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Evocative Supervision. "Supervising therapists is one of my most enjoyable professional activities; indeed it feels like a privilege. As an existential supervisor, I try to create an environment that values the ‘humanity’ and mutuality of the supervisory relationship and that combines respectful collegial rapport with moments of profound experiential depth similar to therapy itself..." more Focusing-oriented Supervision. "As an inexperienced training therapist, I was anxious about seeing my first clients, so I willingly acquiesced to the requirement of weekly group supervision. Supervision was a strange new activity that consisted of meeting with fellow students and a seasoned practitioner in order to explore what was really happening behind the closed door of therapy..." more Focusing as a Way of Being. "Eugene Gendlin is an existential philosopher who wants to point us back to our lived experience. He invites us to stand in our experience and then to ask from there, ‘What kind of world is this?’ ‘What is a human being if this kind of experience is possible?’..." more |
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Let Your Body Be Your Coach. "I first became aware of the profession of coaching in the late 1990s. My response at that time was a mixture of suspicion and concern. I worried that coaching was a form of ‘therapy-lite’ practiced by astute entrepreneurs who were not adequately educated in counselling skills or psychological theory; an unholy blend of business acumen and therapeutic promise. Most of my psychotherapy and psychology colleagues formed a similar prejudice about coaching. However, over the intervening years..." (chapter from forthcoming Existential Coaching by Monica Hanaway and Emmy van Deurzen) Existential Migration. "Leaving home can be a traumatic and exciting experience, especially if we are leaving to live in a foreign country. Research into the experiences of voluntary migrants has unexpectedly revealed that some of these people are actually using migration to express a deeply felt existential need. These ‘existential migrants’ discover more about themselves and feel more alive when confronting unfamiliar cultures..." more See further publications here |