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Deeyah Khan ‘Women Are Part of the Solution to Extremism’

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/deeyah-khan/muslim-extremism-women_b_8251832.html?utm_hp_ref=uk&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067 Interesting, useful article by Deeyah. The writer (who is a woman) takes a reflective approach to posting pieces with a gendered approach. This is because her own sense is that the underlying issues in our cultures are about human … Continue reading →

Posted in 'evil', accountability, anger, blaming, bullying, civil rights, communication, compulsive behaviour, conflict, congruence, criminal justice model, cultural questions, Disconnection, diversity, education, empowerment, encounter, equality, ethics, external locus, family systems, fear, feminine, Gender & culture, generational trauma, healing, human condition, identity, interconnection & belonging, masculine, non-conforming, objectification, paradigm shift, person centred, political, power and powerlessness, scapegoating, sexual violence, shaming, teaching, trauma, violence | Tagged activism, activism by Muslim women, affordable counselling exeter, alternate visions, challenging gender roles, coercion, coercive conformity, collaborative working, community, conflict, conforming, connection, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creative politics, depiction of Muslim women, depiction of women, detection of potential extremism, discrimination, distrust, division, divisive, empowering women within the family, empowerment, external locus, extremism, extremist religion, Family, female preachers, feminism, gender discrimination, gender divisions, gender roles, gender segregation, gender violence, generational trauma, handmaidens, human co-operation, human needs, Human Rights, human rights activists, independent sources of income for women, informing on family, injustice social justice, interconnection, interdependence, intergenerational trauma, International Civil Society Network, IRA, Islamic State, jihad brides, judgement, justice, Krista London Couture, Kurdish peshmerga, locus of power, low cost counselling exeter, male aggression, media bias, media depiction of Muslim women, media depiction of women, media distortion, media focus, men as leaders, men as warriors, militant organisations, Moroccan policy on extremism, Moroccan social strategy, Moroccan strategy on extremism, Moroccan women and economic power, Moroccan women and legal power, Morocco’s interpretation of family law, mourchidates, Muslim women activists, Muslim women preachers, non-conforming, non-violent interventions and extremism, oppression, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, passive roles, patriarchal family, patriarchal gender roles, patriarchal politics, peace, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, PKK, pluralist initiatives, pluralist vision, political context for violence, political credibility of women, politics, politics of militarisation, politics of securitisation, preventing extremism, prevention of extremism, prison system in Morocco, protesting, psychological context for violence, rape, reactionary, rise of extremist religion, roles, Sanam Anderlini-Naraghi, sex slaves, sexual violence, social context for violence, social order, social participation, social participation by women, social pressure to inform on others, social pressures, social roots, soft intervention, soft interventions and extremism, softer politics, solution to extremism, state encouragement to inform on family, supporting women, Tamil Tigers, tolerance, totalitarian strategies, transnational initiatives on extremism, transnational initiatives on violence, trust, ultra-conservativism, unifying, victim mindset, violence, violent militants, Western responses to violent extremism, women as passive, women as victims, women as victims of male aggression, women preachers, women's capability, women's empowerment, women's influence, women's rights activists, women’s rights in Morocco, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

C Shaw ‘Depression is not a Disease but an Indication that Human Consciousness needs to Change’

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://vocesdetierra.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/depression-is-not-a-disease-but-an-indication-that-human-consciousness-needs-to-change/ Interesting article dated 12 August from C Shaw. We’re not entirely on board with all of it (for example the reference to ‘depression’ as ‘chemical and emotional imbalance of the brain’ – see Joanna Moncrieff on this subject), but … Continue reading →

Posted in civil rights, clients' perspective, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, Jeff Foster, meditation, natural world, paradigm shift, perception, physical being, political, power, reality, sustainability | Tagged C Shaw, civil rights, coercive conformity, coercive reality, community, conformity, consciousness, consensual reality, counselling exeter, creativity, cultural norms, cultural pressure, deep relaxation, depression, disconnection, ecological issues, ecology, environmental issues, http://vocesdetierra.wordpress.com/, Human Rights, Jeff Foster, Joanna Moncrieff, Krishnamurti, Matt Licata, meditation, mother earth, natural world, normality, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, perception, pressure to conform, reality, separation, shift of consciousness, sick society, social norms, social pressures, Stephan Harding, Voces de Tierra, web of life | Leave a comment

Paris Williams & Anomalous Belief Systems

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Paris Williams & Anomalous Belief Systems Click on the title for an interesting and thought-provoking post from Paris Williams on Monica Cassini’s Beyond Meds site. We like Paris’ willingness and ability to look below the flat surface of cultural ideas/norms, … Continue reading →

Posted in client as 'expert', clients' perspective, consciousness, cultural questions, ecological issues, empowerment, equality, ethics, healing, human condition, Mad in America, medical model, Monica Cassani, paradigm shift, Paris Williams, perception, power, psychiatry, sustainability | Tagged anomalous belief systems, belief system, Beyond Meds, coercive conformity, conformity, cultural conformity, cultural norms, disorder model, forced conformity, human condition, human needs, Mad in America, medical model, Monica Cassani, Palace Gate Counselling Service, paradigm shift, Paris Williams, pressure to conform, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, Rethinking Madness, social pressures | Leave a comment

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Deeyah Khan ‘Women Are Part of the Solution to Extremism’

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Paris Williams & Anomalous Belief Systems

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