"Knowing yourself means knowing the Dreaming from which problems and symptoms arise. In that world, there is less pressure from human or social behaviour; you are closer to nature, to existence as it is."
Dr. Arnold Mindell founder of Process Oriented Psychology
"Conor has written an wondrous, awesome, almost poetic account mixing reality, dreaming and the dreambody nature of physical symptoms."
Dr. Arnold Mindell
Find out more about downloadable courses
"Conor has written an wondrous, awesome, almost poetic account mixing reality, dreaming and the dreambody nature of physical symptoms."
Dr. Arnold Mindell
Find out more about downloadable courses
Awareness Skills
Programmes that are designed to stop you smoking, stop drinking, eradicate anger, change your personality for the better and so on, usually work for a while and then loose their affect. We eventually loose the energy to apply a set of rules that have not come from our own personality. Awareness is momentary; it is who you feel you are in the moment and it changes continually. Awareness skills connect to your momentary awareness of what is happening now, and how to use that awareness for your own benefit and for others. In this page you will find ways to enhance your awareness further and to use it skillfully in various life situations.
The first course teaches interventions in conflict and how to become skillful and fluid in tense situations. The second - a published book - shows how to follow yourself internally, creating altered states of consciousness as found in shamanism and in some psychiatric states. The book, described more fully below, also shows how to interact with the internal dynamics underlying illnesses such as cancer and to work towards inner freedom.
From time to time new courses will be added to this page and others taken away.
"The Art of Conflict in Personal Relationship"
(A self-help course)
Going through the steps in this course you will find examples, specific tools and exercises to help you practice and interact with your own awareness regarding conflictual situations in your life, either in the past, the present or with possible future problems.
In this course you will learn:
- How to enter a conflict and exit it without being "taken" by it
- How to use roles and ghost roles and how they structure and create conflict in the background
- Discover that there are only 3 sides to any conflict, that have access to them within you, and that with such knowledge you can resolve any conflictual situation
- How 3rd parties are used against you unconsciously to disarm you and how to reverse that
- How to enter altered states of consciousness to your own, and your partner's benefit
- Know and enter consciously the inherent structure of the polarities in conflicts and change the dynamics to your benefit
- Use "crazy wisdom" that is often hidden in tension, to resolve difficult situations and learn how to have fun with conflict
- The role of body signals in quarreling and fighting
- Learn about feedback and how to work with it skillfully
- Discover dream figures when polarised and how they influence our actions in the background
- Investigate the "high" and "low" dream of your relationships and how such knowledge transforms strife
- Develop a metacommunicator and create choice and freedom without fear
- Solve conflicts and problems while your opponent is not there; to the benefit of your opponent and yourself
- Solve the problem for both of you in front of your opponent with inside knowledge
- Discover your inner, as well as your outer opponent and how to get the inner opponent on your side; inner opponents can be more difficult to befriend but will create flexible and unshakable confidence and render the outer situation more neutral
- Determine the "we" and the "non-we" of your relationship or friendship to create new life and energy
- How to drop conflict and how to start it
- How to value conflict, complete it, and deepen relationship
- Discover the role of Rank and Privilege in creating and resolving problems
And much more
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"Nothing Came From Walking: Surviving Encounters with the Spirit of Death"
“Conor has written an wondrous, awesome,
almost poetic account mixing reality, dreaming
and the dreambody nature of physical symptoms.”
Dr. Arnold Mindell
(Founder of Process Oriented Psychology http://www.aamindell.net/)
This book will take you deep into the nature of consciousness and bring you face to face with the forces that create people's moods, illnesses, joys and liberation. Here you will not get theories or safe intellectualism, it is not a book about belief or innocent hope or faith. No, this book follows the real live moment to moment battles with events and experiences as they happen in awareness - internally and externally. The author is a psychotherapist and the contents are based on sound, psychological insight and awareness.
The reader follows a journey through dream-like and uncanny experiences that happen in the physical world on the island of Gozo, Malta, in November 2004. You will discover the underlying, subtle dream figures that apparently cause cancer in the body; you will experience a monk, for example, that both exists and also does not exist, and that kills in the way cancer does; you will see how an insect in the real outer world can have a compliment internally, and can be the driver of feelings of depression and self-criticism; you will learn how to detect possible illness before you are aware of it in your own physical body; you will discover some of the approaches that death, as an internal dream figure has, and how that figure can be an ally; You will witness the struggles with, and the threats to, identity; you will learn to follow your being internally and free yourself from unconscious helpful and unhelpful forces. This book takes you into the layers that underlie our ordinary everyday world and shows you how to use that subliminal world to liberate yourself.
The reader follows a journey through dream-like and uncanny experiences that happen in the physical world on the island of Gozo, Malta, in November 2004. You will discover the underlying, subtle dream figures that apparently cause cancer in the body; you will experience a monk, for example, that both exists and also does not exist, and that kills in the way cancer does; you will see how an insect in the real outer world can have a compliment internally, and can be the driver of feelings of depression and self-criticism; you will learn how to detect possible illness before you are aware of it in your own physical body; you will discover some of the approaches that death, as an internal dream figure has, and how that figure can be an ally; You will witness the struggles with, and the threats to, identity; you will learn to follow your being internally and free yourself from unconscious helpful and unhelpful forces. This book takes you into the layers that underlie our ordinary everyday world and shows you how to use that subliminal world to liberate yourself.
This book is about the triumph of the human being in the midst of physical, psychological and spiritual challenges; it is about the nature and underlying structure of consciousness, but most of all it is about detachment; the freedom from the gravitational pull of unknown forces that operate in and around us.
"Dear Conor, thanks so so much for these pages. I read the whole thing in one go, fabulous, fabulous, fabulous. I love your awareness, your matter of fact Zen stating of facts of it all and a fun dry humour that puts it all in perspective - AWESOME."
Max Schupbach, international group facilitator in conflict resolution
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