My Bill of Rights: Embodied Expression of Needs and Rights
I have often found myself trying to perform cognitive therapy with my clients in a more embodied way and coined the term 3D-CBT for these instances. There are numerous reasons why this might be of benefit, but generally speaking it is about bringing in as many systems...
Techniques for the Radical Humanist
It seems to me to be the cruellest fact of life that when a person’s needs are inadequately met in childhood they very often become neurologically prone to inhabiting their environment in such a way that these needs will continue to be thwarted throughout adulthood....
Shadow Work and the Crisis of Transformation
The Role of the Shadow Self in Therapy Carl Gustav Jung was the first to use the term the ‘Shadow Self’ to denote an unconscious part of us which provides storage for our primordial animal aggression as well as repressed reactions to painful aspects of our history. Of...
Thieves in the Temple: The Importance of Identifying Scapegoating in Family Systems
There can be thieves in the temple, who will tell you they are only there to polish the floors. In this current age, we have witnessed an incredible expansion on our knowledge of not only how many, if not the majority, of our most troubling psychological illnesses...
Ken Wilber’s 3-2-1 Process: A Method for Retracting Shadow Projections
"One always learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence" — Robertson Davies Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886) In the 1990’s philosopher Ken Wilber created a very detailed model for mapping human evolution and psychospiritual development potential,...