Climate and ecological breakdown are structured by dynamics of power and discrimination. Like other forms of structural discrimination, these dynamics operate on every scale, from the global and collective, to the interpersonal and relational. This chapter explores how the therapeutic process may include explicit exploration of these different levels and their relationship with each other, in the wholeness of the client, the therapist and our world. It introduces the concept of 'deep democracy', whereby all parts of a given 'field' or process have something that is needed for the whole, including the very part of the system we are most in conflict with.
Deep Democracy: World Out There - World in Here
2024
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Climate and ecological breakdown are structured by dynamics of power and discrimination. Like other forms of structural discrimination, these dynamics operate on every scale, from the global and collective, to the interpersonal and relational. This chapter explores how the therapeutic process may include explicit exploration of these different levels and their relationship with each other, in the wholeness of the client, the therapist and our world. It introduces the concept of 'deep democracy', whereby all parts of a given 'field' or process have something that is needed for the whole, including the very part of the system we are most in conflict with.
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