We shall not cease from exploration,and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
~ T. S. Eliot
After five years of exploring different paths it seems I too have arrived back where I started from and that is with Psychosynthesis. Or to be more specific,parenting with psychosynthesis. Knowing the place for the first time has allowed me to let go of all my learning and let the knowledge of my heart and the wisdom of experience shine through the work itself.
I’ve been passionately involved in creating new contexts for relationship with the Self for over twenty years. Never more so when I discovered Psychosynthesis which offers a psychological map that includes a Spiritual Will as central to the human experience. That idea fits me like hand in glove.
Self as a context works for me.
My first book was written for parents and presents a spiritual view of parenting. The Coloured Journey (Read More ) was my way of sharing how ‘right relationship’within the family nurtures a more facilitating environment for the emergence of Self.
Running my own playschool showed me that the healthy development of self-esteem in children is a necessary prerequisite for real relationship with the Self as adults.
As my children grew older and their needs changed I wanted to create more age appropriate material for them to use,to stay in relationship with the Self. The Prism (Read More),is a Colour Numerology game and young adults love it,they are particularly fascinated with relationships of all kinds and this game offers a different perspective for Love relationships.
By the time I had established my practice as a holistic healer I was already familiar with the chakra system,an energetic map of a person,so the idea of a psychological map made sense and was easy for me to internalise.
The syntheses of these two maps,psychological and energetic created a third model,one that reflected the maturation process of the individual Self. When choosing a thesis for my Masters degree,it was an opportunity to critically analyse and challenge the idea of therapists using Reiki and Reiki healers holding theraputic boundaries that proved successful.
The Coloured Journey of the I (Read More),offers a broader understanding of the process of spiritual emergence and is grounded in held sound psychological principals.
Taking the idea psychosynthesis out into the wider community became something of a mission for me and Mind The Gap (Read More),is a book and course teaching reflective practice in childcare. This book was designed as a training program for crèche workers and successful trials were carried out in a busy Dublin crèche over a two year period. It’s practice greatly enhance not only the lives of the children in care but also the people who looked after them.
This course clearly demonstrated that the message of relationship with the Self could come from within in the work place. Over the next few years I looked at many different work environments to bring psychosynthesis but every where I went I found parents who were concerned about doing the best for their children. So here I am once more looking at parenting with psychosynthesis and taking a fresh approach to a familiar but much loved subject,relationship with the Self.
*Looking back.
At the grand old age of thirty-three,such were my aspirations,that I had achieved everything I had set out to achieve in life and was left with a great big hole.
I lived in my own home,was wife to a lovely man and mother to three wonderful children. I ran a small business,had my own car,two sunshine holidays a year and I enjoyed busy social life.
In the midst of all this success I felt totally and utterly LOST. I couldn’t understand what more I could possibly want out of life and felt selfish to even think of there should be more,yet I did.
The yearning for something unnameable haunted every quiet moment of my life so I made sure there were as few quiet moments keeping myself busier than I needed to be.
All I achieved by doing that was to make myself so tired and miserable that I felt more like an observer rather than a participant in my own life. All the things I thought were so important no longer had any meaning for me and when I looked inside myself,was met by a terrifying void.
Self development courses-itis, lead me eventually to psychosynthesis where I found a new understanding of the self and a better relationship with the Self. Now the void is my constant classroom and my inspiration. Self is =)
- 2004:Masters Degree in Applied Psychosynthesis ( Psychospiritual Psychology) Middlesex University London. In conjunction with the Institute of Psychosynthesis,London.
- 1994:Reiki Master (Usus Shiki Ryoho)
1993:Diploma In Creative studies- Institute of Further Education.
1992:Childcare certificates City and guilds.
1992-1987:Certificates in Holistic therapies;Colour therapy,Energy Healing,Crystal healing,Play/Art therapy.