Stuck in unhealthy patterns with the people in your life?
Join renowned therapist Diederik Wolsak for a special online session on his radical approach to relationship renewal.
Many are familiar with Choose Again’s Six Steps to Freedom Process, but even long-term practitioners have questions about how to apply the process in their everyday lives, especially in relationships.
We often hear questions and comments such as:
Does healing mean I stay in an abusive marriage?
Does my partner have to know this work in order for me to heal?
What do I do about chronic mistrust or jealousy issues?
Do I need to tell my partner if I’ve had an affair?
I love my adult children, but being in quarantine together is NOT EASY!
My aging parent calls me all the time, and I feel so guilty that I am avoiding them.
My co-workers drive me crazy; I didn’t choose this relationship! What can I do?
My co-worker sends me passive aggressive emails and criticizes me in front of the boss. I have no idea how to respond to this.
Bring your particular questions and quandaries to a safe space of profound healing. Learn to clarify and articulate the purpose of all your relationships, and how to realize that purpose together.
Note: This event will be recorded and shared publicly.
This seminar will be followed by weekend workshops and 4-week intensives for individuals, couples, and families seeking relationship healing; led by senior CA facilitators.
About Diederik Wolsak, RPC MPCP
Diederik is the founder and program director of Choose Again. Diederik’s journey started in 1942 on the island of Java, Indonesia. He spent the first three years of his life in Japanese concentration camps. Many of his core beliefs were developed during that early, potentially traumatic phase. At age 8 he was sent to a foster home in Holland and by the time he rejoined his parents and brothers two years later he was filled with self-hatred and fear of the world around him. This self-hatred, fear and guilt translated into prolonged alcohol and drug abuse till finally at age 50 he reached that point where he realized that there had to be a better way or there would be no point in continuing. While his self-hatred drove him to be a successful businessman and international athlete, it allowed him little joy.
Following the fork in the road where something had to change, Diederik entered upon a spiritual path of deep healing. This path eventually led to a fulfilling career as counsellor in private practice. He is a masterful therapist. Every client recognizes immediately that they are being trained to become independent of their counsellor, that they are worthy of respect and that they have their own answers. Diederik is there to assist in finding and removing all blocks to happiness and peace in a most gentle and loving way. Clients also sense that Diederik has been in many of the dark places they see in themselves; he has personal knowledge of deep depression and substance abuse. He has personal experience of what they are going through and has largely transformed his life. However, he will be the first to tell you: “I am a work in progress.”
Diederik is the founder and program director of the Choose Again Attitudinal Healing Centre. He is the lead facilitator of both the Vancouver and Costa Rica arms of the organization. He is an international workshop leader, public speaker and relationship counsellor with years of experience in group facilitation. He has worked with many couples, families, and work colleagues over the years to help them bring more harmony into their relationships.
Diederik on relationships
Diederik describes relationships as a "laboratory for healing". We see ourselves reflected in other people, and project the parts of ourselves that we don't like onto those closest to us. These reflections and projections can be used to inform our healing process, and move us into a state of Love that can be freely given and received.
Donations for our webinar series
We welcome donations in support of our webinar series. Your donations will help us to keep offering low-cost high-quality therapeutic events online.
This series will include our four-week intensives in both European and North American time zones, focused weekend workshops and live webinars with our founder, Diederik Wolsak. Over the coming months we will offer a series of programs to strengthen and heal these relationships - with our friends, our families, our colleagues and most importantly, with ourselves.