How to Help Yourself and Your Clients With the PEAT Method
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PEAT stands for Primordial Energy Activation and Transcendence. I have developed an online course that teaches this method to psychologists, psychotherapists, and coaches. This article describes where PEAT comes from, what it contains, and who the training is for.
Every deep PEAT session begins with a glass of water. Practitioner and client both drink it before the first point is touched, and both drink another when the session ends. Slavinski, the creator of the method, included this step in his instructions, and I have kept it in my teaching because it shows how PEAT is built. Each step is small, specific, and easy to describe. The skill of the practitioner is in how the steps are combined.
The man who created PEAT
Živorad Mihajlović Slavinski was born in Belgrade, trained as a psychologist, and spent his working life studying methods of inner change. His early interests included alternative psychotherapy, hermeticism, spiritual technologies, and shamanism. In 1976, he founded the Psychotronics Society in Belgrade. Over more than four decades, he studied acupuncture-based energy psychology, classical hermeticism, Kabbalah, yoga, and the meridian therapies of Roger Callahan and Gary Craig.
In 1999, a conversation about meridian therapies sent him back through his old notes. He combined what he found with two systems he had built earlier, the Gnostic Intensive and Excalibur, and the result was PEAT, short for Primordial Energy Activation and Transcendence. Slavinski died in 2022. He taught PEAT in many countries, including the United States, England, Canada, Russia, Germany, Turkey, Italy, France, Norway, Hungary, and across the Balkans. His book on the method and his later work on the neutralization of primordial polarities remain the primary sources for the system.
Ideas behind the method
PEAT draws on figures that most psychology students will recognize. The course manual traces its main procedural ideas to several of them.
Viktor Frankl described paradoxical intention, in which a person deliberately wills the symptom they are trying to suppress. PEAT asks the client to feel an experience as fully as possible, and the family resemblance is easy to see.
G. I. Gurdjieff taught what he called the first conscious shock, which is registering an impression at the moment it arises. Slavinski credited this teaching explicitly.
Fritz Perls used exaggeration in Gestalt therapy, asking clients to amplify a gesture or feeling until its content became clear.
Carl Rogers placed acceptance at the center of client-centered work, with the premise that change follows once an experience is received into awareness.
Eric Berne and Abraham Maslow each reported cases in which intensifying a symptom on purpose weakened it.
From the energy psychology tradition, PEAT takes the use of acupressure points. The contact is a gentle, sustained touch with two fingers, and a slow breath accompanies each point. Basic PEAT uses three points around the eye.
Slavinski wrote in the language of esoteric traditions, and his books refer to reincarnation and spiritual beings. My course teaches the procedure in plain, secular terms and identifies those references as his theoretical framework. Each practitioner then decides how much of that framework to share with a particular client.
Four types of PEAT
The system includes four types, and the course teaches each in turn.
Basic Psychoenergetic Auro Technology (PEAT) is a brief protocol for a single moment of distress. Participants learn it first because it shows the logic of the whole system in compact form.
Deep PEAT follows the material that arises in a session toward the root of a long-standing problem. Slavinski regarded it as his most significant contribution.
DP-2 is a variant for clients who find it hard to separate thoughts from feelings.
DP-4 is a constructive type in which a chosen positive state is installed once a problem has cleared.
Basic PEAT can often be learned quickly. Deep PEAT has a different character. The practitioner stays with whatever the client reports and works toward what Slavinski called primordial polarities, pairs of opposed values that he believed sit beneath recurring problems. Clinicians will find similar ideas in core conflict themes from psychodynamic work and in the polarized self-states addressed by schema therapy and Gestalt two-chair work.
The course and its instructor
The online course comes from the Psy-E Center and is supported by a twelve-chapter practitioner manual. It begins with the history and ideas behind the method, then moves to scope of practice, informed consent, and session structure. Technique follows once that groundwork is in place. Later chapters cover the four types, Spiritual Engineering, the Little Magic Method for stubborn bodily sensations, Elements of Transformation, and work with habitual, compulsive, and psychosomatic presentations. The final chapters address outcome tracking, supervised practice, case consultation, and certification.
I teach the course as a California-licensed clinical psychologist with a doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies and more than 19 years of clinical experience. My specialty is psychodynamic energy psychology, and my work includes Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and PEAT. I am also a sport psychologist who works with professional athletes on mental and emotional readiness, and I co-founded the B-Awake Network. The course brings my clinical, athletic, and teaching experience into one program.
Who the course serves
The program has three audiences, and each receives guidance matched to its scope of practice.
Licensed psychologists and therapists learn to use PEAT as an adjunct within psychotherapy.
Certified practitioners learn to work within a clearly defined non-clinical lane.
Coaches learn to apply it to performance, personal growth, and situational stress and to refer clients who need clinical care.
The outcomes reported for PEAT come from Slavinski's own practice, and controlled research on PEAT itself remains to be done. I say this plainly in the training. Participants learn to screen carefully, obtain consent, and make no promises about results. A practitioner who completes the program leaves with a documented method, a clear structure, and a firm grasp of professional boundaries.
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Slobodan Nesovic, CA-Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Slobodan Nesovic, PsyD, is a seasoned California-licensed clinical psychologist with a deep-rooted passion for psycho-spiritual development spanning over two decades. Inspired by spiritual experiences in the Arizona desert during his late teens, Slobodan embarked on a journey of self-discovery, delving into the works of Plato, Lao Tzu, Jung, and Nikola Tesla. With over 17 years of experience, Slobodan integrates a unique approach to therapy, PsychoEnalysis, blending energy psychology, psychodynamic methods, and spirituality. As a psychologist and a Complete Meditation (CM) teacher, he empowers clients to navigate their journey to healing and self-discovery, leveraging his holistic understanding of human nature. Beyond his professional pursuits, Slobodan is a dedicated father, quantum medicine enthusiast, and admirer of Nikola Tesla's work. A basketball lover, he even shared the court with future NBA player Marko Jaric. For a transformative experience tailored to mind and spirit, connect with Slobodan for a free 20-minute phone consultation at +1 747 327 6333 or click here.
