september, 2019
Event Details
Presented by Geoff Dawson Session outline: This conversation will discuss: Types of meditation retreats and levels of intensity What happens during a meditation retreat The psychological/spiritual experience of being on retreat
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Event Details
- Types of meditation retreats and levels of intensity
- What happens during a meditation retreat
- The psychological/spiritual experience of being on retreat
- Peak experiences and bleak experiences
- Benefits for therapists from a personal growth perspective
- Benefits from a skills-based perspective for therapists who use mindfulness-based models of psychotherapy
- Long term benefits of meditation retreats for therapists
- Potential iatrogenic effects.
Speaker: Geoff Dawson B.A. M.A.Ps.S is a psychologist in private practice North Sydney. He has forty years of experience in counselling and psychotherapy. He provides individual therapy, couple and family therapy and clinical supervision. He is one of the founders of AABCAP and continues to teach and provide supervision on AABCAP training courses.
He is also a Zen Buddhist teacher in the lineage of Charlotte Joko Beck and is the teacher of the Ordinary Mind Zen School Sydney and Melbourne. He has been teaching Zen for about twenty-five years and continues to hold weekly meetings and meditation retreats in the Zen tradition.
Time
September 25 (Wednesday) 6:30 AM - October 25 (Friday) 8:30 AM
Location
Crows Nest Community Centre
2 Ernest Place, Crows Nest NSW 2065
Organizer
AABCAPinfo@buddhismandpsychotherapy.org