JOURNEY PROCESS - ADULTS (18 YEARS AND OVER)

Your Journey therapist will always adapt your Journey process to your individual needs. Your issue is unique and personal to you. Your Journey therapist will listen carefully to what you tell them and then design your Journey process around your specific circumstance. For even more detail about having a Journey process go to the FAQs page on this website.

There are in fact many different types of Journey process you could have including the Physical, Emotional and Life Purpose processes - also processes for Pain Control, Belief Change and Phobia Cure - as well as some techniques known as the Vow Change and Six-Step Reframe.

The length of a Journey process varies according to the client and the Journey therapist. On average, a full Journey process takes between 90 and 150 minutes and a first session takes around 3 hours.

The session begins with meeting your Journey therapist, relaxing and talking about your issue before you begin. There will be ample time to ask questions and get prepared for the Journey process itself. At the start of the Journey process you close your eyes. The Journey therapist slowly guides you through a unique set of therapeutic instructions which include:

Drop-through
This stage involves integrating suppressed emotion. You will be asked to check in with your body and name the emotion you are experiencing in relation to your issue. Then you will investigate what is in the core of that emotion and continue down through the emotions that continue to appear until you move into a new, very positive place which Journey therapists call Source. The drop-through hinges on neither continuing to push down the emotion nor expressing it extremely and being taken over by it. Instead the aim is to move through the centre of the emotion, past it, to a deeper level where its energy is reclaimed and the emotion is completely dissolved.

Eliciting a memory
This stage involves returning to an event in the past where you had a certain experience which lies at the root of your present issue. Your Journey therapist takes you to this time and can help you to locate it via numerous special techniques. You simply identify the event and briefly describe it, then quickly move on to the next stage in your Journey process. Eliciting a memory enables you to change and re-programme it later during the Journey process.

Campfire
This stage involves speaking from the place in your body where you feel any emotion, to the people most concerned both with your issue and the memory you have elicited. For the fullest extent of healing to occur, you must first empty out all the words that need to be said from that place. Again your Journey therapist possesses many techniques in order to assist you in doing this as far as you are able. After having said everything that you want to say, you then forgive the people concerned including yourself. In its entirety the campfire enables you to move on from the time in the past where your issue began and to completely disengage and transform the emotion attached to it.

Reprogramming the memory
This stage involves breathing in specific qualities and named resources, if you had possessed them, which would have helped you at the time of the memory you elicited earlier. This enables you to effectively re-write the memory of what happened to you in the past, such that your experience and the way you react to it in the present, changes.

Future pace
This stage involves directly experiencing the feeling of the new, integrated "you" at key points in time, in the future. This enables you to concretise the healing effects of the Journey process and start creating a new future now.

At the end of the Journey process, your Journey therapist slowly brings you back to the room and asks you how you feel. They will offer you a drink or soup and then give advice about what to do next in order to maximise the healing effects of your Journey process over the next few days and weeks.

All Journey processes with adults are fully confidential, unless your Journey therapist has reason to believe you have committed a very serious criminal offence which has gone unreported. In this case, your Journey therapist is duty-bound by law to contact the police. You are assured of complete confidentiality however, in the case that you have been reported for, or convicted of, any criminal offence. In this situation it is strongly recommended that you mention past criminal offences as these may have a bearing on the issue you wish to work with.

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