Book Review: Transformation in Troubled Times

“The willingness to bear with our wounds opens our eyes and potentially our hearts to what is going on around us. A wounded planet is also potentially a healing planet,” write Chris Robertson and Sarah Van Gogh. Their new book, Transformation in Troubled Times: Re-Vision’s Soulful Approach to Therapeutic Work is an invitation to reconsider the opportunity that every wounding offers — to once again restore our faith in the process of healing. Much of the work of the therapist is to sense the possibility that exists in the connection between the ego and the soul. The authors explain, “Each therapy session is an interplay between conscious and unconscious dynamics between the therapist and the client and within each of them.” Facilitated by learning to trust their intrinsic experiences — what Robertson and Van Gogh call “inside out” learning — students’ experiences at Re-Vision become rooted in their own subjective experiences. “Students are imbibers of the organizational culture, both consciously and unconsciously. So where the agenda of training is instrumental (success, large group numbers, status for trainers), this attitude will be reflected in graduate’s work in the wider community,” they write. The foundations of Re-Vision are based on exploring the margins, shadow material and uncertainty, and one of their first courses, “The Borderlands and the Wisdom of Uncertainty,” was the subject of a BBC documentary. “This emphasis on w...
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