MIRACULOUS BODIES. Documentary series with Max and Ellen Schupbach
In each episode, Max and Ellen Schupbach work with people who come to them with physical symptoms, fatigue or pain.
Every episode is a live process with a real person, with no script. Participants arrive with their bodily problems and gradually begin to see and experience what is happening to them in a new way — physically, emotionally and existentially.
Every episode is a live process with a real person, with no script. Participants arrive with their bodily problems and gradually begin to see and experience what is happening to them in a new way — physically, emotionally and existentially.
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The work is grounded in process-oriented psychology, an approach in which a problem is not an enemy, a symptom is not a mistake, and a crisis is not a breakdown but rather a doorway to change. A symptom doesn’t necessarily need to be fixed. It can be “unfolded,” listened to and allowed to complete its process. Here the body becomes a carrier of meaning, a bridge between personal experience and what Carl Jung called the personal and collective unconscious.
One of the key shifts the series offers is letting go of the idea of a “normal” body, mind or life. Every person is a unique configuration, and what looks like a deviation often turns out to be a key to one’s own wholeness — and, at the same time, to the development of society as a whole.
At the heart of the series lies a liberating idea: a collective cannot be changed directly. The real work always happens at the level of a single, living human being.
Max and Ellen Schupbach are the founders of the Deep Democracy Institute International (DDI). In their work they use process-oriented psychology, or Process Work, a method developed by Arnold Mindell and his colleagues.
We warmly thank our partners at Atelier Gardens in Berlin for letting us film in their beautiful, historic TON 3 sound stage.
One of the key shifts the series offers is letting go of the idea of a “normal” body, mind or life. Every person is a unique configuration, and what looks like a deviation often turns out to be a key to one’s own wholeness — and, at the same time, to the development of society as a whole.
At the heart of the series lies a liberating idea: a collective cannot be changed directly. The real work always happens at the level of a single, living human being.
Max and Ellen Schupbach are the founders of the Deep Democracy Institute International (DDI). In their work they use process-oriented psychology, or Process Work, a method developed by Arnold Mindell and his colleagues.
We warmly thank our partners at Atelier Gardens in Berlin for letting us film in their beautiful, historic TON 3 sound stage.
Trailer for the documentary series "MIRACULOUS BODIES".
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Filming location:
Atelier Gardens, TON 3 (Berlin, Germany)
Max and Ellen Schupbach
Filming location:
Atelier Gardens, TON 3 (Berlin, Germany)
Max and Ellen Schupbach
Episode 1. Birgit: Autoimmune — When the Body Is Not the Enemy
Birgit lives with an autoimmune disease and experiences it as a kind of inner electricity. As the work unfolds, her symptom reveals itself as a force that keeps breaking out of the familiar. The episode also gently touches on death as the final breakthrough into the unknown.
Episode 2. Anastasiya: A Refugee's Strength That Needs Rest
Anastasiya has experienced the loss of the life she once knew through displacement. Torn between staying strong and a body on the verge of collapse, she finally has her strength acknowledged. The episode explores rest as an essential part of resilience.
Episode 3. Anna: Menopause Is Not the End
Anna comes to Max and Ellen with menopause symptoms: a racing heart and anxiety. In the work, these bodily signals open into a new phase of life, with the freedom not only to be grateful for life, but to live it more boldly, more freely, and now.
Episode 4. Laura: Weight and Sleep Apnea — My Reality vs. the Diagnosis
Laura comes with the question of weight and sleep apnea, yet she does not experience her body as a problem. In the work with Max and Ellen, the diagnosis opens into a deeper question: how to listen to others without losing trust in your own sense of reality.
Episode 5. Group Process: Patient vs. the Medical System
After Laura’s individual work, the question of the medical system opens into a group process. The conversation moves from patient versus system toward a deeper understanding of how diagnosis, knowledge, fear, responsibility, and human connection live on both sides.
Episode 6. Brigitta and Andre: Cancer — A Mother and Son Talk about Death
Brigitta comes to Max and Ellen with her son Andre after surgery for colon cancer. As they talk about death, a deeper fear gradually emerges: not death itself, but loneliness. The work opens a way for mother and son to speak about love, loss, and a bond that may reach beyond the body.
Episode 7. Ester: Chest Pain and the Black Stone
Esther comes to Max and Ellen with chest pain she experiences as a black stone. Through their work, this heaviness reveals not only pain, but also strength and presence, and the freedom to be herself: strong, tired, and in need of care.
Episode 8. Zbyszek: Endless Colds and the Dancing Skeleton
Zbyszek comes to Max and Ellen with recurring colds, a blocked nose, and sensations in his sinuses, ears, and throat. As the work unfolds, these symptoms unexpectedly lead to a dancing skeleton: carefree, playful, spontaneous, and free.
Episode 9. Kirsi: Broken Vertebrae — Support without Effort
Kirsi comes to Max and Ellen with back pain and stiffness following vertebral fractures. The work reveals a part of her that resists control. As Kirsi stops trying and settles into her body, a tree-like state emerges: groundedness, simplicity, and quiet strength.
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