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Explore the diverse aspects of counselling from a consumer's viewpoint, reflecting on personal experiences and the broader cultural impact. Discover the interplay of individual and collective elements in the counselling process.
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Counselling All-Of-Me A consumer perspective of the counselling experience David Webb (david.webb1@research.vu.edu.au) Presented at The How’s, Why’s and Where Fore’s of Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Reflection On Our Profession Annual Conference of Australian Counselling Association (ACA) Melbourne, October 8-9 2005
Individual Collective Integral Model - 4 Quadrants Exterior Interior Subjective I It Objective Behavioural Intentional (felt experience) Phenomenology Psychology (psychiatry) • Validity: aesthetic • personal meaning, values • integrity, sincerity • Validity: empirical • observable, measurable • testable, repeatable Them We Inter-Objective Inter-Subjective Social (Systems) Cultural Sociology (Ecology) Anthropology • Validity: functional fit • cohesion, efficiency • ecological, economic • Validity: moral • shared meaning, values • ethics, justness
Individual Collective Traditional - clinical, third-person - science Exterior Interior Subjective I It Objective Behavioural Intentional (felt experience) Phenomenology Psychology (psychiatry) • Validity: aesthetic • personal meaning, values • integrity, sincerity • Validity: empirical • observable, measurable • testable, repeatable Them We Inter-Objective Inter-Subjective Social (Systems) Cultural Sociology (Ecology) Anthropology • Validity: functional fit • cohesion, efficiency • ecological, economic • Validity: moral • shared meaning, values • ethics, justness
Spirit Soul Mind Life Matter --------Physics Biology Psychology Theology Mysticism The Full Spectrum (Levels) of Consciousness Sources: Plotinus Aurobindo St. Teresa Grof Steiner Baldwin Habermas Maslow Buddhism Yoga Kabbalah Vedanta Theosophy Sufism Non-Dual Spirit
Integral Model - All Quadrants, All Levels (AQAL) Spirit Mind Body
Modern Psychology Mind Body
Flatland “the great nightmare of scientific materialism was upon us (Whitehead), the nightmare of one-dimensional man (Marcuse), the disqualified universe (Mumford), the colonisation of art and morals by science (Habermas), the disenchantment of the world (Weber) – a nightmare I have also called flatland” - Ken Wilber (2000)