Description

Intelligence relies specifically on our ability to observe, to be curious and to relate information to each other. We inherit or develop these skills in the context of the family, where we are formed in our early years. Then follows the influence of the school through its teachers.

What do we inherit? In this context, the most striking legacy is the list of things we learn to notice – what comes to our attention – how far we are allowed to be curious and how we connect the information we gather. Moreover, family secrets, the name chosen (from the family tree), traumas related to losses in family history, family history in general, are those that have an overwhelming influence in the growth and development of our intelligence.

What is the connection? Anything that is forgotten, unspoken, bypassed, forbidden, becomes a space that our mind is forced to bypass, therefore not to use, and our intelligence develops rather linearly and not using the whole database in us. This largely prevents the systemic development of thinking, which is what gives intelligence its true value.

In this workshop you will learn how to use information from your family history, the unresolved things your ancestors did, to function on the next level of intelligence. The theme is developed based on findings with clients with whom we have worked on transgenerational themes, with the development of systemic thinking being a later observed outcome.

Facilitator Description:

Cristina Schmidt is an associate professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest, psychotherapist, coach and trainer, Co-chair International Committee of the American Association for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. In her international career, Cristina Schmidt has delivered university and public courses in USA, Indonesia, Italy, Turkey, Jordan and Egypt. Together with Daniela Damian, she founded the Institute for Transgenerational Psychotherapy and Psychogenealogy and the International Center for Psychogenealogy, center where she created the first comprehensive training program for professionals in Transgenerational Psychotherapy and the first study group dedicated to professionals involved in transgenerational work.

Her motto in life is “In a world where you can be anything, choose to be good.”