The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a report suggesting that the UK economic model is "broken", that since the financial crisis what economic growth there has been has gone into profits rather than earnings resulting in "the longest period of ear
Read more…It is such a turn around from when I was young - now it is the leader of Russia who speaks common sense while America goes in for calculated hysteria. What has the world come to?
CNN report on speech by Vladimir Putin:
Russian President Vladimir Put
Read more…Here is a list of seventeen major forms of conditioning that shape our lives. Included are the factors that tend to keep us trapped in samsara and also those that make an escape possible.
Root Relation This refers to the presence in or absence from t
Read more…Mindfulness is remembrance of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. This is most easily done by saying and hearing the Buddha's name. Hence the practice of reciting the name has become widespread in the Buddhist world. Reciting the name when something happens,
Read more…It used to be the case that if one was married to somebody from another country you were welcome in either country. However, it now seems that even if one is married to a UK citizen, been in UK some years, and expecting a baby you can still be deport
Read more…There is much debate inside the EU at the moment about the rules that govern labour mobility. Macron wants to change these, the East European members want to keep present arrangements. The richer countries are finding their high wages undercut by che
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A few words about the power of suggestion and its important role in the counselling process.
In Pairs
Recalling the work of yesterday and looking forward to today.
Session 12
This was part two of session 8. Session began with client saying she had
It is a sad thing to see that the USA is now a country that refugees are fleeing from.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/23/americas/canada-asylum-seekers-from-united-states/index.html
Throughout my life America was the country that people fled to. Ther
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Buddhism begins with realism about dukkha. People quarrel. People steal. They have unconventional sex. Sometimes people kill each other. There is violence. The human is a predatory animal. Incest happens. Partners cheat. Families are sometime
Read more…There is furor because the UK immigration authorities sent out about 100 letters to EU citizens telling them to leave the UK https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2017/aug/23/home-office-apologises-for-letters-threatening-to-deport-eu-nationals
The me
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Talk
“The master within the master”
The client follows prompts that come from within. This is what is called a “felt sense” in the therapy method Focussing. Carl Rogers developed a theory of what is needed to be a good therapist. His colleague Gene
Sandokai
“Here born we clutch at things and then compound delusion later on by following ideals”
“Living an ideal is not enlightenment”
Short Introduction
on the need
- to have fellow-feeling with the client
- to cherish the client’s courageous spi
President Trump has now finally made his "important statement" on policy in Afghanistan, basically admitting that he hasn't a clue what could possibly work. He does not really want to send more troops because it costs money and even when Obama put 10
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Warm Up in Pairs & Small Groups
- getting to know each other
- what would I work on today?
- what is my learning edge at the moment?
First Therapy Demonstration
Presenting issue:
Client presented a difficulty with a colleague. The colleague looks
What can we do in response to the terrors, violence and dangers that are all over the world these days?
Of course, there is a limit to what the individual person can do by personal power or genius. Even groups of people may have difficulty bringing a
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Input
Don’t try to fix it, try to understand, more and more, and show how you are affected. Then it may fix itself. If it fix itself the fix is real. If you fix it is is probably only cosmetic.
There is a parallel process between that is happening bet
We began by completing the theory of consonant and dissonant social relations in networks. We looked in particular at the example of a new member - say, the daughter’s boyfriend - coming into a family and the ensuing tensions. We see how this could l
Morning Seminar
We looked at the story of Dong Shan and his enlightenment encounter with his teacher. We saw how
1. the teacher disrupted the attitude of the disciple and presented himself just as a human being, rather than advertising himself. In
First session
We looked at the issue of moral judgement in counselling and learning how to say things in ways that are not morally loaded, that do not blame the client, nor lead the client into saying things either simply to please or defy the counsel
In this course we are working with the text Jewel Mirror Samadhi Song. This text can be interpreted in many ways. We are going to look at it in the perspective of counselling and psychotherapy. These notes should therefore be taken in conjunction wit
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