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Monthly Archives: November 2014
R Carlos Nakai – Earth Spirit
Click on the link for this wonderful and uplifting collection of solo flute pieces from Navajo-Ute musician R. Carlos Nakai. It has a gentle, centered, meditative quality we love. And here’s an earlier post to some more of his beautiful, … Continue reading
Posted in awakening, beauty, consciousness, creativity, flow, genius, immanence, mindfulness, music, natural world, organismic experiencing, R Carlos Nakai, spirituality
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Carl Rogers on the process of becoming
‘I should like to point out one final characteristic of these individuals as they strive to discover and become themselves. It is that the individual seems to become more content to be a process rather than a product. When he … Continue reading
Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, Carl Rogers, client as 'expert', clients' perspective, consciousness, empowerment, equality, flow, healing, internal locus of evaluation, non-directive counselling, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, person centred, person centred theory, reality, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trust, working with clients
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Evening Verse by Robert Aitken
On a cold November evening, click on the link to visit Dharma Spring on Facebook, for a post comprising this lovely photograph and verse by Robert Aitken:- EVENING VERSE ‘Falling asleep at last I vow with all beings to enjoy … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, awakening, beauty, consciousness, gratitude, healing, interconnection & belonging, natural world, organismic experiencing, perception, photographs & pictures, physical being, poetry, sleep, trust, wonder
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, awakening, beauty, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, darkness, Evening Verse, Gaia, healing, low cost counselling exeter, mindfulness, natural world, night, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, peace, person centred counselling exeter, rest, Robert Aitken, sleep, surrender, wonder, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Psychotherapy Cuts Suicide Risk by 26 Percent by John M. Grohol
http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/11/24/psychotherapy-drops-suicide-risk-by-26/77766.html Click on the link to this article on recent research. We don’t like some of the language – which derives from the psychiatric model of ‘mental illness’. The information is extremely important. With thanks to Brent Dean Robbins for … Continue reading
Posted in healing, medical model, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, research evidence, risk, suicide, therapeutic relationship, working with clients
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Roopaantar – Metamorphosis by Radha Pandey
Lovely short animated film from Radha Pandey. The story was adapted from a Japanese folktale, (translated by Rafe Martin) called ‘Green Willow’. The music is called “Wanting Peace” by Nawang Khechog. Here’s the Blake quote from the end:- “The tree which … Continue reading
Posted in awakening, beauty, consciousness, creativity, ecological, ecological issues, grief, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, love, music, natural world, paradigm shift, physical being, political, relationship, sustainability, wonder
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, ecological issues, Green Willow, low cost counselling exeter, natural world, Nawang Khechog, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, Radha Pandey, Rafe Martin, Roopaantar, Wanting Peace, William Blake, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Gabor Maté: On Storytelling, Health, and the Ruling Class, with Ryan Meili
http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/gabor-mate-storytelling Click on the link for Part 2 of this fascinating, wide-ranging interview with Gabor Mate (Part 1 was yesterday’s post). The writer is often struck with the strong links between what Gabor is saying, and person-centred. For example, Rogers … Continue reading
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Gabor Maté: How Capitalism Makes Us Sick, with Ryan Meili
http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/gabor-mate-how-capitalism-makes-us-sick Click on the link for Part 1 of an interview with Gabor Mate by Ryan Meili in Briarpatch Magazine – we will be posting Part 2 as well (or there is a link at the end of Part 1, … Continue reading
Posted in 'evil', childhood abuse, consciousness, criminal justice model, cultural questions, Disconnection, equality, ethics, Gabor Mate, Gender & culture, generational trauma, human condition, political, power, power and powerlessness, scapegoating, trauma, violence
Tagged A Healthy Society, affordable counselling exeter, Anatole France, Bessel van der Kork, Briarpatch, Briarpatch Magazine, capitalism, cocaine use, consumer society, consumerism, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, deprivation, dictatorship, drug addiction, drug use, economic exploitation, economic inequality, economic model, Gabor Mate, heroin use, illegal drugs, indigenous culture, indigenous people, Institute for a Healthy Society, isolation, law enforcement, legal system, low cost counselling exeter, media control, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, political model, political short termism, Ryan Meili, Saskatchewan First Nations, Saskatoon Tribal Council, short term thinking, social inequality, social inequality and criminal justice system, systemic racism, totalitarian, Toxic Culture: How Capitalism Makes us Sick, Upstream, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Pablo Neruda on finding yourself
“Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.” Pablo Neruda Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter
Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, consciousness, Pablo Neruda, perception, poetry, self
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Contact Improvisation: An Intuitive, Non-Verbal and Intimate Dialogue: Itay Yatuv at TEDxBGU
Click on the link for this interesting TED film/talk by Itay, artistic director of the Hakvutza Dance School in Jaffa, Tel Aviv. Itay has been practicing and teaching Contact Improvisation for over 10 years to professional and amateur dancers. He … Continue reading
Posted in actualizing tendency, child development, communication, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, Dance, emotions, empathy, flow, growing up, interconnection & belonging, movement meditation, parenting, person centred, physical being, relationship, TED, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, touch, trust
Tagged actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, belonging, child development, conscious dance, conscious parenting, contact improvisation, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, embodiment, Hakvutza Dance School, interconnection, intimacy, Itay Yatuv, low cost counselling exeter, movement meditation, non verbal communication, organismic, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parent child communication, parenting, person centred counselling exeter, physical being, relationship, therapeutic growth, therapeutic process, Touch, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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