The History Of Events Psychology
The Background Behind Events Psychology
by Dr Silvia Hartmann 2009
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Where has Events Psychology
come from?
Where do the core concepts originate?
And which other patterns have played a part in the development of Events
Psychology?
At the very heart of all of my designs lies the
Harmony Program.
This came to me in a true visionary event in 1993, revealed the existence of
energy exchanges between people and the Universe around them in a flash, and
changed my viewpoint on just about everything in a heartbeat.
One of the core concepts of the Harmony Program involves the understanding
that in order to evolve any system, you need to give it what it needs in
order to evolve.
This is in stark contrast to the strange human propensity to try and evolve
systems through things they don't need, don't want, and particularly by
withholding essential nutrients (as would be the case in withholding food
and attention from a crying baby so it should grow up “strong in mind and
body”).
Since 1993, I have therefore looked at systems and asked myself, what does
this system need? What is this system DIRECTLY ASKING FOR? And what happens
if you give the system what it needs, instead of giving it something else,
or nothing at all?
This led to some true breakthrough patterns and techniques across the board;
most notably to the basics of the
EmoTrance
Client/Practitioner dance, where the helper gets to give the help they
want to give, the client gets to receive the help they want to receive, and
both try to give the systems what THEY need and are asking for in order to
heal, change and evolve them.
The Harmony Program is also responsible for the aspects of Events Psychology
that revolve around the concept of there being
NO HIERARCHY in natural systems. There can be no proud lion without
lowly worms, microbes, and plants; a heart isn't better or higher than a
stomach, a brain or a leg and in general, hierarchical thinking makes no
sense whatsoever when we are dealing with natural systems such as exist in
the human mind, body and spirit (energy
system).
The absence of hierarchy in natural systems is also directly responsible for
the basic processes of
Project Sanctuary
(1996), essentially a research device to re-connect the conscious mind with
the energy mind
(previously known as the subconscious or unconscious mind). When neither
“mind” has a hierarchical position of dominance or submission, but both work
together on the daily business of information processing, sorting and
storing, things actually start to evolve, and people's thinking becomes much
clearer and more encompassing.
Project Sanctuary also brought with it the concept of
the threshold shifts – change
EVENTS that
re-organise the entire system to a new level of functioning. At first, these
threshold shifts appeared randomly as the original researchers worked with
Project Sanctuary; then it became apparent that if one plays the game IN
ORDER TO ACHIEVE threshold shifts, a lot more and better threshold shifts
were available, and faster, too.
Project Sanctuary deals with all manner of internally stored material
(“memories”) in a global and non-hierarchical fashion, using the same
approaches and structures regardless of whether one works with a dream, a
real memory, a construct, a fantasy, a vision or any of the many other
manifestations of data held in the mind of a single person.
As it soon became apparent that there is only one “right” way of dealing
with the challenges of all these materials, namely to move an individual
into the direction of health, better functioning, problem resolution, it
also became apparent that the methods and techniques to achieve these
movements towards systemic health were structural and global across the
board as well.
It was during these investigations that it became clear that ALL human mind
manifestations and memories, actions, thoughts and behaviours were actually
extremely logical and always had a cause and effect. That was a significant
breakthrough in understanding and opened the door for much further
explorations without the fear of insanity or systems breakdown.
In 1993 also, I began the study of NLP and General Semantics, and also
hypnosis. Particularly pin point hypnosis, which is designed to go directly
to the genesis event of a problem, was fascinating to me and added more data
to the theory that people's minds indeed worked in a very predictable, cause
and effect fashion.
With the study of General Semantics particularly also came an understanding
of the problems of the language of metaphor, and the intrapersonal nature of
symbol making and language development in human beings. This was once again
addressed through Project Sanctuary, which is a tool for a single person to
explore their intrapersonal domains and to begin to understand their own
symbology and
metaphor, which is highly ideosyncratic and a knowledge of which is if
not exactly necessary, then at least extremely helpful in high end personal
development endeavours.
In 1998, I began to experiment with a new modality from the world of
Energy Psychology,
namely EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques. Over the course of the following
five years, and working with literally innumerable people as a practitioner,
as a trainer, as a public demonstrator and as an advisor on self help
procedures, it became abundantly clear how trauma events work, and how the
road into the trauma event (so that its effects may be alleviated) was quite
literally blocked by any number of gatekeepers that would derail and side
track the attempt to reach the event itself if one didn't pay careful
attention and keep the session, the self and the client on track firmly.
In working with EFT, the notion of human beings having an
energy body became
quite real; and in 2002, I took this model, developed it further and created
EmoTrance, essentially a
research device to test the assumption that all human
emotions originate in the
energy body, are feedback devices to the existing conditions in the energy
body, and may be changed easily and readily by the application of attention.
As a research device, EmoTrance functioned so well, and produced such
surprisingly positive results, that it soon became a therapy form in its own
right.
What was particularly interesting about EmoTrance was that when the energy
body was being treated directly and this treatment was successful, people
would often experience a radical and powerful shift that was way beyond
symptom cessation or “finding peace” - we called this phenomena “the
energized end state”, where people were literally dancing with joy and
had changed their minds about the problem absolutely, and the problem never
came back at all after that had happened.
Around the same time, the continuing research and work with EFT produced a
very important breakthrough insight – namely that people's problems were not
all due to trauma, but that a hugely important driver for behaviour, thought
and action lay in POSITIVE events a person had experienced. This was
documented in the “Guiding Stars” paper from 2002 and it radically changed
the way we began to think about how people work across their life times, how
they choose the things they do, as a major missing building block in
existing psychology.
Here now were four manifestations that all caused or rather embodied CHANGE
in a human system – the trauma from psychology and/or pinpoint hypnotherapy,
the Guiding Stars from EFT treatments, the threshold shifts from Project
Sanctuary, and the energized end state experiences of the EmoTrance
practitioners and clients.
And so there came the day when it became clear that all these change events
are just that – EVENTS.
All these change events have the same structure, work in the same way, and
thus, Events Psychology was created.
Every component from Events Psychology from start to finish has already been
tried and tested through quite literally hundreds of thousands of people who
have used the components in Hypnotherapy, EFT, EmoTrance and Project
Sanctuary to create change to event memories, and to create new events of
change and healing.
In Events Psychology, these components and learnings have been put together
to give a theoretical framework to how people work that is sound, sensible,
and easy to understand.
Still it took all these many people, and two decades of dedicated research
to make this design that we now call Events Psychology, and present it in
such a way that it safe to use with clients and in self help.
The “parents” of Events Psychology are still very much in evidence all
through the theory and practice of working with events, remedially or
otherwise.
General Semantics lives on in the phrasings of the questions, the language
of Events Psychology and the true understanding of the INTRAPERSONAL nature
of human experience.
Hypnotherapy lives on in the search for the genesis event, and the practice
of directing the attitude of consciousness so that new and different
learnings and experiences may be had.
EFT lives on in the acknowledgment and detection of the stress blocks that
lie on the path the conscious mind has to travel to go any given event; and
to make the sessions safe, easy, gentle and without fear.
EmoTrance lives on in Events Psychology through the
client practitioner dance, through the structural understanding of
emotions, and the highly systemic way the treatment proceeds from the
problem statement, to the change event becoming manifest and REAL.
Project Sanctuary exists in the creation of the Events Models, and in the
methods used to make events memories become real, and fully interactive,
thus being able to enrich these memories beyond what was possible before.
And most of all, the Harmony Program is alive and carrying all of Events
Psychology, in its absolute faith and trust in the natural order of things
that is at the heart and core of every system designed by the Creative
Order; in the love and admiration that opens the door to experiencing events
in the first place; in the rejection of artificial hierarchies and anything
else for that matter which may place a barrier between a person and their
experience of the real Universe in which they live; and most of all, in that
all important message that you can only evolve a system to the next level if
you give it what it seeks, what it needs, and what it wants.
Dr Silvia Hartmann
June 2009
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