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The third year of IKH is deeply exciting as students begin to integrate various parts of the first two years’ teachings into a new whole and are guided in using this foundational understanding to then explore the world of healing. In this year, we explore applications of diverse paradigms, ranging from ancient Egyptian thought to recent advances in quantum physics. We continue an advanced exploration of the theory, principles and truths of Kabbalistic thought, and students gain more experience of the nondual nature of reality. Our perspective of Ultimate Reality or God-consciousness is opened and deepened.
A main focus of this year is learning seven profound healings that relate to the Etz Chayyim, or Tree of Life. Students study the sephirot of the Tree by learning to embody the qualities of these sacred vessels or doorways to the presence of divinity. As we come to practice, understand and eventually master each of these healings, and as we experience the roles of both healer and healee, the Integrated Kabbalistic Healings usher in profound shifts and changes in our personal lives and consciousness, changes we could not have imagined or perhaps even understood before. As we deepen into these healings, we gain confidence that we will be able to assist others in making similar shifts.
The third year also introduces us to the diagnostic process, which forms the core method of understanding and assessing our clients. Unlike most diagnostic schemas, the IKH diagnostic process is based on our ability to see our clients in all their complexity, rather than reducing them to their symptoms in order to characterize them. Through practice in dyads and small groups, we learn that when we are receptive to all forms of information, the holographic nature of the universe is revealed, so that both client and healer are healed. At this level of training we are now practicing IKH healings in the world and receiving professional supervision.
The third year fulfills the promise of deep personal transformation that was implicit in the beginning of the training. In Year Three the transformation is explicit and unfolded. Palpable, visible and sometimes dramatic, this transformation occurs on all levels of our being. We have a more accurate understanding of our own issues and our own transference, and we more clearly know where our work lies on the path ahead.
By the end of the third year and graduation, we are very different than we were when we entered the room on the first day of
training. Moreover, our understanding of the nature of reality has undergone a similarly alchemical shift.
