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Studies Programme Overview: January - July 2005

A series of evening, day and weekend workshops and seminars based on experiential, contemplative and theoretical studies in Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy.

Events are listed chronologically below, click the links for more information on each.

Bringing the Heart into Transpersonal Psychotherapy* Serge Beddington-Behrens 25 - 27 February
Gifts of Dreams* Maggie Peters 2 - 3 April
The Therapist's Use of Self* John Rowan 16 - 17 April
Integrating Psychotherapy and Spirituality* Serge Beddington-Behrens 19 April
Psychiatry 1 - Breakdown: Its Assessment and Understanding** Dr Shakir Shyam Ansari 21 April
Sex, Gender, Soul and Spirit David De Vall 22 - 24 April
Psychiatry 2 - Mental State Examination and Psychopathology** Dr Shakir Shyam Ansari 28 April
Inward Bound Prof. John Drew, David Lorimer, Serge Beddington-Behrens 29 April - 1 May
Psychiatry 3 - Diagnostic Categories and their Implications** Dr Shakir Shyam Ansari 5 May
Psychiatry 4 - Management and Treatment of Mental Illness** Dr Shakir Shyam Ansari 12 May
Integral Psychotherapy and Big Mind* Ian Macdonald 21 - 22 May
Heart, the Shadow, and Transpersonal Psychotherapy* Serge Beddington-Behrens 10 - 12 June
The Virtual Self: a meeting of neuroscience and mysticism? Dr Les Lancaster 15 June
Blake's Job: Nobility of Soul at odds with Circumstance Jason Wright 16 June
Research Methods** John Rowan 18 June
Meeting the Lastrygonians - an Encounter with teh Archetypal Parents Stephen Friedrich 25 - 26 June
Introduction to Authentic Movement Linda Hartley 2 - 3 July
A Transpersonal Approach to Addiction Jason Wright 14 July
Once upon a Mid Life; stories and tales to illuminate middle life journeying Karyn Fletcher 16 July
Spiritual Pathology Rob Preece 23 - 24 July

*For psychotherapists and students in professional preparation only.

** Provides supportive academic hours within subject areas now formally required by UKCP for accreditation (trainees) and CPD for accredited therapists.

 

Studies Programme: January - July 2005

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Who is the Studies Programme for?

Broadly, for anyone who feels drawn to exploring contemporary ideas and issues in transpersonal psychology and theory and who wishes to deepen their understanding and experience in this rapidly developing field.

The Studies Programme is offered with several groups of people in mind:

  • Those who are primarily interested in discovering, or deepening, their own transpersonal journey, irrespective of whether or not they train as psychotherapists
     
  • Those who are experienced, practicing psychotherapists of any particular orientation that wish to bring a transpersonal perspective and context into their ongoing work.
     
  • Those who are already currently involved in the Centre’s therapeutic counseling or diploma programmes that wish to expand their understanding of transpersonal themes.
     
  • Those who are engaged in the process of professional preparation and working towards accreditation as a UKCP registered transpersonal psychotherapist.
     

Continuing professional development

An important dimension of the current programme is the inclusion of varied themed workshops that provide continuing professional development for: our UKCP registered members; those in professional preparation; allied professionals engaged in the practice of psychotherapy, psychology, and other related fields who are generally interested in areas that offer a grounded transpersonal context.

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Two Day Workshops
The fee for all two day workshops is £120
*For psychotherapists and students in professional preparation only.

Bringing the Heart into Transpersonal Psychotherapy*
Serge Beddington-Behrens
Friday 25 February, 6.30-10pm, Saturday 26 February, 10am-6pm and Sunday February 27, 10am-4pm

Our hearts are our greatest weapon for mass construction. As such, their well-being is most important if we are to enjoy psychological and spiritual health. For a great many of us, the heart is the gateway leading to our soul life.

Therefore, the more our heart life can be claimed, the greater our capacity to see life freshly, live it more abundantly, metabolize difficult emotions and integrate new insights. If properly utilized, our hearts can greatly enhance and speed up the whole process of our growth and transformation. As a result, I believe that the heart needs to play a more significant and conscious role in transpersonal psychology than it often does.

During the course of the weekend, therefore, we will explore how, as psychotherapists, we can activate more of our heart’s potential and help our clients to do the same. Expect to emerge with useful new insights, tools, exercises and processes which will enhance your understanding of what I call “Heart work”, and deepen the quality of your own transformational journey as well as that of your clients.

 

Gifts of Dreams*
Maggie Peters
Saturday 2 April, 10am-6pm and Sunday 3 April, 10am-4pm

The dream is one of the greatest gifts a client brings into the therapeutic container. In bypassing the ego the dream allows us to enter into meaningful connection at a soul level, giving unique insight into the dreamer's psyche and life journey. This workshop will help you to find new skills and develop your understanding of dream processes. Please bring a dream of your own to focus on as the work will move between the experiential, theory and discussion.

 

The Therapist’s Use of Self*
John Rowan

Saturday 16 April, 10am-6pm and Sunday 17 April, 10am-4pm

This workshop is an introduction to the ideas of the book co-written by John Rowan and Michael Jacobs. This book argues that there are three basic ways of doing therapy, each of which represents a different use of self. Firstly there is the Instrumental way, whose watchword is Treating; here one attempts to solve the problems of the client, and to restore the client to health. Secondly there is the Authentic way, whose watchword is Meeting; here one admits that one is much like the client (a wounded healer), and offers a personal relationship with the client. In the psychodynamic field, this means an emphasis on the positive use of counter-transference. Thirdly there is the Transpersonal way, whose watchword is Linking; here one opens up to the spiritual concerns of the client (including heart, soul and essence), and admits that therapist and client have access to a numinous realm in which the separation between therapist and client is radically questioned. In this workshop we shall meet all three of these, respecting each one for what it has to offer, and exploring the idea that the more of them to which the therapist has access, the more flexible and creative the therapist can be. There will also be some exploration of a second level of the transpersonal, which goes beyond Linking.

 

Sex, Gender, Soul and Spirit
David De Vall
Friday 22 April, 6.30-10pm, Saturday 23 April, 10am-6pm and Sunday 24 April 10am-2pm

In this workshop contemporary developmental maps of the masculine and
feminine will be explored theoretically and experientially. The issues
surrounding the masculine and feminine spiritual paths will be explored with
particular reference to conscious relationship as an alchemical vessel. In
particular we will be exploring our individual mix of masculine and feminine energies in the physical, emotional, mental, psychic (subtle) and spiritual (causal)
domains, and will consider what it means to be a man or a woman from these
perspectives.

The orienting maps we will be using will be David Deida's conception of 1st,
2nd and 3rd stage; John Rowan's relational and gender expansion of Ken
Wilber's levels; Michael Washburn's stage of "Regression in the Service of
Transcendence"; and Barbara Somers' "Fires of Alchemy".

 

Inward Bound
John Drew, David Lorimer, Serge Beddington-Behrens
Friday 29 April, 6.30-10pm, Saturday 30 April, 10am-6pm and Sunday 1 May 10am-2pm

The Inward Bound Programme is designed to help you make sense of your inner and outer life in the friendly and supportive company of your peers from a range of professional backgrounds. It will provide you with a firm grounding from which you can address the challenges of a fast changing world and help others around you do the same. It is designed to help you reflect on your work/life balance, personal aims and values, and enable you to integrate more effectively your professional and personal lives to the benefit of both.

The Inward Bound approach draws together a number of critical insights and we work on these with thoughts and feelings. These include among many others the observation that the art of living needs to be more integrated in the art of working; current developments within the field of consciousness studies, especially those relating to the inner and outer aspects of life;the implications of the current pace of technological development for ethics, society and the environment; and the processes of individual and organisational change and transformation.

Integral Psychotherapy and Big Mind
Ian MacDonald

Saturday 21 May, 10am-6pm and Sunday 22 May, 10am-4pm

Integral Psychotherapy is not an eclectic mix of other therapy types. It is a total re-framing of the client. We are used to concentrating our psychotherapy on just one aspect, the personal interior; how the person feels about themselves. Integral Psychotherapy is about an approach that looks at four quadrants following Ken Wilber’s AQAL, All Quadrant All Level, model. We learn to consider the Interior Personal or “I “ element; this is normally the sole area of traditional psychotherapy. We also look at how the individual relates to the immediate outside world, to the group and culture within which they live. Consideration is also given to the Masculine aspects of life and the Feminine or the aspects which are self serving and those which relate to being of service to others. It is an integral approach which looks at all aspects of the person and the surroundings and culture that form the habitat.-The workshop will give an introduction to these concepts and to the tools used to both evaluate and work with clients in an Integral manner.

Part of the weekend will be used to connect individuals with that part of themselves which we may understand as our consciousness or Spirit. This will be done through an experiential session based on the Big Mind process taught by Genpo Roshi in the USA. During this people will progressively be made aware of the different aspects of the human mind until connection is made the un-seeking mind or Big Mind. It is an opportunity to enter a state of consciousness normally only glimpsed after years of Zen meditation. For some it becomes a pivotal experience, opening the mind to a unified state only previously found in rare peak experiences. This aspect should leave participants with a feeling of connectedness and unity.

 

Heart, the Shadow, and Transpersonal Psychotherapy*
Serge Beddington-Behrens
Friday 10 June, 6.30-10pm, Saturday 11 June, 10am-6pm and Sunday 12 June, 10am-4pm

Just as the diver who intends to go deep must ensure that he carries enough air with him, so the person daring to venture deeply into their psyche also must ensure that they take with them enough heart energy if they wish to feel safe and protected.

In this workshop, we will explore, on the one hand, how to marshal more heart energy, and on the other, how to use it to voyage deeper into our own humanity. We will look at how searching for what is best in ourselves inevitably will lead us to touch into what is worst, in exactly the same way that journeying to the depths of our dark side may also conspire to open up much about what is most soulful and wholesome about us.

The weekend will be a delectable interweave of the mystery of dark and light and where participants will come to evolve profounder insights into the transformational process in general. You will also be helped to take these insights into your work as transpersonal psychotherapists.

 

Meeting the Lastrygonians
Stephen Friedrich Saturday 25 June, 10am-6pm and Sunday 26 June, 10am-4pm

This will be an experiential workshop in which we shall approach an encounter with the archetypal parents through myth, story and art. We shall try to glimpse how the archetypes work in us and through us and how they govern our daily life.

 

Introduction to Authentic Movement
Linda Hartley

Saturday 2 July, 10am-6pm and Sunday 3 July, 10am-4pm

Authentic Movement is a contemplative movement practice which has evolved within the field of dance movement therapy, and been influenced by Jungian psychology and meditative practice. As in the discipline of mindfulness meditation, we seek to pay attention to our direct experience, moment by moment, witnessing the sensations, feelings, thoughts and movement impulses which arise into consciousness. The ground form of the practice involves the relationship between one who moves and one who witnesses; through her mindful presence and compassionate attention the witness creates a safe space which the mover enters, eyes closed, to attend to his inner world. The mover is invited to surrender to the flow of impulses which arise from the unconscious, and to bring these into expression through movement. In this way unconscious material is embodied, felt and seen by another, and can be integrated into consciousness through verbal sharing, writing and artwork. The witness also attends to her direct experience, owning her judgments, projections and interpretations, and thus learns to see herself and the mover more clearly. Through being witnessed with non-judgmental acceptance, clarity and compassion, the mover is enabled to develop a clear and compassionate inner witness.

In this introductory workshop each participant will be guided into entering their own movement process, and the basic skills of witnessing another will be introduced. The art of witnessing is an embracing attitude which can be used in any therapeutic or educational situation, whether movement is the medium of expression or not. Authentic Movement also offers an embodied and relational approach to spiritual practice which some meditators find a rich support for more traditional practices. It has been described as a feminine form of Zen; the witnesses create a circle which is repeatedly filled then emptied by the movers, and the arising and dissolving of forms can be experienced and witnessed with immediacy.

 

Spiritual Pathology
Rob Preece
Saturday 23 July, 10am-6pm and Sunday 24 July, 10am-4pm

Freud said "Neurosis is a kind of personal religion." We may equally say that our spiritual and religious beliefs are often shaped by our individual neurosis. Our spiritual institutions become a collective, collusive validation of our pathology. How are we so adept at shaping our spirituality by our personal neurosis? How are we to recognise this when it is so connected to our shadow, our blind spot? During this week end we will look at the roots of some of this pathology in both ourselves and in relation to working as a therapist.

 

*For psychotherapists and students in professional preparation only.

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One Day Workshops

The fee for one day workshops is £75.

Research Methods**
John Rowan
Saturday 18 June 10am-6pm

Many people are wary of research, because it seems to be more about numbers than about people. But in this workshop we shall learn about forms of research which may not involve numbers at all. Carl Rogers made the point that it was only research which could protect him from the dangers of kidding himself. Research can be illuminating, and can tell us things we did not know before. And in recent years there has been a growth of transpersonal approaches to research, which are genuinely transformational.

 

 

Once upon a Mid Life; stories and tales to illuminate middle life journeying
Karyn Fletcher
Saturday 16 July 10am-6pm

Give people a fact or an idea and you enlighten their minds; tell them a story and you touch their souls. Hasidic proverb

This workshop focuses on middle tales. They come from all over the globe; Japan, Egypt India, America, Russia and Europe. They are stories of subtle shifts, awakenings, grasps of truth, inner happenings.

We are familiar with the tale of the young hero, meeting and falling in love with the heroine. Most stories end with "…and they lived happily ever after." These stories are about what happens once the hero and heroine have ridden off into the distance. Middle Tales, of which there are hundreds and hundreds guide us, delight us and waken insights for men and women on their journeys.

Middle Tales do not reflect conventional social values and many are astonishingly feminist showing strong independent women exercising their talents. They are iconoclastic in that they can represent something of a counter culture.

Middle Tales are often disconcerting and, being such, they cause us to reflect and so they are healing tales offering us maps, pictures, oases, delights and dangers, but also reconciliation, renewal and understanding about the larger Self and about being fully human.

This one day workshop will include story telling and story making and a chance to explore some of the major themes and challenges in relation to our inner life today.

 

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Study Evenings

The fee for each study evening is £50.
Evenings run from 7pm-10pm

Integrating Psychotherapy and Spirituality*
Serge Beddington-Behrens
Tuesday, 19 April 7-10 pm

In recent years, a new psychotherapy has been emerging, one where the integrating of the personality is becoming increasingly interwoven with the growth of that mysterious part of ourselves we call the soul, and where “deeper healings” are not able to take place, unless the spiritual part of a human being is also helped to flower. In this talk, Serge will explore the relationship between psychotherapy and spirituality as he applies it in his own work as a Spiritual Educator and Transpersonal Psychotherapist.

 

Contemporary Approaches and Principles in Psychiatry**
Shakir Shyam Ansari
Four evenings: 21 and 28 April, 5 and 12 May

A series of four interlinked workshops on mental illness, its assessment, management and treatment. Using a mixture of theory, clinical examples and discussion, these workshops are intended as an introduction for the trainee psychotherapist, to major mental illness and its management by the psychiatric services. Topics covered will include mental illness, legislation and organisational framework of psychiatric care provision, physical treatments and the place of psychotherapy, in the National Health Service.

  1. "Breakdown" – its assessment and understanding. (21st April)
    The experience of mental health problems and mental illness. The role of mental health professionals; how the NHS responds to “breakdown”. Service provision. Clinical issues. Discussion.
     
  2. "Mental State Examination" and psychopathology. (April 28th)
    An approach to mental state examination as part of assessment and diagnosis. Other structured assessments. Psychopathology and personality. Clinical examples. Discussion.
     
  3. "Diagnostic categories" and their implications. (May 5th)
    A scheme for understanding diagnostic categories and how they relate to Mental State Examination. Multi-Axial Diagnosis. Using a transpersonal perspective to explore mental illness and diagnosis. Spiritual Emergency/Crisis. Clinical vignettes. Discussion.
     
  4. "Management and Treatment of Mental Illness". (May 12th)
    A bio-psycho-social model towards managing mental illness. Drug treatment and ECT – uses and side-effects. Psychotherapy – its use and limitations? Social Care. Care Programme Approach. Use of the Mental Health Act. Inter-Agency Work . Clinical examples. Discussion.
     

 

The Virtual Self: a Meeting of Neuroscience and Mysticism?
Les Lancaster
Wednesday 15 June 2005

The challenge to understand the nature of self lies at the heart of the encounter between psychology and mysticism. Recent work in cognitive neuroscience leads to the view that the sense of ‘I’ arises as a constructed hypothesis to bring order to perceptual and memory events – a hypothesis of a unified receiver of impressions and instigator of action. Whilst all mystical traditions concur with the view of ‘I’ as lacking substantial reality, theistic traditions propose that the illusory ‘I’ reflects a deeper ordering principle – the soul and, ultimately, the divine. In this presentation I shall explore this meeting of neuroscience and mysticism, focusing especially on the role of language and interpretation as understood in Kabbalah.

 

Blake's Job: Nobility of Soul at odds with Circumstance
Jason Wright
Thursday 16 June 2005

Theodore Rothke exclaims "what is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance". In this companion piece to Les Lancaster's exploration of neuroscience and mysticism we shall explore through Blake’s illustrations of the book of Job narratives toward self and how we might use these meanings to bear experiences.

The "Virtual Self" and "Blake’s Job" have been designed to run in sequence as two complementary evenings, and hence interested participants are encouraged to attend both evenings.

 

 

A Transpersonal Approach to Addiction
Jason Wright
14 July 2005

Addiction is a problem both in our practice as psychotherapists and socially. In many ways it could be seen to form a focus for many of the culture’s ills: it is interesting to note that recent figures regard, at a minimal estimate, that 55% of acquisitive crime is drug related yet the national average, as percentage of the population, for 'problem drug users' is only 2%. These raw figures would seem to outweigh the power of the fantasies that are held about addiction. This talk will explore some of these issues and the implications that it has for our practice and how we work with our clients taking a transpersonal view point.

 

 

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Workshop Leader Biographies

Dr Shakir Shyam Ansari
A member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, completed his psychiatric training on the Guy’s Psychiatric Rotational Scheme. Currently a Consultant Psychiatrist for Oxleas NHS Trust and a Senior Lecturer belonging to the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals (University of London). He is also a Trainer, Supervisor and Practitioner in Cognitive Analytic Therapy. As a Founder Member of the Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapists, he has run CAT Training Workshops nationally and internationally with contribution to the development of Basic and Advanced Training in ACAT. He has also been involved in the teaching of General Psychiatry and Cognitive Analytic Therapy to medical students, trainee psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.

Serge Beddington-Behrens M.A. (Oxon), K.S.M.L., Ph. D.
Serge Beddington-Behrens is a psychotherapist, spiritual coach, educator and writer. Serge has a private practice in London and Gloucestershire and also teaches spiritual retreats and seminars all over England, Europe, Russia and the US. While living in California in the 1970s, he founded the Institute for the Study of Conscious Evolution. He is a trustee of the Wrekin Trust, which is currently developing the UK’s first University of the Spirit. His new book, ‘The Politics of the Heart’, will be published next year.

Professor John Drew, MA (Oxon) A.M., M.B.A.
John is Chairman of the Durham Institute and Visiting Professor of European Business Management at the University of Durham Business School. He developed and runs the successful Samling Programme for top managers including those for Chairs of the FTSE 100 companies. A former diplomat, business school director and director of a multi-national, he was the Representative of the European Commission in the United Kingdom until 1993. He has been a Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords EU Scrutiny Committee and a member of the CBI Europe Committee and has written extensively on European business. His current interests include personal development and lecturing on the better integration of business, family and personal lives.

David De Vall BSc., MSc., Dip. Law, Barrister
David trained as a counsellor at the CTP, is an accredited healer with the College of Psychic Studies and has an MSc. in Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology. He has a particular interest in the body as the locus of spiritual development and of the role the masculine and feminine polarities from a developmental perspective. He is a former engineer and lawyer who is now a consultant on the exploitation of intellectual property assets and the editor of a practitioners work on international licensing.

Karyn Fletcher
Trained with Barbara Scott and Ian Gordon Brown at the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology and is a UKCP accredited transpersonal psychotherapist and a coach working in private practice in London and Cambridgeshire. Karyn also runs her own business providing learning and development events for organisations and education.

Stephen Friedrich
Stephen Friedrich is an analytic psychotherapist working from a transpersonal basis. He is a member of the Association of Independent Psychotherapists and of the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology. He is in private practice in south west London.

Linda Hartley
Certified Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering(R), Senior Registered Dance Movement Therapist, UKCP registered psychotherapist, and has an MA in Somatic Psychology. She has worked for over twenty-five years as a teacher and therapist, and runs a training programme in Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy. Linda practices as a transpersonal and body psychotherapist in Cambridge, and is author of Wisdom of the Body Moving, Servants of the Sacred Dream, and Somatic Psychology: Body, Mind and Meaning. Many years of practice in Buddhist meditation give support and inspiration to her work.

Dr. B. Les Lancaster
is the current Chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. At Liverpool John Moores University he is co-founder of the Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology Research Unit, and has been running successful postgraduate programmes in these areas for the last 10 years. In its online format, the MSc in Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology attracts students from around the world. Lancaster is also Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Jewish Studies at Manchester University, UK, where he teaches on the Psychology of Religion. He has contributed to a number of programmes on the media in the UK and overseas, including the BBC’s ‘All in the Mind’, with Anthony Clare, ‘Seeds of Faith’, and ‘Beyond Belief’.

Lancaster is unique in having trained in physiology and neuroscience and yet having an intricate understanding of Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic and Jewish mysticisms and how they operate within their respective traditions. His interests range over these topics as well as the cultural and corporate changes that are currently shaping our world.

Lancaster has delivered numerous public lectures in the UK and overseas, and is a frequent contributor to both academic and general publications. His first book Mind Brain and Human Potential won the Science and Medical Network Best Book Award and his second book, The Elements of Judaism, has been translated into 10 languages. He has recently published Approaches to Consciousness: the Marriage of Science and Mysticism (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004).

David Lorimer, M.A., P.G.C.E.
David Lorimer is a writer, lecturer and editor who is Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network. Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of many books, most recently Thinking beyond the Brain. He is Vice-President of the Swedenborg Society and the Horizon Foundation (The International Association for Near-Death Studies UK). He is Chair of Wrekin Trust, a charity concerned with adult education, and of the All Hallows House Foundation, concerned with holistic health. He has a long-standing interest in the perennial wisdom and has translated and edited books about the Bulgarian sage Peter Deunov. He is a member of the BP-supported International Futures Forum. His book on the Prince of Wales – Radical Prince: The Practical Vision of the Prince of Wales – was published in November 2003.

Ian Macdonald
Ian Macdonald works with individuals as a counselor / psychotherapist often working in the field of trauma and work related stress. He and his wife, Christine, run an alternative health centre on the Wirral in Cheshire which provides support for professional groups including Adult Mental Health teams and the staff at a local NHS trust.

Ian also works as a facilitator and consultant with companies and organizations who are interested in moving the focus of their management to staff, suppliers and clients. The Findhorn Foundation is amongst his clients. He runs workshops on “Holwork”, which promotes bringing the whole person to work and is a member of the Spiral Dynamics core team. Ian has a master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology and has trained with both Don Beck and with Ken Wilber at the Integral Institute. Ian is a practicing Buddhist and runs a weekly meditation group.

Maggie Peters
Psychotherapist working with Transpersonal Perspectives. She was on the first training programme in Devon, led by Joan & Reyn Swallow. Maggie is in private practice in Stroud, Glos, where she lives and is a member of the team of psychotherapists at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre. The dream has been her passion for some 25 years and she runs many workshops and both personal and professional development courses in dreamwork. She is author of a self-help book 'Dreamwork - using your dreams as the way to self-discovery and personal development' (Originally published by Gaia Books, soon to be re-printed by Octopus).

Rob Preece BSc. Adv. Dip. Transpersonal Psychology UKCP reg.
He has been a practising Buddhist since 1973. He spent between 1980 and 1985 in India engaged in isolated retreat in the Himalayas, under the guidance of a number of Tibetan Lamas. He has worked as a psychotherapist since 1987 and has given many workshops on comparative Buddhist and Jungian psychology. He is an experienced meditation teacher and Tangkha painter (Buddhist icons) and is the author of The Alchemical Buddha, introducing the psychology of Buddhist Tantra and The Noble Imperfection, exploring spiritual pathology.

John Rowan
Consultant Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Counsellor working in the field of the transpersonal since 1982. Professor David Fontana has said of him - "The late Ian Gordon-Brown and John Rowan can appropriately be called the founding fathers of Transpersonal Psychology in Britain. Without their major contributions the subject would not have achieved the measure of acceptance within mainstream psychology which it now enjoys." He has just finished writing the second edition of his book on the transpersonal in psychotherapy and counselling, which will appear next year, and contains much new material. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and also of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, having made many contributions to theory. He is on the Editorial Boards of Self & Society, the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, the BPS Transpersonal Psychology Review and the BPS Counselling Psychology Review, and has also worked in the research field for
seventeen years, and has been an examiner for MA and PhD dissertations and theses.

Jason Wright is an experienced psychotherapist, manager and consultant. He is currently Chair of CTP and Chief executive for the CORE trust. He has served on the Governing Board and various committees for the UKCP and as Chair of the Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic section. His consultancy clients include BP, OMA, REL Arts & Business, The Corporate Theatre and Lamda Business Performance.

He has lectured at various institutions in his particular specialities of Addiction, Transpersonal Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy including the Tavistock, St Georges Medical school, John Moores university, AIP, & CTP.

 

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