This week we welcome the Belfast DJ Jude Dude to the series, supplying us with a smooth all-wax selection of deep, groovy and upbeat house, with tracks from the likes of John Tejada, Kynesis, Deep Rhythm and Denia. 

Jude says that the mix was made with the intention to improve mood, conserve positive emotions and decrease maintenance of thoughts. He has certainly been putting the Discogs hours in, digging deep into the realm of forgotten 90s house to curate a real corker of a mix. To catch more of Jude, head to Alto Radio where he has a great bi-monthly residency called Bioscaping. For now, crack open a beverage, put your feet up and enjoy some tasty and mindful beats.

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Pick 'n' Mix #49: Jude Dude

Imagination has a valued place in psychotherapy. The images found in memories, relationship entanglements and future fantasies are the raw material of therapeutic work. And yet, faced with a significant dream or transference projection it can be difficult to resist the temptation of a clever interpretation. In this way, imagining is often eclipsed by thinking and the transformative potential of imaginative experience itself is neglected. 
 
This talk by Allan Frater will be of interest to therapists who want to work more holistically with images as images. Instead of treating images as symbols pointing to meaning elsewhere, the talk presents an image-centric approach, including: 
 
— A broad understanding of imagination as present in all perceptions, actions and relationships (not just as pictures ‘inside the mind’).

— A ‘waking dream’ method applicable to generic work with memories, the transference and future fantasies as well as art-therapy and active-imagination approaches.

— Imaginal dialogues. 

— A non-interpretative patterning which links image work in the consulting room to the on-going story of self and world in everyday life.
 
The result is an appreciation of imagination, not just as a means to rational insight but as an embodied imaginal sensibility at the heart of human potential and creativity.

If you enjoy this, you can learn more about Allan’s work by visiting: www.wildimagination.uk.  

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Allan Frater is a psychotherapist and teacher with Psychosynthesis Trust. Inspired by Jack Kerouac and Herman Hesse, he spent his twenties living and working in Buddhist communities where he came across the east-meets-west fusion of transpersonal psychology, eventually training to become a psychotherapist. His psychotherapy practice and teaching career have intersected at the meeting place between transpersonal psychology and an image-based approach to ecotherapy, the results of which will be presented in this talk.

The introduction and first chapter of ‘Waking Dreams’ can be sampled here: https://wildimagination.uk/book/  

Further information and background here: https://wildimagination.uk 

3 Books Allan  Recommends Every Therapist Should Read: 

— Revisioning Psychology by James Hillman: https://amzn.to/3zgzeeh 

— The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram: https://amzn.to/3FmfkSS 

— The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob 
and Wilhelm Grimm: https://amzn.to/3TFAbFd

Waking Dreams: Imagination & Psychotherapy  - Allan Frater

Dr. Tamara Russell guiding a Get into the Green Transitional Pause
This three part exercise helps us to recognize and acknowledge what we bring with us from the day thus far into our current activities.  

This is a "green" variant of the Transitional Pause. Designed to activate the soothing system and allow you to strengthen your intention to care for your vehicle - the body.

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Get into the Green Transitional Pause

The Weekend University aims to make the best psychology lectures available to the general public.

To do this, we organise 'lecture days', on the last Sunday of each month, where you get a full day of talks from leading psychologists, university professors and authors.

This podcast features in-depth interviews with our speakers, so you can learn more about their work.

For more information, please see: http://theweekenduniversity.com

Waking Dreams: Imagination & Psychotherapy - Allan Frater

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