MIRACULOUS BODIES: A 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.
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.