Willem Lammers’s newsletter #6, 2021.
In this Edition:
- Online workshop: Logosynthesis & the Body
- Online workshop: Create! How to move from ideas into action.
- Energy in Flow: Logosynthesis #1 Basic Principle
- Introducing: Discover Logosynthesis®
- Interview: Dr. Lammers explains Logosynthesis
- Master Practitioner Online: Application until June 30.
- Logosynthesis Summer Academy
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An Online Workshop with Dr. Willem Lammers
May 10, May 31, June 21, 2021, 16:00-18:00 CET (Zurich, Rome, Paris)
Registration Deadline Sunday, May 2, 2021
The Theme
When relationships are working well, they offer a deep level of joy, fulfillment, and satisfaction. Your life energy flows freely, and you feel like walking on a path of trust. If the flow of energy in your most important relationships is slowed down or blocked, this can have serious consequences for all areas of life.
The Context
Recently several people joined our Logosynthesis Facebook group because they have experienced traumatic events and haven’t found a solution to cope with the effects from these events. I’ve written this post to summarize the Logosynthesis take at trauma.
Treating trauma is rarely easy. When memories of violence, sexual abuse, and neglect come to the surface, often after many years of repression and amnesia, people often go through weeks or even months of horror of ever new aspects in memories of a painful past.
The subconscious mind tends to hide disturbing memories as a protection against being overwhelmed. That’s a good solution because it allows the person to study, start a profession, engage in couple relationships, and become a member of society. That makes it possible to belong to others and the world without being disturbed by the memory of the traumatic events. However, this comes with a price: the loss of emotional and physical intimacy. Instead, closeness is created through mechanisms of second-order dissociation.
The person does their best to be perfect, to work hard, to achieve, to help others, or to shine brightly. That strategy brings a lot of respect, even admiration, but something is missing as soon as the lights are out or the shift is over, and you’re never strong enough, good enough, perfect enough. Shame, guilt, anger, emptiness, fears, and depression are signs that something else is going on.
When long hidden events finally reach the surface of the person’s awareness, it may look as if this is a coincidence. A divorce, a job loss, an illness, an accident, or moving to a new place can all lead to the realization that something is terribly wrong with the person. Another reason can be that the body isn’t strong enough anymore to continue to fight down the painful memories.
Often disturbing memories show up after a person enters therapy. The safe space of the consultancy room and the empathetic presence of an experienced professional create an environment in which it’s possible to come out of hiding. For the client the memories can appear unexpectedly because they came into therapy for a different reason. Sometimes the client becomes angry at the therapist because they get “worse” instead of feeling better.
In the healing environment of the working alliance, the Logosynthesis sentences support the processing of the traumatic memories, one after the other, slice by slice, resolving painful images, voices, smells, tastes, and the whole array of body sensations associated with them. The experience that distinct traumatic events can be neutralized and don’t need to be addressed again and again, restores the confidence that healing is possible, and that there is a future after a painful past.
Once clients, as well as therapists, have learned that traumatic memories are nothing but frozen energy patterns, and that the energy bound in them can be freed, processing can become a kind of routine. The client is taught to use the sentences of the Logosynthesis Basic Procedure on their own, and bring an issue into the session if it needs to be handled within the safe environment of the therapeutic relationship.
In the session it’s necessary to activate memories, just for a few minutes, to initiate the processing through the sentences, but it’s not necessary, even counterproductive, if therapist and client descend into hell together and stay there for an hour. For many clients it’s an enormous relief that Logosynthesis work doesn’t need hours of exposure to the pain. Once the pain becomes active, the sentences are offered, and that’s it—often three or four layers within one session.
For therapists this is often something to get used to. Before I discovered energy psychology and Logosynthesis, I spent thousands of hours with clients, and in these sessions I couldn’t do much more than inviting my clients to share the horror of their lives and then stay with them through thick and thin. From my own experience as a client, I also know that that works, that the presence of a person who is seeing me, listening to me, who is touched by my story, is healing in itself, but I have wished many times it wouldn’t hurt so much.
I finally discovered that everything is energy, that energy can be frozen in patterns, and that the energy of words, spoken quietly from a loving intention, can resolve those patterns, that it can free your energy to live a life of love and meaning. That discovery changed my life, and I’m happy to share it every single day.
On August 31, the new online training program to become a Master Practitioner in Logosynthesis® will start. If you’re certified by LIA as a Practitioner in Logosynthesis®, or if you have submitted your Practitioner paper, you are eligible to participate. In case you missed it, here’s the announcement in the newsletter for Practitioners.
This article on Logosynthesis and physical symptoms has been taken from my books Phrases to Freedom. It has been updated by Raya Williams. The first page is readable online, and you can download the whole article as a .pdf file.
Here you find an article on Logosynthesis and Relationships as a preparation for the online workshop in May and June.
The article is a .pdf of which you can read the first page online.
Dr. Willem Lammers will offer a new three-session workshop on Logosynthesis & Relationships on May, 10, May 31, and June 21.
This article provides some food for thought about the theme of the workshop:
An online workshop with Dr. Willem Lammers
February 11, 2021, 16:00-17:30 CET (Zurich, Vienna, Berlin)
Registration will close on Sunday, February 7, 18:00 CET.
What is the theme?
“Are you under stress?” my sister-in-law asked when I entered her house and was surprised when I said “No”. This was apparently unusual. Stress is on everyone’s lips, even if everyone understands it differently. The same goes for burnout. The meaning of this term fluctuates in everyday life between fatigue and clinical depression. Regardless of the definitions of the terms, it is a problem for many people. It is high time for clarification and, more importantly, a way out of the patterns that lead to stress and burnout.
What does the program look like?
This one and a half hour online workshop consists of three parts:
- We start with an introduction to the theme, criteria for a healthy approach to challenges and the signs of stress that can lead to burnout. This part also invites you to reflect on your own stress level.
- We then turn to one of the most important sources of stress and burnout: the workplace. We examine what oppresses and threatens people in organisations and how organisations can help people cope with this stress. We also identify beliefs that undermine the resilience of employees and managers.
- The last part of the workshop offers you the opportunity to eliminate one or two of these limiting beliefs and to increase your resilience by applying Logosynthesis. Because you will be given a link to a video recording after the workshop, you can repeat this exercise as many times as you like afterwards, thus constantly improving your handling of stress.
How will we work?
This workshop consists of a presentation on stress and burnout and exercises on how to deal with the topic. Depending on the size of the group and the time available, there will be room for discussion – in chat or via microphone.
Who leads the workshop?
Dr. Willem Lammers, TSTA, is a psychologist, psychotherapist and coach for individuals and organizations. For many years he has led the ias, a leading training institute for field of work related counseling in Switzerland. Since the beginning of his professional development, Willem has worked at the boundaries of body, mind and soul. He is trained in bioenergetics, transactional analysis, hypnotherapy, NLP and energy psychology. He is an experienced lecturer and trainer. In 2005 he discovered the principles of Logosynthesis and since then he has continuously developed and made the model accessible.
Who is invited?
This workshop is open to all who are interested in a healthy approach to stress and burnout. However, it is worthwhile if you are familiar with the basics of Logosynthesis, because you are in training, have worked with a practitioner, from training seminars or from books about Logosynthesis. If you have any questions about participating in this workshop, you can contact us through the contact form on this website. In preparation, we recommend “The Little Book of Logosynthesis®” by Dr. Willem Lammers.
How is the workshop organized?
Technology
We work with the video conferencing service Zoom. You will need a (free) account, as well as an app for your IOS or Android device or a plugin for your browser.
Please use a headset instead of the microphones and speakers built into your device to reduce interference as much as possible. A standard headset that comes with your cell phone is sufficient. With the confirmation of participation we will send you a link to connect to the workshop. The workshop will be recorded on video and you will receive a link to download the recording.
Date and time
February 11, 2021, 16:00-17:30 CET (Zurich, Paris, Vienna). The connection will open at 15:45.
Fee and registration
The cost for this 90-minute session is CHF29 (about €27 or $32).
You register by paying the course fee in Swiss Francs via this PayPal link. with the note “Stressworkshop 2021.” A confirmation will be sent to the email address associated with your Paypal account.