Dr. John Churchill
John is currently taking writing & teaching sabbatical from mentoring 1:1 students. If you are interested in working with dr. churchill in the future, please join the waitlist below.
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meditation & Contemplative Studies
Supported by annual retreats and intensives together we personalize and track your contemplative practice according to the particular meditation system that you are working within (Gradual Path, Calm/Staying, Insight, Essence, Alchemical). Following the stages of meditative development we adjust your practice as it unfolds through the contours of your life.
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Heroic Bodhisattva Training
Your Bodhisattva training is not just internal and contemplative but also involves continually moving in the direction of right livelihood and action committed to social transformation. John keeps supporting the integration of your whole life into the heroic path of dharma and challenge you to keep making the changes necessary to walk the path.
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Psychological Development
Maintaining psychological growth requires an integral approach that embraces healing the shadows of psychodynamic trauma, optimizing the self, and supporting higher stages of soul and relational development. In an on-going way john will continue to mentor you in the necessary psychological work needed to weave your pre-personal, personal, and transpersonal selves together.
The Buddha's teachings, the dharma, have gone through three paradigmatic shifts over the millennia, known as the 'turnings' of the dharmic wheel and are reviewed in this book. These paradigm shifts are a result of a deepening understanding into the nature of suffering and the methods of healing. At this time the process of cultural interaction between East and West, and its inevitable synthesis, is well underway as many of the fundamental insights of Buddhist contemplative psychology are becoming integrated into western psychotherapy. There is currently a need for integral dharma teachings that are grounded in the theory and practice of Buddhist contemplative psychology that is synthesized with Western psychological healing and adult development. This book opens a door to this amazing integral synthesis for our times.
