MAY 23,2024—MAY 27,2024

The Nature of Being Human is Unit 1 of Pilgrim SoULL - Year 1. This course offers a way for students to step into SoULL material without a full year commitment. In this course students are introduced to a language of human life that includes growth, aging and dying as we do a somatically-oriented overview of human development. Students learn to see spiritual, energetic and physical experience as deeply connected through the human life span and beyond. On its own, this course helps people reorient their ideas of life and death and know themselves as part of nature, not opposed to it. This radically reduces existential anxiety.

The Nature of Being Human is taught in small classes and, like all SoULL material, is both didactic, interactive and highly experiential. It is sometimes taught online (usually late winter) and sometimes in person (late spring in Wisconsin). Wherever we teach it, we support students in linking insights from this class to existing theories within somatic psychology, especially Neo-Reichian ideas.  However this material is powerful and completely accessible for people who are not therapists. Do not think that this course is only for professionals. Never fear. It is for any curious, open-minded adult.

Students are often interested in continuing to complete Units 2 and 3 of Pilgrim SoULL after taking this course. We hope you do this, and will accommodate as space allows in the class. However we encourage people to commit to the full program if they are able to.