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Hello Katherine, allow me to introduce myself. My name is jon Pearson. I am a UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) registered psychotherapist of 11 years experience working from the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy. I have been reading Ken Wilbers corpus since 1983. Since that time I have practised Yoga across all my disclosed and disclosing fulcrums and have taught Yoga as what I think of as an AQAL tango since 1990. I am partially osmosed into Vajrayana Buddhism. An actively-engaged parent to a wonderful 10 yr old boy, I subscribe to the notion of health, not as the World Health Organisation's definition of it as the “..absence of (pathology)” but, in the words of Katherine Mansfield, as “Being all that I can be”.
My original training modality has been in Transactional Analysis. However, as an integrally-informed student, I quickly became aware of the limitations of an approach targeted primarily at fulcrums 3 and 4. The current Relational approach in TA has sought to redress this imbalance by incorporating material garnered from Kohut's Ego Psychology, contemporary psychoanalysis and object relations theory in order to account for the Fulcrum 2 or borderline/narcissistic entrapments we are all prone to manifest to some degree. I have taken this approach on board in order to evolve into a broad-spectrum psychotherapist and I am successful in my work.
This approach, wonderful as it is in that it accounts for the first six fulcrums and is osmosing into all four quadrants (accounting for cultural differences (LR), CNS physiology (UR), and tenuously, social policy (LR) latter of which needs more work tho Denis Postle's website is a joy in this respect)….does not as yet account for the transpersonal…which in this country certainly means you know something about that ole elevationist Jung…an issue I seek to resolve in that I am evolving an integral model of TA which seeks to rectify that balance about which more in due time….
So; how is knowing a bit about AQAL helping my clients. Myriad ways. Amongst them;
1) When sitting with, say, a young working-class unmarried mother of 3 young kids who lives on the upper floor of a tenement receiving welfare support, it really is not possible to use a purely LR therapeutic relationship to empower her out of the merdes of her life; trying to change the UL belief movie is like eating butter with a red hot needle. An integrally-informed therapist would seek to mobilise appropriate support agencies to oprimise her wellbeing whilst, and as a part of, engendering a therapeutic relationship to provide restitution in the L-quadrants. Much orthodox thinking in psychotherapeutic circles would eschew this course of action in that it a) flies in the face of therapist opacity and b) as a consequence potentially sets up a relationship of co-dependence or symbiosis. My thinking is that these kinds of remedial steps are redolent of using my energies to get my clients energies going just like dealing with a schizoid processin a high-functionning client but within the realms of all quadrants…if the unmarried mother is not noticing a difference inher internal or external life after a year of LR concerted efforts (bracketing here the disablements of a crumbling social service system) then the client's inertia increasingly becomes the focus of enquiry..
Gotta sign off here briefly and will continue shortly…
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