The Humaniversity: Transformational Therapy

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Participants Experiences

"At the Humaniversity, they have a great respect for individuality, and do not impose their beliefs on their students. Rather, they encourage you to find what is right and true for you."

When you join their most famous program, the fourteen-day Tourist Program, you get a new name, which may last for the whole two weeks, or change every day, depending on your progress. I was given five names in all. This method allows you to experience parts of yourself that you may have forgotten or denied. For instance, if you have always been "nice", and felt angry many times, you may be given a name that encourages you to act out the other side. If you are lacking in self esteem, you will get a name to encourage your confidence, such as "I am Beautiful" or "Turn-on", etc.

My experience of the program was at times ecstatic, horrifying and enlightening. I was able to feel angry, sad, happy, scared and fantastic, and express these emotions without judgement. Feelings are dealt with in the moment, rather than slowly ploughed through with a therapist once or twice a week.

I think what makes Humaniversity Therapy so successful is that you are encouraged to live it all with people who welcome aliveness rather than trying to control or deny it in you. This helps you to become at home in yourself and with others.

The Tourist Program can help you become a confident, happy human being, understanding your own unique potential. The rest, as they say, is up to you!

(Alexis Brown)

In the Tourist Program there were so many playful ways of looking at myself, such new and unexpected surprises. I know about many therapeutic programs, but they are definitely not the same! Having your own disco-bar, studio and coffee shop as a supporting act for a therapeutic process is something I have never seen anywhere else, not to mention the Tantra Temple.

I was not very good at expressing myself in the beginning, especially feeling the way I did, but the meditations and the sessions were a great help. I was unloading all kinds of negative emotions for at least a week. Being a therapist myself, and trained in dealing with the personal problems of others, I knew it was a classic case of "not taking care of myself". My belly was full of emotions about my sex life, my responsibilities, my pain and anything else that is human.

The support I got here made me aware of myself and helped me to look at myself in an easy and fun way. There was the time I was called "Pimp, " and had to dress up accordingly. Another assignment was to be in silence, carrying a sign that said: "All I Am Is My Ego". That gave me a lot to look at!

It occurs to me how quickly the program got me to myself. All the stuff I was carrying with me didn't take months and months of therapy to work through. In other therapeutic programs I know of, it takes a long time to get a person a little bit further. Here, it all goes fast. No time to waste. I worked at cleaning out old pain and creating good feelings about myself at the same time.

I was able to look at my sexuality by being in a safe and beautiful Tantra session, having dates, asking and being asked, without my so-called "problem" getting in the way.

Out in the world, there must be many more people who can identify with who I am. There must be! They may have the feeling that something is off, that they need something and they are not getting it. I knew I was not getting enough of what I wanted, and I did not ask for it in a direct way. By being here, I learned that again very quickly. I learned how I set up my life and emotions, and how I can choose to change that. By being aware of it, I can go in a different way.

Through the different situations that were created for me, I could see myself growing up. Of course I will never change, but I don't need to go on with the same reactions all the time. I can change my position and, therefore, change my life. That is what I came for, and I got it.

Without love, this would not have been possible. People accepted me, even with my games, and that's love, too. I started loving myself more, and through this, loving others more, allowing them to love me back, not for what I do, but for who I am.

One thing is clear: The Tourist Program works!

(Gyani Geise)

I came to the Humaniversity out of curiosity and to ask for help to sort out my life. I had eating disorders, which means that I would stuff myself with food and then throw it up. BULIMIA. I did it over and over again, everyday, and year after year, twenty-five years of my life, until one day I could not take it anymore.

Here, at the Humaniversity, this behaviour is classified as addiction, more difficult to heal than drug addiction. I know now that Bulimia is a way of avoiding feelings, of suppressing everything forbidden or too much to bear. It helped me to escape the pain deep down in myself - I never realized that to me eating was a substitute for feeling. I ran into the kitchen in a panic without realizing what the panic was about. I always threw everything up again; I did not want to nourish my body that I was so ashamed of.

There are no golden in-between-ways at the Humaniversity. It is a laboratory for your inner side, for your feelings and your most hidden secrets. You are responsible for everything that happens to you. Everything is put out to its utmost, there is no space for compromises. Everything has to be probed into. All consequences of who you are and what you do are exposed. The central point of the program is looking at yourself: to see, recognize, and accept yourself - to learn to be true, straight and honest.

When I came to Egmond aan Zee, I had no idea what I was to face. By now I know a little bit more about myself. I do believe that I have changed. I am learning not to be a victim of my past. I don't mindfuck as much as I used to. I feel my journey of discovering the secrets of life has started.

For five months, I have not been eating compulsively and throwing up anymore. I allow myself to feel instead. I allow feelings of anger and fear, sadness and love. Finally, I feel what life is about: Love is the answer. I do not want to run away from love anymore.

(Kari Paues)

After a few days and nights, I am losing my sense of time. We have done a marathon, and together we move from meditations, emotional release sessions, brunches, lunches, Boozerias, theater, sauna, dating and hugging. I am not sure if it is Tuesday or Thursday anymore. Something is happening to me, I am not tired anymore and I am enjoying myself.

I have fallen into a kind of go-for-it space, not knowing what will happen next, and I am noticing whatever I put my heart into nourishes me. I could say that I am becoming a meditator.

My first impression of the Humaniversity and the Tourist Program was a crazy, wild, busy and super active place. In a Zen-like way I am seeing myself clearly reflected all over the place, in what I do, and in my meetings with other people. I am aware, open and trusting, and on unexpected moments, like watching the goldfish in the pond or drinking sekt in the Boozeria, I appreciate my inner silence and brightness. I have fallen in love with so many people here that I am falling in love with myself.

The Tourist Program is a basic part of Humaniversity Therapy. We come to you from every approach, we call your behaviour, your authority trips, we open you up with Bio-energetics, Primal, Encounter, meditations, Martial Arts, sharings, sexuality awareness, theater and love and laughter.

I love working with the Tourists, because it is a chance for me to share what I learned here that gave me balance and ground. I witness little miracles in front of my eyes every day. As people clean out their old pains and repressed anger in emotional release sessions, take risks and make close connections in the Tourist family, amazing healing happens. I see people's faces literally change.

Sexual problems are very common, and it turns me on to encourage people to meet, try it out and share until they become younger, fun-filled and orgasmic again. The goal is friendship.

One of the main tools is the family structure. It is rare to have blood relatives in the program, but by living together night and day you are bound to become intimate. You can often get irritated, irrationally hurt or angry by small daily life situations. By using the sessions to express the feelings, and taking risks to be honest and straight, love happens, trust develops and healing begins.

Week by week I meet people who often arrive isolated, undernourished or unhappy and bored, sometimes with serious problems. After a few days of being thrown into a family experience, and many different therapeutic structures, they already look different: more alive and alert.

It always touches my heart to listen to people share their hidden secrets, guilty, painful and shocking experiences, and seeing them open up and let go. Sometimes we laugh till we cry as daily incidents are recalled and talked about. The days are packed with excitement and fun.

The program has a family as well as an individual focus. As a Tourist you get a new name, for example "Tarzan", "Richard Gere", "Hamster" or "Wild and Sexy". Then there are different "assignments", little tasks you personally get to complete. This can be anything you like or need, for instance, to give a speech at dinner time, to get a hundred hugs a day, approach someone who attracts you, collect gossip. . . The possibilities are endless.

Osho said, "Laughter in its purest form is a dance of all your energies. " In the Tourist Program that is certainly true. We support your energy to get strong, to vibrate, to laugh, to love and to go beyond your limitations.

If you are unhappy, living under your potential, you are welcome to come and let go of the heaviness in your history and find your wings again. If you are satisfied with yourself, you are welcome too. Come and expand with us.

( Lucy Cornish)