"Born to Love, Born to Lead" Retreats

• Soulspace, 7 rue Cite Grand-duc Jean, Bereldange, L-7233, Luxembourg

  • 4 min walk to bus-stop “Bereldange Schoul”

  • Parking in street (or parking in front of single garage on R side of building #7). Building entry on the L :-) I’m on 3rd floor :-)

• from Findel International Airport: 17 min by car or +/- 28-60min (depending) via public transport (bus, tram etc)

• from Train station, Gare Centrale Luxembourg: 22min by car or +/- 25-31min via public transport

• Please download the national mobility app to calculate your exact journey on Luxembourg’s free public transport: • Google play or Apple

• 85-95% of us experienced some kind of perinatal overwhelm: Felt as BETRAYAL impacting Self ID/esteem, personality, behaviour  → Most therapists/coaches don’t know how to get to the heart of this..

• Sources: WHO, ILO, Dr Annie Brook, Emerson, Sills, Castelino, Dr Gabor Mate, Dr Thomas Verny (The Embodied Mind), Dr Bessel vd Kolk, ACES study

• LIMBIC IMPRINTING run us early on - Conception, gestation, childhood, adolescence and informs our base settings for life

• overwhelming/stressful/confusing sensory experiences w/o rational context/compassionate support →  unintegrated (non-cognitive) on cellular level in nervous system (unconscious)

• Encodes life-long default patterns: body-mind-emotion-behaviour/reactions  -> Limbic Imprint stories & Headtrash   →   sense of SELF ID <-> WORLD,  <-> OTHERS

• You do not need to know all the details of your past, although the information can be useful. 

• Our goal is to restore your original blueprint of bliss, organic intelligence and ability to connect authentically in relationships & intimacy with yourself and others, born as social being, which is your birth-right. 

The Birth into Being method on it's own is so rich and multi-dimensional. Combined with the below modalities it truly is what our planetary moment is crying out for, individually and collectively.

While both modalities explore generational patterns and subconscious imprints, they work in different ways.

Family Constellations focuses on revealing and resolving inherited dynamics in the relational field — often working with the ancestral system and representing family members or entanglements across generations.

The Birth Into Being Method, much more a full-spectrum future-forward approach, on the other hand, dives deep into the individual’s inner experience — specifically the limbic system and nervous system — to identify and rewire the early emotional and cellular imprints that shape how we relate, lead, love, and live. This method not only clears inherited patterns but also plants conscious, future-facing imprints that support resilience, creativity, relational capacity, and embodied trust.

The BIB method zones in on your personal embodiment journey in this life (influenced generationally) along with your hidden safety system & attraction programs (your Limbic Imprint) to Self & other beings in the world and your relationship with life AND life force itself ;-) But yes, some of the BIB Process work, aka “magical theatre” have resemblances of FC

In essence:
👉 Family Constellations works through the ancestral field and untangles the past.
👉 Birth Into Being works through the embodied imprint field, untangling the past and rewiring access to the reality of the present and transforming the future and uses a unique integration approach that embeds the new imprints in the body, heart & mind.

🌀 The Bad News:

Limbic Imprints are deep emotional memory patterns laid down in the nervous system — especially during early life or high-intensity experiences when we lacked safety, support, or understanding. These unintegrated imprints quietly shape how we relate to love, pressure, conflict, belonging — and to ourselves. 

We do not have to be severely broken/traumatised to have unresolved limiting body-mind imprints and most coaches/therapists are not trained in how to get to the root of this.

They don’t just affect our personal relationships.
They influence how we lead, collaborate, set boundaries, navigate visibility, and recover from stress.
They become the invisible blueprint for:

• Our emotional reactivity

• Mental fitness and resilience under stress

• Relational dynamics (at home and at work)

• Performance capacity and self-worth

• Our physical health

• The stories we unconsciously carry about safety, success, and love

When unresolved, limiting imprints can:

• Hijack the nervous system and activate fight/flight/freeze in non-threatening situations

• Cause looping emotional patterns and unexplained fear or self-doubt

• Lead us to form distorted identity beliefs like “I’m too much,” “I’m not safe,” or “Something about me is wrong”

• Unexplained health conditions

We don’t realize these reactions are rooted in the past — because they feel like the truth right now.

This is especially true for existential imprints:
Formed during preverbal stages, these are generalized conclusions the nervous system made under emotional overwhelm — like “I don’t belong,” “Connection is dangerous,” or “The world won’t support me.” These are not facts. But they can shape entire life trajectories — in love, work, and leadership — if left unaddressed.

🌱 The Good News:

These patterns are not permanent.
You’re not broken — you’re imprinted.
And imprints can be reCoded.

Thanks to:

• Neuroscience and somatic healing

• Prenatal and perinatal psychology (APPPAH)

• Regenerative Leadership theory

• and Theory U’s field of future-sourced transformation...

…we now know that healing doesn’t only come from insight — it comes from repatterning the nervous system, from the inside out.

This retreat offers a rare opportunity to:

• Identify and shift inherited or survival-based imprints

• Reclaim calm, clarity, and connection — in your body and your relationships

• Plant conscious, future-aligned imprints that support who you're becoming — as a partner, leader, creator, or change-maker

Healing your inner SHIP engine isn’t a luxury.
It’s the blind spot in modern leadership — and the key to relational, emotional, and systemic transformation.

🧠 Limbic Imprinting in the News

• 🧬 The Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH) is leading global research into how early experience shapes emotional development, health, leadership capacity and peace on earth, advocating for womb ecology reflected in world ecology.

• 🇮🇳 Dr. Monicka Singh Shubha was recognized by the Indian Medical Association for her work in subconscious imprinting and holistic fertility.

• • 🌍 Dr. Nicole LePera (The Holistic Psychologist) has brought imprint science and epigenetic trauma awareness to the mainstream through her global online platforms.

The Birth Into Being Method is a unique, experiential multi-dimensional rich methodology containining countless Processes designed to rewire deep-seated emotional patterns held in the nervous system — particularly those formed in early life or during unsupported/misunderstood intense moments of fear, stress, or transition. It works with what science now calls limbic imprinting, offering powerful processes to transform immature survival-based imprints into supportive inner resources for greater clarity, confidence, connection, and leadership

In Marise’s philosophy - she often refers to this as “mature inner culture” or “hidden SHIP engin” driving success & ease of all SHIPS (leadership/relationships to self/others, friendships, entrepeneurship etc.

This method is not therapy in the traditional sense. It is a regenerative system of self-evolution, where participants are safely guided into the body’s implicit memories (without needing to fully recall them) — and invited to update them in real-time using improv movement, breathwork, embodied neuroscience rewiring processes, creative expression, and conscious choice.

Unlike traditional talk therapy or even Family Constellations (which focuses on intergenerational fields), the Birth Into Being Method:

• Works directly with the body’s limbic system (the emotional brain), and is informed by psychotherapeutical Internal Family System parts and Transactional Analisis.

• Supports integration at the pre-verbal and developmental stages, and

• Plants new imprints that support your leadership, relationships, visibility, creativity, and capacity to thrive.

The process aligns deeply with Regenerative Leadership theory, Theory U, early life science, and neuroscience-backed trauma integration practices — while still being fully accessible, playful, and transformative for those without any previous experience.

It’s especially impactful for anyone seeking to:

• Heal and evolve their relationship patterns, including attachment, trust, visibility, and boundaries.

• Access greater embodied leadership and presence under pressure.

• Reconnect to a deep inner sense of self-worth, clarity, and possibility in life and relationships.

• Create a conscious inner foundation for parenthood, partnership, or professional expansion.

Origins & Legacy
The method was developed in the early 1980s by Psychotherapist Dr. Igor Charkovsky and Elena Vladimirova (later known as Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova), pioneers of the waterbirth and conscious evolution movement in Russia.
Elena’s later film, Birth As We Know It, became an international phenomenon — used by midwives, educators, and healers worldwide to show how birth and early experiences shape human potential.

Her global impact was recognized by the United Nations in the book: "A Force Such as the World Has Never Known – Women Creating Change."

Today, the Birth Into Being Method is practiced in over 25 countries and continues to evolve as a future-facing healing framework that supports both personal transformation and the systemic healing of collective patterns, offering a bridge between early life science and leadership innovation.

Marise commenced training initially in 2017 and have qualified in 2024 as BIB level 4 facilitator. 

“This method literally saved me, after I tried countless modalities all over the world including mainstream psychology & coaching, EMDR, EFT, Hypnosis and you name it. Nothing could get to the root of my self-sabotage and complex wounding & neglect. It helped me shift from Good Girl to Strong Woman and Mother, standing up to abuse after a lifetime of nameless anxiety & confusion. If I didn’t have this embodied deep upgrade in my Being, I would not had any bit of resilience to consciously face my resulting devastating 25yr marriage & family breakup, the worst thing that could happen to me.

It is by far the most impactful modality in my toolkit when working with clients in Self-growth & RelationSHIPs, LeaderSHIP impact & resilience and Preconception to Parenthood as it dives into the icebergs, stormy seas “pirate SHIPS” and SHIP engines, influencing every single area of our lives and inner culture. And the deeper I dive into Leadership for a new era, I am grateful to as this is the missing blindspot, finally reCoding the 3 divides (disconnection between self-self, self-others, self-planet) the root of our polycrisis on our planet today”

Level 1 from the Birth into Being Method: 

Focus on the time from your preconception through post-partum period & sense of Self and world 

• Understand how Limbic Imprinting can hold humanity back and how you can break free: emotional brain, biological nervous system patterns in subsconscious

• Dive deeply into the ‘underworld’ to break through that which is holding you back in life; to recover that which is most precious.

• Alter the ‘basic settings’ in your nervous system & align with the vortex of the Birthing Field of Creation through a dynamic blend of modalities.

• Re-Code your Limbic Imprint of inhibiting emotional patterns by creating a new memory of being conceived, gestated, born, and breastfed in blissful and safe circumstances.

• Create new reference points of emotional comfort aligned with your conscious intentions.

• Invoke your inner‚ Elder‘ – your deepest Wisdom as your constant companion.

• Level 1 Processes:

  • Limbic Imprint ReCoding

  • Family Process

  • Tribrain

  • Core Cry

  • Body-soul-spirit

Besides the experiential processes in Level 1, the following Topics will be covered:

• Free Will and the fractal nature of the Universe

• Limbic Imprinting. Harvesting the outcome of the way we were born.

• Birth matters: What is birth trauma?

• Creating an alternative route – Tri-brain Concept

• Transforming Fear (of birthing, of living, of dying…)

• Consciousness of Procreation – The Miracle of You

• Unleashing creativity

• Love, as an acquired skill

Level 2:

• Secondary line of Offenders process

• Present-past-future process

• Me-God-Goddess Process

• Yin-Yang-Dang

• The Archetypes

• The Offender was I

Birth into Being Mini Processes woven where applicable in Level 1 & 2:

• The Elements

• Reality Check

• Conception

• Floating Limbs

• Centre of Gravity

• Sensory Wealth

• Money Game

• Time Line Game

• Give Vagina her voice

• System Upgrade

• monthly in-person mini-retreats will continue to be held in Luxembourg to continue further levels of BIB reCoding. Many people do several processes multiple times to address various layers (see dates above)

• You can also join Marise’s online Healing Club community with free resources & somatic healing tools, with the SoulSHIP membership offering monthly group Healing Calls, which also incorporates Marise’s other inner-growth modalities, e.g. Head Trash reCoding.

• If you are in a vulnerable state of mental health, please be realistic about your capacity to be with a group who are working on their inner worlds. It is a powerful field, that can get noisy and stimulating, however I am trained to hold space for what emerges.

• It is important that all participants are able to be self regulating.

• If you have recently started or finished taking medications that might impact your mental health, please let me know.

• It's a beautiful journey to be a part of a group experience. Even more so when the purpose is expansion, exploration, re-creation

• Relational Healing of the origins of our lives in good company of like minded Seekers, being witnessed by others, held with warmth as you create shared memories and integrate a new way of relating. It's super powerful and can save you alot of time to do this with others. 

• Quantum leaps are much more accessible in a group Field.

• Reducing traumatic births is one of the many focuses of the Birth Into Being Method. The main focus is healing one's own birth trauma/stress, from the person’s own formative period (conception through early childhood).

• Some participants are not preparing for birth at all. For example, young unmarried men or older women who are past their childbearing age will come for their own healing of their dynamic with the Birthing Field. As a natural side effect of this work their creative force is no longer obstructed, so it is easy to give birth to whatever they want to give birth to, any creative project, including, potentially, a human baby!

• While this Method helps pregnant women avoid possible future complications at birth, it is not limited to it.

• The theory of Change within the Global Inner Development Goals (“IDG’s”) is the missing inner shift that 1000’s of scientists have confirmed our world needs in order for us to reach the Sustainable development goals in the face of the Polycrisis of today.

• Addressing our global challenges necessitates a change in the underlying mindsets that originally caused them. It requires an innovative approach to identify, rectify and reshape the fundamental origins of these issues – human behaviour. Fortunately, modern research shows that the inner abilities we need to face and overcome these complex challenges can be developed. This was the starting point for the Inner Development Goals initiative.

• This retreat is woven with the IDG’s recognising that Imprints of Regenerative Relationship & Leadership starts from the inside out and our humanity and planet need this direly right now… 

  • taking stock and bringing back home, fragmented parts from our earliest human imprints,

  • Before THINKING, numbing and distraction became our main reference…

  • Imprints, from when we were conceived, born and our earliest experiences of BEING and RELATING.. the primary seeds of patterns in how we THINK, COLLABORATE AND ACT life-long…

  • to restore our innate Human capacities:

    • alligning BODY, MIND, HEART

    • alligning INNER CHILD, INNER PARENT AND INNER ELDER

    • ReCoding unsustainable Imprints at the root… 

    • alligning all 5 dimensions of the IDG’s within us: Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating and Acting

    • shifting the narrative from Sustainable Leadership (maintaining the status quo) to Regenerative Leadership, 

    • In ReCoding & RE-learning to navigate our SHIPS, the IDGs is the wind sailing our SHIPS to a more just, equitable world. 

• By following the IDG framework as north star, it can orient us to sustainability in our RelationSHIPS & LeaderSHIP – individually and collectively. 

• This Retreat offers Vertical Development aimed at expanding your abilities Experientially vs Theoretically in Loving, Relating & Leading of others and yourself by addressing the following Emotional & Social Competency Inventory Components - (“ESCI model”))

  • Self-awareness:

    • Emotional self-awareness: the ability to understand our own emotions and their effects on our performance.

  • Self-management:

    • Emotional self-control: the ability to keep disruptive emotions and impulses in check and maintain our effectiveness under stressful or hostile conditions.

    • Positive outlook: the ability to see the positive in people, situations and events and our persistence in pursuing goals despite obstacles and setbacks.

    • Adaptability: flexibility in handling change, and adapting our ideas or approaches.

  • Social awareness

    • Empathy: the ability to sense others’ feelings and perspectives, taking an active interest in their concerns and picking up cues to what is being felt and thought.

    • Group awareness: the ability to read a group’s emotional currents and power relationships, identifying influencers, networks and dynamics.

  • Relationship management:

    • Influence: the ability to have a positive impact on others, learning to ask for support through non-violent-communication and awareness of needs

    • Developing others: the ability to foster the long term learning or development of others by giving feedback and support.

    • Intensity management: the ability to withstand emotional or tense situations, tactfully bringing hidden icebergs into the open and finding solutions all can endorse.

• Inspirational leadership: the ability to inspire individuals and groups and to bring out the best in others.

Because we can’t lead the future with yesterday’s operating system.

The next era of leadership calls for more than strategies and habits. It asks us to recode from the inside out — to lead with presence, emotional intelligence, and deep-rooted clarity. This retreat helps you do exactly that.

Rooted in early life science, regenerative leadership, and Theory U, this experience supports you to:

• Reconnect to your inner compass — the source behind your actions and decisions.

• Shift from control-and-manage to sense-and-respond leadership.

• Access the relational, emotional, and somatic intelligence needed to navigate uncertainty with coherence and courage.

• Create the inner conditions that allow your teams, partnerships, and systems to flourish.

🌍 Most change models today are built on outdated behaviorist thinking — great for tweaking habits, but inadequate for leading real transformation. The world needs leaders who can listen deeply, regulate wisely, and act from wholeness.

🌀 As Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine said, “Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can lift the whole system to a higher order.”
This retreat helps you become that island — in your leadership, relationships, and legacy.

• Many of the practices in our culture that are currently implemented during the care of women and babies in the primal period are not necessarily informed by the available relevant research in related disciplines, and may lead to unintentional negative impacts on developing babies that can have lifelong consequences. The Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH) 

• Birth  is more than a medical event—it is a foundational experience that sets the stage for a lifetime. The way a baby is conceived, carried, and born impacts their sense of safety, security, and connection to the world. Even a mother’s perception of her birth experience influences her mental health, shaping her baby’s development from the very beginning. In line with the 12 Guiding Principles-PPN on Nurturing Human Potential from the Beginning of Life. McCarty, W. A. & Glenn, M. (2008). Investing in human potential from the beginning of life: Keys to maximizing human capital. Journal of Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health, 23 (2), 117-135. 

• The Birth into Being Method bridges science and wisdom to nurture healthy beginnings and create a more conscious, connected world through recognising the impact of early life experiences on lifelong human development. From the clinical lens of prenatal and perinatal psychology, we perceive that unmet needs, stress, and trauma experienced by the baby during prenatal, birth and neonatal period and subsequent events in the formation of SELF identity (0-7 yrs + 7-18yrs when prefrontal rational cortex is underdeveloped) can be attributed to be the origins of nearly every mental health disorder and attachment issue in relationships. This retreat recognises, that we are never to old to reCode early life limiting imprints, into imprints that serve humans, relationships and humanity.

• Today’s complex sustainability challenges are, at the root, a crisis of consciousness. The future of sustainability isn't just about technical solutions, it's about transforming ourselves from within – letting go of old ways that no longer serve us, shifting our mindsets, and developing pathways for regenerative change that are aligned with nature, with life itself!

• Sustainability researchers here  https://youtu.be/eaZl2C6c768?si=jKlDcuKOyQTllsaY see these 3 areas as the most fundamental aspects that need to change : 

  • we need to see how our self identities and the way we see the world is part of the problem: egocentric, humancentric or life-centric worldviews 

  • we need to rebalance our interpersonal neurobiology to deactivate the conditioned threat response projection onto others that feed polarisation in individuals and collectively leading to xtreme politics and difficult collaboration collectively (opposite from inclusion)

  • We need to consciously cultivate human qualities and skills for sustainable development and teamship vs leadership 

  • From Leader as Healer, Janni Nicholas 2023:

    • “With the polycrisis, where do we go from here? How do we fix things? What is required of us as individuals and as leaders? In “Leading from the emerging future: from ego-system to eco-system economies”, C Otto Scharmer of MIT’s Sloan School of Management concludes:  

      • ‘This is the moment when what we need most is enough people with the skill, heart and wisdom to help us pull ourselves back from the edge of breakdown and onto a different path. But how does one develop the skill, heart and wisdom to address the deeply rooted systemic challenges of today?’ 

      • Without exception, all the leaders I’ve met carry within unattended hurts, scars, fears originating in childhood, adolescence, incl. intergenerational, systemic patterns. This is an inevitable natural part of our humanity.  That this remain unaddressed is unsurprising.  

      • There is really an opportunity to safely and responsibly, process the past as such injuries don’t just disappear   →     they take up space in the present as frozen blocks of energy, controlling our drives, numbing our hearts,  limiting our vitality, vision and relational capacities.  

• Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Carl Jung “

• has gained significant attention in the fields of psychology, leadership, and personal growth, and yet it is still a foreign concept to many. 

• unlike horizontal development, which involves acquiring new skills and knowledge at the same level of complexity, vertical development refers to advancing through stages of thinking, understanding, emotional awareness, and behaviour. 

• much leadership development focuses on designing, uploading, and improving apps for an existing operating system, i.e. teaching new skills and improving existing competencies without fundamentally challenging the conventional mindset, the underlying worldview, and the implicit logic that inform personal actions and decisions. 

• Vertical development, instead, focuses on developing and innovating the overall operating system, so that existing apps can function more smoothly and new ones can be developed and uploaded in a way that would have been impossible with the old operating system.

• Understanding and applying vertical development principles can transform how we approach our personal and professional lives, enabling us to navigate the complexities of the modern world with greater insight and resilience.

Absolutely. That’s the heart of this retreat.

Your inner SHIP Engine — made up of subconscious imprints, emotional patterns, and early conditioning — quietly steers how you navigate relationships, leadership, purpose, and pressure. Most people never question it… they just sail with the settings they inherited.

This retreat helps you:

• ReCode outdated inner maps

• Shift from autopilot to embodied choice

• Realign your Self-leadership, RelationSHIP, and LeaderSHIP with who you’re truly here to be

Because how you sail your SHIPs determines where you arrive — and who comes with you.

⚓️ This is where deep healing meets human performance. And your future self will thank you.