• Find out about your mental blocks
• Discover what stops you from bonding with others
• Dealing with trauma
• Regaining self-esteem
• Rebuilding inner strength after a burn-out

• Finding your way out of mental problems
• Overcoming anxieties
• Balancing feelings and mind
• Dealing with restlessness and sleeping disorder
• Handling tension and stress

Meet your paradoxes!

You love somebody,
yet you also hate this person

You want to accept your own limitations,
at the same time you take on every task.

You think that you have the courage to do something,
but ultimately you cop out.

You want to build a strong social network,
but you are afraid to stand out.

You want to give responsibility to others,
yet every time you find yourself checking on them

“Balance mind & feeling:
A perfect symbol of no duality – that is, of Oneness”

Questions to yourself

Do you consider yourself important?

Do you want to take yourself seriously?

Do you really want to change?

Or, are you just adjusting to the wishes others?

Why can’t you change, whilst you really want to?

Do you repeatedly relapse into old behaviour?

“ To be non–dualistic, all of this part of the unity that is one.
We cannot say, it is here – It is not here.”

Method

Principles of Jungian analytical psychology.

C.G. Jung found that every human being has great powers hidden in the unconscious part of his psyche. As long as you are not aware of these powers, they will affect your feelings, emotions and behaviour in an uncontrolled and often unwanted way. This can be quite contrary to your conscious desires. The paradox that this creates can become a source of stress: You want to behave in a certain way, however unconsciously you act in the opposite way.

Obviously, the unconscious part of your psyche cannot be accessed through cognitive thinking. That is why Jung and his successors developed an approach that bypasses cognitive thought, which is often referred to as ‘active imagination’ (though other names are also used).

The Jungian approach can be divided into three phases:

Insight. Primarily, you work on gaining insight into your unconscious drivers, hidden convictions, shadows and belief systems. We will use different techniques such as hypnosis, active imagination, dream interpretation and the analysis of drawings. Your responses to the therapist’s initial questions and probes during a session and the spontaneous flow of that session will decide which of the above approaches we will apply. Sometimes, the individuation game (R.A.P.P.®) is used as a tool to make you aware of your qualities and of the motivators from your unconscious archetypes. The goal is to discover the true root of your psychological baggage and why this is so.

Acceptance. In this phase we will work on your acceptance of the discoveries that you have made during the insight phase. Before you can change them, first you have to accept that these unconscious drivers, hidden convictions, shadows and belief systems are a part of you. This phase will lead to a reorientation of your consciousness, a discharge of suppressed feelings and a new balance between your ability to cope and the issues that you are challenged to cope with.

Integration. Finally, you will make contact with all the elements that, together, make up ‘you’. The awareness that has now been created at a deeper level will allow you to be the ‘director’ of your own life: you have gained control over the way in which you deal with all that crosses your path and over your growth as an individual.

Fetus in the womb. Oil painting by Nathalia Moonen

Coaching

Uncover Your Strengths.

Coaching helps you to shift perceptions and thus change the way you (inter-)act. You will learn to become aware of the impact you have on people around you and of your mental and emotional bagage. Among others, working on this with the help of a Jungian coach will enable you to:

• Discover your own strengths and qualities
• Learn to make choices and to say ‘no’
• Balance the influence of rational thought on your behaviour with that of feelings
• Relate better to yourself and to others,
• Balance your urge to be ‘in control’ with your desire let go.
• Discover what is your own responsibility, and what are its limits.

Therapy

Be the director of your life.

Analytical therapy supports you to identify, acknowledge and change -or discard- psychological blocks. It goes beyond coaching.

This type of therapy aims to directly approach the experiences and feelings that caused these blocks in the first place. For this, a range of ’techniques’ such as hypnosis, active imagination, interpretation of dreams and the analysis of drawings can be used.

Sometimes, we use the individuation game (R.A.P.P.®) as a tool to make you aware of your qualities and of the drivers from your unconscious mind. Some of the issues that you and the therapist may be working on are:

• Getting in touch with your feelings
• Rebuilding your inner strength (e.g. after burn-out)
• Regaining self-esteem
• Deciding what it is that you really want to do and what not

Create Different Outcomes.

Working as a team can sometimes be difficult because the team members are unaware how their actions and interactions are influenced by differences in their perception of ‘reality’ and how each individual may impact the others. Hidden expectations and patterns of action and reaction between team members can easily become ingrained and get in the way of effective collaboration. Creating a shared awareness and common ‘language’ is therefore a key to successful teamwork. Paradox Motion has developed a unique approach to achieve this.

We build a bespoke program to address the development needs and circumstances of any particular team. At the same time, all our training programs follow four key principles: