The Four-Dimensional Wheel of Sexual Experience grew out of Gina Ogden’s ground breaking work on sexuality and spirituality, our work together in the energy realms/multidimensionality, Oscar Miro Quesada’s Peruvian mesa, and all her beloved colleages along the way.
Working the Wheel is an integrative, practical approach that empowers clients by inviting them to define and differentiate their own issues – body, mind, heart, and spirit. The 4-D Wheel evolved into the 4-D Network.
The 4-D Wheel can be incorporated into any kind of work you are already doing with clients, whether or not you are a sex therapist or sex counselor. Practicing the core dynamics of the 4-D Wheel can be as transformational for therapists as for clients, especially for therapists who feel burnt out. “Central to the 4-D Wheel concept is that clients’ interpretation of events is the most meaningful factor in positive change. In 4-D Wheel work, the therapist’s role becomes that of witness, guide, expander of stories, and sometimes stage director rather than uncontested “expert”. The relationship between therapist and client is necessarily collaborative, and is a strong factor in the healing process.”
By definition, therapy work brings up our own issues to be resolved on every level.
The 4-D Wheel is brilliant for this. Sometimes we also need our own support while we learn to feel our feelings and our clients’ at the same time in a safe and appropriate manner. I have found that exploring the non-physically dense, subtle realms can be really confusing especially in the beginning as we have no common language for our experiences. Having a guidance at times makes the exploring process fun rather than overwhelming.
If you are a practitioner of the Four-Dimensional Wheel approach, our belief systems are already aligned. I can help you expand and trust your intuition about inviting your clients to step into their Wheel of Experience, to appreciate and use the subtle energies of the 4-D Wheel Core Dynamics, and especially holding safe and potent space for yourself and your clients. In many of my earlier blogs, I have explored tools and ideas that are congruent with your training. I believe that I bring to our work together the intention and skills to help you clarify your clients’ needs and your boundaries so your clients are free to do their own work—without your feeling the need to do it for them.
I am very grateful to have been a part of Gina’s living and dying. I am also very grateful and excited to be a part of the 4-D Network. I invite anyone interested in working with and healing their own sexuality to check out their website below.
The logo and all of the information above on the 4-D Wheel approach has been taken with appreciation from her website ginaogden.com and Gina Ogden’s book Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy