Transformational Program
Make A Commitment To Change Your Life
Participation in the Philadelphia Pathwork Region Transformation Program (affectionately known as "TP") is a life-changing experience. This ten month program is an immersion into the unparalleled wisdom and spiritual practices in the Pathwork lectures and an opportunity to go deeply into those hidden places where true change can take place with a trusted band of travelers and an experienced guide.
Students create an intimate environment in which they are supported by each other, the teacher and the lectures to explore their deepest feelings, fears and flaws, and identify their gifts. Our program focuses on building healthy egos to deal with the world while simultaneously powerfully strengthening the connections to the divine consciousness within. As a community of helpers and workers, we collectively have had many different therapeutic, healing, spiritual and growth-oriented experiences. We believe there is nothing like the Pathwork to go to the root of worldly and spiritual problems and use them as doorways into a new understanding of reality and ourselves. You will come away with a new experience of the sweetness of life, your own power and your own connection to the greater reality.
Time and commitment of self and resources are keys to changing your life. The full transformation program consists of 10 months of group meetings, one required weekend residential intensive and a minimum of 16 individual helper sessions during the 10-month period. The group meeting (usually one full weekend day a month) consists of lecture study, experiential exercises and emotional process work based on the Pathwork Guide Lectures. TP participants progress over a five-year period working through a step-wise, cumulative curriculum constructed to provide the self-awareness and skill base to move through the various stages of the human spiritual journey.
You may commit on a yearly basis, but most participants stay for the full five years of growth and self-development. Prior to undertaking such a commitment, applicatnts need to have a reality-based idea of what this spiritual path entails. For that reason, there are two prerequisites for joining the Transformation Program. It is important that you are comfortable and familiar with the way we work with the lectures, both individually and in a group context. Therefore, we require that you have at least three individual sessions with a helper of your choice as well as attend at least one Pathwork group event (e.g., lecture study, one-day workshop). A listing of helpers is available on this site, and upcoming TP prerequisite programs are among those listed on the Workshops page.
The overall cost for the Transformation Program varies depending upon helper fees which currently range from $80-$135 an hour. Tuition for the group portion of the program is $1200 for the year, usually paid in 10 monthly installments of $120 a month. Weekend Residential Intensives cost $395, which includes program, lodging and meals. Membership in the Philadelphia Pathwork Region, which ranges from $50-$150, is also required.
TP Year 1: Developing a Healthy Adult Ego
Know and be able to access your Ego, Child Consciousness and Divine Consciousness and be able to benefit from the dialogue and reeducation process as outlined most specifically in Pathwork Guide Lecture # 182: The Process of Meditation. Begin to develop or strengthen your observing ego. Learn what an image is, uncover your own personal images and how those images affect your life.
TP Year 2: Overcoming Negativity
Know the concepts of Negativity, Negative Intentionality, Negative Pleasure and Positive Intentionality. Be able to apply them to your life and feel them in your body. You will strengthen your connection to your Higher Self and positive egos and begin to sense how to hold your balance when working with your negative aspects.
TP Year 3: Relationships
Begin to understand the dynamics of relationhship: how each person's defenses and negativites, honesty and positive choices contribute to the whole. Open to choosing love and truth. Begin to explore your sexuality in relationship to your spritiuality and life.
TP Year 4: Surrender
Experience your creativity. Know the true source of pleasure, wholeness and inspiration and begin to open to those streamings from the universe. Begin to understand and practice the surrender of the ego to the real self and Real Self. Understand what it means to be Undefended and commit to it.
TP Year 5: Manifestation
We will be offering our first TP Year 5: Creation/Manifestation, to all interested TP graduates, from September 2005 - June 2006.
First Fridays
First Fridays is a free program offered by the Philadelphia Pathwork Region. Every month in different locations anyone interested in learning more about the Pathwork is invited to join us for a two hour gathering where they will learn more about the incredible wisdom of the Guide lectures and how to apply them to their lives.