Genome Approach-Habitat For Humanity and PIP

Habitat for Humanity
Personal Growth House

A PIP Group Working on Habitat for Humanity

Imagine a reality where psychic pain is released so individuals are free to relate.

Dr. Warter skillfully integrates personal growth with the practical building of a Habitat for Humanity house. He uses a symmetrical process of rebuilding oneself psychologically in phase with the personal contribution to the development of the house. Through the combination of inner work and service to community, students are led to become aware of and transcend their own deep processes. They learn the meaning of community from the inside out.

You can read about the process in Chapter 5 of Recovery of the Sacred: Lessons in Soul Awareness.

What could a group of international students building a house for Habitat for Humanity have to do with creating this reality? How can integrating psychology and spirituality contribute to building global community through the building of a Habitat dwelling?

The students who participate in the 7 day intensive, the Personal Integration Process developed by Dr. Carlos Warter, MD, know. They learn the meaning of community from the inside out. They are becoming differentiated, spiritually integrated, and committed to authentic relationship through a powerful mind/body integration process, facilitated by Dr. Carlos Warter. Not only do they find that the building of a house can be a container for a personal transformational process, but using the tools of dedication, integrity, and personal value as they build, help to chisel a community that grows from the inside out with positive support. As they reach for their own inner essence, clearing away psychological debris and serving others, they find meaningful personal community and simultaneously enhance their global community.

Dr. Warter skillfully integrates personal growth with the practical building of a Habitat for Humanity house. He uses a symmetrical process of rebuilding oneself psychologically in phase with the personal contribution to the development of the house. Through the combination of inner work and service to community, students are led to become aware of and transcend their own deep processes. This parallel process of inner and outer transformation facilitates a psychological container for the essential self to be nurtured. The lesson is found through deep contact with the essential self. Students experientially learn the framework with which life becomes spontaneously appreciated and deeply valued. The experience of the essential self feels like coming home.

For over 25 years, Dr. Warter has been coaching students to understand experientially that the house of the essential self is not only built around a healthy personality, but that the totality of this house is more than the personality. The essential self incorporates personal essence as well as personality, and is the dynamic aspect of self that can be called spirituality. The presence of the essential self can spontaneously unfold through doing the inner work during the PIP (Personal Integration Process), designed to stimulate the spontaneous unveiling of the essential self, and aiming to clear the mind/body house free of psychological debris. The essential self, when it can dwell freely is more reliable and emotionally stable. The perception of presence is an experience of familiarity with this self. Students can become intimately connected to their own inner wisdom. By learning to be present, students can learn to master their psychological reactivity. and the understanding of personal responsibility in relationships.

How is this done in a way that is personal to the student in the context of group work? During the P I P, students learn a technology for redirecting their reactivity, helping them to break free of the constraints of personality and social conditioning. They actually build the Habitat house while they clear the inner house of the self, restructuring personality and discovering personal essence through exercises that involve writing, relationship, expression, group work, and engaging in practical, life sustaining activity. Through comprehensive self-evaluation coupled with practical work, students can cognitively restructure their internal schema by learning to look beyond the identifications of personality to Who They Really Are. When the debris is clear, students become more connected to essence through the strength of the personality, and life is more valued and lived fully. They learn skills on how to engage with presence and disengage from the emotional fall out of this debris.

The PIP is a multi-dimensional and fast track program to an individuated self, helping to rapidly change the perception of the self so that students begin to realize who they truly are. Quickly, the student becomes able to successfully differentiate the essential self from the conditioned personality. Thus, psychic energy is freed up from the psychological blocks, so it can be directed to living life more fully and passionately from the essential self. As a result, students learn to relate more authentically. With a positive outlook on life, and ability to detach from the influence of the conditioned past, relationships improve. Acceptance of self becomes the tool of the present, to create a real understanding of engaging fully with life. The future from this presence of essential self seems very bright and valuable.

Building the house is the metaphor for transformation. The technology that helps students learn to put aside reactivity and build on a foundation of inner strength is learned experientially. Inner work is accomplished while the productive process of outer work on the house is performed. The practical labor on the house facilitates the transformation by requiring that students apply these new skills, and go beyond the negative influence of personality. During the PIP, students essentially learn to clear their family of origin issues, and practice ceasing to be in effect of them. This begins the restructuring of personality by releasing the pain of childhood wounds and detaching from the mother /father introjects. They move through psychological debris that might otherwise impede their personal growth and well-being, learning to successfully maneuver around projective identification and effortlessly develop collaborative cross-cultural community. The finished product is a house that is built for a community in the spirit of heartfelt cooperation, and an international community that is bonded with the glue of the essential self.

As students release from their reactive emotional history, the house assembles. Similarly, they learn to disengage from their identification with the building of the house and the need to know to whom it is donated. They must learn about and surrender to the process of letting go of the ego attachment to the internal and external house. It is enough to know that this inter-cultural community of colleagues has emerged out of collaborative efforts of authentic support. They can let go of the product in the knowledge of each other's support and the sense of internal value that is independent of personality.

Integrating this very amazing restructuring process continues after the PIP is complete. Students leave with a useful, concrete format, for continual clearing. Practical, daily exercises based on each student's personal experience, are tools to continue the personal work for one year after the PIP completion. When the students leave the program, they have the option to continue this inner work doing the daily exercises. The personal work, adapted from the student's own experience, is designed to ultimately enhance the quality and appreciation of life, and move the student rapidly toward self-actualization. Students, who practice daily, notice substantial acceleration in their personal growth.

Imagine a world where everyone is freed from their psychological pain, where relationship is driven by appreciation rather than fear, where individuals are dedicated to the growth of a global community that authentically inter-relates and is free of cross-cultural issues. Imagine a reality where psychic pain is released so individuals are free to relate. Invested with faith in humanity, dedication to growth, and a sense of personal and planetary responsibility which is guided by a reliable inner wisdom. This is a world which is global, where fear is put into perspective, and acceptance is the organizing factor. Dr. Warter has been able to guide the students of the PIP and other courses to begin to fathom and grow into this reality.

The Genome Approach Phase 1: The PIP - Personal Integration Process is a week long intensive retreat led by Dr. Carlos Warter which he designed for healing at the cellular level.

The Genome Approach Phase 2: Relationship Clearing and Healing is a 4 day long intensive retreat led by Dr. Carlos Warter who designed this for healing relationship at the cellular level.

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