Maura Sills is a co-director and founder of the Karuna Institute and the innovator of Core Process Psychotherapy, integrating the insights from Buddhist psychology with western developmental and psychotherapeutic knowledge. Maura has been a significant promoter and developer of contemplative psychotherapy within the UK over the past thirty years. She is an Honorary Fellow of UKCP, she has been involved for many years in the Spiritual Crisis Network and has played a significant role in the promotion of high professional standards within Psychotherapy training and post accreditation frameworks to support both clients and practitioners.

Inherent health is about connecting with feelings of wholeness as opposed to an outcome. So we are not talking about getting better or getting rid of depression or other forms of suffering. We are talking about the possibility of more and more potential moments of reality, of waking up in the present to how things are, how things are cognitively, how things are emotionally, how things are on a feeling or a tonal level, energetically and with the subtler energies. It is like a waking up that allows us to expand our potential to receive the impact of what is actually happening in the present moment. No matter how apparently unwell a person is, at the very core of being or selfhood there is inherent health and brilliant sanity. It is not something that some of us have and some of us don't have. This inherent wisdom is ever-present and not personal. It is experienced personally but it is actually universal.

The bulk of the Core Process Psychotherapy training is about the inner processes of the practitioner. It is based on the experiential belief that it can be the practitioner who holds the client stuck at some point in time, that any major shift or movement towards wholeness might be restricted, not necessarily by the client's pathology, or by the client's lack of awareness, co-operation, or sophistication, but by limitations within the practitioner. If the practitioner is truly practicing at sufficient depth the client will benefit. In this talk Maura will explore how mindfulness and inherent health are powerful and important aspects of the therapeutic relationship and individual and collective development.

Cost: -   £10.00 (concessions £8.00)
Tickets include a complimentary glass of wine or juice after the lecture

Tickets are available through John MacFadyen at 07788976022 or email johnmacf@morham.org
More tickets may be available at the door.

All profits from this event will go to MCFB.