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SUMMARY:Holotropic Series: The Psyche's Greatest Hits - The Grof COEX / online webinar experience
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250423T200000
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LOCATION:Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
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The Grof COEX
Why your inner playlist keeps skipping to track 5 Some memories are like songs—you don’t know all the words, but your whole body remembers the chorus. 

In this session, we delve into COEX systems—short for Systems of Condensed Experience—a foundational concept in Stan Grof’s cartography of the psyche. These are the deep, emotionally charged patterns that link memories and impressions across different times in our lives, often without our conscious awareness. They’re layered, thematic, and occasionally dramatic—like the psyche’s version of a greatest hits album that keeps pressing repeat. 

You’ll discover how COEX systems live in the unconscious, shaping perception, emotion, and behaviour—until something (say, breathwork) cracks the surface and gives us a glimpse of what’s looping underneath. We’ll explore how these systems arise and unravel in non-ordinary states of consciousness, and why Holotropic Breathwork is particularly well-suited for working with them—not through talk, but through experience. 

This session includes a blend of Grofian theory, real-world examples, and facilitator reflections from the field. It’ll be an illuminating look into the terrain you (or those you support) may be moving through in deep process work. 

Expect a few ah-ha’s, and a much deeper understanding of why certain emotional themes just keep coming back—until they’re ready to move.

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The Holotropic Series: Psyche Snacks for Holotropic Hungry 

What actually happens when we access non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC)? And why does it so often feel like the body knows the way, long before the mind catches up? 

The Holotropic Series is a collection of bite-sized webinars exploring the fascinating terrain of Holotropic and Grof Breathwork (and psychedelic therapy?) and the revolutionary cartography of the psyche developed by Dr. Stanislav Grof—psychiatrist, LSD researcher, and quite possibly the Carl Jung of expanded states. 

Whether you're completely new to this work or you've already hyperventilated your way into the cosmos and back, this series offers intelligent, experiential, and surprisingly down-to-earth insights into what makes Grof’s approach to NOSC so unique. We explore the principles, patterns, and poetic messiness of the deep psyche: from COEX systems to neurogenic tremors, energetic yawns, and the mysterious intelligence that moves us in non-ordinary states. 

This isn’t therapy as you know it—it’s a reunion with your inner healer on its own terms. You’ll also meet some of the trusted facilitators, peers and fellow travellers who are bringing this work to life across the UK and Europe—each with their own unique lens on the mapless territory of expanded states.
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