"Ananda, one of the Buddha's disciples, said to the Buddha one day, "I've realised that half of the path to the holy life is made of good friendships." "No, Ananda," the Buddha said. "Friends are not half of the holy life. They are all of the holy life."

Upaddha Suta

Posts tagged with 'divorce'

Psychotherapy with couples & other close relationships

28th January 2019

Over the next two days I'm due to run a two day training workshop in Glasgow on "Psychotherapy with couples & other close relationships". Here are the downloadable slides for the first day on "Working with couples" (sadly with the cartoons removed for copyright reasons) and here the slides for …

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Workshop on couple therapy: slides and handouts

7th February 2016

A couple of days ago I ran a one day workshop on Couple Therapy for final year Counselling Psychology students at Glasgow's Caledonian University. Although I've run many workshops over the years around relationship themes, this is the first time I've taught one specifically on Couple Therapy. It's hard work …

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