Big Mind Big Heart
With Tom Holmes PhD
Saturday May 17th: 9am – 12pm
$35/ $25 student if you pre-register before May 1st ($40 at the door)
The “Self” is the heart-centered core of our being – that place characterized by mindful awareness, compassionate connectedness, and calm confident clarity. When we are in the Self, we are in a state of awareness quite different from the ordinary, but available to anyone with practice. From here we can see ourselves and others through kind eyes of non-judgment and non-reaction. It is almost as though we are loving, bemused observers who are very present to our own inner states and to the others we encounter. In this place we let go of anxiety, drop dissatisfaction, and become aware of our wholeness. Here we can be either passive witnesses or active doers, whichever is called for and in this state we seem to know clearly what it is we are to do… This workshop will introduce the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model with its concept of Self, and we will engage in practices that let us experience Self. In this way we will both see the concept and know the work by direct experience. While based on the Zen Big Heart / Big Mind process, this underlying goal of increasing in compassion is a key part of many faith traditions, including each of the Abrahamic religions.
- See yourself and others through the kind eyes of non-judgment and non-reaction.
- Become a loving, bemused observer.
- Let go of anxiety, drop dissatisfaction, and become aware of your wholeness.
Tom Holmes has a PhD in Counseling Psychology and is Professor Emeritus at Western Michigan University (WMU). He has been training graduate students in psychotherapy since 1985 and teaching in the Holistic Health Care Program at WMU since 1996. His specialty is spirituality and the therapeutic process. Tom received training in IFS from Richard Schwartz in the late 1980's and has been teaching, training and practicing IFS since that time. - In recent years his focus has been on burnout prevention. Tom’s workshops integrate Western psychology with Buddhist psychology and the Sufi path of the heart as well as spiritual teachings from Christianity, Judaism, and Taoism. In addition to his teaching at the University he has offered many seminars in the US and Europe on the integration of IFS and spirituality as a resource for therapist burnout prevention and the development of therapeutic conditions. Tom is the author of “Parts Work,” which will be available for sale at this workshop.
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