What is a Good Life? #1 - A Jungian Approach to Life with Laurence Barrett

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Episode Description: In this first episode I talk to Laurence Barrett. Laurence has recently written a book, A Jungian Approach to Coaching: The Theory and Practice of Turning Leaders into People, and runs his own consultancy group, Heresy, which focusses on Psychodynamic and Jungian Leadership and Organisational Development Consulting. In this conversation we explore how the work of Carl Jung has influenced Laurence's approach to life and, amongst other things, the significance of simply paying attention in our lives. Laurence is a wonderful source of knowledge and I enjoyed this conversation immensely, and I hope you will too. For those unaware of the work of Carl Jung: Carl Jung (1875 – 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual's conscious and unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be the main task of human development. He created some of the best known psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex and extraversion and introversion. (Wikipedia) Podcast Description: This is a question we are all trying to answer as we move through, and try to understand, life. Last year, I privately interviewed 150 people around this question for a personal project. This year, I am interviewing people for this podcast (published every two weeks) in the hope that it will provide you with new perspectives and tools that will aid you with your own efforts to answer this question. The purpose of the podcast is not to prescribe an answer, but to prompt your own inquiry, while the conversations will be revealing more genuine expressions of what it is to be a human.

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