Biography therapy
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Welcome to the home of Biographical Counselling in the UK
Biographical Counselling is a counselling modality that offers a unique approach to both healing and self development that is - in its widest sense – holistic. It addresses the psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of human experience by considering three levels of human nature:
- Body - our physicality and how we care for our material, day-to-day needs and limitations
- Soul - our thoughts, feelings and behaviours
- Spirit - our deepest sense of the self and the world that resides in the invisible living principles that underlie existence.
Biographical Counselling considers the individuality and uniqueness of each person to be paramount. It invites people to come into relationship with their life stories and life experiences in order to become actively interested and engaged with the phenomena and mystery of Who am I?, What is my life task?, Why is this happening to me? Through conversation, artistic processes and mapping one`s biography, Biographical Counselling supports the exploration of these questions, strengthening our capacity to be responsible to ourselves, to others, and to our communities. By engaging in this way we become alive to a greater sense of purpose and meaning for who we a
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Biographical Counselling Training
What is Biography Work? The experiences we have in our lives are both unique and universal. We share many common human experiences, and yet how we piece them together, how we respond to and live through them, and find meaning in them is unique to each of us. Biography Work offers an opportunity to explore the extraordinary and sacred panorama that is your life so that you can take a step back from just being in it to becoming a witness to it. This process opens our mind, heart and will to new possibilities.
Our development doesn&#;t stop when we reach adulthood &#; even though we have stopped growing physically much of us keep developing. Who we are at 42 feels very different to who we were at Capacities become available to us at different stages of our lives, and ideally, as we grow and mature, our consciousness, wisdom, understanding and meaning for life also grows.
We have been on a journey since we were born with profoundly individual experiences. Our gender, our place in the family, our ethnicity and where we live all shape us. Biography Work opens up questions about why something might be happening to me that is beyond these outer and material factors that form my identity. Why am I meeting the same challenges or situations aga