MIRACULOUS BODIES. Documentary series with Max and Ellen Schupbach
In each episode, Max and Ellen Schupbach work with people who come with physical symptoms, fatigue, or pain.
Each episode is a live process with a real person.
Each episode is a live process with a real person.
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There is no script. Participants come to the facilitators with physical challenges and gradually begin to see and relate differently to what is happening to them — physically, emotionally, and existentially.
The psychologists' work is based on 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 point of entry into change. A symptom does not need to be fixed; it can be "unpacked," listened to, and allowed to complete its process. Here, the body is a carrier of meaning, a bridge between personal experience and what Carl Jung called the personal and collective unconscious.
One of the key shifts offered by the series is a rejection of the idea of a "normal" body, psyche, or life. Every person is a unique configuration, and what appears to be a deviation often turns out to be a key to one's own wholeness and a key to the development of society as a whole.
The series is grounded in a liberating idea: a collective cannot be changed directly. Real work always happens at the level of a living, individual human being.
Max and Ellen Schupbach are the founders of the International Institute for Deep Democracy (DDI). In their work, Max and Ellen use a method called the process-oriented approach in psychology. The method was developed by Arnold Mindell and his colleagues.
We sincerely thank our partners Atelier Gardens for providing the beautiful, historic TON 3 pavilion for filming
The psychologists' work is based on 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 point of entry into change. A symptom does not need to be fixed; it can be "unpacked," listened to, and allowed to complete its process. Here, the body is a carrier of meaning, a bridge between personal experience and what Carl Jung called the personal and collective unconscious.
One of the key shifts offered by the series is a rejection of the idea of a "normal" body, psyche, or life. Every person is a unique configuration, and what appears to be a deviation often turns out to be a key to one's own wholeness and a key to the development of society as a whole.
The series is grounded in a liberating idea: a collective cannot be changed directly. Real work always happens at the level of a living, individual human being.
Max and Ellen Schupbach are the founders of the International Institute for Deep Democracy (DDI). In their work, Max and Ellen use a method called the process-oriented approach in psychology. The method was developed by Arnold Mindell and his colleagues.
We sincerely thank our partners Atelier Gardens for providing the beautiful, historic TON 3 pavilion for filming
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 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
Anastasia 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 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 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
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.
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