Individual Consultation

The institute offers individual consultation in three interrelated offerings that are designed to serve a range of client needs. These are the Three Session Series, Intermediate Sessions, and Long-term Mentoring.

Three Session Series

This series is designed for people in crisis, or transition, who need short-term counseling/coaching within a spiritual context. The primary focus is to develop a creative orientation to a particular life challenge. Sessions are conducted over a six week period (one every two weeks) with self-reflection and writing in-between. Usually, the six week time frame is sufficient for reorientation to the opportunity the crisis affords. However, if additional work is needed, we can extend the series by a few sessions, or I can arrange a referral from a now large network of practitioners, both in the Boston area and in other parts of the country, who do kindred work. The time-limited approach intensifies this focus, and making the spiritual issues the foreground of concern acknowledges the true depth of the crisis and gives needed perspective on the psychological issues that are also involved.

We have found this a particularly effective form of work in its explicit honoring of spiritual crisis, and in its combination of spiritual and psychological work toward developing a creative response to a critical change-point in a person's life. The format can be varied according to an individual's particular needs, and, if the person lives in another part of the country, I can do this work by phone.

This is not psychotherapy, but rather a modality that is closer to a intensive consultation on psycho-spiritual issues, with emphasis on expanded awareness, autonomy, responsibility, and consequent self-direction.

Intermediate Sessions

The Intermediate Series is designed to deepen and amplify the work of the Three Session Series and fill out the inner and outer possibilities that have developed. The work may include up to seven sessions. The spacing of the meetings is tailored to the specific needs of the client and there may be interim reading and writing that supports the client's process and learning. A range of issues can be covered, including personal, relational, spiritual, vocational, health, and life-style, in order to integrate and make the most use of the learning arising from the crisis, or transition, in daily life.

Long-term Mentoring

This series is a mutually contracted on-going relationship designed to support the client's psycho-spiritual maturation within the context of his, or her, personal, professional, and social life. In essence, it is designed to help a person stay connected, and deepen the connection, to his, or her, soul in the midst of a largely soulless, and increasingly chaotic, culture, and to cultivate spiritual strength and creative expression in the personal, professional, and social spheres of living.

The work has two aspects. The first aspect is to expand and deepen soul expression through discernment of one's vocation and through deliberately pursuing this chosen path as life unfolds. The second aspect is to confront, and work creatively with, the many psycho-spiritual challenges and opportunities that life presents us, including transitions, identity, relationships, vocation, health, aging, expansion of commitment, and the complex process of spiritual maturation.

Both aspects of the Long-term Mentoring invite and challenge us to find our particular path as a soul on earth and then to stay on it toward an eventual experience of mature soul-realization and personal mastery.

This series includes periodic reading and writing. The spacing of the sessions is tailored to the client's needs, and it may include periods of intensive work in a retreat format. Mentoring can be done via phone, or email, so that people from other regions and countries can avail themselves of this service. We are currently doing this work with a number of people and are now expanding and formalizing the format as a way to support others in strengthening and sustaining a commitment to their spiritual life and work in the midst of their everyday lives.

Referral Network

A community of professional practitioners, trained at, and associated with the Institute, is available for individual and/or group supervision, individual sessions, staff training, and organizational consultation. Referrals are available for other parts of the country.

Concord Institute Publications

This publication series contains books and pamphlets that reflect the Institute's orientation and on-going work. Use our order form to place your order.

 

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