Present with Suffering

Nigel Wellings is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author who works within a broadly contemplative perspective. He has been engaged with the relationship between psychotherapy and Buddhism for the last forty years. He lives in Devon and is a teacher on the Bath and Bristol Mindfulness Courses and the Sharpham Barn Retreats. His previous books include Nothing To Lose: Psychotherapy, Buddhism and Living Life (with Elizabeth Wilde McCormick), Why Can’t I Meditate? How To Get Your Mindfulness Practice On Track, and more recently a Buddhist handbook, Dzogchen, Who’s Who & What’s What in the Great Perfection. Elizabeth Wilde McCormick has worked as a psychotherapist for over forty years in both private and national health settings. She is also a teacher, trainer and writer. Her professional background is in social psychiatry, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, sensorimotor psychotherapy and cognitive analytic therapy. She has had an interest for many years in the interface between psychotherapy and mindfulness. She was, with Nigel Wellings, a director of training at The Centre for Transpersonal Psychology. She is a founder member of the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy and currently a trustee.

1.Introduction, by Nigel Wellings and Elizabeth Wilde McCormick

2.Suffering in loss and bereavement, by Elizabeth Wilde McCormick
-Attachment and impermanence
-Living in a human body
-The heart
-Mind the gap

3.Emptiness, by Nigel Wellings
-A meditation on the pain of emptiness
-A meditation on the delight of emptiness
-Working with emptiness