A hearty welcome to a long-overdue acknowledgement of spirituality’s crucial role in human growth, healing, transformation and wholeness. Ecumenical in tone, Spirituality and Counselling includes insights from philosophy, religion, counselling, and creative arts. The authors invite us to journey through new definitions and unorthodox experiences of spirituality that challenge postmodern facilitators of human development. In their effort to articulate the ineffable knowings of transformation and spirituality, they demonstrate amazing openness, depth, and creativity. It is a must-read for counsellors and others exploring the shifting sands of truth and meaning. Peggy Natiello Person-centred counsellor, educator and author, Sedona, Arizona

 

 

Section 1: Keynote Addresses

. The process of transformation within Buddhism – Rev Daishin Morgan

2. Looking in the distance: Spirituality in God’s Absence – Richard Holloway

3. The gift and cost of being fully present – Brian Thorne

 

Section 2: Philosophy

1. William James and Ludwig Wittenstein : A philosophical approach to spirituality – Hans Julius Schneider

2. Towards a phenomenology of the divine – C J Sharp

3. Towards a Rogerian theory of mysticism - Ivan Ellingham

4. Open-centred ecosophy - Or how to do environmentally interesting things with Dr Rogers' therapeutic conditions - Clive Perraton Mountford

Section 3: Presence and the Core Conditions

1. The power of presence – Veronika Prüller-Jagenteufel

2. A person-centred therapist’s quest for presence – Dora Iseli Schudel

3. ‘Naked saying’—Languages, selves and ‘no-self’ in therapy – Sarah Luczaj

4. The fabric of acceptance - Matis Nimetz

5. Person-centred psychotherapy as a spiritual discipline: A critical examination – Martin van Kalmthout

 

Section 4: Personal Reflections and Workshops

Imagine that this page is pink - Tess Sturrock

1. Cathedrals: Places of discovery – Mary Green and Stephen Platten

2. Longing in practice: Prayer and therapy – Mary Hill and Suzanne Keys

3. Honouring spirituality in therapy - William West and Chris Jenkins

4. PRH: Towards a deeper experience of who I am - Robina Scott

 

Section 5: Christian Perspectives

1. Self-giving and self-actualizing: Christianity and the person-centred approach - Jeff Leonardi

2. Seeing eyes, royal priests and living temples: A biblical perspective on the role of the counsellor – Stephen Hitchcock

3. In the beginning there is community: Implications and challenges of the belief in a triune God and a person-centred approach – Peter F Schmid

4. To be what you really are in reformed theology – Jan van Blarikom

 

Section 6: Humanism

1. Whose heaven? The spiritual dimension in humanist counselling – Suzette van IJssel

2. An exploration of the relationship between humanism and Christianity in the practice of counselling – Jack Earl