Statement from Eirik Balavoine on the framework of the training I have received from him:
All human beings carry in potential form the knowledge necessary to live a joyful, successful, and unique life. A good counsellor has the necessary skills to unravel and guide, advise, and train people towards making that innate knowledge operational.
Counselling other people demands:
- Extensive, long-term multi-faceted work on own life and psyche
- Respect and love of human beings
- Awareness and an ability to focus
- A capacity for non-judgemental, neutral listening
- Ease
- Theoretical and experiential knowledge of how the psyche operates
- Efficient set of skills
- The capacity to cut through when necessary
- Awareness of the fact that a counsellor has never finished learning
Eirik Balavoine
Practicing as a Therapist & Meditation teacher, individually and in groups and retreats
As individual therapist: 36 years (ca. 30,000 hours)
Groups and retreats (ongoing since 1983):
Director and co-founder of Ecole-Etre – a 5-year program training students to become a Professional Transpersonal Therapist, which has run ongoing for 15 years
Men's training: 10 years
International trainings: Norway, France, Venezuela, Morocco, Bhutan
Meditation practice: 40 years
Longest silent retreat: 6 months
