Monthly Archives: February 2011

19 February 2011

Psychological Mechanisms of Clinging and Release

[This is an adapted version of an email I sent to some of the other members of the Dharma Forum Refugee Camp community prior to its founding.] Hey guys. I just finished up a sit and thought I’d share some … Continue reading →

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2 February 2011

The Paradoxical Theory of Change

One of my graduate school professors is a long-time Gestalt therapist. In our Group Dynamics class last night, he spent some time demonstrating how he would lead a counseling group on the topic of grief. At one point the classmates … Continue reading →

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Tagged as Buddhism, counseling, daoism, gestalt therapy, impermanence, Meditation, Mindfulness, paradox, paradoxical theory of change, Psychology, psychotherapy, Taoism, wu-wei