| anatta |
Buddhist doctrine of ‘no-self’
or interdependency |
| anicca |
Buddhist axiom that all
existent things are subject to change |
| Absorption |
used interchangeably with
Concentrative meditation - as distinct from Insight or Awareness meditation |
| Arahat |
Model of perfected personality
i Buddhist Psychology |
| Atman |
Absolute Mind or Spirit
- from Hinduism, used by Wilber. |
| Awareness meditation |
used interchangeably with
Insight meditation - as distinct from Concentrative or Absorption meditation |
| Balance of attention |
Sufficently in touch with
(past) distress yet sufficientlyof aware the (current) safety of the counselling
environ. |
| Chi-Kung |
Chinese body-energy work |
| Chronic Pattern |
A defense behaviour pattern
which is so constantly in operation as to be a component part of the personality. |
| Concentrative
meditation |
used interchangeably with
absorption meditation - as distinct from Awareness or Insight meditation. |
| Contract |
agreement made at the
outset of a co-counselling session concerning the extent to which the co-counselling
partner will intervene in the client’s session. (Free attention, Normal
and Intensive) |
| Direction holding |
Statements repeated over
and again to keep clients attentionupon a useful (usually) positive track
in session |
| Discharge |
Co-counselling term for
intentional, witnessed, emotional catharsis. |
| Dukka |
Unsatisfactoriness or
suffering as inevitabile human experience |
| Dzogchen |
Quintessential non-dualistic
buddhist teaching from Tibet. |
| Enlightenment Intensive
(E.I.) |
Dyad work - paired meditation
and verbal interaction on the question "Who am I?" |
| E.S.T. |
Erhart Sensitivity Training
named after founder, Werner Erhard |
| Fundamentals |
Name given to the 40 hr
basic co-counselling training |
| FWBO |
Friends of the Western
Buddhist Order - an established English Buddhist community with monks &
lay members |
| Free Attention (contract) |
That attention which is
neither distracted by the environment nor sunk into internal preoccupation
and is therefore available to the client. One of the 3 contracts - this
one is non-verbal. |
| Holotropic Breathing |
Created by Stanislav Grov
for altered states of consciousness work as an alternative to use of psychedelics. |
| Hug |
Name of quarterly journal
of London CCI. |
| Insight meditation |
used interchangeably with
awareness meditation - as distinctfrom Concentrative or Absorption meditation. |
| Intensive(contract) |
Counsellor attempts to
reflect back every cue given by client. Counsellor may speak quite
a lot. Tends to be requested when client expects to be working with a chronic
pattern. |
| Mahavipassana |
A form of awareness or
insight meditation |
| Marks of being |
anicca-impermanence,
dukkha - unsatisfactoriness, and anatta - identitylessness. the three characteristics
of all things which come into existence. |
| Metta bhavana |
A concentration technique
from the Buddhist tradition in which the meditator focusses on generating
and transmitting feelings of loving kindness for all. |
| Namaste |
Traditional (Hindu) greeting
with hands joined at heart, eye contact and brief bow - "I bow to the divinity
within you" |
| New-age traveller |
Media coined name given
to motor and horse drawn vehicle dwellers who live in travelling communities.
Refugees from town and city rather travellers by family tradition. |
| Normal(contract) |
medium level of counsellor
intervention: some cuesreflected back to client, but plenty of space for
client to self-direct. Counsellor is moderately verbal. |
| Passages camps |
Personal growth, wholistic
educational summer camps. |
| Positive directions |
Statements of intent about
how to be with future circumstances now that the grip of the pattern has
been loosened. |
| ptf1 |
Relating to Wilbers Pre/trans
fallacy, an error which mistakes a transpersonal experience for a prepersonal
experience. |
| ptf2 |
Relating to Wilbers Pre/trans
fallacy, an error which mistakes a prepersonal experience for a transpersonal
experience . |
| Qaballah |
Hebrew esoteric tradition |
| Restimulation |
The process by which a
pattern is triggered by current circumstances which bear sufficient similarity
to those present at the time the pattern was created. |
| Re-evaluation |
A ‘post-discharge’ process
whereby reactive behaviours can be looked upon in a new light and subsequently
adjusted and/or replaced. |
| Re-evaluation Co-counselling |
The original co-counselling
community; took it’s name from the above process |
| round |
In co-counselling culture,
a turn-taking, clockwise or anticlockwise individual report-back or check-in
with full group attention. |
| Satipattana |
A form of awareness or
insight meditation |
| sangha |
Traditionally the phrase
used to describe the learning community of Buddhist monks it can include
all those who undertake spiritual practice with a community reference. |
| sharing circle |
similar to a round but
no ordering, - speaking when moved to do so. |
| Theravadan |
adjective given to describe
the ‘first wave’ of Buddhist teaching before the expansion to the far east.
Literally, ‘the teachings of the elders’ |
| T.M. |
Transcendental Meditation
- popularised/commercialised by Maharishi. |
| Transmutation |
Changing the energy of
emotion into another form of energy through conscious intention (lead to
gold alchemy metaphor) |
| Vipassana |
A form of awareness or
insight meditation |
| Wicca |
Witchcraft - pagan mysteries,
earth magic |
