Dimensions of Generative Consciousness:

New Explorations in Generative Self

This brief presentation will identify the key characteristics of generative consciousness and describe ways they can be developed and utilized within a coaching or therapy conversation.

A presentation by:

Dr. Stephen Gilligan (U.S.)

Date:

Sunday, August 1, 2010, 3:45 to 5 p.m.

Content

When we work with clients in therapy and coaching, they are clearly facing the challenge of creating something new in their lives-a new vision, behavior, relationship, external reality, etc.

The Generative Self work explores how we can move clients from identification with their Ego level-whose conservative nature is set to create old versions of the past-to the Generative Level, where creativity and transformational consciousness exist.

This brief presentation will identify the key characteristics of generative consciousness - for example, mindfulness, subtle awareness, creative acceptance, and mindbody centering - and describe ways they can be developed and utilized within a coaching or therapy conversation.

The presenter

Dr. Stephen Gilligan (U.S.)

Date

Sunday, August 1, 2010, 3:45 to 5 p.m.

About the presenter

Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D., is a psychologist who received his doctorate from Stanford University. He was a major student of Milton Erickson, the great psychiatrist and hypnotherapist. Dr. Gilligan has been extending this work for the past 35 years in significant ways, while also developing Self-Relations Psychotherapy. In 2004, he received the rarely given Lifetime Achievement Award from the Erickson Foundation in honor of his many contributions. He is well-known throughout the world for his inspirational teaching.

He has published extensively, and his 7 books include the classic "Therapeutic trances," "The courage to love," "The legacy of Erickson," and most recently "The Hero's Journey" (w/ R Dilts).