What is it about?
Effective counselling of refugees, or others impacted by trauma, requires attention to both the individual and the collective dimensions, without prejudicially emphasising any dimension over the others. Individual dimensions include the interior -- such as emotional states and values -- and the physiological states, including health. Collective dimensions include systemic concerns such as employment and connection to services, and also, cultural and relationship values and issues.
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Why is it important?
An Integral approach encourages a truly holistic approach to assisting the individual to navigate through the personal, cultural, and systemic complexities of re-settlement in a new country.
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This page is a summary of: An Integral approach to counselling refugees, Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, June 2011, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2011.565932.
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Integral Institute
The Institute’s vision is that humanity lives with the awareness necessary to compassionately integrate the fragmented and partial perspectives of differing pursuits of the good life.
Integral Life
Living integrally means a life where things finally make sense through broader and deeper awareness. Integral awareness allows you to expand and deepen your experience of every moment, make sense of your world and your relationship to it, and to organize all the fragmentation of modern living in a way that doesn't exclude any part of you. An integral life is a way to process life experience that includes everything you are while leaving nothing out.
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