LEARNING GOALS
LEARNING PROGRAM
INSTRUCTIONAL PHILOSOPHY
TRADITIONAL RECOVERY SUPPORT

The Basic Learning Goals For Peaceful Living Of The Mangrove Seed Program Are Creating inner peace by augmenting personal fear with trust Recovering and maintaining a balanced S(s)elf by releasing resentments and fears Learning to share inner peace with other S(s)elves through compassionate behvavior Developing social cooperation instead of competitive individual behavior Accepting and giving Genuine Caring

The Program Of The Mangrove Seed Is Holistic And Practical The learning program of the Mangrove Seed Institute stresses practical discussion and conscious application of an expanded and integrated holistic approach to emotional and spiritual transformation.

The Mangrove Seed Institute offers a new model and disciplined process based upon a paradigm shift from fear-based to trusting attitudes and behaviors. This movement from fear to trust is facilitated by a conscious, in the present moment, detachment from psychological past resentments and future fear projections based on past pain/dis-ease in life.

Through weekly group conversations, weekend workshops, and special retreats /conferences one learns how to develop a daily process of balanced “coping consciousness.”

The experiential support process stresses personal accountability and creating safe spaces for intimate sharing as a way of emotional healing. Healing is simply learning how to accept and give unconditional love in every present moment of daily living.

The Mangrove Seed journey of peaceful living
is uniquely designed for someone acutely feelin

• personal anxiety and stress in daily living
• social / family / work separations and relationship conflicts
• spiritual disconnection and lack of grounding

  	The Mangrove Seed Institute Offers Courses and Conferences A Holistic Path, Process, And Practice

This “body” of content and experiential exercises can be imagined as the material form that surrounds a three-phase, nine-action structural “spinal column” as its core.

The educational curriculum is designed to appeal to three different levels of ADULT development on the journey of recovering a balanced S(s)elf. The levels differ only in the depth of discussion and allow persons at similar levels of psycho-spiritual growth to support each other.

THREE LEVELS OF CUSTOMIZED COURSES ARE OFFERED Level one is a 1 DAY WORKSHOP Level two is 2 DAY WORKSHOP Level three is a 5 DAY WORKSHOP.

 

This S(s)ELF BALANCING PROGRAM™ can be completed in a choice of three workshop formats depending upon the development level of participants

TUITION FEES FOR EACH COURSE

LEVEL 1 . . . 1 DAY WORKSHOP . . . $1000

LEVEL 2 . . . 2 DAY WORKSHOP . . . $2000

LEVEL 3 . . . 5 DAY WORKSHOP . . . $5000

ALL Courses are CUSTOM DESIGNED for organizations offering dialogue and practice about psycho-spiritual inner transformation to peaceful living. If your group and/or organization could complement its current programs with the S(s)ELF BALANCING PROGRAM™ CONTACT US

Retreat conferences are periodically sponsored to provide an international gathering for those interested in all aspects of peaceful living.

In summary, the holistic program of the Mangrove Seed Institute balances the critically separate, but related psychological and spiritual paths in daily living. The journey home not only replaces fear with trust, but also promotes an eventual shift away from the addictive illusion of personal control that was formed by a fear-based survival belief system.

We must be willing to build a “peaceful coping consciousness” based on inner S(s)elf trust.

We must learn to re-connect with our

INNATE S(s)elf worth.

From this connection to the source of our wholeness,
we can learn to live without fear of our external environment.

Instructional Philosophy Promotes Tolerant Educational Dialogue And Personal Responsibility The Socratic Way of self discovery never promised to "lead" people to a specific truth. The Mangrove Seed challenges each person to discover and articulate their own unique truth using their own light source.

1. Teachers/facilitators are obtained on both a paid and volunteer basis, from established professionals in holistic wellness. They are chosen especially for their ability and attitude to communicate clearly, to establish a caring and trusting rapport with students, and to provide meaningful experiential learning based on their personal life experiences.

2. The learning center will not attempt to force a change in personal beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors; only the student can attempt to change himself. The center does not attempt to “fix” anyone in any medical, psychological, or spiritual manner; we only support and validate personal choices. Therefore, the Mangrove Seed accepts only those who are consciously honest, open, and willing to engage fully, actively, and seriously while participating in meetings, retreats, and conferences.

3. The Mangrove Seed provides alternative perspectives, knowledge, techniques, and learning experiences that may widen the student’s behavioral choices with regard to coping more consciously with daily living.

4. Personal change/transformation is the direct objective of all instruction, not merely the accumulation of knowledge nor intellectual debate. Teaching stresses experiential learning through direct student and teacher dialogue both in and out of the classroom.

5. The center encourages not only individual stimulation and change, but also the social connection with like-minded people. This evolving support group provides a continuing motivation to maintain personal change and development.

6. The anonymity of all students and confidentiality of all instructional materials and content is critical for privacy, honesty, and trust of the student in all learning situations. Students are not required to divulge pertinent any information that they would consider a violation of personal anonymity.

7. The role of “student-teacher” is reciprocal: students are not only students, but also teachers; and teachers not only teach, but also are students. Non-negative and non-judgmental dialogue is the key requirement for effective experiential learning and transformation.

8. Students can expect to:
a. Gain more holistic knowledge of mind, body, soul, and social peaceful coping practices
b. Integrate old and new practices into a new, daily coping consciousness for balanced daily living
c. Create a new resource support network of like minded recovery people

9. The Mangrove Seed fosters an evolutionary process for coping with daily life that supports the student’s continued AWARENESS of one’s fear-based, rational mind; ENLIGHTENMENT about one’s trust-based, intuitive mind; and EMPOWERMENT to balance the S(s)elf in daily peaceful living

10. The Mangrove Seed firmly believes that the “false” layers of one’s personal identity based upon the psychological past, often very painful for traditional recovery people, can be substantially altered. Furthermore, the Mangrove Seed believes that all fears and expectations regarding the future “possibility” of repeating the actualized “past pain” can be radically modified to foster a peaceful coping with one’s outer environment in any present moment.

11. A most critical aspect of the Mangrove Seed experience is a constant, conscious personal and group attitude and demonstration of personal accountability. Students are expected to take total personal responsibility for the success and outcomes of the learning experience; and, are expected to be highly proactive in their sharing at group meetings.

Returning is a process of simplification that throws off the unnecessary problems of socialization. One gradually peels back the layers and makes one's way back to the unsullied, pure inner person Deng Ming-Dao

The Mangrove Seed Learning Program Facilitates LEARNING TO TRUST ONE BALANCED S(s)ELF by enlarging the use of your intuitive mind and reducing the dominant control of the rational mind MAINTAINING A BALANCED S(s)ELF by clarifying non-peaceful S(s)elf imbalances and continually re-connecting with the intuitive mind for in-the-moment guidance about peaceful behavior ACCEPTING AND GIVING GENUINE CARING by encouraging individual S(s)elf expression with the support of social group cooperation

1. Learning To Trust One New Balanced S(s)elf

The shift not only balances fear with trust, but also promotes a release of the dysfunctional, addictive illusion of personal control in daily living.

The holistic learning program balances the critically separate, but related psychological and spiritual paths to a recover a balanced S(s)elf.

Peaceful living involves using both the rational mind--(s)-- and the intuitive mind--S--in every present moment. The death of the traditional "selfish" ego-mind does not necessarily foster a spiritual life; an enlightenment by a "loving" spiritual mind does not necessarily promote practical daily living.

We need BOTH minds, a balanced S(s)elf, to function with wholeness and peace. We must dance with balanced duality, not singularity.

2. Releasing Dominant Control By The Rational Mind

The essential recovery of trust requires releasing compulsive rational mind control in daily decision making. The recovery of a balanced S(s)elf requires crossing the river of fear on a bridge of trust. Some aspect of "the crossing" is always happening in daily life. New opportunities for personal transformation are presented with every breath of our life.

The rational, fear-based mind searches incessantly, expecting to find certainty in life and conquer inherent human fears of death. However, the ever-changing flow of life demands a complementary search for uncertainty by the intuitive, trust-based mind.

Balancing both quests for "knowing" is the holistic way of peaceful living.

Our responsibility is to consciously envision this journey as a daily "way of life," a way of being in every present moment. The road has no "steps" to climb to reach some destination; the journey is the destination---a constant practice of balancing the survival rational mind with the expressive intuitive mind.

3. Maintaining The Balanced New S(s)elf

S(s)elf acceptance implies a conscious and continuous release/surrender of any mental connection with psychological past and future and a balanced, in the moment, re-connection with the one S(s)elf: BOTH the rational and intuitive minds.

The continual process of "trusting personal S(s)elf acceptance" is the sina qua non for maintaining the new balanced S(s)elf, as well as for the compassionate recognition that this same S(s)elf exists in all other humans.

The Mangrove Seed program of balance does not destroy the rational mind, in favor of the intuitive mind. It complements and nurtures the expression of each of these necessary functions in our daily existence.

We are born in a physical form to learn to express, in a unique way, our "divine spirit", through our intuitive Self. The rational mind constructs a safe environment for the intuitive Self to manifest.

However, in our western culture the rational mind has become too powerful, too dominant in everyday "survival living." This causes us to lose our harmonious inner peace.

This functional, sometimes too dominant, aspect of our "human existence" derails our journey to peaceful living. We often become inhibited by incidental, and often irrelevant, life situation scenarios that take us away from our focus on balanced S(s)elf expression.

Peace must first be developed within the individual. World peace through the internal transformation of inidividuals is difficult, but, it is the only way. H.H. Dali Lama

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	The Mangrove Seed Journey Is Crossing The River Of Fear On A Bridge Of Trust

The essential journey home to a balanced S(s)elf involves crossing the river of fear on a bridge of trust. This process occurs not only on a daily basis, but in every moment when a person is fully conscious of his/her interaction with the outer world.

Some aspect of “the crossing” is always happening in daily life; new opportunities for personal transformation are being presented with every breath of our life.

The responsibility of a person in recovery of a balanced S(s)elf is to envision this journey as a way of life, a way of being in every present moment.

Simply stated, "being in the present moment" means a conscious awareness of BOTH logical thoughts and feelings --an objective and subjective reality. A person must "live in the gap" where chronological time, past and future, momentarily ceases to exist.

What "seems to be real" when interpreted by the rational mind, prone to survival fear, must be challenged and balanced by the intuitive mind, prone to trust UNconditional caring. The rational mind creates a belief system that is too often linked to psychological past memories of pain(resentments) and future expectations(fears) of a re-occurrence of similar "actually experienced past pain."

	The Balance Point of the Mangrove Seed Program Is Present Moment Heart And Mind Awareness

The ultimate “operational imperative” for sustained, long-term recovery from all fear-based compulsive thinking and addictions is to develop the habit of S(s)elf ACCEPTANCE: honoring not only your "imperfect human wholeness," but also that of every other S(s)elf.

Acceptance implies a conscious and continuous surrender of any mental connection with PSYCHOLOGICAL past (resentment) and future (fear) through a balanced re-connection with the S(s)elf in every present moment.

Continual daily practice of the nine principles of the Mangrove Seed learning program for peaceful living will manifest the habit of S(s)elf acceptance. The nine actions are not “steps” to be taken on the journey; they are constant benchmark guidelines for a personal response to the fear-based survival demands of rational mind.

Most importantly, the Mangrove Seed offers only a "how to" plan for peaceful living; you must provide the "what to do" from your personal life situation. You are provided with a skeleton upon which you add your individual flesh and muscle to create an authentic S(s)elf.

You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place you can find yourself is in the now. Relinquish your attachment to past and future and make the now the main focus of your life. It means choosing to dwell in the state of presence rather than time. It means saying yes to what is. Eckhart Tolle

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LEARNING GOALS
LEARNING PROGRAM
INSTRUCTIONAL PHILOSOPHY
TRADITIONAL RECOVERY SUPPORT