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Winter 2008
Classes/Workshops
Registration
Essays
Special
Essays
Stranger
in a Strange Land
Autobiographical
essay recounts the origins and essence of Stephen's approach and Empowering
People.
A
Scenario for Peace
for
"Imagine Peace" -- 1987
We
recommend that you read
Chapters
1 through 4 in order.
Chapter
1
On
Feeling
Chapter
2
On
Pain
Chapter
3
Being
Depressed
Chapter
4
On
Primal
Chapter
5
On
Caring
Chapter
1
Attraction
Chapter
3
Dialoguing
Recent
Essays (1998-2001)
Essay
98-B
Injunctions
Essay
98-C
Crime
& Punishment I
Essay
98-D
Crime
& Punishment II
Essay
98-E
Crime
& Punishment III
Essay
98-F
On
Being
Psychologically
Healthy
Essay
99-A
Our
Changing World
Essay
99-B
The
Zen of Driving
and
Other Tales
About
Fairness
Essay
99-C
What
I Mean Is. . .
Essay
99-D
Winners
and Losers
Essay
99-F
On
Taboos
Essay
00-A
On
Selling and Buying
Essay
00-B
Being
Resentful
Essay
00-C
If
I Could
Change
the World I
The Organic
Process
The Selected Links
 The
Primal
Psychotherapy
Page
Phenomenological
Psychology
Links
Reference
Links
Extra!
Worst
Things to Say
to
Someone Who is Depressed
Procrastinator's
Calendar
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Welcome
to
Empowering
People!
Empowering People offers
informative and stimulating classes and workshops that help
participants
achieve effectiveness and satisfaction in their relationships and in
their
work worlds through increased awareness and esteem. Past offerings
include
The Logic of Feeling, Getting Beyond You vs. Me, Why Relationships
Succeed
or Fail, and The Real Facts
of Life.
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Photo
by: Silvia
Wilson
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I am the
instructor. My
mission is to help people learn to deal with anxiety,
depression,
and stress, and to take the very best care of themselves. I also
specialise
in relationship and communication issues.
In my view, people are
typically not evil, sick, or defective, but misinformed and suffering
from
a wide variety of unhealed wounds. My premise is that emotional
expression
that is choked down does not go away. Instead, unless and until we have
completed that expression--in its fullness--we remain
wounded and our lives remain disturbed.
In order to heal, we need
clear information, to finish "unfinished business," and to learn and
become
competent in the communication skills. My classes
and workshops are designed to provide clear information as well as
instruction and practice in the communication skills. And fortunately,
stifled expression (primarily, but not solely "pain") yearns for
completion
and The Organic Process,
a form of primal, which I practised for over 23 years,
facilitates
this completion.
I earned my doctorate
in Clinical Psychology (1985) at Duquesne
University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I studied existential-phenomenological
psychology (psychology as a human science). After
working
as a psychologist for six years at a Community Mental Health Clinic,
also
in Pittsburgh, I was a licensed psychologist in private practice for 17
years.
I've also earned an M.A.
in General Psychology (1969), at Pepperdine University, and a Bachelor
of Industrial Design (B.I.D., 1956) at Syracuse University. I have
written
two books:
Questions
and Comments are welcome.
Coming in January/February/March
Making Sense of Feeling
The Real Facts of LIfe
How to Ask for What You Want
Dealing with Difficult People
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