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Self-discovery and the search for meaning. Transformational journeys through personal and transpersonal dimensions of our being

Self-discovery and the search for meaning. Transformational journeys through personal and transpersonal dimensions of our being

We feel ourselves to be both spiritual and unique, yet often we are unhappy and unfulfilled. The soul has become far away and out of reach. We have lost touch with the sacredness of all life, and the gods, neglected, have returned as troubles of all kinds.
Many of us have been desperately hurt and wounded in our lives. Torn between extreme opposites, we may feel ourselves to be flung and pulled in all directions: 'Either I stay with my partner and go mad, or I leave, lose the children and die of loneliness.' - 'Either I leave my job, go bankrupt and die of fear and boredom, or I stay in it and die of a heart attack.' We fear there may be no solution.
Just as the immune system heals the body, so does our inner wisdom heal the soul. It's a natural process, like the healing of a wound. Our own inner world, when trusted, heals itself. However, it's tricky. That's why we need support in finding strength, comfort, healing. It's not about other people telling us what to do, how to be. We need encouragement to find within ourselves the quality and essence of our own innate wisdom, which can answer so many questions and problems.
The Transpersonal way is to ask, not 'What's wrong with me?' but 'What's right with me?' Those who come to Rock Bank have sometimes found inside themselves what is often an astonishing awareness of their own wisdom and compassion. This can be seen as a quest; and while to be on a quest may not be comfortable, to be aware of life as a developmental journey may well lead individuals to move in and out of spiritual areas, invoking another dimension, acknowledging the unique touching of their souls. So we may find our way back to wholeness, to intuition, the values of the feeling heart, the warmth of the hearth-fires of home. However, both head and heart, reason and emotion, instinct and knowledge are needed if the soul is to come home in us, and in our children and in our world.
Offering workshops, counselling, therapy and coaching, as well as supervision, books and meditation, the work at Rock Bank is appropriate for many people, including professionals: it is for all who seek to know and befriend themselves, and thus each other. It is for everyone who has known something of hurt or grief or betrayal, of the pain of loss, the excitement of the inner journey, the quest, the new birth that is itself a profound healing.
TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY, WORKSHOPS IN LEICESTERSHIRE

At Rock Bank, weekend and single day workshops are held.
A variety of themes have included:
Alchemy
The Seven Rays
Tales and Legends
Symptom as Symbol
Transpersonal workshops
Dark Wood to White Rose, on Dante
Understanding and Encouraging Yourself
Spontaneous Drawing and Dreams
Parsifal and the Grail
The Inner Friend
Initiation
Dreams
Longer courses and Meditation are available, and also individual Counselling and Therapy, Coaching and Supervision .
Transpersonal Weekends.
The three introductory Transpersonal Workshops, originating with Barbara Somers and Ian Gordon-Brown, form the heart and core of the work here.
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In October, Monica Anthony, craniosacral therapist and musician, brings a day on Symptom as Symbol, echoing the title of our fourth book (see 'Book Series').
Emma Ramsden comes in February with a day on ‘Passages' – thresholds, alleyways or narrow, walled lanes that lead to another level: to the subliminal, on to further journeying.
Then I much look forward to Pamela Allsop’s return in April with Spontaneous Drawing and Dreams. Please see Course Dates for all of these Saturdays.
Book Series: 'Wisdom of the Transpersonal'
The fourth and final volume of the work of Ian Gordon-Brown and Barbara Somers, Symptom as Symbol, is now available. So too are the first three books, Journey in Depth, their transpersonal perspective on counselling training; The Fires of Alchemy, Barbara Somers's profound view of this ancient art; and The Raincloud of Knowable Things, a practical guide to Transpersonal Psychology, workshops, history and method. Editor Hazel Marshall. Published by and available from Ian Thorp at:
Archive Publishing
ian@archivepublishing.co.uk
01202 848 352
07939 030875
www.archivepublishing.co.uk.
and for the paintings:
www.pamelaallsop.com
www.larksgallery.com/frances_crawford.htm
Personal Work. Individual Counselling, Therapy, Coaching, and Supervision are all available at Rock Bank.
Transpersonal Perspectives, in London, is based on the original Transpersonal vision. About the hearts and souls of us all, it is reaching quietly and steadily into the future. Please follow the link: www.transpersonalperspectives.org
The Centre for Transpersonal Psychologyis functioning again. Please follow the link: www.transpersonalcentre.co.uk
Meditation at Rock Bank. On Thursday mornings, the house is open for quiet sitting and meditation, followed by coffee and discussion. Free. All welcome.