{"title":"Social prescribing across cultures, places and time – from 1150 BCE to 2022","authors":"H. Law","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes how to culturally enhance social prescribing as a community practice in accordance with the ethno biopsychosocial human rights model for educating community psychologists and psychotherapists. It provides a literature review and an overview of the procedures on how to translate the theory into practice. It expands therapeutic approaches as a multidiscipline that involves community psychology, psychotherapy and sports and exercise psychology.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76824898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social prescribing as a transpersonal act","authors":"Ho C. Law","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88121405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vox Ambigua – Reflections through the looking glass","authors":"Nat Clegg, H. Law","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.2.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.2.20","url":null,"abstract":"Lewis Carroll’s books about Alice reflect the experience of coaching clients who go through the process of using creative activities in a coaching space. Like Alice, the client faces the known and not so clear, as the acts of creativity entwine the conscious and unconscious states towards journeyed resolutions. Creativity in coaching affords a chance to connect through the transpersonal self within and beyond an assumed life position. Clients work with creative acts surfacing their emotions, assumptions, perceived blocks, and opportunities moving between the edges of fatalism and agency. The creative process acts as a third position between the coach and the client, this helps the coaching client face what they may feel uncomfortable with and evokes curiosity that acts as a lens and mirror for personal examination. In conclusion, this paper argues that realisation transforms us, also in some cases transports us, transcending to another state, an acceptance of the self, future belief, and clearer purpose. In essence, agency is being able to move within your own dream, to become authentic and not to be caught in the dream of someone else, which eventually traps and confines us. Lest not be caught in the dream of the Red King.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82603805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaboration as a transpersonal act for the planet:In honouring the life of Dr Alison Clare Whybrow","authors":"H. Law","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76557507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perennialism and participation: Why transpersonal psychology needs more than a mystery (A response to Mike Daniels)","authors":"Steve Taylor","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.1.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.1.65","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86816305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embracing metaphysics in transpersonal psychology: A response to Steve Taylor","authors":"Michael Daniels","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.1.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.1.56","url":null,"abstract":"Steve Taylor’s Review of the new edition of my book Shadow, Self, Spirit (2021) focuses on a critique of what he sees as my ‘sceptical’ stance on metaphysics and my rejection of his own ‘soft perennialism’. I respond to Taylor’s criticisms by noting: (1) that my own perspective rejects materialism and acknowledges the need for metaphysical concepts in transpersonal psychology; and (2) that, in researching transpersonal phenomena, researchers should aim to bracket metaphysical assumptions and should prefer non-metaphysical explanations where these are sufficient. I expand upon and clarify my criticisms of soft perennialism and argue that Jorge Ferrer’s participatory theory offers a more productive approach to understanding metaphysics, the varieties of spiritual experience, and religious pluralism.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84388746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical anthropology and spiritual activism in education","authors":"Natalie Tobert","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.1.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.1.35","url":null,"abstract":"Editor’s note: this article is based on the author’s workshop for the Section Annual Conference Transpersonal Activism on 11–12 September 2021.The aim of the workshop was to raise awareness with the conference participants, of strategies to develop spiritual activism with medical and health care staff, to benefit people who used the services. The author had practised transpersonal spiritual activism in medical schools and hospitals since 2007, and taught university courses on anthropology and spirituality before then. This workshop offered an overview of her courses and summarised current practices of spiritual activism in medical schools.Workshop Aims. The aims of the workshop were to raise awareness of spiritual activism in medical schools, and address issues around social inclusion. Within the discipline of medical anthropology, this workshop offered a Tool-Kit and practical Resource Training Pack for discussion, so conference participants who were prospective practitioners and activists might consider using it. The aim was to enhance participants’ own skills and knowledge base, to support their actions towards applied transpersonal activism, based on their own knowledge. The workshop participants brainstormed ways they might use the material available, to present a strategy to their colleagues on potential ways forward to address social inclusion.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85495794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Establishing an indigenous and transpersonal therapies alliance to promote holistic and pluralistic mental health practice","authors":"Joseph B. Bartholomew","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.1.27","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to provide a new synthesis of how the establishment of an Indigenous and Transpersonal Therapies Alliance (ITTA) can promote the value and effectiveness of holistic and pluralistic mental health care and therapeutic practice. It first examines the impact of therapies privileging a Western humanist perspective, while proposing the historical and cultural root of the problem; then clarifies what the visible limitations are when a belief in philosophical and cultural humanism is not adhered to. This will be followed by demonstrating the strengths and benefits of integrating transpersonal and indigenous perspectives into a framework of understanding of what it means to be human. Recommendations for active steps towards actualising the goal of establishing an indigenous and transpersonal therapies alliance to promote holistic and pluralistic mental health practice will be provided.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"167 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83885271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}