Pathwork UK

The excitement I felt when I first found Pathwork in 1999 has not left me and it is the best guiding tool to live by for me to this date. As I practice helpership to myself first and foremost, I have found deep fulfilment in life, and connecting with people through finding truth together is such a joy. I come from the Buddhist-Shinto culture and had my days immersed in meditation practice and many other teachings trying to solve the puzzle of life, now all come together to help me help others. I have been building up my strength to help people with Pathwork through giving one to one sessions and facilitating small groups with workshops and lecture study, also in the long courses for the Balkan School of Pathwork. For me, practicing Pathwork helpership is the expression of how I truly love myself and the world.

1999年に初めて遭遇して以来、パスワークは当時の感動を今も残しながら 現在に至るまで私の人生を生きるための最良の教材になっています。まず自分自身のヘルパーであることを最優先してきて、生きることに深い満足が得られたと思います。また、他の方々と真実を共に探求できるのもこの上ない喜びです。仏教と神道の文化に生まれ、瞑想に明け暮れたり人生のパズルを解こうと様々な教えも試しましたが、今それも無駄にならずに役に立っていると感じています。これからも続く私のヘルパー修行は、これまでやってきた個人セッションや少人数の講座、ガイドレクチャーの勉強会、そしてセルビアの長期コースの教師としての経験を通して積み上げたものを土台に、真の愛というものを自分自身と世界に発現していくためのものだと思っています。

After graduating with a degree in Anthropology I was a Buddhist monk, and then lived at the Phoenicia Pathwork centre in upstate New York in 1984.

I subsequently trained as a psychotherapist, and have spent the last thirty years integrating Eastern and Western understandings of the Mind together with training as a Pathwork helper and studying with Almaas.

After training as a Pathwork Helper in the UK, I co-facilitated workshops, groups and intensives in Devon, before moving to Serbia for 4 years.

In Serbia I was passionately involved in the setting up of Pathwork South East Europe and in introducing and supporting this work for people in Serbia, Croatia. Turkey and other Balkan countries.

With colleagues, I set up and organised the Helper training programme for Pathwork South Eastern Europe for Balkan candidates. I was fortunate to be a trainer for this programme and also on the Transformation programme.

I live in West Devon near Okehampton , and welcome people wanting to work with the Pathwork to intensives, workshops, retreats and ongoing monthly groups and sessions.

I am also a (now retired) professional homeopath and a hands on healer.
I love the depth, beauty and abundance of the countryside, birdsong, the dynamic sea, living running water and quiet hedgerows.

Born in France, a spiritual journey began tentatively in my late teens when I became inspired by Arnaud Desjardins and Krishnamurti's writings. This motivated me to travel extensively for several years, and to tread the Afghan trail to India in my early twenties. I came to England in 1976, where for 10 years I joined a society partly based on Gurdjieff's esoteric teachings. After my son's birth, at age 35, I was faced with bone cancer, which left me with a disabled right leg. These life-changing experiences resulted in a more conscious engagement with emotional and psychological healing. After a year of emotional therapy which addressed basic childhood issues, the desire to heal more deeply brought me to the Pathwork material in 1994. In the years to follow, I immersed myself in the lectures, which fulfilled an inner longing to reconcile all aspects of self. In 2000, I committed to the 7 year Helpership Training.

Mostly trained through RELATE, I have been a counsellor for couples and individuals since 2004. As I am passionate about deep listening and relationships at all levels, I was drawn to Focusing, a compassionate way to listen to our inner selves and interact with them whilst grounded in Presence. Consequently, I completed a M.A. in Focusing & Experiential Psychotherapy at the University of East Anglia in 2010, writing a dissertation on the experience of embodying spirituality. The ongoing struggle with acceptance of physical limitations further led me to Wholebody Focusing as a way to connect more deeply with the body's healing wisdom.

Whilst deeply grounded in Pathwork teachings, my approach is also informed by various models, including Attachment Theory, Gestalt, Trasactional Analysis and inner child work. Facilitating individuals to empower themselves and to trust their innate wisdom is a real privilege, which I find deeply fulfilling and inspiring. At its best, I experience this work as 'midwifing the soul' - assisting the individual in bringing forth exiled aspects from the psyche into the light of awareness, to be integrated and healed through acceptance and compassion.

In the last few years, I have been strongly drawn to the contemplative practice of Centering Prayer, started initially by Father Thomas Keating, and furthered by Cynthia Bourgeault, a modern mystic.

Personal interests include astrology, the use of language and metaphors, sustainable living, new forms of communities and holistic health. Meditation is part of my spiritual practice.
Some of the writers impacting my life have been/are: Pema Chodron, Stephen Levine, Melanie Reinhart, Eckhart Tolle, John Welwood and Cynthia Bourgeault.

I offer individual sessions, in person, over the phone or on Zoom/Skype. Please feel free to contact me for further details.

I trained and worked as actor in theatre and television. I have co-devised and directed over 20 operas for young people, in particular those with a range of disabilities and special needs. I have taught at Drama School and am a workshop leader. I am also a communicator and insight coach for business people.

I have written and performed many sketches and my own one man show and would like to spend more time writing.

Mask/Idealised Self-Image: love with serenity. “Conciliatory, understanding, kind, supportive. Little Bodhisattva”.

Lower Self: the territory ranges from anxiety and fear to impotent rage, resentment, glowering pride, brooding tentacles, withholding and undermining.

Higher Soul Vistas: loving, generous, joyful and playful. Deep clear reservoirs of gratitude and blessedness, aligned with the Well-Being of all creation.

I have been recently inspired by the beauty of the resurrection passages in the Gospels, and by Thich Nhat Hanh, especially after his passing. He helps to remind me to Rest in God and to breathe mindfully.

I am perennially minded to “Be with yourself and be your Self” and this has now expanded to include “Breathe with yourself and be/breathe your Self”.

If any of this speaks to you get in touch via email col774@gmail.com
I give online sessions, small workshops, help with group study and other helpful conversations.

I have been involved with Pathwork since the late 1990s attending Pathwork groups and workshops and I lived at the Pathwork UK centre for a while.

I undertook the Pathwork Studies program following on with my helpership training and I continued in supervision.

I also trained to be a licensed acupuncturist and ran my own practice.

I am a fan of Barbara Ann Brennan (Heyoan) and Pat Rodegast (Emmanuel) and I am influenced by Daoism and Buddhism as well as by the Violet Flame.

I am currently inactive but hold a view to resume things in the future.