Learning Love Therapy
A human is a social being and only exists as a comprehensive being within social relationships. We all try to establish and maintain these relationships as best as we can using our knowledge and intuition. But even the best intentions can sometimes lead to a dead-end with no way out. However, even the most complex situations in relationships can be successfully managed.
Learning Love presents a comprehensive approach to establishing fulfilling relationships in our private lives and workplaces. It is founded on several psychological approaches (such as working with your inner child, non-violent communication, and others).
Together with your therapist, you will study your early relationships and traumatic experiences as well as the consequential survival strategies you have developed that negatively affect you and your relationships.
Within the safe relationship you have with your therapist, you will discover these strategies and work through them at your own tempo in order to better understand yourself, feel more empathetic towards yourself and others, and strengthen your faith in yourself and your inner clarity.
The Learning Love Therapy helps you to:
- Become aware and accept the inner wounds you carry that lead to dysfunctional relationship patterns,
- Understand the stories behind these wounds so that you can completely set yourself free from the past,
- Recognize when relationship pain is associated with these wounds,
- Recognize your (dysfunctional) defensive reactions and strategies,
- Learn conscious communication grounded in your own emotions and needs and become empathic to other people’s emotions and needs,
- Learn to set your limits and respect diversity,
- Deepen connectivity, closeness and the flow of love.
Recommended literature – chosen books written by the founders of this approach, Dr. Krishnananda Trobe and Amana Trobe:
- The Learning Love Handbook 1: A Series of Books for Learning the Art of Love and Intimacy: Opening to Vulnerability (2013),
- The Learning Love Handbook 2: Healing Shame and Shock (2014),
- The Learning Love Handbook 3: Living with Passion – Integrating Passion, Love, and Meditation into our Daily Lives (2015),
- When Sex Becomes Intimate: How Sexuality Changes as Your Relationship Deepens (2008),
- Face to Face with Fear: Transforming Fear Into Love (2009),
- From Fantasy Trust to Real Trust: Learning from Our Disappointments and Betrayals (2011),
- Stepping Out of Fear: Breaking Free of Our Pain and Suffering (2013).
Imagine that you are standing in the centre of a large circle divided into three rings. There is an outer ring, a middle ring and a central ring – an inner core. These rings radiate out from you. The outermost ring is called the layer of protection. The second ring is the layer of our wounded vulnerability, the place where we experience fear and shame. Finally, the centre is the core of being, the seat of our essence, a space in which we are in a flow with existence. In the centre, we are in a deep relaxation with life, appreciating our gifts and our uniqueness and no longer feeling the need to struggle. Our journey is not only to rediscover our essential nature, but also to develop a deep compassion and understanding for our wounds and our protection as well.
