Anyone who has left the comfort of his or her home has dealt with the stress that comes with travelling. Whether a person is travelling by car, bus, train, or plane, he or she will eventually become frustrated with the many headaches that travelling brings with it. If a person is travelling by car, he […]
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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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I 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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For 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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Last 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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This 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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We 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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For 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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Have you ever wondered how long it would take to see your new year resolution to truly take hold in new behaviour? Habits are formed through a process called ‘context-dependent repetition’. Some say it takes 21 days for new behaviour to be formed. However, I have also heard that 66 days is more realistic. So,which
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The OCD Action National Conference recently took place in London. Leading OCD charity, OCD Action, organises the annual OCD Action National Conference to help people with OCD develop their own support network and to give them the chance to hear from leading experts. The World Health Organisation has listed OCD in their top ten