Maybe the comment reflected disillusionment with
the system. Even psychotherapy and counselling of all kinds can only work if
material needs of the client are being met. Or maybe he didn't mean it the wa it
came out.
anyway, my view on this:
I have been through all the kinds of insecurities
mentioned in the course outline, and I am beginning to see now that some of the
therapy I received years ago was from people who probably didn't have much of a
comprehension of the way the world works. One still needs family support, or a
community, or at least a few people to recognize one's worth or none of one's
efforts are going to come to anything. Patients/clients gaining mindfulness of
their own self is only part of what is needed.
Youg women, it seems to me, have to be preparred to use
their sexual attributes if they want to get ahead, or already be married to the
right person. The way it is in today's world, we have people who have the
careers in such topics as "mindfulness" interpreting the lives of those without
the careers. That's what the world seems to have boiled down to, in my view. I
guess I've just met too many people who perhaps shouldn't be doing what they do
and I wonder how they get their jobs.
I am also concerned with the wording of the program of
the course. It seems to suggest that if the client doesn't make it in life
it is their fault. The idea that we can be at ease with ourselves and the life
experience in this world is surely related to middle class-ness.
I'm wondering if people who take the course have a
sense of their own self before they take the course. Hopefully
they are coming to it with other kinds of understanding of the
world. And are not taking it just for the money it will bring in for
them.
yours,
Sue McPherson
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Subject: Re: May 2006 Two Counselling Trainings in
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> Hmm...Craig.
I'm not so sure about that. Financial interest is not the
> only kind of
interest. I'm interested in academic breakthroughs and new
>
understandings that bring us to a new plain of ability and know-how.
>
This is what I think new developments in Mindfulness could do. I'd be
>
happy to do that for no financial gain. In mindful philosophies I think
>
the why and the what are inextricably intertwined. That's another party
>
of what makes in so interesting.
>
> Best,
>
>
Henry
>
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> >Well, of course you are interested in a "growing area".
It pays. Some
> >of us
> >have been interested in what grows,
and why, for many years. The why
> >is
> >invariably
more interesting than the what. If you want to get ahead,
> >develop
a
> >mindfulness programme for any disorders begining with a C
or D. The
> >drug
> >companies are moving on to these
letters having exhausted A and B
> >(Autism,
>
>Asperger's, ADHD, BPD, Bi-polar). C and D are the future
>
>Craig
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