Integral Deep Listening Practitioner - Paperback

by Joseph Dillard (Author)

Integral Deep Listening is a phenomenologically-based psychospiritual discipline shown effective in reducing nightmares and anxiety, including post-traumatic stress disorder. It is also effective in reducing depression and increasing confidence. Integral Deep Listening Practitioner is one of a series of texts designed to train students of Integral Deep Listening (IDL). It explains the relationship between and other healing modalities, Practitioner competencies, practice challenges, and strategies for practice building.

Author Biography

Joseph Dillard, LCSW, Ph.D., has been a student of healing, balancing, and transformation since exposure to meditation and dreamwork through the work of the exceptional medical clairvoyant, Edgar Cayce, beginning in 1963, when he was thirteen. He studied philosophy, psychology, and comparative religion in college and taught meditation and dreamwork widely. He has worked as a psychotherapist specializing in pain management, anxiety, depression, addiction, and stress disorders since 1976. Concerned with the projective aspects of traditional dream interpretation, in 1981 he developed a dream character interviewing process called Dream Sociometry, after methods pioneered by J.L.Moreno. This work is a type of dream yoga, or psychospiritual discipline, whose purpose is to outgrow the self-induced dramas of our waking and dreaming lives. It is also a process of transpersonal awakening, called Integral Deep Listening. In 1985 Dr. Dillard co-authored Dreamworking, How to Use Your Dreams for Creative Problem Solving with Stanley Krippner, a pioneer in dream telepathy and shamanic healing. In addition to Dreamworking, Dillard is author of seven textbooks used with the Integral Deep Listening curriculum. These are: Transformational Dreamwork: Toward an Integral Approach to Deep Listening, Integral Deep Listening, Integral Deep Listening Interviewing Techniques, Integral Deep Listening Practitioner, Integral Deep Listening and Healing, Integral Deep Listening and Meditation, and Dream Sociometry. An introductory text on Integral Deep Listening is available in German as Dream Yoga: Der weg der Träume. He has also written another text on meditation, Transcending Your Monkey Mind: The Five Trees and Meditation, a text dealing with nightmares, night terrors, and PTSD, Ending Nightmares for Good, Integral Deep Listening and Romance, and a work interviewing near death experiencers, Light from Heaven: Deep Listening to Near Death Experiencers.