Counselling AllOfMe A consumer perspective of the counselling
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Counselling All-Of-Me A consumer perspective of the counselling experience David Webb (david. webb 1@research. vu. edu. au) Presented at The How’s, Why’s and Where Fore’s of Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Reflection On Our Profession Annual Conference of Australian Counselling Association (ACA) Melbourne, October 8 -9 2005
Integral Model - 4 Quadrants Exterior Interior I n d i v i d u a l Intentional (felt experience) Phenomenology Validity: aesthetic • personal meaning, values • integrity, sincerity C o l l e c t i v e We Inter-Subjective Cultural Anthropology Validity: moral • shared meaning, values • ethics, justness Subjective I It Objective B��� ehavioural Psychology (psychiatry) Validity: empirical • observable, measurable • testable, repeatable Inter-Objective Social (Systems) Sociology (Ecology) Them Validity: functional fit • cohesion, efficiency • ecological, economic
Traditional - clinical, third-person - science Exterior Interior I n d i v i d u a l Intentional (felt experience) Phenomenology Validity: aesthetic • personal meaning, values • integrity, sincerity C o l l e c t i v e We Inter-Subjective Cultural Anthropology Validity: moral • shared meaning, values • ethics, justness Subjective I It Objective B��� ehavioural Psychology (psychiatry) Validity: empirical • observable, measurable • testable, repeatable Inter-Objective Social (Systems) Sociology (Ecology) Them Validity: functional fit • cohesion, efficiency • ecological, economic
The Full Spectrum (Levels) of Consciousness Non-Dual Spirit Soul Mind Life Matter -------Physics Biology Psychology Theology Mysticism Sources: Plotinus Aurobindo St. Teresa Grof Steiner Baldwin Habermas Maslow Buddhism Yoga Kabbalah Vedanta Theosophy Sufism
Integral Model - All Quadrants, All Levels (AQAL) Spirit Mind Body
Modern Psychology Mind Body
Modern Biological Psychiatry Body
Flatland “the great nightmare of scientific materialism was upon us (Whitehead), the nightmare of onedimensional man (Marcuse), the disqualified universe (Mumford), the colonisation of art and morals by science (Habermas), the disenchantment of the world (Weber) – a nightmare I have also called flatland” - Ken Wilber (2000)
