Let's talk about happiness

Lynne Holdem presents another series of winter lunchtime dialogues that aim to enhance our understanding about being human. Drawing from psycho-analytic and psycho-spiritual thinkers Lynne will talk in everyday language and then invite participants to contribute their own thinking. Interested community members and professionals are all welcome.
• August 11: happiness: is it found, made or an inner creation
• August 18: passion, defences against passion and aliveness
• August 25: awareness of hope: conscious and unconscious
• Sept 1: the healing heart –the role of compassion and acceptance
• Sept 8: aggression, shadow and wholeness
• Sept 15: sympathy and empathy: helping or hindering
• Sept 22: freedom - fear and courage in being oneself
• Sept 29: generativity, from consumer to active citizen

Entry is by donation to Supporting Families in Mental Illness in Taranaki. Your donation can be by cash or to SF Taranaki via Give A Little. Coffee and tea provided. Bring your lunch if you wish. Dialogues take place at Lynne’s rooms on the third floor of BNZ building, 50 Devon St on Wednesdays at 12.30 -1.30pm.
http:www.psychematters-lynneholdem@blogspot.com for more information or phone Lynne on 06 769-6050.

More About Me

I work on the third story of the BNZ in downtown New Plymouth. It's great being up high and close to the library and the museum and the best coffee shop in town, Ozone on King St. I'm mother to two girls and love cooking, sewing, reading weighty psychoanalytic books, poetry and good novels. At the moment I'm reading Captain Correlli's Mandolin and a biography of RD Laing. I love walking the dog on Back Beach, camping on the east coast in summer, cheering on the girls on the Waiwakaiho courts on a bright and cold Taranaki saturday morning.

I visit Auckland once a month for teaching and supervision and I'm involved in teaching with the Institute of Psychosynthesis. Last year I became a full member of NZAP and a registered psychotherapist. Psychotherapy has recently become a registered profession which offers protection for clients and means that all psychotherapists are qualified and work with the same code of ethics. Find out more about psychotherapy at NZAP and at Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand. Recently I have been studying with the London Institute of Group Analysis when they offered a training in Auckland in 2007 and 2008. I graduated with diplomas in Psychosynthesis counseling and psychotherapy from The New Zealand Institute of Psychosynthesis in Auckland in 1991 and 1999. Prior to this I worked as an English and Drama teacher in Opotiki, Bay of Plenty and in Auckland.

Psychosynthesis

An elegant transpersonal psychology which attempts to address the levels of human existence; the unconscious, conscious and superconscious. Psychosynthesis therapists are interested as much in what is emerging as potential in a client's life as they are in understanding his or her past and what has shaped them. Relationship in the here and now between the therapist and the client is observed with heart and used as a vehicle for opening more self awareness, alignment with values and choice for the client.

Psychsosynthesis was first formulated by Roberto Assagioli, a contemporary of Jung's who became very interested in Will as the integrating and directing function of the psyche.

Assagioli was born in Venice in 1888. He studied psychiatry and

was interested in the intersection of spirituality and psychology. One of the few psychiatrists to participate in the first pioneering wave of enthusiasm for Freud's new science of psychoanalysis and the second wave of humanistic psychology in the 1960s and 70s. he published two books one of which is till used in many Psychosynthesis training today and is called The Act of Will. In it Assagioli charts aspects, dimensions and levels of will.