The Center for Human Awakening
~ The Psycho-Spiritual Teachings of Richard Harvey ~
Sacred Attention Therapy (SAT) Online Training - LEVEL 2
The Sacred Attention Therapy (SAT) Online Training Course is a psycho-spiritual psychotherapy training that is progressive, radical, and innovative. Applications from prospective students are invited from:
• therapists – psychotherapists, counselors, and other healing practitioners
• people who want to train to become SAT therapists
• seekers who wish to practice SAT for their own personal growth and spiritual development
The SAT training consists of two levels of teaching. Each of Levels 1 and 2 consist of twelve modules and the recommended time for completing each level of the training is between six months and two years.
If you are wondering if SAT Online Training is for you, we invite you to explore this page.
The SAT Online Training Course, Level 2 consists of 12 modules, each consisting of 3 video presentations and a supporting .pdf document. The content continues the Process of Self-Discovery or personal therapy as described in Level 1. This course is open to students who completed Level 1 or to students who can show that they have reached a stage in their personal growth or their development as a therapist or counselor that equates with the content of Level 1.
As with Level 1, Level 2 refers to the 3-stage model of psycho-spiritual development described in Your Essential Self and Human Awakening. Broadly, Level 2 addresses the penultimate and final subjects of inner work on personality and character – forgiveness and wholeness – the mysteries of crossing the Threshold of Transformation and the initiatory preparations for the second stage of awakening.
A summary of each module is as follows:
Module 1: Toward Human Freedom
Module 2: Moving Toward the Threshold
Module 3: Where Do We Go Rrom Here
Module 4: Age Points and Personal Mythology
Module 5: Dreamwork, Dynamic Imagination, and the Unconscious
Module 6: Body and Energy
Module 7: Forgiveness
Module 8: The Last Grains
Module 9: Journey into Wholeness
Module 10: The Threshold of Transformation
Module 11: Preparation for the Second Stage of Awakening
Module 12: Fulfilling Human Capacity and Potential
See a detailed outline for each module at the bottom of this page.
The SAT Online Training Course is available to students who wish to train in a radical, innovative therapy approach, practitioners who wish to add SAT to their existing list of skills, and to people who are committed to their own personal growth and spiritual development. The course is designed to address therapists and seekers without distinction. Each module is designed to take approximately a month to complete. We advise you to listen to the lecture presentations on three separate occasions to digest the material contained in them. The Supporting Document for each module expands on the lecture material, directs you to further sources of exploration of the subject matter and provides written and experiential exercises that bring the course material to life and ground you in the insights of SAT Level 2 training.
Level 2 may be studied for your own growth and personal satisfaction as an invaluable source of guidance, information, theory and method for your awakening. If you are pursing SAT studies with a view to enhancing your professional CV then, as in Level 1, you may present your work selected from the Supporting Documents, prepare a major essay, and conduct a “therapy session” (over Skype) for appraisal by three members of the SAT teaching faculty in order to obtain SAT certification. The Center for Human Awakening can alternatively issue a certificate of course completion.
Who is the SAT Online Training Course For?
The course is open to psychotherapists, counselors, complementary-alternative medicine practitioners, healers, mentors, and guides, as well as to people who are serious about their own personal and spiritual growth and development.
You may take the training in order to become a SAT therapist with formal certification or to add SAT to your existing skills and knowledge base if you are already a practicing therapist or counselor. Finally, you may take the course to further your own self-development and awareness.
Pre-Requisites:
To enrol in SAT Online Training, Level 2 training, a student must have:
- Been granted their SAT Online Training, Level 1 certification or certificate of course completion. OR
- Demonstrated they have completed therapy / counselling training of equivalent depth, content, and rigor. OR
- Demonstrated they have completed their personal inner work of equivalent depth, content, and rigor portrayed through the seven core elements of SAT.
Tutor:
Individual Therapy:
All students are encouraged to be in individual therapy for the duration of the course. The therapist does not have to be a SAT practitioner. However, if they are not we suggest that the therapist is acquainted and sympathetic to the SAT approach, so they can support you wisely in the issues that are likely to be stimulated by the course work. Follow this link for a list of SAT practitioners, therapists, and counselors who incorporate SAT principles in their work.
Suggested Reading:
All students are invited and encouraged to read Richard Harvey's books Your Essential Self and Your Sacred Calling before enroling in SAT Online Training, Level 2. If you choose to enrol without reading these books, you will be invited to read them as a part of your study.
Time and Duration:
The recommended time to take for completing Level 2 training is one year. However, you may take it at your own pace and with the right frequency and intensity of study it may be possible to complete it in six months (less time is not advised). Each module is presented in three or four sections offering a convenient and efficient way to learn in approximately 30 minute teaching sessions. You are encouraged to view each presentation a minimum of three times and read and study the accompanying document and suggested literature and sources closely, as well as carry out the exercises. Level 2 training must be completed within 2 years of starting, in order to qualify for the certification process (see below).
Tuition Fees:
Full registration: € 3,500.00
Concessionary rate: € 2,800.00 (for those who cannot afford the full registration rate)
Payment plans are available.
Please note there is an extra fee for processing formal certification or the certificate of course completion (see below for details).
No refunds will be issued after payment is made. We have intended to provide a clear and thorough description of this course offering, including a detailed course outline at the bottom of this page. If you are unsure about the curriculum, course requirements, or any other aspect of Level 2 training, we invite you to follow up with us to clarify any/all matters before enroling. You can contact the Registrar by email.
Application Process:
Please follow this link to the application form for enrolment in the SAT Online Level 2 training, or click on the button to the right.
Prospective students may be invited to participate in an interview as part of their application process.
Technology Requirements:
SAT Online Training is accessible from a PC desktop or laptop running Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox; or from a MacIntosh desktop or laptop running Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox. The training is also accessible from Android and Apple smart phones. SAT Online Training will not function optimally when accessed with an iPAD.
Certification and Diploma
On completion of Level 2 of SAT Online Training students will have the option of submitting written material, including a major essay, and participating in an experiential assessment (via Skype) to be evaluated for formal Certification. Alternatively, students may apply for a certificate of course completion or simply enjoy the training without either. See below for instructions on how to apply for Certification or certificate of course completion.
Students who go on to complete all four levels of the training can apply to be awarded the Diploma in Sacred Attention Therapy (Dip SAT).
How To Apply For Formal Certification in SAT Training Level 2:
Students who take the course with the intention of practicing as SAT therapists should apply for formal certification. To apply for certification in the SAT Online Training Course: Level 2 please follow these guidelines:
1. Questions and Exercises: Complete the requirements as described in "Conditions for Certification" in the accompanying document for each of the twelve modules of the course.
2. Major Essay: Send your proposed title and a brief summary of the subject matter of your major essay for approval to [email protected].
3. Therapist-Client Enactment: Your experiential assessment takes place via a Skype "session" lasting approximately 40 minutes. You will be presented with a profile and some background on your "client" a week to ten days beforehand.
4. Collect your work -- questions and exercises, and your major essay -- into a single Word document. Use Times New Roman 12 automatic font. Make sure your module titles, paragraphing, and grammar are consistent and clear. Please have these checked by someone who knows about grammar and presentation, if you are not sure. Work which is not presented clearly with good grammar and layout will be returned for you to amend.
5. Send your fee (€ 350 Euros) via the payment form.
6. Your work is reviewed by a minimum of two members of the SAT teaching faculty. Comments and evaluation are made independently without collaboration to ensure impartiality. If your work falls short of the level expected for awarding certification, you will be asked to submit all or part of it again. This process may be repeated for a third submission only. If the work is still not of sufficient standard, you may apply to start the entire process a second time but a second payment is required.
Please note certification is given for the complete course, not for individual modules.
How To Apply For A Certificate of Course Completion:
Students who take the course purely for their own personal development and who don't wish to practice as SAT therapists may wish to apply for a Certificate in Course Completion. The requirements are less stringent than for the formal certification in SAT Training.
1. Complete a single sheet of A4 in Times New Roman font 12 (no more than 550 words) for each of the twelve modules. The sheets should be clearly headed and presented in good English. Each sheet should summarize your understanding of the content of the module. Please try to use your own word as much as possible.
2. Make your payment for € 100 Euros here.
3. Send your written submission as a Word doc to [email protected].
4. Providing your written work shows a reasonable understanding of the training content, a Certificate of Course Completion will be sent to you by email.
The Sacred Attention Therapy Collaborative Project for Therapists and Counselors
The SAT Collaborative Project for Therapists and Counselors was initiated in 2013. Psychotherapists, counselors, and practitioners from all around the world are currently collaborating on the first of a series of SAT publications entitled The Labyrinth of Self.
You may apply to join the project if you have an interest in writing and SAT principles. Theses that are submitted as part of the formal certification procedure may also be considered for publication.
Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: Toward Human Freedom
INTRODUCTION: WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE WANT?
i) A Psycho-Spiritual Approach
ii) An Unusual Point
iii) Childhood and Deception
iv) What Kind of World do we Want?
PART 1 – THE RECIPROCAL FLOW OF LOVE IN THE WORLD
1. The Fulfillment of Destiny
2. What is in this Course
3. The Deep Response to a Sacred Calling
4. The Open Field
5. Being With
6. Available to Life
7. Giving Yourself to Life
PART 2 – THE LUMINOUS CAVES OF THE SOUL
8. Change and Transformation
9. Personal Journey and the Human Collective
10. The Salvation of Humanity
11. The Universal and the Particular
12. The Path to the Core of Yourself
13. Releasing Our Attachment to Comfort
14. Real Life on Hold
PART 3 – BE YOURSELF – THE ONLY HUMAN FREEDOM
15. Becoming Ourselves
16. Discovering Who We Are
17. A Welcome at the Doorway
18. The Stencil of Conformity and the Archaeology of the Soul
19. The Schizoid Defense
20. What Sort of World Have We Created?
21. What Therapy is All About
22. Habit and Habit-Forming Behavior
23. Contracting Aspirations and Bigotry
24. Blindness and Fear
Module 2: Moving Toward the Threshold
PART 1 – REFLECTIONS ON THE THRESHOLD
1. A Problem or a Blessing?
2. Accepting Ourself and Accepting Our Client
3. Dropping the Burden
4. The Authentic Human Being
5. The Mystery of Grace
6. Beyond the Threshold
PART 2 – ATTACHMENT, ACCEPTANCE, AND AWARENESS
7. “Don’t worry, it will pass”
8. Attachments and Identity
9. Addiction to Experience and Self-Definition
10. The Future, the Past, and Vibrant Life
11. Who Do We Think We Are?
12. The Connection between Joy and Sorrow
13. You are Not What is Happening to You
14. Indoctrinated into Unawareness
15. The Location of Awareness
16. Awareness and Listening
17. Awareness and Speaking
18. Awareness and Paying Attention
19. The Sage Accepts Everything
20. The Poor Man and the Rabbi
21. What Do We Deserve?
PART 3 – SOME CLARITY ABOUT THE PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
22. Becoming Attached to Unattachment
23. Attraction and Aversion
24. Closeness and Distance
25. A Fine Balancing Act
26. Niya and the Three Stages of Awakening
27. Common Misapprehensions about Psycho-Spiritual Development
28. Mistaking the Psychological for the Spiritual
29. Invalidating the Spiritual from of a Linear Understanding of the Three Stages
30. The Delusion of Forgiving Parents, Ex-Spouses, and “Enemies”
31. Seeing Sensitivity, Empathy, and Intuition as Failings or Weaknesses, because they were
Criticized in Childhood
32. The Belief that you should Complete Personal Therapy before becoming a Therapist
33. The Belief that you have done Loads of Therapy and got Nowhere
Module 3: Where Do We Go From Here?
PART 1 – IN UNCHARTERED TERRITORY
1. The Later Stages of Self-Exploration
2. Three Types of Energy
3. Initiatory, Persevering, and Ending Power
4. Where Do We Go from Here?
5. What is in Our Home?
6. The Childhood Ego
7. Freedom from Personality and Character
8. A Spiritual Revolution and the Heart Chakra
9. Learning to Feel
PART 2 – THE SNAKE IN THE WOODPILE
10. Our Sense of "I"
11. The True Adult
12. Louisa: a Two Year-Old in a Corporate Business Woman
13. Sophia: Surviving Emotional Abandonment through Fantasy
14. A Witness to the Ego-Processes
15. Discovering Your Wealth
16. Self-Responsibility -- the Snake in the Woodpile
17. What Do I Want?
18. Transparent to Resistance
19. Life is Change
20. A Peek into the Third Stage of Awakening
PART 3 – THE DILEMMA AND THE DECISION
21. The Great Triumvirate
22. Potential
23. Capacity
24. Destiny
25. The Being You Are
26. Three Questions
27. Working with Clients 1: Unforeseen “Saviors”
28. Working with Clients 2: The Past Returning
29. Working with Clients 3: The Challenges and Demands
30. It Gets Simpler!
31. Making Decisions
Module 4: Age Points and Personal Mythology
PART 1 – RITUAL IS EVERYWHERE
1. Age Points and Inner Work
2. Psycho-Biological Age Points
3. Age Points, Cycles, and Thresholds
4. The Natal Threshold
5. The First Seven Years and Incarnation
6. Women and Men in their Fifties
7. Transitions and Ceremonies
8. Rituals and Ceremonies in the Therapy Space
PART 2 – MYTHOLOGY AND MATURITY
9. True Adulthood: Shedding the Child Ego
10. Childhood Conditioning and the Influence of the Past
11. Further Shedding of the Ego-Self
12. Forty-Two and Whole Intelligence
13. Becoming Ourselves
14. Personal Mythology
15. How You Look at Your Life
16. The Mythological Dimension
PART 3 – MYTHOLOGICAL THEMES AND PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY
17. The Hero’s Journey
18. The Myth of Romantic Love
19. Ego, Shadow, and Anima: Self, Darkness, and Soul
20. The Search for Love and Wholeness
21. My Life in Archetype and Myth – The Spiritual Child
22. Occupying the Transcendence: The Shaman
23. Art and Alchemy: The Lone Wolf
24. The Tests and Challenges of the Seeker in Search of Himself
Module 5: Dreamwork, Dynamic Imagination, and the Unconscious
PART 1 – INTRODUCTION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS
1. Which is the Most Important Communication?
2. Two Fields: the Known and the Unknown
3. The Unknown wants to be Known
4. How the Unknown Makes Itself Known: the Unexpected and Synchronicity
5. Further Examples of Synchronicity
6. Transference and Projection
7. The Impossibility of Lying
8. The Irrepressible Unknown
9. Dreams
10. Jokes
11. Wordplay
12. Verbal Slips and Accidents
PART 2 – EXPLORING THE DREAM WORLD
13. Why Are Dreams So Hard to Understand?
14. Your Relationship To Dreams
15. A Concentrated Period of Dream Work
16. Arousing Your Dream World
17. Stimulating Recall of Your Dreams
18. What Are Dreams Really?
19. Deciphering the Dream: the Announcement
20. The SAT Dream Method
21. The Three Conditions of Life
22. Dreams as Your Teacher
PART 3 – DYNAMIC IMAGINATION: ENTERING THE REALM OF THE ARCHETYPES
23. An Introduction to Dynamic Imagination
24. Instructions for Practicing Dynamic Imagination
25. A Dynamic Imagery
26. Mark's Dynamic Imagination Session
27. Mario’s Dynamic Imagination Session
28. Ending a Session of Dynamic Imagination
Module 6: Body and Energy
PART 1 – EXPLORATION OF THE PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ORGANISM
1. Introduction: You have a Body!
2. The Face
3. Respond to the Whole and the Parts
4. The Neck and Shoulders
5. The Arms and the Hands
6. The Chest, the Solar Plexus, and the Abdomen
7. The Pelvis, the Upper Legs, and the Knees
8. The Lower Legs, the Ankles, and the Feet
9. Walking as an Introduction to your Client
10. Three Primary Psycho-Physical Centers
PART 2 – WORKING WITH THE PSYCHO-PHYSICAL BODY AND ENERGY
11. The Will or Action Center
12. The Emotional or Feeling Center
13. The Mental or Rational Center
14. Paris and the Three Goddesses
15. Disconnection with the Heart Chakra
16. Work on Yourself is a Foundation for your Work with Others
17. Intuition without Expectation
18. A Primordial Reality
19. Your Psycho-Spiritual Foundation
20. Spiritual Materialism
21. Layers of History and First Impressions
22. Expansive Awareness
23. Clients and Statements of Presence
24. Primary Modes of Access
PART 3 – THE AUTHENTIC BODYMIND
25. A Bodywork Focused Therapy Session
26. “If I let myself fall...?”
27. “What if you shared the load?”
28. The Usurper in the Bodymind
29. The Container, not what it Contains
30. Therapy is Subjective
31. Dedicate Yourself to Authenticity
32. The Authenticity Test and the Holy Body
Module 7: Forgiveness
PART 1 – INEQUALITY, SURVIVAL, AND THE SLEEP OF FORGETFULNESS
1. Grading Human Beings
2. Forgetting Childhood
3. The Role of Therapy and the Therapist in Remembering
4. The Desire for Solitude
5. Blame and the Childhood Ego
6. Not Wanting Things to be the Way they Are
7. The White Dove of Forgiveness – A Series of Dreams
8. Forgiving
PART 2 – FORGIVENESS IN ACTION
9. Nelson Mandela and Robert Rule
10. The Models that Shaped out Attitude to Forgiveness
11. Stories of Forgiveness I: See the Other as Yourself
12. The Power of Vulnerability
13. The Inner Reservoir of Surrender
14. Stories of Forgiveness II: Forgiveness of a Mother and a Daughter
15. “I Forgive You for Everything”
16. Stories of Forgiveness III: Facing the Abuser
17. Authentic Forgiveness and Miracles
18. Gender and Age Points
PART 3 – WHAT IS FORGIVENESS?
19. What is Forgiveness?
20. Paving the Way
21. Unraveling the Knots
22. Sculpting the Wind
23. No Substance to Ego
24. The Root of the Ego-Dilemma
25. The Repetitive Mind
26. Resistance to the Void
27. Isolated as “I”
28. Self-Identity and Attachment
29. Blame and Survival
30. Rina – the Story of a Survivor
31. “I feel wonderful”
32, Forgiven in the Heart-Light
33. No Barriers to Forgiveness
Module 8: The Last Grains
PART 1 – ATTACHMENTS, SACRIFICE, AND TRANSFORMATION
1. The Three Questions… Again
2. The Binding of Isaac
3. In the Land of Vision
4. Life as Sacrifice
5. The Three Fears
6. Merging of the Past and the Present
7. The Remnants of Childhood Fears
8. An Inward Ritual Sacrifice
9. Cutting the Ties to the Past
10. An Encoded Metaphor for the Ceremony of Transformation
PART 2 – SURRENDER TO TRANSFORMATION
11. The Security of Resistance
12. Dreams of Birth
13. Dreams of Making Love
14. Reverting to Childhood
15. A Brick Wall or a Symphony?
16. Misinterpreting
17. Bargaining
18. Delusion
19. Compensating
20. Sudden Crisis
21. Transferring
22. Bailing out
23. Going for the short cut to grandeur
24. Investment
25. Attraction
26. Blind spot
27. Holding On
3. AN EXAMINATION OF THERAPISTS’ BURNOUT
28. Therapist’s Burnout
29. Signs of Burnout
30. Why do Therapists Burnout?
31. Some Common Dangers
32. The Helping Trap
33. Ways to Recovery
34. From the Client’s Perspective
Module 9: Journey into Wholeness
PART 1 – THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND THE SPIRITUAL TEACHER
1. How do Psychotherapy and Counseling bring about Change?
2. The Psychology of Sacred Attention Therapy
3. The Necessary Components
4. The Therapeutic Relationship
5. The Image of the Expert
6. Uniqueness of the Therapeutic Relationship
7. Paradox of the Therapeutic Relationship
8. The Client as Sufferer
9. The Inner Wrestling Match
10. Listening and Prejudice
11. The Childhood Ego and Religion
12. Desiring Happiness and True Happiness
13. Delusions of the Small Self in the Modern Era
PART 2 – HEALING AT THE THRESHOLD
14. The Sacrifice and the Loss
15. Presence, Emptiness and Safe Containment
16. Acceptance and Non-Judgment
17. The Ego Must be Relinquished
18. The Role of Creativity
19. Creating a Ghost
20. Purpose and Meaning
21. The Impersonal Everything
22. A Model of Human Awakening
PART 3 – PRACTICING AT THE THRESHOLD
23. Spiritual Teacher or Psychotherapist?
24. Working with Preferences
25. The Importance of Practice
26. Remembering as Integration
27. The Misery of Character
28. Kristia: Disrupted Attachment and Abuse
29. Regressing your Client
30. Fern: Approaching the Threshold
31. An Inspired Exercise
32. Three Questions and a Statement
33. Responses to the Questions
34. Honor and Awareness
Module 10: The Threshold of Transformation
PART 1 – TRANSFORMING LIFE
1. No Precedent for the Threshold
2. Wishy-Washiness and Dry Philosophy
3. The Anticipation of Life
4. No Safety Net, No Return
5. Ego-self obstacle
6. The Blinding Light of Freedom
7. Standing Alone without Attachments
8. Sheila: Repressing Vibrant Life
9. Phillip: Unfulfilled Life
10. The Threshold and the Second Stage of Awakening
PART 2 – OVER THE THRESHOLD
11. Heart does not include “I”
12. True Love is Impersonal
13. Your True Nature
14. Perpetual Dilemma
15. The Imaginary Self and Self-Responsibility
16. Authenticity
17. Ways to Sabotage the Threshold Transition
18. Knowledge of our Inherent Capacity
19. Holding back the Ancestral Tide
PART 3 – EVERYTHING CHANGES
20. Avoid Expectations
21. Courage
22. Personal Concern and Universal Concern
23. The Most Radical Healing Event
24. Projecting onto World Events
PART 4 – TRANSFORMATION: A NEW BIRTH
25. The Pure Experience of the Threshold
26. The Necessity of Completing Personal Work
27. Wholeness and Forgiveness
28. Losing Sight of the Goal of Inner Work
29. Crossing the Threshold I
30. When did the Threshold begin?
31. Crossing the Threshold II
32. No Destiny is Better than any Other
Module 11: Preparation for the Second Stage of Awakening
PART 1 – ACCLIMATIZATION: INTEGRATION AND STABILIZATION
1. From the Therapist’s Chair
2. From Childhood Ego to Adult Center
3. Causes and Ideologies
4. The Six Sheaths of Identity
5. Individual Identity
6. Social Identity, Gender Identity, and Class Identity
7. National Identity
8. Spiritual Identity and Spiritual Character
9. Causes and Identity
10. Variations on Objective Perspective
PART 2 – A MIRACLE OF LIFE
11. Waiting
12. Personal Relationships after the Threshold Event
13. Relatives and Recognition
14. The Narrative Actor in your Dream-Drama
15. Loose Ends
16. Being and Doing
17. Being and Purpose
18. The Client’s Experience
PART 3 – HEART-CENTEREDNESS, COMPASSION, AND AUTHENTICITY
19. The Three Leading Characteristics of Second-Stage Awakening
20. Heart-centeredness
21. Experiencing the Chakras
22. Practicing Heart Exercises
23. Emotional Life in the Second Stage
24. Unnatural Times
25. A Different Relationship to Emotions
26. Compassion – the Stirring of a Greater Love
27. Inhabiting the Heart
28. Authenticity
29. Qualities of the Therapist
Module 12: Fulfilling Human Capacity and Potential
PART 1 – SECOND-STAGE AWAKENING: A PRESENT CALL TO HUMANITY
1. The Experience of Second-Stage Awakening
2. Unboundaried Consciousness
3. A Schema of Transcendence
4. A Wise Response to an Unenlightened World
5. The Lessons of Second-Stage Awakening
6. Living Fearlessly
7. Feeling-Awareness
8. Physical Energy Points of the Primary Energy Centers
9. Stirring the Hara
10. The Riches of the Heart
11. The Children’s Playground
12. Interact with Children
13. Psychic Practices, Clairvoyance and Mediumship
14. Sexual Energy
PART 2 – THE WAY OF SACRED ATTENTION AND THE ANCIENT WISDOM
15. Preparation for the Third Stage
16. Realizing Yourself
17. How do we Choose a Spiritual Practice or Path?
18. Two Tendencies
19. Spiritual Supermarket
20. Very Few see it in a Flash
21. What is Left to be Done and Who is to Do it?
22. The Relationship of Spirituality to Psychology
23. A Radical New Form of Self-Understanding
24. The Ancient Wisdom Always Was
25. Humanity has Lost its True Identity
26. Sacred Attention Teachings: Liberation and Surrender
PART 3 – TWO GREAT CEREMONIES
27. Self and the Mystery
28. That which Needs Attending to
29. To Therapists and Seekers
30. A Guided Spiritual Practice: Your Sense of Being
31. The Two Great Ceremonies
32. The Therapy Space as Temple
33. Betrayal, Worthlessness, and Breakthrough
34. The “Problem” of Loving
35. In Gratitude…
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"Richard’s writings and my personal experience of working with Richard to the Sacred Attention Therapy (SAT) model have provided me with an invaluable deepening and broadening of my inner work. Personally, professionally, spiritually and psychologically Richard’s work has helped bring together and add to all of my prior therapeutic, theological and healing training into a heart-based therapy that is both thorough and honouring. Richard’s original idea of the Central Character Dynamic (CCD) and the process of clarifying its structure is truly ground-breaking and has been one of the most frustrating, annoying (to my ego at any rate) and rewarding experiences to date. I have felt the benefits of SAT personally and have been privileged to witness them with clients."
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Lead Therapist and Practice Director,
The Owl Practice, Guildford, Surrey, UK
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