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The
Counseling School, a project of the Mindfulness
Project, is a 3-year course aimed at workers
in the fields of psychology, health services,
education, social work, communication, and
organization. The aim of the school is to
explore similarities in approach between psychology
and Buddhism, drawing on work in psychotherapy
and counseling that makes use of meditation,
mindfulness, and stimulation of fundamental
virtues such as love and compassion. The Counseling
School seeks to sustain and develop participants’
interior growth in the spheres of transpersonal
psychology and Buddhism in relation to the
caring professions. We will seek to help participants
develop their personal sensitivity in order
to understand how to coherently and effectively
utilize the suggestions proposed by Buddhism
in their work.
The last 40 years have seen a significant
growth in psycho-spiritual psychology, which
seeks to respond to questions on the purpose
of life. Study of the mind and its potential
to contribute to the psycho-spiritual well-being
of the individual is the principal objective
of Buddhism. This brings with it the need
for integration into the cultures with which
it enters into contact, without abandoning
their particular characteristics. Perhaps
we will soon be able to speak of a Western
Buddhism and of a psycho-spiritual psychology
easily engaging in dialogue in an easy and
natural way.
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