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Philosophy Online offers Counselling Coaching Consultancy with deeper foundations a broader base a wider perspective.
Who am I? Experience



I combine writing, philosophical counselling and consultancy, research, lectures, seminars, workshops and presentations. I can follow up on-line activity with face to face contact, where geography and economy allows. I have visiting faculty status at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Department of Social Policy and Sociology.
The University of Newcastle upon Tyne is the Sunday Times university of the year. The award, made for the first time in 1999, recognises outstanding achievement in British universities during the past 12 months. The award is not decided solely on a university's position in our league table (or Cambridge would win every year) but is designed to recognise excellence, with teaching quality to the fore. More than anything else, this determines the academic experience of students at university. Sunday Times (17/9/00).

I am the first philosophical practitioner to offer services online and the first U.K. certified practitioner within the American Philosophical Practitioners’ Association. I extended to online practice as philosophical counsellor and consultant from May 2001.

In September 2001 I provided philosophical counselling to groups, on a two week taster experience on the Greek island of Skyros.

My practice of applied philosophy and psychology for adults began in 1974 (for the Workers’ Educational Association and partner organisations). This experience taught me to:
1. Respect adult experience.
2. Make it practical and relevant to adult life and work.
3. Value, and learn from, the diversity of human experience and personality.
4. Test everything against individual adult realities.
5. Don’t get trapped in an ‘ivory tower’.
6. Avoid the ‘academic’ as in ‘makes no difference’.
7. Embrace the ‘academic’ as in ‘disciplined, intelligent’.
8. Assemble and test a mass of materials, ideas, techniques.
9. Discard (the majority) that fails reality testing.
(For more on ‘Experience, click here )



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