Dr. Peter Fenner, a writer and spiritual coach, shares insights on integrating nondual awareness into psychotherapy and personal growth. He emphasizes the transition from seeking to being, which dissolves suffering and fosters peace. The conversation highlights the natural state of pure awareness and its transformative potential. Fenner also discusses the role of acceptance in spiritual growth and the significance of contemplation in achieving tranquility, offering a fresh perspective on how awareness can reshape our daily lives.
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Nature of Non-dual Awareness
Non-dual awareness reveals a vast, contentless space underlying all experience that is inherently free and demanding nothing.
Recognizing this awareness brings profound peace and means we lack nothing in the present moment.
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Non-dual Therapy Integration
Bring non-dual awareness into therapy by creating space for clients without judgment or manipulation.
Use inquiry methods to help clients recognize and deconstruct limiting constructions in their thinking.
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Effortless Being in Nonduality
Struggle is inevitable in conditioned existence, but non-dual awareness requires no effort or working towards.
The state of non-dual being is effortless and demands nothing, unlike personal goals or upliftment.
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Dr. Peter Fenner’s nondual approach has been transforming psychotherapy and spiritual practice for decades. In this session, he explore why his teachings on nondual awareness have been so effective in areas such as personal growth, mental health, and spiritual realization—and how this radical understanding of consciousness has the potential to profoundly change how we experience life.
You’ll learn:
— The shift from seeking to “being” dissolves suffering and brings peace and freedom
— How to integrate nondual awareness into therapy, coaching, and everyday life
— There is nothing fundamentally lacking or broken in ourselves
— The natural state of pure awareness that is spacious, contentless, and inherently free
And more.
You can learn more about Dr Fenner's work at www.peterfenner.com
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Dr Peter Fenner, PhD has a multifaceted practice as a writer, author, spiritual coach, and trainer in teachings of deep Buddhist philosophy. The founder of Timeless Wisdom and the pioneer of a number of programs and courses, Dr Peter Fenner based his research on Asian nondual wisdom. He hosts virtual workshops and spiritual retreats all over the world as a leader in his academic field, with a global following for his work, particularly in the US. Peter is qualified with a PhD in the philosophical psychology of the Madhyamika school of Mahayana Buddhism and has developed a range of courses about nondual awareness.
Peter’s main specialty is developing freeform pointing out instructions, using silence and unfindability inquiry to directly reveal the nature of pure awareness itself. Peter does this individually and in groups where people are supported in their own discovery of the state of nonduality or nonreferentiality. By freeform he using whatever arises in a group in the moment it occurs as the material/constructs, to be seen through, or self-dissolve, revealing the pure liberated nature of unconditioned mind itself—the ultimate medicine.
Peter’s books include Radiant Mind: Awakening Unconditioned Awareness (Sounds True, 2007), The Ontology of the Middle Way (Kluwer, 1990), Reasoning into Reality (Wisdom Publications, 1994), Essential Wisdom Teachings (with Penny Fenner, Nicolas-Hays, 2001), The Edge of Certainty: Paradoxes on the Buddhist Path (Nicolas-Hays, 2002), Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy (Editor, Omega Books, 2003).
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Interview Links:
- Dr Fenner’s website: https://www.peterfenner.com/
- Dr Fenner’s books: https://amzn.to/3tfNqkm
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