Core Process Psychotherapy aims to increase our awareness of the way we think, feel, respond to others and the events in our lives.

The Core Process approach is gentle, non-invasive and ensures a safe space is created to explore inner thoughts and feelings. 

The Core Process approach attends to the quality of relationship we have with ourselves and others. It is a depth enquiry into the quality of our awareness and experience of being in the present.  

The central aim in Core Process Psychotherapy is to hold ourselves lightly with a kind and gentle openness as we bring awareness to the unconscious aspects of our being. When this happens, we can begin to experience more clarity of mind, choice and freedom in our lives and connect to our true nature and source of wellbeing 

Core Process Psychotherapy is founded on Buddhist psychology integrated with Western psychological theories. The Buddhist understanding of the mind has developed over the last two millenia and provides a framework for the processes of mind. Buddhist psychology is a study of the mind as it is experienced within the mind and describes the mental, emotional and sense experience from a personal perspective.

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The Karuna Institute is the training centre for Core Process Psychotherapy in Britain. Read more about training in the Core Process approach at the Karuna Institute website.





Food for thought...

"Everyone wants only to be happy and not to suffer. To expect happiness without giving up negative action, is like holding your hand in the fire and expecting not to be burned."
The heart treasure of enlightened ones, Patrul Rinpoche 

"We must 'be' before we can 'do,' and we can 'do' only to the extent which we 'are,' and what we 'are' depends upon what we 'think.” 
Charles Haanel

"The indigenous peoples of the world live by an understanding of natural laws of order and balance. They believe that every thought we think, every word we speak, every action we take, every relationship we engage in, every feeling that we feel, contributes either to the greater good of the universe or to its suffering.

Our job as human beings, knowing this, is to pursue goals and ways of life that contribute to the greater good, that contribute to the beauty, to the balance, and to the order. If we fail in our task everyone suffers."
Hank Wesselman