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Four practitioners.Six days in Tuscany.One year of inquiry.
For four experienced practitioners who work with people. Six days at Dojo Bianco with four senior perspectives, and a year of continued inquiry through the Practitioner Case Library: cases, recordings and questions to return to.
Seeing before certainty.
An intimate learning group for therapists and healers
There comes a point when more training is not what is needed.
You may know your methods. You may have years of experience. And still, there are places in your work that are difficult to see from inside your own practice. The Learning Group begins there.
This is not a school and not a single methodology. Your own practice becomes the material: the people you cannot quite understand, the interventions you repeatedly make, the moments when you become certain, careful, responsible or unsure, and the practitioner you are becoming.
Seeing before certainty.
The work is not to arrive at the correct interpretation more quickly. It is to notice how we see, what shapes what we see, and what becomes visible when another experienced person looks from somewhere else.
What we explore
Six themes for the year.
The year
One year, with Dojo at its centre.
Cases, recordings and questions, shared across the group to study and return to.
Together in Tuscany, with the horses, the land and four senior perspectives. The centre of the year.
Back in your own practice, you return to the Case Library and notice what has changed.
Four senior perspectives
Four practitioners, one living inquiry.
A psychotherapist, teacher and group facilitator with decades of experience in clinical practice, experiential group work and the development of practitioners. His work reaches beneath technique into the psychological and relational life of the practitioner. A central question in his work is not only what are you doing?, but who are you while you are doing it?
Josef works with breath, embodied awareness and relationship. His attention includes what happens before experience becomes explanation: breathing, contact, distance, rhythm, energy and the movement between people.
A somatic practitioner and coach whose work centres on presence, embodied awareness and direct experience. His work at Dojo extends to the horses, where intention, boundaries, regulation, pressure and relationship become immediately visible.
A neuroscientist, practitioner and former faculty member at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. She is particularly interested in perception: how previous experience shapes prediction, how prediction becomes embodied response, and why insight alone does not necessarily create change.
“It is more important to me that my presence be felt as vital, rather than my interventions be correct.”Michael Mervosh
When the work leaves the room
Another way of observing relationship.
The horses are an important part of the Learning Group. The work takes place on the ground, not as riding and not as a technique to learn, but as another way of observing relationship. With a horse, professional language becomes less useful. Attention, hesitation, pressure, distance, boundaries, intention and regulation become tangible.
Something noticed in a case can be encountered in the body. Something encountered with a horse can return to the consulting room. A conversation can continue at the table.
The Practitioner Case Library
Not an archive of answers. A record of inquiry in motion.
From 10 April 2027, each participant enters the Practitioner Case Library: a private digital home for the group, open throughout the year. It begins with recordings from Michael, Josef, Giulio and Ceren, selected teaching, case material and questions prepared for this group. As the year unfolds, new material is added from the work itself.
See first. Return. Compare. Notice what has changed.
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