Master Class Frequently Asked Questions
FAQs for Participants:
- How do I access the Master Class Resource Center Yahoo Group?
- Where will the next five-day session be held?
- How do I access the Master Class Tele-Class using Skype?
- What are the dates of the five-day sessions?
The Master Class has a "resource center" Yahoo Group.
You are able to post questions, share resources, exchange ideas, recommend books and links to videos and websites, share pictures and files. You will also be able to chat with your fellow participants as a continuation of the co-creation of a "community of practice".
This group has been created uniquely for professional correspondence and professional development.
Group home page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MasterClassTLC
Group email:
MasterClassTLC@yahoogroups.com
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Details for the hotel where the next five-day session will be held, including the group rate and reservation codes, can be found in our global calendar at:
http://www.hedyyumi.com/about/events/upcoming
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To connect to a conference using skype, you can either add the contact "Joinconference" to your contact list, or dial it directly without adding the contact first. You will have to type in the name with your keyboard, and no country designation is required. Once the call is connected, bring up the virtual dial pad to enter your host or guest pin code. While it does depend on your skype version, the button to bring up the virtual dial pad usually looks like a picture of 9 small dots. Once the dial pad is open, you can click on the numbers with your mouse, or use your keyboard. If the system does not seem to understand the dial tone commands, you may need to sign out of skype, and then sign back in and try the call again.
Detailed Instructions: http://YourConferenceLine.com/Skype/
November 6-10, 2011
April 22-26, 2012
November 4-8, 2012
April 21-25, 2013
November 3-7, 2013
April 6-10, 2014
FAQs for Applicants:
- What is The Tikkun Learning Center (TLC)?
- What is the Master Class?
- Who is the Master Class for?
- Who is teaching the Master Class?
- Why should I consider applying for the Master Class?
- What are the dates?
- Wow, three years? That’s a huge commitment of time. Why is the Master Class so long?
- What is included?
- Six five-day in-person gatherings
- Ten two-hour teleconferences with Hedy between sessions
- Access to a private online community space
- Additional teachings that Hedy may choose to offer to the group throughout the time together, based on need, or new learnings that are appropriate for this class.
- 35 CEUs (per 5 day session): TLC is applying for 35 Continuing Education Units for mental health counselors, social workers, family and marriage therapists, and psychologists.
- Program materials
- Mapping the premises of the Relational Paradigm
- Exploring the theoretical, clinical and philosophical implications for welcoming couples into their deepest intimacies
- Exploring couples therapy centered on the meaning and sacredness of the "encounter"
- There are good couples, solid couples and lasting couples. What is a creative couple?
- The role of the couples therapist, and his/her use of self in the therapeutic process
- The process of encouraging couples to discover, welcome, and embrace full aliveness in connection
- Locating the process of change in the “space-between”
- Tracking the intergenerational transmission of trauma and intimate connections
- Exploring the process of accountability and repair in couples
- Welcoming "otherness" and establishing limbic resonance and regulation between partners
- Helping couples learn the language of the "other," thus becoming bi-lingual in order to know how to express emotional intimacy verbally, physically and sexually
- The language of the body and its profound capacity for emotional expressiveness
- Emotional intimacy and sexual intimacy: different, similar, the same?
- The healing process following affairs
- The role of humor
- What is not included?
- What is the tuition?
- Can I apply for a scholarship?
- How many people will be in this Master Class?
- May I bring my partner?
- Are there prerequisites?
- How do I apply?
- Is there an application fee?
- What is the application deadline?
- How will you choose participants?
- When will I hear if I have been accepted?
- What is the cancellation policy?
The Tikkun Learning Center (TLC) is an educational institution founded in November 2010, and dedicated to the training of couples therapists, relationship coaches, and leaders in organizations.
The vision of the center is the creation of a relational world. TLC sees itself as part of an evolutionary movement toward the development of relational maturity on the planet, through the systematic growth of relational intelligence.
At TLC, we present a variety of programs in the art and science of connection, based in the Relational Paradigm, a ground of being that has the view of human beings as essentially "wired" for connection.
Our work is also based on an integrative framework of theoretical, philosophical and psychological principles which combine many relational modalities.
Founder Hedy Schleifer shares:
“From the time I started to work as a young psychotherapist in 1976, interning at a psychiatric clinic in Tel Aviv, Israel, I saw the work I was doing embedded in a much larger frame, with bigger meaning. I had been raised by my parents in the tradition of Tikkun Olam, the healing and repair of the world. My parents miraculously came back from the Holocaust with a strong spirit of aliveness, and a resolve to instill in their children a commitment to work towards a better world. They spoke to me about Tikkun Olam. And it has been my dream to call the work that I do Tikkun, ever since these first years as a new professional mental health worker in Israel.
In 2003, when I started to weave the relational tapestry that has informed my work over the years into an integrative framework, I knew that the name I would give the new trainings I was in the process of designing would be, indeed, Tikkun. I realized then that what I am teaching comes not only from the theories and the philosophies that have inspired me, but also from the experiences of my whole life. Some of the deepest learnings for me have come from the volunteer work I have done with indigent families, with families of soldiers missing in action, with Jews, Christians and Moslems wanting dialogue for a better Middle East, and with fellow breast cancer adventurers. And maybe the most important lessons I have learned come from the 45 years of marriage to my husband Yumi Schleifer.
While Yumi and I continue to do the joint work we started eighteen years ago, teaching couples around the world, TLC will be specifically dedicated to the education of therapists, coaches and organizational leaders. It is intended to create an international cadre of professionals, with a passionate dedication to the increased relational maturity in the world.”
From a new and important juncture in her professional life, TLC founder Hedy Schleifer made the decision to “download” the whole program that has revealed itself to her during the 20 years in which she has conducted a focused clinical laboratory for her work with couples. The Master Class is the educational program which includes everything that Hedy would like to "download.”
The work is called "Encounter-centered Couples Therapy.”
This couples work is a path to the achievement of higher relational intelligence and greater relational maturity.
Hedy:
“My approach to couples work is to visualize it as a path to the achievement of higher relational intelligence and greater relational maturity. Over the 20 years of experience in my clinical laboratory, as well as the 45 years of my personal work in the living laboratory of my own marriage, I have come to a new integration of the fabric of everything "relational" that informs me. It has crystallized into a simple concept of the "three invisible connectors": the Space, the Bridge and the Encounter.
I chose the title “Master Class,” because I want to transmit my work to professional therapists who want to develop and hone their own mastery in couples work.
I also long to have people take up the torch, and become themselves teachers and mentors of the unique discipline that I will be presenting.”
If you apply and are accepted into this program, it is with the understanding that you are willing and ready to take steps at your growth edge as a therapist and as a person, and that you are committed to the evolution of your own relational intelligence and maturity.
It is important that you be interested in revealing your greatest, most vital, and passionate potential as a couples therapist.
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This is a program designed for experienced couples therapists.
Hedy:
"It is my genuine desire to work in a group setting, gathering kindred spirits, who feel called to a path towards relational maturity. This, I believe, is essential to how we will transform our world. If you are seeking to work in-depth in order to grow your own relational maturity, and help others on the road, you will find this Master Class a unique opportunity. Every six months for three years you will give yourself a time of profound spiritual enrichment and professional growth.
To do this work effectively, I must believe that you have the maturity and the willingness to be challenged to examine those areas where ego may undermine your own fullest potential, as well as areas where you may give away your power, or may be less than open to stretch into new behavior.”
The basis for the work in the Master Class is one of honoring the space between us through mutual respect. The potential of the work that you will be doing is dictated not so much by what you do, but by "the field" in which you do it.
It is the depth and integrity of your commitment to be in relationship to yourself, to Hedy as the group’s leader, and to the group of people who will gather and will be sharing a similar desire and intent, that the strength of the program will reveal itself.
Therefore in the journey that the Master Class Participants will be taking together, Hedy will be demanding the highest degree of openness and self-honesty, as you look in the mirror of each other's lives. Participants will work so that they can objectively know themselves, and thereby engage with the couples they are working with from a place of clarity, power and humility.
The intention that Hedy has, is that each of you grows your "presence muscle,” and learns to sustain a deeper presence from your own source. This means taking responsibility throughout each day to maintain a level of presence and attention and intentionality, whether in session or free time, so that the whole time is consecrated to growing your consciousness in connection.
Hedy:
"I also intend for the Master Class to be a way for you to grow your "commitment muscle,” to yourself and to the group.
Just as I see marriage and life partnership as a covenant, I see the commitment to this class as a covenant with yourself to stay the course. The program requires you to open yourself to yourself, to me, and to the group, so that together we are bringing the teaching to every aspect of your life. The program over the three years is meant to facilitate true relational transformation and fundamental change.”
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Hedy Schleifer, MA, founder of TLC, will be teaching the Master Class, and will be deeply involved with all of the participants.
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"Encountered-centered Couples Therapy" is a major step forward in couples therapy and a development of the relational paradigm. It is unique, and is available only through Hedy’s teaching, since it is an integration of her professional and personal evolution as a couples therapist.
Therapists involved with the Master Class will be part of a cadre of professionals who do couples therapy in ground-breaking and incredibly powerful ways.
You should consider applying if you want to reach another growth edge, if you feel drawn to work more deeply with Hedy, and if you believe that this work is integral in healing the world.
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There will be six, five-day gatherings, with all sessions taking place in Miami, Florida.
Dates have been confirmed for the first two sessions as follows: November 6-10, 2011, and April 22-26, 2012.
The other sessions will be timed at approximately six-month intervals. Specific dates and locations to be announced.
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It is indeed a huge commitment. However, Hedy believes that three years is a perfect time span to realize the conscious growth of relational intelligence, and the ripening of relational maturity. It is the amount of time needed to really see tangible results in your personal and professional lives.
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The tuition includes:
The Master Class is intensive and will include the following:
Again, what Hedy wants to do above all is teach you "presence.” She wants to assist you in freeing blocked energy that is embedded in any of your survival patterns, whether semiconscious and/or unconscious.
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The total tuition for the six five-day sessions and the ten telephone meetings is $9,850.
There is a $500 deposit, due upon being accepted into the Master Class.
The balance may be paid in three ways:
One Payment
After having paid the deposit, the balance of $9,350 will be due by July 1, 2011. Payment may be made by check or credit card.
Per-session Payments
After having paid the deposit, the amount for the first session due by July 1, 2011 is $1,636. Payment may be made by check or credit card. Payment for each subsequent session is due 30 days before the session begins. This payment plan has 5% interest built into it.
Monthly Payments
After having paid the deposit, the amount of $285 will be automatically billed to your credit card for 36 months, beginning on July 1, 2011. This payment plan has 10% interest built into it.
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We may be able to offer some financial assistance in extraordinary circumstances. Please fill out the application below, and we will let you know what we might be able to do, if your application is accepted.
MCscholarshipapplication (word)
MCscholarshipapplication (PDF)
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1. You have attended an Adventure In Intimacy or a Getting the Love You Want couples workshop, and/or a Tikkun Training or an Imago Relationship Basic Clinical Training.
2. You have a current couples practice, and feel dedicated to supporting couples in the fullest way you possibly can.
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The applicants for the current Master Class have already been selected.
If you are interested in being considered to participate in a future Master Class please send an email to masterclass@hedyyumi.com.
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If you are interested in being considered to participate in a future Master Class please send an email to masterclass@hedyyumi.com.
Hedy's primary method for choosing the participants, and for considering you for the program, is largely intuitive. She will deeply read what you share in your application. She will listen to her own sense of your readiness and relational maturity. She will also evaluate your commitment to your own journey of relational transformation.
It is also important that the group chosen will work well together, and so Hedy will also be looking at your application with an eye toward your potential contribution to the group dynamics.
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Hedy will be taking January and February to process applications, and thoughtfully consider each applicant. TLC will let you know about your acceptance by March 1, 2011.
CloseCancel 30 days or more prior to the beginning of the program to receive a refund of all monies paid, minus the $500 deposit.
There are no refunds issued for cancellations less than 30 days before the beginning of the program. However, if there is someone on our waiting list, and we can possibly get that person into your place before the start of the program, we will refund your tuition, minus the $500 deposit.
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If any of these answers are unclear or you have a question not covered here, please send your question to MasterClass@HedyYumi.com
