Communicate, present it, to your partner

Be open to whatever arises in your consciousness as a result of doing so

Speak up audibly, in English if possible, or in your own language. Stay in eye contact with your partner.

Again at the end of 5 minutes you will hear the gong, with the instruction to “Thank your partner … change over.” Then thank them, let go of whatever you were just in the middle of communicating and ask them the koan.

And again be totally available, listening, receiving their communication, like an empty mirror, very present.

Each time you take the koan inside, be fresh, new, in this moment … don’t go on automatic.

At the completion of each session with this partner you will be told to “Thank your partner … close your eyes … hold the koan.”

A short time is given to first clean up the space you were sitting – then move your body and energy, go to the toilet, have a drink of water, etc.

Find a new partner when instructed, and use a different space each session.

Sometimes there will be no partner but you will do this technique with a mirror, with the wall. Then you can ask yourself the koan and communicate, out loud, and continuously to the mirror or the wall.

If you need anything, or any help, raise your hand. Do not get up – someone will come to you.

Stay in the structure – it will carry you – and if for whatever reason you feel you cannot continue, come first and connect with the staff. Don’t leave without completing with the facilitator.

The facilitator is available for ‘interviews’ – individual talks. You can ask for it if you feel in need of direction or support – and when you have realized “who is in”. Sometimes you will be invited.

GUIDELINES FOR THE FACILITATOR

In an Awareness Intensive the course leader is there as a facilitator or coordinator, not as a therapist. In this role the facilitator creates a space for the Awareness Intensive to happen.

· Be familiar with Osho's insights.

· Dynamic, Kundalini and other active meditations are part of an Awareness Intensive.

· Give yourself space and time to tune into the people there in front of you.

· Create a safe environment and help people to feel safe in the process.

· Create an atmosphere of presence, no judgment and allowance.

· Be centered, holding the structure, and encouraging with participants.

· If sometimes your judgments or irritations get focused on a participant, bring your energy back to the hara. Remain open and available – facilitating!

Reminders to give the participants:

· An Awareness Intensive requires focus and intention.

· Bring your total energy to the process, be total in your participation.

· As the communicating partner go on communicating – continuously and as thoughts, emotions, body sensations arise keep expressing them using your voice, gestures and body movement.

• Communicate everything, no adding, editing or censoring.

· It is not about reporting what you are finding, rather be it.

· Be aware of story telling, stay in the now.

· Do not relate to your partner. It is not a dialogue, don’t use the word “you” to your partner. Avoid nodding and smiling.

• Listen neutrally; stay within your own space without responding in any way. Be like an "empty mirror". Be present for your partner.

· There is no need for interaction in the process; you are doing it for yourself.

· Do not interfere into another persons process (e.g. “Shut up!”)

· If you feel sleepy, you can stand up. If the partner gets up, you get up! Use your voice a bit more and your breath.

· Mind will often try to interpret what is going on in a negative way, but something deeper may be happening that the mind can't understand.

· How do you know it is sleep or tiredness? Go behind that label, e.g. it could be boredom, or anger, etc., and make that an object of your communication. Use it. Often it is a negative judgment. This is actually only a problem if you are rejecting what is happening.

· Mind cannot understand meditation or direct experience and tends to doubt or question it.

• Keep on going deeper.
• When you have found who is in, come and present who is in.
• Accept what comes and communicate it – traffic or silence.

· Trust the process, it is scientific.

INTERVIEWS

Best attitude for the facilitator: care, availability, respect, openness, not-knowing.

First and foremost: Check technique precisely, are they doing the technique: taking the koan inside / intention / openness / communication … and find out where and if the person is missing a step.

Check the balance of their time spent on intent/experience and communication time.

Always find a way to validate the participant’s experience.

Always encourage to keep going, go deeper.

Validate realization when you are clear they are in it … and

As facilitator you can’t know, you don’t need to know.

When a participant does have a realization, it is important to communicate to their partner, to you, this grounds them deeper into the realization.

FACILITATOR TALKS

Best attitude: support, encouragement, appreciation, humor / lightness

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