Nan Beecher-Moore, Psychosynthesis Education and Trust

"The Transpersonal, a deep sense of self, inclusive of all that I am and that anyone is".

Nan confronts the issue of age with her client who has a professional dilemma, using the Psychosynthesis model. There is much laughter and interchange between them, which elicits deeper issues of anger and sexuality. To complete the work, Nan invites her client's imagination to express the transpersonal through an image. What emerges is an intense invitation to embrace life with passion.

"I was very much attracted to it because of the very simple map that Psychosynthesis has which is like an egg. The centre part is where we live most of our lives in personality; the top half is the transpersonal or the higher consciousness and the bottom half is lower unconscious, so that it enables me to see each person I work with as a divine human being who knows more about their journey than I'll ever know, so my job is simply to use my skills to mirror for them what I see them doing and then give them a choice, let them have a choice, so that the transpersonal is terribly important for me in my work. I think the thing that attracts me most is that the egg is an open diagram, that all things are possible, that Assagioli saw it more as a research project than as a way of working. At the end of every one of his books he said that more work should be done on this. When we train and when we teach, we teach with the precise instruction that this is not the truth, this is a truth so it allows people to use all of their gifts and all of their trainings and it allows for more training. It's a never ending process.
I use a variety of techniques. I use sand play therapy; toys; guided imagery. I use imagery in itself. I use sub-personality work which is part of the Psychosynthesis model and I use creative imagination drawing, singing anything that comes to mind".