Counselling Training - The Therapist as a Friend

 

Counselling Training

The Therapist as a Friend

 

This is a 7-days workshop with Nishant Matthews.

As we mature as individuals and as therapists, we become naturally attracted to the deeper issues in ourselves and others. We simply want to be ourselves, and help others to find the same. This section will teach counselling skills based on meditation, following an understanding that the depth and compassion with which we relate with ourselves is what we have to offer to our clients.

The first part focuses on the art of befriending ourselves, developing an ability to go deep into ourselves and emerge fresh and nourished, no matter what we find inside. The second part will be teaching counselling skills which give us tools to extend this sense of inner friendship to others. We will learn to create an atmosphere where others feel comfortable getting to know themselves more deeply, accurately and compassionately. These skills will include inner journey work, focusing therapy and inquiry. All these techniques can be doorways for journeying through the complex world of neurosis and confusion and discovering the fundamental goodness of who we are.

Recommended reading:
Nishant Matthews: The Friend: Finding Compassion with Yourself, O-Books, 2010.
For more information on Nishant's book The Friend, please visit
The Friend website.

This workshop is part of a pre-booked training, the Osho Risk Therapist Training. If you would like to get more information about this 1 1/2 years long training, please contact Osho Risk.

Dates: June

Location: Osho Risk, Denmark

Contact: oshorisk [at] oshorisk.dk