Seminar on self-awareness – a phenomenological approach to symptoms

LECTURE AND CONSTELLATIONS WITH MALTE NELLES IN CLUJ-NAPOCA, DEVELOPER OF THE COUPLE LIFE INTEGRATION PROCESS (CLIP) AND CO-LEADER OF THE NELLES INSTITUTE IN GERMANY

DATE: 26-28 september, 2025

LOCATION: House of Religious Freedom Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca, Bulevardul 21 Decembrie, 14

PROGRAM:

Friday – Saturday 10.00-13.00, 15.00-18.00

Sunday 10.00 – 15.00

In the morning there will be lectures on the seminar topic, and in the afternoon constellations. As the seminar has the character of a course and in practice there will be constellations only in the afternoon, the number of constellations is limited, not all participants will have their own constellation.

PRICE: 350 €
330 € for those who have completed or are currently completing the basic training at Nelles Institut Transylvania.
300 € for those who are completing the advanced training.

Please mind, that these are the prices for people coming from Romania and Hungary. For people coming from other countries, the price is the one for a seminar of Malte Nelles in Berlin.

The number of participants is limited.

After registration, participants will receive a confirmation of registration and further details on how to pay. After registration, the reservation is valid with payment within 3 days. When applying, please provide your billing information. If payment is not made, the space will be freed up for other interested participants.

If you cancel earlier than 3 weeks before the start of the seminar, you will receive a refund of the seminar fee, from which we will deduct a handling fee of 100 lei. In case of cancellation later than 3 weeks before the start of the seminar, half of the seminar fee will be refunded. In case of cancellation within the last 7 days before the start of the seminar, the full price will be withheld.

LANGUAGE OF THE EVENT: English

ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SYMPTOMS:

All therapy starts with symptoms. Those who have symptoms, want to get rid of them. For those who treat them, the aim is to eliminate the symptoms through therapy, but unfortunately they (also) have to reckon with the possibility that they may persist.
Even Sigmund Freud said that nothing is stranger to the ego than the (psychological) symptom. As free-willed beings who decide for themselves and their lives, symptoms seem to us modern humans to be a twist of fate: they thwart the wishes and will of our ‘I’. They take on a life of their own in our souls, bodies and/or social lives. The discrepancy between our desires and symptomatic reality is experienced as pain, suffering and limitation. Since few symptoms, especially emotional and psychosomatic ones, can be cured directly, a creative approach is needed that gives space to their own lives, their inner logic – their psychology. The seminar will introduce symptom constellation, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view.

Within this logical structure, the symptom is seen as a specific subjectivity.
Every symptom therefore has a history, a „from where does it come”, and carries a future, a future orientation, a „to where it takes me”, which manifests itself in the life of the person concerned. It is in the interaction of these life forces that symptomatology does its work in the psyche and the body. Because symptoms are specific, we are called to deal with their language, their expression and sometimes even their messages.

Therapy of symptoms means freeing ourselves from the humanly understandable, hardened attitudes of „You have to go!” or „I hate you!” and becoming part of a creative process within which symptoms can find their truth in our consciousness. For those affected, any treatment of symptoms is always fuelled by the hope of freedom from symptoms. Some symptoms disappear immediately as a result of effective recognition or lifestyle change. Others will stay with us for a lifetime and leave us wondering how we can live with them. All symptoms are united by an invitation to our consciousness to develop a personal attitude towards them, which can often be the essence of recovery (not on our terms, but on the terms of the symptom).

In the seminar, we can work with classic (health) symptoms, but also with issues beyond clinical symptoms in our relationships, our vocation and our inner life. Where the ego’s wish/will conflicts with symptomatic reality, a symptomatic approach is possible.

It goes without saying that the course is not a substitute for medical or psychotherapeutic treatment and participation is at your own risk.

ABOUT MALTE NELLES
Malte Nelles’ work focuses on therapy and integrative counseling, incorporating deep psychological, humanistic and systemic approaches and methods. The guiding principle of his work is to put into practice the psychology of consciousness, which sees in man a thinking and sentient being, but at the same time sees opportunities for development.

Since 2009 he has been leading individual and group consultations, counselling and therapy sessions in individual and relationship sessions, as well as for groups, companies and organizations. he also works as a teacher and trainer at various institutions.

Malte Nelles holds a degree in political science from the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin) and has studied psychotherapy (ZIST), family and systemic constellations (DGfS), couple therapy (EAPT), business management (IWW/Fernuniversität Hagen), constellations work (eurasys).

Malte Nelles co-runs the Nelles Institute in Germany with his father, Wilfried Nelles. The Nelles Institute focuses on phenomenological psychology and the life integration process (LIP). In addition to institutes in Germany (Eifel and Berlin), they have partner institutes in Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic. Malte Nelles leads seminars and trainings outside Germany in several European countries, as well as China.
His webpage: https://malte-nelles.de

Looking forward to see you at this event,

Edó Gergely and Malte Nelles

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