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As associate members of UKAHPP (UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners) we adhere to their ethical codes and procedures.
Member of BAPCA (The British Association for the Person-Centred Approach).
Ffynnon Patron: Lay Canon Professor Brian Thorne, FBACP, FCollP, FRSA .
Ffynnon Director: Jonathan Skipper MA, Dip Surv, PCAT cert.
Future Plan for a Residential Centre
Commitment to vision and to “experiencing our humanity and offering it to others takes us to those places for which we yearn, where meaning, purpose and fulfilment are to be found.”(Mearns & Thorne, 2007)
The vision to create a manageable sized residential “multi-purpose well-being centre” in North Wales has been long in the imagining and is well conceived and developed. We have flexible plans for this endeavour that are awaiting the right time and the right property and will require further fundraising.
Ffynnon’s Centre would be an intimate setting for in-depth personal and professional development, retreat and respite. The centre will offer an in-house programme hosted by staff and visiting facilitators and also provide a safe place for individuals and organisations to run their own events and retreats. Once the centre is established, a future hope is to develop space for those in need of ‘live in’ respite and retreat in low key developmental surroundings.
Our hope is that the centre will offer a comfortable, safe, friendly, professional service and environment to all concerned. The staff, buildings and grounds would provide a safe, spacious and intimate setting for all visitors and guests. The focus of the centre would be to offer freedom, time and expert attention to the needs of the whole person including the needs of humankind's spiritual nature.
Ffynnon's desire is to create an environment where relationship with self, with the spiritual, with others and with our surroundings co-exist in a climate of realness, genuineness, empathy and of sensitive and accepting understanding; a place without prejudice or premature judgement. Self acceptance; a cherishing of self that brings communion with the spirit, with self and with others is at the heart of such relational depth; we see this as an essential and necessary challenge that has profound and life changing possibilities. We believe that we would be part of a process; accompanying, facilitating and witnessing moments in time where gradual evolution and the growth of unique individuals and interpersonal relations develop.
The centre with its staff will be based within a local community and have close associations with community establishments and organisations. Our goal is to offer a space where individuals and groups can constructively accomplish the full potential of their time with us and to have an open, empowering and genuine experience, a time of individual fulfilment and group identity.
We want to create a place that reverberates with the sounds of expression and resonates with the hum of silence; a spiritual oasis, a space of quiet in the midst of restlessness, a place to shout and be heard, somewhere to take stock and take a breath.
In essence we want to offer simple hospitality and a thoughtful programme or merely freedom, safety and thoughtful conversation; we believe that companionship grows when we embrace solitude and that excitement and adventure can be found in our own imaginations when we are given the space to explore our own creative nature.
Ffynnon’s place may at a glance seem isolated but it may prove to be the least lonely of places...........
(Reference on page 1: Mearns, D. & Thorne, B. (2007) Person-Centred Counselling in Action 3rd Edition. London, Sage. p212.)
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