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Neurons to Nirvana: Gabor Maté Interview

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

A wide-ranging collection of excerpts from an interview with Gabor Maté, covering addiction, ayahuasca, past experience, transitional states, Western medicine and the mind/body division, and much more besides. As always, he is very watchable and he talks sense. Well worth … Continue reading →

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Human Despair – Dr Gabor Maté

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Gabor talking about human nature, and our cultures. Compelling, moving and accurate. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

Posted in child development, childhood abuse, compassion, conditions of worth, consciousness, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological issues, emotions, empathy, empowerment, ethics, external locus, Gabor Mate, human condition, interconnection & belonging, meaning, organismic experiencing, paradigm shift, perception, photographs & pictures, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatry, reality, relationship, sadness & pain, self, self concept, self esteem, trauma, violence, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, alienation, alienation from self, alienation in relationship, authenticity, belonging, capitalism, community, competition, connection, consumer society, consumerism, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, cultural toxicity and health, disconnection, distress, empathy, environmental factors, environmental stressors, Exeter Counselling, existential meaning, Gabor Mate, individualism, interconnectedness, interconnection, interdependence, intimacy, loss of control, loss of meaning, low cost counselling exeter, materialism, nurture, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, relationship, self concept, social isolation, societal responsibility, socio-economic disadvantage, therapeutic effect of community, therapeutic effect of relationship, toxic culture, toxic stress, trauma, web of life, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Gabor Maté – Toxic Culture, Bioneers Conference 2012

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘The birth and death of any phenomena is connected to the birth and death of all other phenomena. The one contains the many, and the many contains the one.’ The Buddha Insightful talk that the ever-watchable Gabor Maté gave at … Continue reading →

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Lost, David Whyte & Beyond Meds

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://beyondmeds.com/2015/05/17/stand-still/ Click on the link to visit http://www.beyondmeds.com, for a post including this astonishing poem by David Wagoner:- Lost ‘Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must … Continue reading →

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The Conflict – Update & Zarathustra

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

On 17 February, we published the following post about a conflict involving this service. https://palacegatecounsellingservice.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/the-conflict/ I was interested to see this article by Zarathustra, a.k.a. Phil Dore, on that post. http://notsobigsociety.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/exeter-counselling-service/ If you would like to read the full story … Continue reading →

Posted in conflict, ethics, our service, regulation | Tagged Exeter Counselling, John Clapham, Lindsey Talbott, Not so big society, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Phil Dore, Philip Dore, Phoenix Counselling, Zarathustra | 1 Comment