Working with the Porous Mind, Guides and the Soul

Recognising, Releasing and Restoring

Advanced Training | For Therapists Trained in RI-EMDR, RIPT, IFS or Clinical Resource Therapy

Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22, Thursday 23 September 2027 - held in-person Retreat Style Training, One Mile Beach, Port Stephens, NSW (Training Only Package - no accommodation)

Please note - all Seva training participants will receive 15% discount off accommodation booking at Oasis. Before booking accommodation separately, contact us for booking discount code after training registration has been finalised.

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Prerequisite: completion of RI-EMDR Part 1 and Part 2, and/or Relational Integrative Parts Therapy (RIPT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), or Clinical Resource Therapy.

Understanding Fear-Based Energies and Entities

Fear-Based Energies and Entities (FBEs) are not parts of a client's own system. They are foreign presences that have attached to a client's energetic or psychological field, often during a moment of vulnerability, and they don't originate from the client's own protective responses. This distinction matters: an introject is an impression of a person; an FBE is a presence in its own right, with no personal history belonging to the client at all.

FBEs sit along a spectrum. Fear-Based Energies are typically diffuse: sudden overwhelming floods of a single state, sensations with no personal narrative attached, or resistance to parts work that arises from nowhere and doesn't soften with the ordinary tools of curiosity and compassion. Fear-Based Entities have greater form, coherence and apparent intentionality, presenting as a distinct voice, figure or inner presence that feels clearly other, sometimes issuing commands or demands that don't feel like any part of the client's own system.

Guides and Soul Work

This territory holds two connected pieces of work. The first is Soul Retrieval, restoring a lost part of the client's own essence to where it belongs. The second is Passage Work, supporting a Lost Soul or Lost Spirit, a presence that is not the client's own, toward its own passage onward. Both are held with the same unhurried, compassionate and rigorously assessed clinical stance, drawing on a shamanic soul retrieval lineage stretching through traditions such as those described by Sandra Ingerman and William Baldwin, adapted into our own clinical language.

Lost Souls carry something like personhood: a sense of who they were, what they experienced, and why they remain. Lost Spirits are more diffuse, disincarnate presences without clear personhood or story, sometimes unaware of where or what they are. In cult and ritual abuse contexts, Lost Souls may include others who were harmed within the same perpetrating system, carrying their own unfinished grief into the client's field.

This work also makes space for guides and ancestors, the wise, protective and nurturing presences that can appear within a client's system and be drawn on as genuine resources. Passage Work is never rushed and never forced. It is not exorcism. There is no drama, no urgency, only the same quality of compassionate, regulated presence held throughout, extended into the spiritual dimension.

What You'll Learn

• The Porous Mind - the biological and clinical basis of Falconer's porous mind versus citadel mind, and what this means for how FBEs can enter a system

• How FBEs Enter - relational proximity, trauma, ancestral transmission, spiritual vulnerability, and deliberate introduction such as in ritual abuse

• Clinical Presentation - recognising sudden flooding, impulses that feel foreign, resistance that seems to come from outside the system, and physical sensations such as heaviness, cold or pressure

• Differential Assessment - distinguishing FBEs from dissociative or programmed parts, psychosis, and spiritual emergence, using a clear, careful assessment process

• The Witnessing Field and Consent - establishing safety, a resourced system, an established Witnessing Field, consent from the client's parts, and appropriate containment

• The Release Sequence - identifying and locating, separation and acknowledgement, invited release, resourcing, grounding and integration

• Cultural and Spiritual Considerations - holding this work with cultural humility and respect for each client's own framework

• Guides and Ancestors - welcoming and working with protective, nurturing presences as genuine resources

• Soul Loss and Soul Retrieval - understanding soul loss as a response to overwhelming experience, and retrieval as restoring a lost part of the client's own essence

• Lost Souls and Lost Spirits - distinguishing the two, including how they can appear in cult and ritual abuse contexts

• Passage Work - a careful, unhurried sequence for supporting a Lost Soul or Lost Spirit toward its own passage onward

What You'll Experience

This is an immersive training experience.

In Person
Held in a beautiful retreat-style location, surrounded by nature:

• Immersive Breathwork

• Sound Healing

• Chef-catered meals

Online

• Sound Healing

Who This Training Is For

This Master Class is suited to therapists who have completed RI-EMDR Part 1 and Part 2, and/or RIPT, IFS, or Clinical Resource Therapy, and are ready to bring this depth of discernment into their work.

RAMCOA Master Class

Working with Survivors of Ritual Abuse, Mind Control and Organised Abuse

Advanced Training | For Trauma-Informed Therapists and Psychologists

Sunday 30, Monday 31, Tuesday 1 June 2027 - held in-person Retreat Style Training, One Mile Beach, Port Stephens, NSW.

Please note - all Seva training participants will receive 15% discount off accommodation booking at Oasis. Before booking accommodation separately, contact us for booking discount code after training registration has been finalised.

Prerequisite: completion of RI-EMDR Part 1 and Part 2, and/or Relational Integrative Parts Therapy (RIPT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), or Clinical Resource Therapy.

Understanding RAMCOA

RAMCOA is an umbrella term encompassing Ritual Abuse, Mind Control and Organised Abuse: forms of severe, systematic trauma inflicted through deliberate programming and control techniques. This type of abuse is characterised by its organised, intentional nature, often involving multiple perpetrators working within structured groups or networks. Ritual abuse may include ceremonies or repeated practices designed to terrorise and control, while mind control involves sophisticated techniques to fragment consciousness, install programmed responses, and create internal systems that serve the perpetrators' purposes. Organised abuse refers to abuse perpetrated by multiple people acting in concert, whether within families, institutions, trafficking networks, or other organised structures such as Defence.

Survivors of RAMCOA typically present with complex dissociative disorders, as the systematic nature of the abuse deliberately creates and exploits dissociation as a survival mechanism. This intentional fragmentation and programming is what distinguishes RAMCOA from other forms of complex trauma, and it is why working with survivors calls for specialised knowledge, careful pacing, and robust safety planning.

What You'll Learn

• Understanding RAMCOA - recognising the organised, intentional nature of ritual abuse, mind control and organised abuse, and how it differs from other forms of complex trauma

• Programmed Parts and Internal Triggers - understanding how perpetrators may use torture, drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation and spiritual manipulation to create parts with specific functions, and to install triggers and access codes that can maintain control even after a survivor has physically escaped

• Working with Complex Dissociation - developing the specialised knowledge and careful pacing needed to work safely with dissociative presentations and complex part systems

• Safety Planning and Pacing - building robust safety planning, appropriate therapeutic boundaries, and collaborative practice with other professionals where needed

• Honouring the Protective Function of All Parts - a trauma-informed, parts-aware approach that honours the protective function of all parts, even those that may initially seem aligned with perpetrators

• Supporting Disclosure and Internal Trust - helping parts understand they are no longer under perpetrator control, and navigating the internal conflicts and mechanisms designed to prevent healing or disclosure

What You'll Experience

This is an immersive training.

In Person
Held in a beautiful retreat-style location, surrounded by nature:

• Immersive Breathwork

• Sound Healing

• Chef-catered meals

Online

• Sound Healing

Who This Training Is For

This Master Class is suited to trauma-informed therapists who have trained in RI-EMDR Part 1 and Part 2, or RIPT, or other parts modalities such as IFS or Clinical Resource Therapy, and are ready to deepen their capacity to work safely and compassionately with RAMCOA survivors.