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From Breakdown to Breakthrough

We welcome you to an open meeting on

Thursday, 23rd February 2012
2-4pm
Essex Unitarian Church, Kensington, London

112 Palace Gardens Terrace, W8 4RT
For travel details: http://www.kensington-unitarians.org.uk
on
SPIRITUAL EMERGENCY
‘Intense and Disturbing’- Experiencing Spiritual Crisis
Thinking wider when ‘psychosis’ is an inadequate description for the person and the practitioner alike.

It can be hard to tell the difference between a psychosis and an intense and disturbing spiritual experience. Maybe if two types of experience look similar it is because they are – spiritual preoccupations of psychotic experience are well known.

JIM TAYLOR, mental health practitioner and service user, will illustrate this from his personal experience of spiritual crisis.

ISABEL CLARKE, consultant clinical psychologist will supply some theoretical understanding of the new conceptualisation that leads to more hopeful and life enhancing ways of supporting people through such experiences.

CHARLIE HERIOT-MAITLAND, clinical psychologist, will present his research which demonstrates the importance of context for determining the outcome of the experience, e.g. whether the experience has helpful or unhelpful, clinical or non-clinical, consequences.

Maybe we are asking the wrong questions by seeking to make distinction. The Spiritual Crisis Network http://www.spiritualcrisisnetwork.org.uk/ is an organisation which provides information and support for this phenomenon. Its members have found that accepting that psychosis and spirituality may represent the same area of human experience that opens the way to unlocking its creative potential; and that breaking through into a different dimension of experiencing can, with the right containment and support, lead to life changing and life affirming. Spiritual Crisis refers to a particular phenomenon where a spiritual experience is felt as an opening or emergence and becomes overwhelming. Stan Grof, a pioneer of Transpersonal Psychology coined the term ‘Spiritual Emergency’.

For Free Registration contact: info@mhspiritualty.org.uk


For information about other recent events see below:

Psychosis and Spirituality:

Inner Journeys in a Time Of Transition

10th November 2011. Art and Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University.

Material from this conference is available on spiritualcrisisnetwork.org.uk/innerjourneys/

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