I am a writer, educator, facilitator and coach, helping people who have an interest in exploring their personal and spiritual potential and in connecting more fully with who they really are. My current focus is the Transpersonal, working with Humanistic, Existential and Transpersonal psychologies,
This will mean different things to different people and therefore this work is necessarily self-directed. Civilisation, so called, has suffered too much from top-down dogmatic religions and political ideologies. We are now in an age where people want more and more to choose for themselves what is most meaningful for them, and I see my role as to facilitate such growing awareness.
My background
I have a BA Honours degree (2:1) in Modern History and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education from Oxford University, and I taught history and politics for 17 years, including 10 years as a Director of a History and Politics faculty and latterly also as the Director of School Examinations.
I then underwent an intensive period of personal development and training in Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologies. I extensively studied Gestalt Therapy at the Metanoia Institute in London, trained in hypnotherapy and NLP, and also studied Siddha Yoga meditation.
The combination of the Transpersonal, Gestalt and Yoga have provided me with what I, and many others, believe are powerful tools for personal work in Awareness and Consciousness.
I have facilitated personal development workshops in a wide variety of settings. I have coached managers and delivered training programmes and facilitated events for private and public sector UK and multinational organisations, including the UK civil service to senior level and I have coached individuals privately. Frequently this work took the form of helping people resolve where they were going in their lives.
I now focus on personal and spiritual development, coaching and facilitation in a not-for-profit capacity, within an Association called The Empowering Partnership, of which I am a director along with my wife Akasha Lonsdale.
The work of the Association The Empowering Partnership
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