Welcome to the "EmotionsInBalance"
site. I hope it has been (at least) of interest to you and
helped you understand a little more about this exciting groundbreaking
work of ours.
As the source party and "parent" of affectology
and af-x® Therapy, I want to use this little
space to tell you about how we "got here" with this
work, and what events are unfolding at this time. At the end
of this page, you will find a slightly more formal overview
of my involvement.
You will already have noted that af-x and affectology
defy many of the ingrained understandings that we have in
our culture about what constitutes good therapy. This is not
for the sake only of defiance or rebellion. Over the past
25 years I have sought to marry scientific fact about our
feeling selves with certain types of Eastern approaches to
emotional change. The more I researched and learned about
just how we humans develop our emotional sub-personality,
the more I discovered that the facts did not gel with the
way in which psychotherapy is conducted in our society.
It wasn't a great leap in understanding to work out that mainstream
therapy, in focusing so much on the spoken word, was not addressing
true emotional (affect) "drivers" to most of our
problems, whether they be mental, emotional, attitudinal,
behavioural or (in particular) psychosomatic – or mind-body.
Not only are mainstream therapies (including so-called "new
age" therapies) not aiming well for
the goal, they're not even in the right playing field!
Words can never fully do our feelings justice!
So, discovering that people form an emotional matrix many
years prior to developing self-attributing skills and conscious
narrative abilities led me surely towards developing an approach
to therapy that disallowed for the involvement of the spoken
word as the primary communicating tool. Years as a meditation
teacher and an Ampuku Zen Shiatsu therapist allowed for firm
convictions in the perfection of every person and an innate
wisdom and knowledge that modern medicine and psychotherapy
has attempted to batter out of our vocabulary.
So, it's the combination of ultimate respect for the power
of the emotional matrix and its abilities to self-adjust,
and studies into the neuroscientific supporting data that
has led to the ultimate development of this work. The study
and teaching of clinical hypnotherapy (long left behind) and
studies in other therapeutic forms – both mainstream and "alternative"
– have allowed for many of the unworkable aspects of those
approaches to be discarded in favour of the "subconscious
privacy" aspects of af-x Therapy.
I leave the job of heralding the great success of this work
to my colleagues on this site, and more specifically, to the
thousands of ex-clients whose lives have been changed and
uplifted by this work.
The first European program of professional practitioner training
was conducted in Sweden in 2002, with connections to other
North European centres. This has led to further training programs
in Sweden, and Robert Taylor seeks to expand these programs
to other countries.
Work continues on my two books The Seven Deadly
Sins of Depression – Breaking Free of the Myths,
and Hey There, You with the Sad Face – How
to Bring the Power of Just Being OK into Your Life,
and there are three more books in the works.
Exciting times ahead!
You can contact me on 61+2+4571 3902 or email at
afxwhite@bigpond.net.au
Ian White is responsible for the development
of contemporary af-x and affectology therapies,
their education and the training of professional practitioners
throughout Australia and overseas.
He is a member of the Advisory Council of the International
Center for Studies in Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) in
New York, U.S.A..
As this work is a uniquely Australian development, it is correct
to say that he is the foremost authority on affectology, a
term that he coined, and the focus of therapy towards discrete
affect response patterns. A long-term advocate of "subconscious-domain
privacy" in therapy, particularly emotional and psychosomatic
therapy, he has been a Director of the International Centre
for Subconscious-mind Training and Research, and the Centre
for Analytical Hypnotherapy Research and Training, Australasia.
He has been responsible for past development of professional
directive training for Analytical Hypnotherapists, P.S.H.
therapists and af-x Practitioners.
Although he has maintained busy practices in Sydney, his focus
has been on the development of an understanding of the theory
and practice of affectology and af-x Therapy,
and formulating those understandings in a manner conducive
to effective therapy and education and training in that area.
From a background in Zen therapy and mindfulness meditation
teaching, he has moved through many years of application of
"private" therapy to his current position as Principal
of the School of Affectology. He has taught meditation in
Zen and Taoist mindfulness traditions for 28 years.
Until 1993 he was a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National
University (A.N.U.), at which time he moved from Canberra
to establish therapy practices in Sydney, and continue with
the development of private subconscious-mind therapies and
the training of professional af-x Practitioners.
He has been instrumental in the successful application of
af-x programs with executives wishing to improve decision-making
and communication skills, futures trading market operators
seeking to improve performance, artists needing to "get
unstuck" from creative blocks, and Olympic level sportsmen
and sportswomen looking to achieve peak performance.
He is the Director of the original International Centre for
Subconscious-mind Training and Research (I.C.S.T.R.) and Principal
of the School of Affectology and the Euro-Scandin School of
Affectology (Sweden).
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