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TranspersonalGroup Psychotherapy
TranspersonalGroup Psychotherapy
Carlton F. “Perk” Clark, MSW, ACSWPsychotherapy & Organizational Development
350 S Williams Blvd Ste 140Tucson AZ 85711
(520) [email protected]
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Presenter’s Background
• CA Institute ofTranspersonalPsychology - 1972
syllabus
• gestalt - bioenergetics- ego psychology
• psycho-mysticaltraditions: TibetanBuddhism, Sufism
• psychodynamicpsychotherapy
• clinical supervision
• altered states ofconsciousness
• DSM-IV: ‘religiousand spiritualproblems,’ cults
• meditation
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The Parrot Story
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Aim of Transpersonal Methods
• symptom reduction
• behavior change
• conceptual frameworkfor handling trans-personal experience
• emancipate awarenessfrom the tyranny ofconditioning
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Aim of Transpersonal Methods• open the
compassionate heart
• gain access to one’sarchetypal myths
• open intuition that liftsone beyond the senses
• expand consciousnessto identify with auniversal divinePresence
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Definitions
• basic organ
• ego
• transpersonal
• conditioning
• states
• mysticism
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Influences
• William James
• George Gurdjieff
• Aldous Huxley
• Roberto Assagioli
• R D Laing
• Idries Shah
• Stanislov Grof
• Arthur Deikman
• Frances Vaughan
• Charles Tart
• Seymour Boorstein
• Mark Epstein
• Mohammad Shafii
• Ken Wilber
• Peggy Wright
• A H Almaas
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Transpersonal Stages ofDevelopment
• identification with self
• dis-identification from self
• transcendence of self
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(chart from Shafii, p. 22-23)
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Group Frame
• leadership
• intentional model
• selection of members
• evaluation
• exclusions
• meetings
• evaluating progress
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Core Areas of Exploration
• cloudy mind
• training mind
• catalyzingtranspersonalconsciousness
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Training an Untrained Mind
• ethical
• attention
• emotions
• motivation
• refining awareness
• wisdom
• intrapersonal
• interpersonal
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Ethical Training
sin: ‘to miss the mark’
• orthodox
• traditional
• unethical behavior
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Attentional Training
• observing ego
• asleep vs. awake
• mindfulness
• remembering one’sself
• meditation
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Emotional Transformation
• contact - validate -experience
• express
• cultivating positiveemotions
• dis-identificationpractice
angerjealousyanxietyshamegrief
fear
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Training Motivation
• unaware of our motivations
• object mode - receptive mode
• motive determines consciousness
• serving the task at hand
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Refining Awareness
• cultivating intuition
• refining perception
• awareness shifts toBeing itself
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Training Wisdom
• perennial philosophy
• lives and writings
• teaching stories
• non-dual thinking
• ‘that little smile thathits your face whenthings fall apart’
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Intrapersonal Training
• individual dialogues
• attention to feelings,thoughts, sensations,motivation
• unconscious material
• allowing
• personality vs. essence
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Interpersonal Psychiatry
• Sullivan, Leary, Shostrum
• phenomenological method
• eight types displayed– four aggressive
– four passive
• testing tool
• circular display
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Interpersonal Training
• interpersonal grouppsychotherapy
• ego strengthening
• mutual support re:awareness
• interpersonalpersonality types– dictator
– con-artist
– judge
– rebel
– doormat
– believer
– martyr
– helper
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BD
R
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Personality Types & EssenceAspects
aggr
essiv
e
pass
ive
personalitytype on outer circle
essence qualityon inner circle
doormat
con artist dictator
judge
rebel
believer
martyr
helpercan-doteacher
player
artist
healer
lover
hardworker
student
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Aggressive Interpersonal Type
PERSONALITY ESSENCEdictator can-do controls yields demands states openly pushes harmonizes brutal compassionate stone-walling authentic bravado brave demand respect humble
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Passive Interpersonal Types
PERSONALITY ESSENCEdoormat hard worker depressed rest unworthy worthy helpless helper passive assertive obeys harmonizes shame humble passive-aggress standing fast
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What to do with your type?
• ‘travel in your homeland’
• summarizeobservations
• note the type arising
• disrupt/contain
• seek the essentialexpression
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Training Leaders
• ethics
• conventional groupmethods
• transpersonal methods
• personal therapy
• clinical supervision
• meditation practice
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Research Methods/Tools
• interpersonalprototypes
• mystical experience
• spiritual assessment
• dimensions ofmeditative experience
• consciousness I, II, III
• ways to live
• general index ofreality
• religious experience
• fear of personal deathscale
(c.f. MacDonald, et. al. 1995)�
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• acceptance
• attention
• informed actionlocally
• seamless whole
• contacting the pre-existing communion
• waking one another uprepeatedly
• linking with theTradition in history
Building Community
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References
• Almaas, A. H. (1988). The pearl beyond price. Berkeley,CA: Diamond Books.
• Bilby, J. (1997). The personality and essence wheel.Unpublished manuscript. (Available from C. F. Clark, 40E. 14th Street Suite 5, Tucson, AZ 85701).
• Clark, C. (1998). Transpersonal group psychotherapy.Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 23(4), 350-371.
• Deikman, A. J. (1982). The observing self: mysticismand psychotherapy. Boston: Beacon Press.
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References• Deikman, A. (Speaker). (1983). Evaluating cults and
spiritual groups (Cassette Recording 6, Set 3, "AnAdvanced Psychology - Psychologies East and West.")Los Altos, CA: ISHK Book Service.
• Leary, T. (1957). Interpersonal diagnosis of personality.New York: Ronald Press.
• MacDonald, D. A., LeClair, L., Holland, C. J., Alter, A., &Friedman, H. L. (1995). A survey of measures oftranspersonal constructs. Journal of TranspersonalPsychology, 27(2), 171-235.
• Nelson, J. & Nelson, A. (1996). Sacred sorrows:embracing and transforming depression. New York:Tarcher/Putnam Books.
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References
• Shafii, M. (1988). Freedom from the self: sufism,meditation, and psychotherapy. New York: HumanSciences Press.
• Shah, I. (1978). A perfumed scorpion. London: TheOctagon Press.
• Shah, I. (1981). Learning how to learn. London: TheOctagon Press.
• Shostrum, E. (1967). Man the manipulator. Nashville, TN:Abingdon Press.
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References• Tart, C. T. (1994). Living the mindful life. Boston:
Shambala.• Tart, C. T. (1996). The dynamics of waking sleep. In• J. Needleman & G. Baker (Eds.), Gurdjieff (pp. 116-126).
New York: Continuum.• Walsh, R. & Vaughan, F. (1993b). The art of
transcendence: an introduction to common elements oftranspersonal practices. Journal of TranspersonalPsychology, 25(1) 1-9.
• Yalom, I. (1975). The theory and practice of grouppsychotherapy. New York: Basic Books, Inc.
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Carlton F. “Perk” Clark, MSW, ACSWPsychotherapy & Organizational Development
350 S Williams Blvd Ste 140Tucson AZ 85711
(520) [email protected]
Transpersonal Group Psychotherapy