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You To Enjoy Helping Others:
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for a charity, voluntary organization, or even working
alone as an individual therapist, can be enjoyable. Indeed
it must be so if you are to be rewarded for doing a good
job well. We have experience in developing enjoyable community
and cultural projects within commercial organizations as
well as within more traditional helping agencies.
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Many of these date from when Stephen Bray practiced full-time
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Life
and Perception:
A
Tribute To Henri Cartier-Bresson
Someone once
remarked that had God taken a camera and photographed the C20 the
pictures would look like those of Henri Cartier-Bresson. This article
by Stephen Bray examines Cartier-Bresson's photographic technique
using the modeling tools of Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP). Importantly
it identifies how and why Cartier-Bresson's images are so perfect.
A
Tribute To My Father
Two years before
Stephen Bray's father died Stephen attended a workshop with the former
Jungian Analyst and expert in Past Life Regression, Roger Woolger.
As a result of his experiences in an altered state of consciousness
created within Woolger's workshop, Stephen discovered tools that
would help him understand and respect his father's death.
Gestalt
and Awareness
Peter Philippson
and Stephen Bray wrote this paper on Awareness back in 1988 when
they founded Manchester Gestalt Centre, along with John Bernard Harris.
The principles of Gestalt do not really change, and although updated
by Stephen Bray recently to include new illustrations, this paper
will provide you with a basic understanding of Gestalt Theory.
Coming
Home and The Black Hole Syndrome
This unusual
paper by Clive Digby-Jones describes the work of Eileen Watkins-Seymour.
Eileen a former NLP Trainer has developed with Clive a unique approach
to reconnecting, and remembering our true nature.
How
To Achieve Your Goals
Many of us learned
a simple route to goal achievement using NLP's so called 'Well Formedness
Conditions'. But these ignore the obvious fact that life cannot be
programmed like a computer. In this paper Stephen Bray reviews the
'Well Formedness Conditions', and concludes that we are something
far more remarkable than that which may be programmed.
Life
Before 'Q'
During the 1980's
Stephen Bray split his time between practicing as a Gestalt Therapist,
and as a Family Therapist. During this period he entered into a debate
with Family Therapy trainer Roger Adams concerning the limits of
the Systems Approach. Now his beliefs are much closer to those of
Roger Adams, but at the time responding to Adams' ideas was an intellectual
stretch for Bray. Out of this stretch, and the research required
to maintain the debate much of Bray's subsequent thinking and work
developed.
The
Death of Science
After
a wonderful scientific adventure spanning 500 years Stephen Bray
informs us that its all over. Science has come full circle and
become metaphysics. Moreover, according to Bray each of us are
simply reflections of a non-local consiousness. The article also
provides an excellent background to Relativity and Quantum Theory
in simple english.
The
QuietQuality™ Revolution
In this brief
essay Stephen Bray questions the foundations of our perception. From
the moment that we are born we are conditioned by generations upon
generations of metaphor. Assumptions that we take for granted are
embedded in our language, and many of these date back to when Aristotle
split life into a subject/object dichotomy. But there is another
way . . . .
Family
and Life Sciences:
A
Process Oriented Approach to Family Work
This paper was
for many years Stephen Bray's Magnum Opus. Even now some
people think that it best describes his method of working with families.
Structural, Strategic, Process Oriented and Gestalt methods are discussed
within the context of family life as a reflection of a a grander
scheme.
Is
You Is, or Is You A'int?
We do not need to build our lives constantly from the bottom
up as Maslow’s
model would have us believe writes Stephen Bray. NLP is closer to the truth
in suggesting that changing our perception at the level of Identity, or Belief
must affect our Capabilities and Behaviours, and cause us to have an impact
upon our Environment. But NLP does not go far enough . . .
A
Tribute To Social Work
Social Work is
a tough and dangerous business. Social Workers enjoy low status yet
carry responsibilities in some of society's most difficult contexts.
The work can be both challenging and enjoyable. In this paper Stephen
Bray pays tribute to Social Work, whilst criticising how it has developed
within the United Kingdom.
Caution
NLP Psychotherapy
The
steady movement of psychotherapy from an 'Alternative', or 'Complimentary'
base toward a respectable mainstream comes at a price. One cost is
the acceptance of Medical Models of diagnosis and treatment. In this
paper Stephen Bray highlights the dangers of this trend, with special
reference to NLP psychotherapy (NLPt).
Family
Therapy in A General Practice
A West Country General Practitioner (Trevor
Griffiths) and a Family Therapist (Roz Draper) conducted a pilot
research project on the efficacy of Family Therapy. The conclusions
indicate that Family Therapy is well-placed when carried out in
the context of Primary Care.
Family
Therapy And Tourette's Syndrome
There is a marked
difference between Giles de la Tourette's Syndrome, and Childhood
Tics. Whilst it is true that childhood tics may presage Tourette's
Syndrome this is rare. Stephen Bray makes no claim that Family Therapy
is the treatment of choice for Tourette's Disease, but holds that
it may be helpful in the amelioration of the symptoms of childhood
tics. In passing he recalls his youth and how a small town accepted
its own Tourette's victim.
How
To Get The Best Out Of Living Together
In this short paper Stephen Bray advocates
the use of Family Therapy for a variety of conditions, and passingly
reviews Dr. Eia Asen's popular BBC book of the same title.
Using
Hypnosis and Strategy in Social Work Practice
This early paper by Stephen Bray was first
published in Canada because British Social Work journals could
not relate to it. It is a step by step account of how a social
worker (Bray), helped a 60 year old lady to begin to explore beyond
the confines of her violent marriage. The method used by him in
this paper is no longer his preferred method of working, but the
paper provides an insight into an earlier stage of his development
as a therapist.
Is
Structural Family Therapy Obsolete?
Psychoanalyst
Sergio Stern and Family Therapist Dr. Eia Asen compare notes during
a demonstration conducted by Family Therapy pioneer Salvador Minuchin.
Stern argues that Minuchin's approach is 'blinkered', whilst Asen
believes Minuchin to have listened both to the family, and the family's
'regular' therapist. Interesting stuff for family therapy buffs.
Strategic
Therapy Mr. Bond?
Every age constructs a unique model of life based within
a specific social context. In a recent James Bond film
the villain asks Bond, “Is not dying
chasing a dream the best way to go?" Bond replies unconcernedly, “I’d
rather not go at all.” In this paper Stephen Bray illustrates the changes
in attitude that have influenced Brief Therapy since the 1950s.
Perceptions
of Childhood Favouritism
Irem
Bray's research into how the past affects the present. In this
study adults are asked about their perceptions of who was the family
favourite, and how that affects them now. Great research if you
believe in the past, or future.
Psychovisual
Therapy
During
the 1990's Stephen Bray collaborated with Michael Carr-Jones of
Psychovisual Libraries in developing training for therapist wishing
to use therapeutic video tapes. In this extraordinary paper Bray
describes how by this method he successfully treated a 40 year
old adult for a variety of symptoms including anxiety, enuresis
and heavy drinking.
Management
Articles:
Creating
Awareness in Business
Rather
than conducting remedial work in hospitals and other helping agencies
Stephen Bray contends that prevention will occur as a result of
sound management practices. In this paper Amanda Knight describes
Bray's unique approach to working with businesses. What it is,
and why it is different from all the others.
The
Quest for the Ultimate Test
Life is not a journey, or a rehearsal, or a network of relationships, or whatever
other banal or complex metaphor you want to use. Life is not a competition;
it is not discovery, enlightenment or goodness. Life is not possession, health,
values, education or potential. Stephen Bray asserts that there is nothing
more that you need to learn, have or know other than to recognise who you are
right now. Life transcends understanding. You are life.
The
Way of Business
The
inspirational inaugural speech that launched Barclays Business
Community. In this speech Stephen Bray presents a vision of bank
and customer cooperation. Based on sound scientific principles
and a great deal of 'common sense', Bray's vision must be the way
forward.
Family
Business Consulting
Most
businesses start as family businesses, yet unfortunately most fail
by the time that the first, or second generation retire, or leave
the planet. This is not simply tragic for founding families, but
may have disastrous consequences for employees too. In two bundled
papers Irem and Stephen Bray introduce you to the concept of family
business consulting, and the kind of problems encountered.
Managing
Generation X
Generation X are those baby boomers born in
the 1950s and 60s. Egocentric, independent and hedonistic, they
are one of the most highly educated generations ever. And they
know it. In this article Stephen Bray, himself a baby boomer, describes
how to get the best out of the breed.
Upon
This Earthquake I Build A House
Stephen's exposure to the August 1999 earthquake
shortly after arrival in Turkey forms the backcloth to
this article, which
wanders far and wide via domestic and philosophical issues and describes
how Irem and he created a training for family
therapists in Turkey.
Using
The QuietQuality™ Method for Life Coaching
QuietQuality™ is
more than a method, it's more like a philosophy. Taking up from where
'Developmental Leadership' leaves off, Stephen Bray argues that 'coaches'
have a crucial role to play in business ecology. According to Bray
a Developmental Leader helps their staff to gain awareness and insight
as well as 'hard' skills. The coach on the other hand will mentor
such Leaders into new and higher realms of understanding.
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QUIETQUALITY™ is
the partnership of Irem and Stephen Bray. We
started working together in 1995 when we founded Sunnylea
Human Potential. We rebranded our domain as QuietQuality™ in
1999. You may see how we looked when we started by checking
out our first website. To do so simply click
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