While still remaining who you are, you can bring about a quantum leap in your awareness, and the sign that the leap is real will be some emergent property you never experienced in the past.

Deepak Chopra

"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time."

T.S. Eliot

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.

Eckhart Tolle

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

St Augustine

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now -- when?"

Hillel

There is a saying in Tibetan, "Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength." No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Dalai Lama

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over

Eckhart Tolle

If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.

Dalai Lama

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

Maslow

Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Marianne Williamson

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers... And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

Maslow

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

Carl Jung

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Walt Whitman

Supervision

All formal training in mainstream and structured courses in counselling and psychotherapy require the trainee to take supervision and this is mandatory for the course.

In our training courses we have found that regular supervision supports the practitioner in personal and professional growth.

The Ochre & Spanda ‘Systemic Theory & Practice in Family Constellation’ Level 2 facilitator course includes supervision as a mandatory part of the learning development. Supervision for facilitators of Family Constellation is offered by Colette Green (www.ochre.ie) and Annie Cariapa.

For those not familiar with supervision, you may ask yourself – “what question am I sitting with, as a practitioner, that I would like to reflect on and get clarity”. The question can be around systemic thinking, principles and philosophy, skill sets to be built, personal aspects of certain feelings , blocks, uncertainty, a sense of shakiness etc before, during and even after the session.
Transference and counter transference issues are quickly brought to light.

From time to time, you may feel the need to acknowledge the changes and growth that you have experienced in your work. Supervision offers the opportunity to be witnessed and acknowledged, anchoring your newly acquired resource and encouraging a deepening and expansion at a personal and professional level.

Supervision offers a meta view of your work helping you grow in theory, skill and practice and also brings a personal awareness of blind spots, unconscious processes etc. It throws light on a way forward.

Supervision is customised to meet the needs of the practitioner and works in service of the client.