Writings

Trusting the Process as a group facilitator
Scott Engler Scott Engler

Trusting the Process as a group facilitator

Working with a group, and with someone taking their turn during a retreat, there is always the intelligence of the field at play. Each person in their turn naturally invokes the energetic field of their experience. In addition, the group has its own collective field. The dynamics of this field are important for those of us studying healing in the context of a “surround”. My job as facilitator is to sit in this field, to open to it, to get to know it and trust the dynamics that show up here.

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A Solo Practice We Can Do From Home
Scott Engler Scott Engler

A Solo Practice We Can Do From Home

When working alone or especially at this time observing our “shelter in place” restrictions, it can be easy to loose an embodied sense of ourselves. This can lead to disorientation in the nervous system and the increased sense of activation. We may notice more shallow breathing, the increased feeling of a pounding heart, narrowed vision, maybe the sense of feeling trapped with few choices.

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