John Rowan is an integral and transpersonal practitioner, open to seekers and clients of all kinds.
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John Rowan Workshop 31 March 2012
The Philadelphia Association, 4 Marty’s Yard, 17 Hampstead High Street, London NW3 1PX
10 am to 5 pm £90 Contact: Inforowan@aol.com
Integral psychotherapy
A full day workshop on the AQAL approach
AQAL stands for ‘all quadrants all levels’ and is the latest attempt to cover all bases in the practice of psychotherapy.
The idea is this: everything we can study in relation to human beings falls into one of these quadrants: the Upper Left is the realm of the “I” – consciousness and experience – the first and still most frequent area of exploration in therapy; the Lower Left is the realm of the “We” – the family, the cultural background, the suppport system, the network of friends and relatives, and so on; the Lower Right is the realm of the social – the “They” - with all its pressures of poverty, racism, sexism, and its opportunities of work, creative involvement, entertainment and so forth; and the Upper Right is the realm of the “objective I” – the brain, the body, health and safety – all the practical and measurable aspects of the person. But the theory goes further, and says that every single phenomenon we may study in human affairs arises and has its being in all four quadrants, always.
So that is the quadrants – what about the levels? Here there is quite an elaborate story with many levels of development in all four quadrants, but for our practical purposes in therapy we need only deal with two of them, with a third sometimes coming in. We shall also look briefly at the question of lines of development – the idea that a person may be highly developed on one line, but much less so on another.
In the morning we shall look at the theory of this, with one or two useful handouts to take home, and in the afternoon we shall deal with the practice, with some demonstrations and experiential exercises to make all clear. There will also be a booklist to take back. Participants will therefore learn both theory and practice, and know how to integrate this framework into what they are doing already – these ideas are complementary rather than competitive.
JOHN ROWAN
I introduced the idea of using the AQAL method in psychotherapy to England at the EUROTAS conference in 2004, and my chapter on the subject was published in the following year. In 2006 I presented it at a conference in Athens, and in 2007 and 2008 in London. In 2009 I did a workshop in Estonia, and my paper on the subject was published in the Journal of Transpersonal Research. In 2010 I did a whole day workshop in Slovenia. I am a Fellow of the BPS, and also of the BACP and the UKCP. I have been a member of the Integral Institute since the beginning.
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