The Heart of Listening

Since the work of Carl Rogers there has been an increasing recognition of the importance of the quality of attention and the sense of relatedness in therapeutic change. This book considers how relationships and change can be facilitated by very subtle attention to qualities and flows within the therapeutic process. The closer we can reach into the experience of the other, the more this person may be feeling understood and attended to.

Rosalind Pearmain brings together insights from Buddhism, Taoism, and yoga with those from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and consciousness studies to provide a synthesis that will be of great use to practitioners.

This, the latest book from 'The School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Series' of Regent's College, is an intriguing book which explores complex areas and is recommended for the more experienced practitioner' - ***Counsellingbooks.com

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This book focuses in depth on how attention and the heart are involved in relating to others. The author draws in both west and west to illuminate this often neglected aspect of psychotherapeutic work. Sufic and Yogic approaches to heart consciousness are given as well as those from contemporary scientific studies which are discovering the heart's intelligence. Also drawing on contemporary contribution from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, Rosalind Pearmain describes the moment-by-moment process of relational contract in terms of an arc of attunement, amplification and reverberation and offers practical exercises to develop our heart's capacities to respond to others.

** `Intriguing.. extraordinary.. skillfull...' Counselling News

Autorentext
Rosalind Pearmain is Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regents College, and also a practitioner of a heart-focused form of Raj Yoga (Sahaj Marg)

Klappentext

This, the latest book from 'The School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Series' of Regent's College, is an intriguing book which explores complex areas and is recommended for the more experienced practitioner' - Counsellingbooks.com

This book focuses in depth on how attention and the heart are involved in relating to others. The author draws in both west and west to illuminate this often neglected aspect of psychotherapeutic work. Sufic and Yogic approaches to heart consciousness are given as well as those from contemporary scientific studies which are discovering the heart's intelligence. Also drawing on contemporary contribution from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, Rosalind Pearmain describes the moment-by-moment process of relational contract in terms of an arc of attunement, amplification and reverberation and offers practical exercises to develop our heart's capacities to respond to others.

`Intriguing.. extraordinary.. skillfull...' Counselling News

Zusammenfassung
In response to recognition of the importance of the quality of attention and the sense of relatedness in therapeutic change, this book considers how relationships and change can be facilitated by very subtle attention to qualities and flows within the therapeutic process.