Kateryna Kotenko 

Report on keynote speaker Tilke Plateel-Deur at the GIC in the Netherlands August 2024

So, I made it to the Netherlands (barely recovered from the under-Covid, spending eight hours on the Ukrainian-Polish border, but it was worth it).

The Global Inspiration Conference – the thirtieth anniversary – has begun and is ongoing.

Traditionally, I will share something, to the extent of my strength and ability, this and allows me to better structure the experience.

Of course, the first keynote speaker was Tilke Platteel-Deur. If I say that I’ve been quietly waiting for this moment for two years, since we first met in Germany, it might seem strange, but it’s really true.

There are meetings that always live in the heart and by their own fact change the course of life.

Tilke talked about the importance of in-depth training, about basic important things, while speaking YES that lived every word.

That moment when during a performance you laugh, then cry, then laugh again, then cry again – and so many times and the same thing happens to people around, and the heart becomes bigger, bigger, very alive…

The case when incredible love and beauty flow, spread circles across the water, from the stage to the hall, simultaneously encompassing many levels of perception. Actually, she was talking about how she became like this..

Why does in-depth training last for years?

Not because the theory is so big, but because it takes enough time for a profound transformation, to heal the past.

It’s a real human need – to have enough time and space to grow and develop, at a natural pace, without rushing oneself or others – but never stopping…

There is no highway to enlightenment – this is a metaphor, component of the title of the report and at the same time a guiding principle.

The human psyche is extremely complex, and our belief systems and fears are so deeply hidden that continuous training is necessary to develop a truly balanced personality.

(Personally, I perceive each of the stages of development as a jewel in a necklace of life experience, and I really like this experience).

Tilke also stressed: it is desirable that the educational training has more than one trainer, this will allow him not to lose his role of the Great Guru, and therefore not to lose critical perception and the opportunity to learn from students, exchange feedback, and generally to develop more effectively without losing contact with his own live vulnerability during the training stressful situations in training.

Because all of us are honing skills for the rest of our lives, so it is advisable to create the best conditions for it.

And of course, she was talking about the importance of containing energies – different, but primarily sexual.

Life energy at work flows everywhere, including genitals, it’s completely normal, but it’s important to be able to handle it.

Tilke is a reminder that deep work with the client’s breath, energy and body inevitably includes working with the inner child, picking up the appropriate material; each of us was once infants, full of loving energy, thirsty of touch and bodily pleasure.

This is an unusual, radical, and extremely powerful phrase for me: no one and ever in their right mind will have sex with a child or infant – so the same view should be on all manifestations of sexuality from therapist to client. And the responsibility here is on the therapist, completely.

Whatever clients say, they actually seek emotional and psychological support from us rather than any form of sexual attention – it always undermines the foundation of trust and healing.

So therapists should be able to comfortably live their own energy, containing it in a way that it flows freely, but without spreading to the client – and at the same time calmly, understandingly receptive the presence of the right energy in the client, in order not to suppress their personal process, but to contribute to it. And there is no way to learn this in a short time. To be able to adequately deal with the most different energies, and especially sexual, is the basis of the basics of professional ethics.

Thank you all for sharing your states, thoughts, emotions 🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️

It gives a sense of connection and mutual support even after the end of GIC, and it is VERY valuable.

The conference experience was really very intense, for me personally more intense than the previous ones, accordingly, the integration takes longer. I am very grateful for this experience 🙏🏻☀️