Derby Psychotherapy and Counselling

With our opening can come deliverance and blossoming.

In the space and the place of our deepest terror and need, where we feel and know the immediacy of annihilation and extinction; true nature and our personal divinity are also present.

And with courage and the blessings of love and compassion, our deepest self and truth can arise through our shattering, for the light to shine in and through us, stronger and more brightly than ever before.

In this surrender and triumph, the refuge and prison of our persona can fall away, for the brilliancy of the innocent child to breakthrough, to be free to grow, sing her song and enrich this world.

Isaac Pizer

July 2018

A CPD Workshop with Isaac Pizer 

The Essential Self in Psychotherapy

9.30 am-5.30 pm on Saturday 27 October 2018

 Venue: Be-ing Therapy Centre, 15 Vernon Street Derby, DE1 1FT.

 The post Second World War ‘relational turn’ in the theory and practice of psychotherapy precipitated a crucial development, which aided personal and collective exploration and emancipation.

I believe the realisation of the full potential of ‘two person’ relational psychotherapy requires our holding of a ‘true and timeless Self, an Essential Self…not constructed in early life…’ (A.H. Almaas, 1988).

An appreciation of the irreducible depth of the self and its unity with the ground of being is a prerequisite for respect and faithfulness to the profundity and mystery of the human experience. Ever since a transformational experience in 1979 (facilitated by my first therapist),

 I have held a deep trust in our potential for self-realisation. I would like to share my experience, thoughts & vision with you. In this workshop, I will describe my orientation and approach to working relationally for the facilitation of deepening inner contact, self-responsibility and realisation.

The workshop is for up to 8 participants, and will include exercises of inquiry for the exploration & discussion of personal and clinical experiences of self.

Fee: £100. Early Bird Fee: £80 for booking & payment by 1 August.

For enquiries & bookings, click here to complete & post to me a email via my contact page.

My friend, Gottfried M. Heuer, has published an important book which I warmly recommend: "Freud's 'Outstanding Colleague'/Jung's 'Twin Brother' " (Publisher:Routledge). It is a study of 'The suppressed psychoanalytic and political significance of Otto Gross'. It is a powerful book, beautifully composed with scholarship, and love. I was honoured to have been accorded the opportunity to make a small contribution to the book, via quotation of a paragraph from the thoughts I have shared with Gottfried.

Gottfried talks about his book with Jonathan Chadwick @ https://vimeo.com/196609212