering was to support the development of Biography Work in the Asia-Pacific region, and the Gathering was clearly successful in doing this.
One of the joys of the Gathering was to hear directly from Gudrun Burkhard, who we think of as the ‚mother‘ of Biography Work. She sent a message updating her own biography and summarising some of her thoughts about the essentials of Biography Work.
See the Association’s website for more information: www.holisticbiography.com
History
In 2009, two women in sarees attended the bi-annual World-Wide Biography Conference at Emerson College, UK. They came on behalf of the Anthroposophical Medical Society in India, looking for trainers to run a Biography Training in India. Following their invitation, Marah Evans and Karl-Heinz Finke conducted the first Indian Biography Training from 2011 to 2015 in Hyderabad and Bangalore. A second training cycle took place in Bangalore 2016-2018.
Karl-Heinz Finke is now (2019-2022) supervising the third Indian training cycle, run as a Residential course in Bangalore until beginning of 2020, and then online, whilst mentoring graduates of the former training cycles.
In June 2019, 4 graduates (now colleagues) came to Hungary for a special meeting with representatives of the International Trainers Forum (ITF), and then attended the World-Wide Biography Conference. Our Indian colleagues have formed the Association for Holistic Biography Work, which is supporting the ongoing training and professional development of Biography Consultants in India. They had planned to host a regional Biography Gathering with an excursion for participants to Tiruvannamalai and Auroville, but this became impossible due to the pandemic.
Instead, in November 2020, they organised a Virtual Gathering available to participants world-wide. There are hopes for future Gatherings, Virtual and within India.
In 2021, the Training Program continues online, supervised by Karl-Heinz Finke. From mid-2022, our colleagues in India will take over the Training Program in India.
Holistic Biography Work Training in Bangalore/Online
Course Overview
The 3-year Course in Holistic Biography Work is running from February 2019 to February 2022,
under the auspices of the Indian Association for Holistic Biography Work.
Supervisor: Karl-Heinz Finke
Foundation Courses
Take charge of your life. Apply the resources of Holistic Biography Work.
Foundation Courses are conducted in India by graduates of the Holistic Biography Training.
Please check the website of the Association for dates.
Foundation Course participation is mandatory for joining the Training in Holistic Biography Work.
A 3-year Online Training Program begins in 2021. It is most comfortable for the Asia-Pacific region time-zones, but has participants from around the world.
Prerequisite for joining is completion of the Foundation Course. A Learning Pack for the Foundation Course is available. Guided Group-work is available before the next intake into the Training at the end of 2021. Email us if you are interested: mail@holisticbiographywork.com.
Parts 1 to 3
All modules include Preparatory Reading and Training Components:
- Project description
- Project presentation
- Peer Intervision
Part 1: Biographical Keys
Developing individual awareness
Annual Project
Biographical Interview
- Module 1-1: Typologies
Understanding Self & Others
Exploring Temperaments, Soul Types;, Qualities, Rhythms & Cycles in life. - Module 1-2: Helping Conversations
Deep listening & empathy in encounter.
Practising 3 levels & 7 qualities in helping conversations. - Module 1-3: Destiny Learning
Learning from life.
Identifying karmic keys & destiny events.
Dates to be determined.
Part 2: Life Encounters
Developing social awareness
Annual Project
Biographical Analysis
- Module 2-1
Individual & Community
Wed 05/02–Sun 09/02/2020 - Module 2-2
Meeting Conflict
Wed 23/09–Sun 27/09/2020 - Module 2-3
Trials & Thresholds
Wed 17/03–Sun 21/03/2021
Part 3: Guidance and Self-guidance
Developing spiritual awareness
Annual Project
Biographical Study
- Module 3-1
Mission & Meaning
Wed 14/07–Sun 18/07/2021 - Module 3-2
Mental Health Crisis
Wed 22/09 – Sun 26/09/2021 - Module 3-3
3 ways of Learning
Wed 09/02 – Sun 13/02/2022