Core Development - Donald Marmara

27/03/2025

THE TASK OF A THERAPIST IS TO START WITH NOT KNOWING
What works for one person does not necessarily work for another.

Our tasks as therapists is first of all to put aside all our knowledge and theories and to listen. To embark on a journey of discovery. To discover what the person we are working with needs.

Then to discover, step by step, how we can use our skills and knowledge to help our clients progress in their therapeutic journey.

To be willing to let go of whatever we may think works or should work but doesn't.

To encourage whatever increases feelings of safety, acceptance and contact with ourselves and each other.

And most important of all to remember that WE ARE FIRST AND FOREMOST HUMAN BEINGS, then therapist and client. 🙏

This is why I believe that BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INDEED ESSENTIAL part of counselling and psychotherapy training is the therapist's own personal therapy.

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donald@coredevelopment.com.au

24/03/2025

How I overcame traumatic experiences and how this led me to the work I do today in hashtag , Somatic hashtag and Emotional Learning.
4-minute video.
Please note my phone number is now +61 412 178 234

https://youtu.be/SeZRdvw8j5E

24/03/2025

ACCEPTING DIFFERENCES
Here's a quote from one of my teachers, Native American healer and author Sun Bear:

"It is easy for meat eaters to share a kitchen.
It is also easy for vegetarians to share a kitchen.
The challenge is for meat eaters and vegetarians to share a kitchen"

And I would like to add : "WITHOUT TRYING TO CONVERT EACH OTHER!"

22/03/2025

26/01/2025

THE TRUE PURPOSE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY:
WORTH REMEMBERING DURING THESE TURBULENT TIMES?

“We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress or dominate each other or make each other miserable,
but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life’s healthy needs”.
Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

And this is the TRUE PURPOSE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY:
To Respect. Value, Deepen and Enrich our experiences, our relationships and our lives.

11/06/2024

Are you experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties or other emotional challenges?
What is core development and how can it help you?

Core Development can help you discover for yourself, in your own unique way, the root cause of your emotional challenges and how you can deal with them effectively.

It can take you further than problem solving, further than overcoming your anxiety, depression, stress or whatever is stopping you from living your life more fully. It can help you create a healthier and more fulfilling life.

Core Development – Counselling, Psychotherapy or Emotional Learning? Read on to find out!

06/06/2024

TOUCH AND BRAIN DEVELOPMENT:
A film made by Stephen Rose in 1979 showed how touch deprivation affects human happiness via the brain, and studies have shown that individuals deprived of appropriate touch have a sparser branching structure in the brain.

In an article titled "THE POWER OF TOUCH", Jeannette Kupformann states " If deprived of touch, a person can experience not only a lifetime of illness, depression and a feeling of being emotionally crippled, but even brain damage and, in extreme cases, even death" .
In a book by the same name but a different author, "The Power of Touch", psychologist and counsellor Phyllis Davis quotes studies that show a correlation between LOW LEVELS OF AFFECTIONATE TOUCH DURING INFANCY and HIGH LEVELS OF VIOLENCE.

All food for thought given the high incidence of anxiety, depression and violence in our society.......

08/05/2024

ECOLOGY BEGINS IN YOU

When the aim of Psychotherapy is
*to support the biological integration of the individual
*to re-open the heart
*to enable the individual to give and receive love rather than "to adjust them to society",

and when this is understood in context - ie sociologically as well as psychologically,

then the natural consequence is to FEEL our connection with all beings, with the environment and with the planet, and to act accordingly.

Ecology is about relationships - our relationship with the environment, which includes other people as well as animals, plants, the air we breathe etc -