Personal Consultations

Craig Jarman, M.A.

Find your Calling

Some know exactly why they are here and pursue their calling with conviction. For many, however, this calling is only vaguely intuited or entirely unknown.

Rather than a meaningful life, they live without direction and purpose.

Such feelings of boredom and frustration are not to be ignored, for they ensure that one remains in search of this deeper Self.

At some point, it becomes obvious something isn’t right. So begins the search for one’s true Self, one’s greater potential.

Given sufficient effort and introspection, something is seeded in the psyche. In symbolic terms, this is the annunciation and birth of the divine child – that creative core of one’s being.
Having been surfaced and brought to consciousness, this Self does not sit idle. As one’s calling, it introduces a new set of demands. One’s deeper Self is insistent. It must be honoured. One has little choice in the matter.

Utilising a range of modalities including Dream Analysis, Sandplay and Voice Dialogue, the process by which one discovers and articulates one’s calling may be accelerated.

If you are looking to engage in this work, tap the potential of your greater Self, contact Craig at craig@humanpotential.school for an obligation-free initial consultation.

Philosophy

A Self-Oriented Approach

Self-Oriented psychotherapy focuses upon what is required and being asked of us, by the greater Self.

As the Swiss Psychologist, Carl Jung discovered, there are two centres to the psyche. There is the ego, of which we are all familiar with and call ‘I’, and there is also the greater Self, which remains largely unknown, and operates at a level beyond our awareness.

Like an evolutionary drive, the Self seeks a greater conscious. The ego has the capacity to meet this aspiration, but needs to be prompted to do so.‍

Ideally the ego is aligned and attentive to the demands of the Self. When it is not, the Self will constellate whatever mental state or physical circumstance is required to garner the attention of the ego and draw it back into alignment with itself. This realignment may be approached willingly or unwillingly. Where we honour the demands of the Self, our process unfolds harmoniously. Where we ignore the Self, it becomes more troublesome and forceful.

Self-Oriented psychotherapy is designed to attune the individual to the demands of their deeper Self, and accept its guidance.

As a psychoanalyst, my focus is to attune to the emergent yet hidden process that is active within us all. The work is a creative process designed to foster a new consciousness. From this new vantage point, personal issues, dilemmas, negative patterns, emotional states or problematic patterns are seen in a new light, understood for what they have to teach, and thereby resolved.

Once existing challenges are addressed, new issues are revealed. The process is ongoing and aims to further refine one’s being.

Modalities

Ways of Working

As a psychotherapist, there are various ways of working, and the approach may vary from one session to the next.

Generally I will focus on Dream Work and Sandplay.