A Personal Exploration of the Influence of Compassion on Spirituality in Psychotherapy

cityu.school	Division of Arts and Sciences
cityu.site	Vancouver, BC
cityu.site.country	Canada
dc.contributor.author	Lai, Bonny
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-17T03:18:35Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-17T03:18:35Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description.abstract	All human beings yearn to make sense of life, to find meaning in their existence, their purpose of living, and to be liberated from suffering. Ancient wisdoms—both east and west—in philosophy, spirituality, and psychology, all point to the cultivation of compassion as the path to this liberation. Informed by transpersonal and Buddhist psychology, this study focuses on the cultivation of compassion in both the therapist and the client, and explore the interrelationship between compassion and spirituality in the process of psychotherapy. The autoethnographic exploration guided me to follow a process of reflection on my personal experience of spiritual growth, providing personal narrative descriptions of the effects of compassion and spirituality as a counsellor in training and implications in clinical practice.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/189
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher.institution	City University of Seattle (CityU)
dc.subject	transpersonal psychology
dc.title	A Personal Exploration of the Influence of Compassion on Spirituality in Psychotherapy
dc.type	Thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Counseling
thesis.degree.grantor	City University of Seattle (CityU)
thesis.degree.level	Masters
thesis.degree.name	Master of Arts

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