Time and Distance in Relationship

In this Field Note, I propose to reflect on love relationships: a challenge for most of us. My materials for this reflection come from five decades of working…

Resilience

Resilience   There is an abundance of talk, research, and writing about resilience these days. Many of us are running as fast as we can, and yet we…

I can’t let go! What’s my problem and what do I do?

Over the decades (five, to be precise) of seeing clients in private practice and, of course, many people in public settings, I can say that the difficulties of…

Ruminations About Psychotherapy and Being a Psychotherapist

Listen to audio version here:   My doctoral thesis supervisor, the late Professor Carl Leggo, was a poet and a writer whose works touched countless students in schools…

Ego Death/Ego Transformation

Audio recording of this Field Note: I had a dream: I am in some kind of war zone. I see there are a number of compartments of some…

Audio Recording of Field Notes as of July 1, 2019

Hello Everyone, I hope you are having a peaceful, insightful, and enjoyable summer. I have added a new feature to the Field Notes. Audio of the Notes will…

Post-High Dreams: Cultivating Your Inner High Dreamer Self

Click here to listen to an audio recording of this Field Note:   As I suggested in the June Field Note, High Dreams are about creative imagination –…

High Dreams and Their Possibilities

The focus in this Field Note is dreams of possibility, what Arnold Mindell the founder of Process Oriented Psychotherapy calls “high dreams” — dreams that express your most…

Process Interventions in Your Inner World

I imagine that at times it  has occurred to you how “machine-like” others, and yourself are? However you address and describe such experiences, these undesirable and predictably repetitive…

Holotropic Inner Work: Integration of Meditation and Psychotherapy with Life

The word Holotropic is borrowed from the Czechoslovakian psychiatrist and one of the founders of transpersonal psychology, Stanislav Grof (stanislavgrof.com), who created it from ‘holos’(meaning, ‘whole’) and trapein…