by Peter19 | Jul 17, 2020 | nav PS Sticky1
This website has been set up to create a dialogue between the various members of the psychosynthesis community. It is a developed and diverse community, with an active programme of events each year, and with local groups that are spreading the word about...
by Peter19 | Jan 12, 2021 | creativity
Driving Lessons By Peter Stewart Go slowly at first. You are far more precious Than the car you are driving. Don’t be rushed. Even in a traffic jam, everything has its pace, And you are just starting. Be as calm as you can be And learn to laugh at other people’s ways...
by Peter19 | Jan 12, 2021 | navWebStatus
Thanks goodness 2020 is behind us. Many thoughtful people I know have said that they are grateful for what they have learned during this most difficult of times, but personally I am glad to see the back of 2020 and I am looking forward to 2021, despite an unpromising...
by Peter19 | Jan 12, 2021 | nav PS Sticky1, navFEATURED
“This volume should be considered as a beginning, and not as an end,” Roberto Assagioli, the founder of psychosynthesis, wrote in “The Act of Will”. My own copy of the Act of Will, published by Turnstone Press in 1984, is dog-eared, covered in pencil notes, and its...
by Peter19 | Jan 12, 2021 | navFEATURED
The lotus is an ancient and powerful symbol. The close connection between spiritual growth and creativity makes it a potent symbol for artists. But the metaphors that give it symbolic depth are also relevant for contemporary leadership challenges. I have a personal...
by Peter19 | Jan 12, 2021 | navREVIEWS
This is not a book about psychotherapy or coaching, but it does seem relevant to psychosynthesis. Kate Raworth is an economist with a difference. She has rejected the academic economist’s usual panacea of mathematics and calculus, and focussed on the human...
by Peter19 | Jan 12, 2021 | navREVIEWS
This is one of those rare books that begins with a story that blows your mind, and then continues on a magical, mystery tour that some will find inspiring , but others may take with a metaphorical pinch of salt. The Pilgrims’ Way runs from four locations in...
by Peter19 | Jan 12, 2021 | navREVIEWS
The Seven Types Kenneth Sorensen’s book takes what I believe are some less well-known aspects of Roberto Assagioli’s theories, and works these into a colourful and compelling book for self-analysis. I am a colour addict, and I found this an easy read, full of...
by Peter19 | Jan 12, 2021 | navREVIEWS
5DL Roger Evans wrote the Creative Manager in the 1970s, putting a focus on the human dimensions of leadership that at the time was revolutionary. The Five Dimensions of Leadership are Self-Awareness, Awareness of Others, Systemic Awareness, Being Strong but...
by Peter19 | Jan 12, 2021 | navREVIEWS
This is a hidden gem. Petra Guggisberg Nocelli has written this biography of Roberto Assagioli in close liaison with the Istituto di Psicosintesi in Italy. It tracks the early growth of Assagioli’s psycho-therapy, his work with Freud and Jung, his movement from...
by Peter19 | Jan 12, 2021 | navFEATURED, navREVIEWS
Aubyn Howard’s book on Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching is timely given the seismic and convulsive changes in leadership that we have seen in recent months. Aubyn has written a series of Crisis blogs during the Covid-19 crisis, and although this book is not about...
by Peter19 | Jan 12, 2021 | generic
THE ROOTS OF PSYCHOSYNTHESIS and the HEART OF ASSAGIOLI [Picture: Panorama Florence] Looking back, I feel blessed that my five year journey into Psychosynthesis has run in parallel with my coming to know the man who founded it – Dr Roberto Assagioli. It’s through the...
by Peter19 | Jan 12, 2021 | navFEATURED
A Self-Psychosynthesis Practice By Sam Pope at Sam Pope Coaching and Mindfulness Sam's Coaching Website Sam Pope took the MA Course in Psychosynthesis at the Institute of Psychosynthesis and runs her own coaching practice, Sam Pope Coaching and Mindfulness. She...
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