TransRelational Alchemy: transforming self through relational reflection.

At the core of TransRelational Alchemy is an ethos: that all of life exists within, and through, relationships - those with others, with ourselves, with our history/identity/sociocultural origin, and with the experiences of life itself.

If we existed in isolation, the struggles of human experience would lose potency.

Instead, it is within our relational responses, behaviors, and attitudes that a rich stream of information, and transformation, lies.

Another core philosophy at the heart of TransRelational Alchemy is the notion that an energy (behavior, thought, characteristic, pattern, sensation, emotion etc.) can be transformed through the core tenets of:

• contemplation

• investigation (inquiry/examination)

• being with

Importantly, encapsulated here is the notion of metabolism and harmonization through the observation and presence with the experience, NOT through efforting to change the experience.

Alchemy is the process of harnessing the natural properties of elements and allowing them to transform one another into different states.

This is the nature of TransRelational Alchemy: by ‘being with’ your reality in specific orientations of presence, the natural harmonization of forces can occur (thus: transforming your reality organically through its existing and innate pressures).

The foundational tools of TransRelational Alchemy are the Somatic Experiencing™ and Somatic Psychology frameworks.

These approaches see expressions of a person’s reality (behavior, thought, action, sensation, emotion) through different channels of awareness. They allow for the emergent energy that arises through the body to determine the direction and pace of change, and they are exceptional tools for elucidating someone’s whole relational reality (the known, and the subtle invisible elements), and allowing them to transform.

Now well-known, TransRelational Alchemy utilizes Parts Work as a means of mental understanding for our human experience - and a tool for working with meaning making, and transformational processes that require depersonalization (distance) and objective perception. We also utilize the inner child models. and the language of protectors and managers, to assist with the cognitive exploration of identity and relating.

Another tool for generating perception changes within relationships, Gestalt techniques are utilized to generate spatial and practical separation facilitating deeper exploration of, in particular, familial and ancestral dynamics.

Tools for self-awareness and self-exploration, our team are world experts (and veterans) of the Human Design and Gene Keys world. We use these systems as and when needed to dovetail into deeper processes - they facilitate deeper self-reflection, and can allow for forgiveness and understanding within the relationship to the self. Without utilizing these as ‘predictive’ or ‘excusing’ systems, we guide our clients in the optimal way to interface with these systems in their journey to deeper relationship with self and the greater whole.

TransRelational existence also contemplates and works with the notion of place within the larger community, and creation itself. TransRelational Alchemy does not promote one belief system (or religion), but instead supports the alchemical interaction of any faith-based practice or belief within your life.