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ORIGINS
Together David and Jane
Brown were the founders and
Principals of The School of ICASA, a sexual healing centre for training in
intimacy, sexual healing and relationship skills.
David is an Interfaith Minister and spiritual counsellor,
sex researcher, educator and seminar speaker. Jane and David were married for thirty
four years and raised three children.
David and Jane
maintain that a personal inward faith and spiritual understanding is a neglected
essential in building strong, enduring relationships and in helping
individuals to release their full potential in personal life issues. It was this that lead them, during the 1980's, into eight
years of counselling work in the area of rehabilitation of people with drug and
solvent addiction, alcoholism and other life-controlling problems.
During this time David and Jane identified that sexual needs,
insecurities and anxieties were more than frequently at the root of many of the
social problems with which they were presented.
Following this, aided by their experience as professional trainers which
spanned their career during the 1970's, they gained specific experience and
training in dealing with people with sexual dysfunction through their work in
the USA, from '91 to '93.
In 1991, David
and Jane were asked to help in the development of an impotence treatment clinic
which was being opened in Orlando, Florida.
During the next two and a half years in America, they researched and
studied the subject of sexuality and the treatment of sexual dysfunctions,
identifying a lack of appropriate treatment options available for men and women
with psychogenic sexual problems and difficulties. They studied the methods of Masters and Johnson, the Sex
Therapy Institute of Boston, and in particular the role of Surrogate Partner
Therapy. In 1993, David and Jane
returned to London and The School of ICASA opened the following year.
Building upon proven methods published by Bill Masters and Virginia
Johnson in the 1960's, with the training and
support of IPSA, the advice of professional medical practitioners and therapists
and, combined with their own belief structure and personal discoveries, David
and Jane began educating men and women through sexual training modules which
they have called ICASA - Intuition, Consciousness and Self Awareness.
Although Jane
passed away in February 2006 her influence and energy remains as vital at The
School of ICASA as ever before. With the help and support of the ICASA
staff team David has continued his work and endeavours to further develop the
ways in which the ICASA modules can bring healing into the lives of others.
The Mission
of
ICASA is:
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To
contribute towards the quality of stability of sexual relationships through
advice, instruction and practical training in sexual, social and spiritual
awareness.
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To
restore hope of fulfilment to those who have become desperate through
broken relationships, bereavement, or unfulfilled expectations.
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To
enable those who have been embarrassed through sexual dysfunction to regain
the power of free choice in forming and maintaining relationships
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To
provide every reasonable means to enable people who have been humiliated
sexually to discover the personal confidence necessary to function free from
fear or anxiety in their sexual life.
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We
endeavour to:
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Enhance
and strengthen our clients self esteem, belief and personal confidence
through helping them to discover their own inward confidence and sensual
awareness.
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Educate
and enlighten the mind to the potential available to every human being;
regardless of gender, culture, religion, physical attributes or abilities.
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Help
our clients, step by step, to move forward to understand and allow their
sexuality to become an ecstatic experience
that
is compatible with their
spirituality and is a foundation upon which they can build a successful and
lasting relationship..
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We
aim to:
Create
a safe, stress free therapeutic environment, where the natural sexual and
sensual reactions of the body are discovered, developed, appreciated and
released.
While
this aim may include the rescue or restoration of an existing relationship, it
will also include releasing an individual from the anxieties and negative
factors
that
prevent him from forming or maintaining a successful relationship.
We
believe that:
Guilt-free,
non-judgmental, mutual sexual
fulfilment
within adult relationships throughout the entire life span is beneficial to
physical, emotional and spiritual health; contributes towards longevity and
quality of life and is a major factor in the overall health and durability of
relationships.
We
further believe that the quality of relationships throughout the Western World could be
dramatically improved if the sexual aspects of relationships were enhanced through open communication and instruction of sexual and social skills.
David
& Jane Brown
Founders
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