{"title":"Transpersonal coaching as the fourth wave psychological intervention for people and the planet","authors":"Ho-hei Law, Scott Buckler","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.7","url":null,"abstract":"This paper invites readers to reflect on and review the current developments and interventions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and climate crisis, drawing from the established theory of planned behaviour, ecopsychology research, coaching and transpersonal psychology, and discusses the future action and practice in the realms of mindfulness and psychological intervention. We propose transpersonal coaching as the fourth wave psychological intervention to leverage positive change. We conclude with a call for action to encourage the reader to consider how they can apply the approach in their everyday life.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79038602","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":"Creative visualisations, creative counsellors: Inner journeys","authors":"Nicola Helen McNally-Key","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.21","url":null,"abstract":"This research assesses what may be contributed to counselling through developing practice which is centred on a feminist psychospiritual model. This is a qualitative study which analyses a series of in depth, semi-structured interviews, as I discuss transpersonal and psychospiritual forms of practice with each of the research participants. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is selected to analyse the data collected. After conducting the IPA study, the findings and discussion address the potential for transpersonal approaches within a new approach which is provided as a stepped model of guidelines for relevant cases. The study concludes that Collaborative Pluralistic counselling could include a focus on spirituality for relevant clients and within this approach, a psychospiritual model may be offered within collaborative pluralistic therapy.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86976964","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":"The dark side of the transpersonal","authors":"Stuart R. C. Whomsley","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.1.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.1.39","url":null,"abstract":"Religious traditions acknowledge that the transpersonal has a dark side. Contact with the transpersonal can be destabilising and dangerous for individuals and groups as well as enriching and life enhancing. The sense of power, numinosity and certainty generated by the encounter with the transpersonal can be abused as well as used for transformation and growth. This paper aims to explore the concept of the dark side of the transpersonal, to consider what shadow selves are, and how an understanding of these can be beneficial to individuals and to groups ranging from organisations to nation states. It will then consider how the concept of the dark side of the transpersonal can explain negative group process and how the charismatic leader can use these processes to manipulate individuals, groups and nations. It will consider how people working in healthcare need to be aware of the dark side and of shadows. The implications for healthcare, public awareness of the communications industries and politics are discussed.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80544893","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":"Feminist psychology: A narrative perspective in coaching","authors":"María González Pérez (María Fornet)","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.1.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.1.53","url":null,"abstract":"Whilst there is an abundance of published literature on the area of Feminist Counselling Psychology, the same cannot be said when refereeing to Feminist Psychology applied to Coaching. To be used as an effective tool for change and transpersonal realm embodying the search for meaning, coaching cannot skip the gender question. The narrative perspective may provide answers on Gender Psychology applied to the field of Coaching Psychology. The construction of the self within a patriarchal society is fundamentally different both for men and women because of the process of gender socialisation. Such gender socialisation may have profound implications on every area of women’s development: from dreams to career aspirations, sense of value and belief in the narration of the self. Learning theorists provide us with an explanation on how the stories we consume become the stories we become. This review will explore the need for a feminist form of Coaching Psychology to wholly connect with the problematic nature attributed to gender and better understand client’s stories and implement more effective interventions with narrative coaching.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89115600","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":"A Triad of Taoism: Exploring the mind, body and spirit through Taoist philosophical perspectives","authors":"April Woodward, Ho-hei Law, Scott Buckler","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.58","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores how Taoist (道子) philosophical perspectives could enhance holistic wellbeing, combining research and practical applications. Collectively the workshop facilitators have over a hundred years of experience in various Taoist practices, predominantly the martial arts, meditation and Chi Kung (气功). Specifically, the paper introduced core principles of Taoism as a precursor to applied practises of chi kung and Ba Gua (八卦).","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"600 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77287739","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":"The ears of my ears awake – Poetry as a portal to personal and transpersonal growth","authors":"V. Field","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.82","url":null,"abstract":"Many people have experienced an ‘awakening’ which has led to positive changes in their lives, and a sense of an enhanced reality. In ‘The Leap’, Steve Taylor (2017) documents the different catalysts for an awakening experience and describes how a transformation may be gradual or sudden, conclusive or temporary. In my work over the past twenty years using poetry therapy techniques with groups, I have often witnessed how a poem facilitates insights and acts as a portal into an enhanced reality. This familiar experience was suddenly made new for me when I read an account by Eckhart Tolle of the first flowers blooming on this planet (Tolle, 2005). Taylor (2017, ibid) notes that spiritual literature can facilitate awakening. He describes how poetry ‘encourages stillness in the reader’ because it requires attentiveness and receptivity. In this reflective essay, I will look at three characteristics of poetry as an art form that may be factors in facilitating awakening, namely: form, rich ambiguity and metaphor, and include reflections on the similarities between poems and flowers.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81992018","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":"A neuroepistemology of mystical experience","authors":"C. Laughlin, A. Rock","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.37","url":null,"abstract":"This essay provides an anthropological account of a neuroepistemological account of mystical experience. We commence by outlining the various qualities of mystical experience (e.g. time-consciousness and space-consciousness distortion). Subsequently, we analyse the epistemology of mystical experience with special reference to the constructivist versus decontextualist debate. Next, we formulate a neuroepistemology of mystical experience and demonstrate how this account might contribute to the ongoing discourse between constructivists and decontextualists. Finally, from an anthropological point of view we discuss various methodological problems that may hinder a neuroepistemological account of mystical experience (e.g. phenomenological naiveté). We conclude by outlining the attributes of neuroepistemology of mystical experience researchers required to resolve the aforementioned methodological problems.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79752356","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":"Two different spiritual states of consciousness – A response to John Rowan, ‘Do transpersonal psychologists know what they are talking about?’","authors":"H. Guest","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"This is a response to John Rowan’s (2019a) paper ‘Do transpersonal psychologists know what they are talking about?’. Two different meditation practices can lead to two different altered states of consciousness, samadhi and satori, the latter being associated with psychotherapeutic insights. Rowan’s article is about samadhi so this paper concentrates on satori, comparing and contrasting the two, which are often confused with each other, in particular their galvanic skin response (GSR) correlates are different. Some personal experiences of satori are described.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90851399","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":"Sacred sound – An exploration of the power, efficacy and beauty of sound healing with voice and drum","authors":"Hara Willow","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.1.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.1.23","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to discuss modern sound healing practices, rooted in ancient traditions, as viable interventions to enhance psycho-spiritual health and to assist in the evolution of humanity. Presenting data from both one-to-one and group sound healing sessions, this paper shows that at this time of both psychological and ecological crisis, Sacred Sound offers tools that are valuable, safe, relevant and effective.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83068392","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":"Development and validation of a plateau experience psychometric to investigate the effect of shinrin-yoku on depression","authors":"Scott Buckler, April Woodward","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.66","url":null,"abstract":"A proposed direction for transpersonal psychology is the development of empirical research within the field, specifically in assessing the effects of transpersonal practices. The areas of self-actualisation, peak experience and flow have been subjected to research predominantly using psychometrics, however a range of theoretical and methodological issues within these concepts are evident. An alternate concept for future research was advocated by Maslow through his concept of self-transcendence, characterised by the plateau experience, yet in the past forty years, this concept has remained relatively obscure. This paper advocates further research into the plateau experience, through initially defining the concept, progressing to discuss the development of a plateau experience psychometric (PLEX), and using the PLEX within a validation study investigating the effects of shinrin-yoku (forest air breathing/bathing).","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75961740","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}