Last week I spent in the beautiful Carpathian Mountains in Romania taking part in a Training Course Nature for All organised by the Romanian NGO Dreams for Life and co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme. As you can see above it was a perfect environment for the project connected with nature – the wooden wood-fired cabin in the middle of a valley next to a babbling brook 🙂
The aim of the project was to pass the teaching how to take advantage of nature as a tool for self-development. Our activities were based on the idea of wholeness introduced by Carl Gustav Jung with four directions (in simplification) representing four qualities:
our wild and natural part (South)
our generative and nurturing part (North)
our wisdom and tricking part (East)
our dark and creative part (West)
It was quite a challenge for me because although I am familiar with similar contepts (eg the Process Oriented Psychology by Arnold Mindell) I am more into academic approach to psychology than the spiritual one. During this week we were discovering our four parts, fasting, having prayers, participating in the Way of Council and solo time in the mountains, having a Soul Theatre etc.
It wouldn’t be compete if I didn’t mention the short sigtseeing in Cluj-Napoca I had with the other Polish participant Marysia. The most rekarkable moment for me was the visit to one of the most important religiuos buildings in Cluj. Although taking photos was not allowed I managed to take some pictures discreetly:
The atmosphere in the Orthodox Catedral made a great impression, hope the next time I will have more time in Romania to see the capitol as well 🙂