Australian Association of
Buddhist Counsellors
& Psychotherapists
Mindfulness Theory and Practice for
Helping Professionals
Colin Library, Marist Centre,
1 Mary Street, Hunters Hill, Sydney.
Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th May 2007
The weekend will offer a varied selection of presentations by leading psychotherapists explaining how mindfulness is
practised in different modalities of therapy. There will be presentations from the Buddhist Sangha on the history,
psychology and benefits of mindfulness from the Pali texts. An experiential component of meditations will be included for
participants to practise the concepts and processes discussed. This will be a great opportunity to integrate mindfulness in therapy, and to deepen our own practice.
All members of the helping professions are welcome, including non-Buddhists.
Saturday 26th May 2007 9:30 Registration |
Sunday 27th May 2007 9:15 Opening Blessings: Sangha member |
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REGISTRATION
Registration: includes vegetarian lunch and refreshments.
Closing Date: 18/5/07
Whole weekend:
AABCAP members: $180.00
Non-members:
$250.00
One day: AABCAP members: $100.00
Non-members: $130.00
(Student/Concession rate on application)
(In order of appearance)
Ven. Tejadhammo Bhikku
Venerable Tejadhammo Bhikku is the spiritual director for The Association of Engaged Buddhists and senior resident monk at Sangha Lodge. Ordained in the Theravadan tradition he has also studied and received teachings in Mahayana and Vajrayana. He has a background in Western Philosophy and Theology and is
involved in inter-religious dialogue via AME (Australian Monastic Encounter). Bante gives teachings and conducts retreats in Australia and works with people with life-threatening illness & prisoners in Sydney.
Dr Eng-Kong Tan MBBS, MPM, FRANZCP
Dr. Tan is the Founder and Chairman of Metta Clinic, a group psychiatric and psychotherapy clinic in Sydney. He is a former Chair of the Section of Psychotherapy of the RANZCP and Chairman of Training to the PPAA. He has been a member of the Training Committees of NSWIPP and ANZAP. In the last three
decades, Dr. Tan has presented keynote addresses, seminars and workshops to Buddhist and psychotherapy organisations inAustralia and overseas.
Ven. Sujato
Bhante Sujato was ordained in the forest tradition lineage of Ajahn Chah. Since 1994 he has been practicing meditation in forest monasteries in Thailand, Malaysia and Australia. He specializes in historical research into the fundamental teachings found across the Buddhist traditions. His books include A Swift Pair of Messengers, A History of Mindfulness, Beginnings, and Sects & Sectarianism. He is the abbot of Santi Forest Monastery and the secretary of the Australian Sangha Association.
Ven. Ani Pema
Ven. Pema (Karen Schaefer) ordained in Bhutan. She studied and practised intensively in classical yoga and meditation tradition living in India for eight years. She studied Transpersonal Psychology in the US and for the past l5 years, has also studied and practiced intensively within the Tibetan traditions. She has taught meditation since l980, had a private counselling practice for 6 years as well as working in human resource development and training of yoga teachers.
Rev. Miao You B. Ed
Venerable Miao You is an experienced teacher in Mahayana Buddhism at Nan Tien Temple. She is a disciple of the world renowned Dharma Master, the very Venerable Master Hsing Yun. She has been in the temple for the past 4 years after spending two years in Fo Guang Shan, Taiwan where she received her training from the Meditation College.
Geoff Dawson B.A. (Psych, Phil)
Geoff Dawson is a Zen Buddhist teacher – a Dharma Successor to Charlotte Joko Beck and teacher in the Ordinary Mind Zen School in Sydney and Melbourne. He is also a psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice in North Sydney. Geoff has a long-standing interest in the area of Buddhism and Psychotherapy and has presented at many conferences and published papers in this area.
Timothea Goddard BA, Dip. Psychoth. (ANZAP), PACFA Reg
Timothea works as a psychotherapist, educator and workplace trainer, having trained in humanistic, body-oriented, and psychodynamic therapeutic orientations. Her interest in mindfulness has been deepened by being a long-time student in the practices of Aikido, yoga, and meditation – Vipassana and Zen. She has strong professional links with the Center for Mindfulness, Worcester, USA, and is the Director of Openground, a group which offers MBSR in health and workplace contexts in Australia.
Megan Thorpe MA, Grad. Dip. Ed. Studies (Health), Dip. Teach.
Megan Thorpe trained at the Karuna Institute in England with Maura Sills, the founder of Core Process Psychotherapy, a Buddhist-based psycho-spiritual psychotherapy. As well as having a psychotherapy practice on Sydney’s northern beaches, Megan offers spiritual care to patients who are dying, and manages a team of volunteers who offer additional support. Megan practises in the Theravada Buddhist tradition with Ajahn Sujato.
Lynne Bousfield BA(Hons) MA(Hons) MAPS
Lynne Bousfield has been studying and practicing Buddhist meditation in India and Burma for 30 years. She trained in psychology and secured the position of clinical psychologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Pain Clinic in 1992 and introduced insight meditation onto the pain education program where she still teaches. She is in private practice in Sydney and Wollongong and incorporates meditation into her general clinical work. Lynne also teaches traditional Buddhist meditation in Australia and overseas.
John Butters MAPS
John Butters is a group and individual skills trainer in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for outpatients at St John of God Hospital at Burwood. In this role he has principally worked with chronically self harming and suicidal individuals who have been identified as ‘at risk and treatment resistant’. John has also completed training in Self Psychology and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and has been in private practice since 1999.
John Perrin Dip. Psychoth & Relationship Coun.
John Perrin is a Certified Hakomi therapist and Hakomi teacher and holds a Diploma in Psychotherapy and Relationship Counselling from the Jansen Newman Institute. He is also the Sydney Organiser for Hakomi Workshops and Professional Training. He has studied in the Zen Buddhist tradition for many years and has a particular interest in the use of mindfulness in therapy and in the role of relationship as a
vehicle for personal growth. He works in private practice with individuals and couples in Sydney.
Brian Gutkin MB, BCh., D.TCM, D.Psychoth, FRANZCP
Dr Brain Gutkin is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Analytic Psychotherapist in private practice (St. Leonards: Dee Why) and Director of Psychiatry, South Pacific Private Hospital. He qualified in Chinese Medicine (Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine) in which he does not currently practice but remains a strong influence. A Zen practitioner for over 13 years, he is keenly interested in Buddhism in psychotherapy and its value for health and healing.
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