Core Process Psychotherapy and Counselling
Cardiff with Gwyn Williams

Some touchstone inquiry questions that can be helpful ways of approaching the 'tools' of Core Process psychotherapy:

 

Depth Work and the Unconscious

 

• How comfortable are you at working with repressed material and psycho-emotional issues such as anxiety, rage; aggression; depression and fear?

 

• How do you stay with childhood traumas?

 

• Are you able to recognise and hold processes of shock and traumatisation in your system?

 

• Are you able to recognise and be with the dynamics of what is commonly called 'the Shadow’?

 

• Are you comfortable with strong expressive energy?

 

• Can you relate to and be with the imaginal, the transpersonal, the existential and the arche-typal?

 

• Can you be with extreme dissociative states or crises?

 

 

The Therapeutic Relationship

 

• Are your communication skills well developed?

 

• How would you describe your experience of inter-being in this context?

 

Learning Goals

 

• List two primary learning goals that you intend to achieve in the near future.

 

Therapeutic Work on Self

 

 What personal issues and challenges do you face in order to develop?

 

Existential Themes

 

• Are you comfortable working with issues where there is no remedy but only confronting the pain of your experience, such as death, isolation, loss of freedom or meaninglessness?

 

• Where does help come from?

 

Buddhist Psychology

 

• How does the relationship of form and emptiness influence your processes? Can you relate to your 'Brilliant Sanity' even in times of crisis?

 

• What is your understanding of the balance between Spaciousness, Clarity and Compassion?

 

Skills or Tools:

 

Can you:

 

• Hold sustained attention?

 

• Work non-judgmentally?

 

• Receive information through 'subliminal mind'?

 

• Hold your inherent health?

 

• Hold the 'larger picture?

 

• Hold material contemplatively?

 

• Identify how you may create your suffering?

 

• Work transformatively with your own experience?

 

• Balance attention 'in' and 'out'?

 

• Honour both the mystery and inter-relatedness?

 

• Resonate with Joy and Bliss

 

Avoidance

 

• Do you feel there are any major areas of avoidance in your own experience, or other areas of human experience which you have not fully identified, experienced or explored?

 

* How do you approach the unlived life? 

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