This is so interesting what you write about your experience with self-hypnosis.
Before developing Synchronosophy I also became my own primary facilitator. I always assumed this was mainly because the whole field of 'therapy' was not as well developed 30 years ago as it is now, and partly because (like you) I couldn't trust most of those who offered their services as 'therapists'.
Now I'm thinking more and more that new disciplines for inner work (such as Psychotypology and Synchronosophy) are emerging, precisely because these are not 'therapies' in the conventional sense. I also believe that it's a good idea to grow beyond the hierarchical concept of 'therapy' in principle (although of course there will still be many situations where therapy is appropriate and needed).
Practitioners of these new disciplines will either develop the skill of self-facilitation (being experiencer and witness simultaneously), or practice working with a partner and swapping roles, as you suggest, or both. I completely resonate with both options. (We're ultimately all on this journey together, right?)
Yes, yes, Veronika. I believe it is important to develop channels through which people can reclaim their inner balance outside of one-sided therapy relationships -- in shared experience, comradeship, and community -- and I hope we will contribute to that movement. We *are* all on this journey together.
I've just finished reading Sarah Fay's Pathological, which tells a stomach-wrenching tale of the toxic effects of the power imbalances at the heart of current "mental health" delivery. (I'm guessing you're familiar with her work.) There's a lot to be undone, and at least some of that will happen from outside that system.
This is so interesting what you write about your experience with self-hypnosis.
Before developing Synchronosophy I also became my own primary facilitator. I always assumed this was mainly because the whole field of 'therapy' was not as well developed 30 years ago as it is now, and partly because (like you) I couldn't trust most of those who offered their services as 'therapists'.
Now I'm thinking more and more that new disciplines for inner work (such as Psychotypology and Synchronosophy) are emerging, precisely because these are not 'therapies' in the conventional sense. I also believe that it's a good idea to grow beyond the hierarchical concept of 'therapy' in principle (although of course there will still be many situations where therapy is appropriate and needed).
Practitioners of these new disciplines will either develop the skill of self-facilitation (being experiencer and witness simultaneously), or practice working with a partner and swapping roles, as you suggest, or both. I completely resonate with both options. (We're ultimately all on this journey together, right?)
Yes, yes, Veronika. I believe it is important to develop channels through which people can reclaim their inner balance outside of one-sided therapy relationships -- in shared experience, comradeship, and community -- and I hope we will contribute to that movement. We *are* all on this journey together.
I've just finished reading Sarah Fay's Pathological, which tells a stomach-wrenching tale of the toxic effects of the power imbalances at the heart of current "mental health" delivery. (I'm guessing you're familiar with her work.) There's a lot to be undone, and at least some of that will happen from outside that system.
We have a lot of work to do.