This blog has charted my journey through a transpersonal (integrative) psychotherapy training course at CCPE in London. I am now in year three. So far this year we have had lectures on existential psychotherapy, Jungian Symbolism and the transpersonal theories of Michael Washburn and Ken Wilber. In the first year we had lectures on the planes of
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TheoryI have often wondered about the long term affects on my health of working in a profession where I am predominantly sitting in a chair. Unlike other jobs I can’t easily get up and walk around my place of work when I am counselling and in listening mode. I have found, therefore, it is critical
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TheoryFor the past two weeks we have had lectures on the transpersonal ideas of Ken Wilber. If that wasn’t sufficiently academic we then had a lecture this week on the concept of regression in the service of transcendence, the work and ideas of Michael Washburn. Michael Washburn produced a seminal work, The Ego and the
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TheoryLast week we had the first of two lectures on the transpersonal ideas of Ken Wilber, author of the Spectrum of Consciousness. This week we heard all about his integral theories of consciousness. To recap, for Wilber there are three stages of development. 1 Pre personal This is the primitive (unconscious) stage, before we know who we
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TheoryThis week we started the first of two lectures on the transpersonal ideas of Ken Wilber, American author of the Spectrum of Consciousness and an integral theorist. Wilber was not, and is not, a therapist but a theorist and his ideas are often criticised for being hierarchical, masculine focused and representing a ladder like course
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TheoryWe are now returning to the more transpersonal focused material on the course. We had a strong taster in the first year during a week of creative imagination, which I personally found very powerful and transformative. Perhaps that week, upon reflection, was the foundation of the whole course for we had learned the fundamentals about
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TheoryFor the past two weeks we have had lectures on Existential Psychotherapy. This is a philosophical method of therapy that operates on the belief that inner conflict within a person is due to that individual’s confrontation with the givens of existence. However, there is no such uniform body of therapy known as existential psychotherapy. Rather there
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TheoryAt the weekend I attended a free two day course in London on life coaching which was run by the Coaching Academy. I have always been curious about the synergy between coaching and counselling/psychotherapy and, therefore, decided to explore what coaching was all about. The course promised that I would learn some coaching fundamentals over
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CoursesHoliday time finds me reading books which I had failed to read throughout the year, such as I’m OK you’re OK as well as books which I want to read out of pure interest. I also find myself reflecting on the last two years as I pass the mid point in my training. I recall
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TrainingCo-dependence is: ‘A painful internal state of low-grade chronic depression which is literally precipitated by intense and chronic mourning for our authentic selves’ John Bradshaw A LIFE OF OTHER-ATION This post covers codependency in relationships. This week’s lecture (and the final one of this term) was on codependence. The lecture series has been an interesting one this
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