New for 2012 and Times to Come!
Entrancing stories drawn from Linda's experiences as a transpersonal psychologist -- each woven into illuminating perspectives on humanity's divine nature and grand potential.
Contemplative exercises for mentors, coaches, counselors, guides, and anyone who wishes to peer into the spiritual dynamics of helping relationships ---each designed to expand awareness, enhance intuition, and call forward the compassionate heart.
Glimpses of expanded sensory perception, wisdom in action, deep interpersonal connectedness, soul-searching and transformative moments, and much more.
Something for everyone ~ for those in the helping professions and anyone seeking keys to profound personal growth.
Entrancing stories drawn from Linda's experiences as a transpersonal psychologist -- each woven into illuminating perspectives on humanity's divine nature and grand potential.
Contemplative exercises for mentors, coaches, counselors, guides, and anyone who wishes to peer into the spiritual dynamics of helping relationships ---each designed to expand awareness, enhance intuition, and call forward the compassionate heart.
Glimpses of expanded sensory perception, wisdom in action, deep interpersonal connectedness, soul-searching and transformative moments, and much more.
Something for everyone ~ for those in the helping professions and anyone seeking keys to profound personal growth.
The Eclectic Practitioner: Becoming Holistic tells the story of humanity’s quest for its divinity. Although remarkable strides have been made in the evolving consciousness of current humanity, much of our potential remains dormant, waiting patiently for those who will lay claim to it and incorporate its brilliance into everyday life. With a whisper or a shout, divinity continually beckons us to befriend it, to partner with it, to be it. But the choice is always ours: listen, trust, engage or dismiss, ignore, deny.
The story of The Eclectic Practitioner, like any other, requires a setting—stage props, historical perspectives within which to place ourselves, and characters with varying roles to play. Only then can insights or messages be conveyed—be they to take ourselves more lightly or to see ourselves as potent forces of Nature, integral to the whole. In this case, our setting is the therapy room—a place where two individuals come together for the purpose of growth and discovery; a place where truth is welcomed and the whole is clearly more than the sum of the parts. Eighteen short stories are placed upon a backdrop of transpersonal theories and perspectives. Each story offers a mirror of relationships in general and invites us into deeper levels of truth where purpose guides every moment. These stories inform, they uplift, and they inspire us to live creative, meaning-filled, and inner-directed lives—lives that ultimately contribute to the making of a better Earth for all.
Praise for The Eclectic Practitioner ~ Becoming Holistic
"Dr. Linda Edge has developed a method of understanding the deeper truths in each person's reality and trains the reader to discover such truths through both rationale and guided exercises. Her writing in masterful -- crisp and scholarly and deeply-considered, engaging and present and honoring." ~ Suzanne Gregg, Ph.D., Virginia Beach, VA
"A spoonful of good medicine for living in a troubled world." ~ Allan Combs, Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina; coauthor of Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the Earth; author of over 200 articles, chapters, and books on consciousness and the brain.
"This book is a must-read for anybody in the counseling field. It packs an enormous amount of information into a single volume, all in a friendly and accessible style. I can imagine that for many, it will become a well-thumbed friend." ~ Jenny Wade, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and Atlantic University, author of Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of of the Evolution of Consciousness.
"The Eclectic Practitioner is a valuable resource for mental health care practitioners, most of whom will have received little or no training in humanistic and transpersonal psychology, despite the value that meditation, mindfulness, mind-body techniques, and spirituality can play in a client's growth and recovery. Linda Edge has provided a welcome gift to her readers." ~ Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Saybrook University; co-author of, Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans.
"In this era of specialization, many psychotherapists and counselors have adopted a quite narrow range of techniques in their work with clients--often limiting themselves to only one or a very small number of "schools" or "systems" in which to frame their work and from which to choose their methods. In this interesting and inspiring book, Linda Edge departs from this unfortunate trend by presenting an incredibly wide and rich set of diverse approaches that she has used with great effectiveness in helping very different clients with very different issues. The inclusiveness and richness of these approaches--detailed in informative text and flavored with moving vignettes--guarantees increased therapeutic effectiveness for any practitioners who wish to better help their clients and perhaps even transform themselves in the process." ~ William Braud, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology; coauthor of Transforming Self and Others Through Research: Transpersonal Research Methods and Skills for the Human Sciences and Humanities
"Dr. Linda Edge has developed a method of understanding the deeper truths in each person's reality and trains the reader to discover such truths through both rationale and guided exercises. Her writing in masterful -- crisp and scholarly and deeply-considered, engaging and present and honoring." ~ Suzanne Gregg, Ph.D., Virginia Beach, VA
"A spoonful of good medicine for living in a troubled world." ~ Allan Combs, Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina; coauthor of Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the Earth; author of over 200 articles, chapters, and books on consciousness and the brain.
"This book is a must-read for anybody in the counseling field. It packs an enormous amount of information into a single volume, all in a friendly and accessible style. I can imagine that for many, it will become a well-thumbed friend." ~ Jenny Wade, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and Atlantic University, author of Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of of the Evolution of Consciousness.
"The Eclectic Practitioner is a valuable resource for mental health care practitioners, most of whom will have received little or no training in humanistic and transpersonal psychology, despite the value that meditation, mindfulness, mind-body techniques, and spirituality can play in a client's growth and recovery. Linda Edge has provided a welcome gift to her readers." ~ Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Saybrook University; co-author of, Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans.
"In this era of specialization, many psychotherapists and counselors have adopted a quite narrow range of techniques in their work with clients--often limiting themselves to only one or a very small number of "schools" or "systems" in which to frame their work and from which to choose their methods. In this interesting and inspiring book, Linda Edge departs from this unfortunate trend by presenting an incredibly wide and rich set of diverse approaches that she has used with great effectiveness in helping very different clients with very different issues. The inclusiveness and richness of these approaches--detailed in informative text and flavored with moving vignettes--guarantees increased therapeutic effectiveness for any practitioners who wish to better help their clients and perhaps even transform themselves in the process." ~ William Braud, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology; coauthor of Transforming Self and Others Through Research: Transpersonal Research Methods and Skills for the Human Sciences and Humanities
