I’m a member of an informal group of academically trained practitioners, mainly based in the USA, UK and Holland, who first brought nonduality into their therapeutic and group work in an explicit way. We began this work in the late 1980s and 1990s. The initial group of practitioners included Jean-Marc Mantel, John Prendergast, Judith Blackstone, John Welwood, Richard Miller, Dorothy Hunt, Ken Bradford and Stephan Bodian. In different ways, we’ve sought to bring the wisdom of nondual traditions into western secular environments.
Since that time, we’ve been joined by a growing number of teachers and therapists who offer nonduality as a source of well-being.
My own contributions to postmodern nonduality include:
- the development of a narrative form of unfindability inquiry that’s particularly suited to therapy and group work
- creating a train the trainer course through which I’ve taught therapists and meditation teachers how to bring nonduality into their practice and facilitation
- the free-form blending of meditative stillness and freeform unfindability dialogue
- a detailed analysis of the lineage origins of my own approach