| anatta | Buddhist doctrine of ‘no-self’or interdependency |
| anicca | Buddhist axiom that allexistent things are subject to change |
| Absorption | used interchangeably withConcentrative meditation - as distinct from Insight or Awareness meditation |
| Arahat | Model of perfected personalityi Buddhist Psychology |
| Atman | Absolute Mind or Spirit- from Hinduism, used by Wilber. |
| Awareness meditation | used interchangeably withInsight meditation - as distinct from Concentrative or Absorption meditation |
| Balance of attention | Sufficently in touch with(past) distress yet sufficientlyof aware the (current) safety of the counsellingenviron. |
| Chi-Kung | Chinese body-energy work |
| Chronic Pattern | A defense behaviour patternwhich is so constantly in operation as to be a component part of the personality. |
| Concentrativemeditation | used interchangeably withabsorption meditation - as distinct from Awareness or Insight meditation. |
| Contract | agreement made at theoutset of a co-counselling session concerning the extent to which the co-counsellingpartner will intervene in the client’s session. (Free attention, Normaland Intensive) |
| Direction holding | Statements repeated overand again to keep clients attentionupon a useful (usually) positive trackin session |
| Discharge | Co-counselling term forintentional, witnessed, emotional catharsis. |
| Dukka | Unsatisfactoriness orsuffering as inevitabile human experience |
| Dzogchen | Quintessential non-dualisticbuddhist teaching from Tibet. |
| Enlightenment Intensive(E.I.) | Dyad work - paired meditationand verbal interaction on the question "Who am I?" |
| E.S.T. | Erhart Sensitivity Trainingnamed after founder, Werner Erhard |
| Fundamentals | Name given to the 40 hrbasic co-counselling training |
| FWBO | Friends of the WesternBuddhist Order - an established English Buddhist community with monks &lay members |
| Free Attention (contract) | That attention which isneither distracted by the environment nor sunk into internal preoccupationand is therefore available to the client. One of the 3 contracts - thisone is non-verbal. |
| Holotropic Breathing | Created by Stanislav Grovfor altered states of consciousness work as an alternative to use of psychedelics. |
| Hug | Name of quarterly journalof London CCI. |
| Insight meditation | used interchangeably withawareness meditation - as distinctfrom Concentrative or Absorption meditation. |
| Intensive(contract) | Counsellor attempts toreflect back every cue given by client. Counsellor may speak quitea lot. Tends to be requested when client expects to be working with a chronicpattern. |
| Mahavipassana | A form of awareness orinsight meditation |
| Marks of being | anicca-impermanence,dukkha - unsatisfactoriness, and anatta - identitylessness. the three characteristicsof all things which come into existence. |
| Metta bhavana | A concentration techniquefrom the Buddhist tradition in which the meditator focusses on generatingand transmitting feelings of loving kindness for all. |
| Namaste | Traditional (Hindu) greetingwith hands joined at heart, eye contact and brief bow - "I bow to the divinitywithin you" |
| New-age traveller | Media coined name givento motor and horse drawn vehicle dwellers who live in travelling communities.Refugees from town and city rather travellers by family tradition. |
| Normal(contract) | medium level of counsellorintervention: some cuesreflected back to client, but plenty of space forclient to self-direct. Counsellor is moderately verbal. |
| Passages camps | Personal growth, wholisticeducational summer camps. |
| Positive directions | Statements of intent abouthow to be with future circumstances now that the grip of the pattern hasbeen loosened. |
| ptf1 | Relating to Wilbers Pre/transfallacy, an error which mistakes a transpersonal experience for a prepersonalexperience. |
| ptf2 | Relating to Wilbers Pre/transfallacy, an error which mistakes a prepersonal experience for a transpersonalexperience . |
| Qaballah | Hebrew esoteric tradition |
| Restimulation | The process by which apattern is triggered by current circumstances which bear sufficient similarityto those present at the time the pattern was created. |
| Re-evaluation | A ‘post-discharge’ processwhereby reactive behaviours can be looked upon in a new light and subsequentlyadjusted and/or replaced. |
| Re-evaluation Co-counselling | The original co-counsellingcommunity; took it’s name from the above process |
| round | In co-counselling culture,a turn-taking, clockwise or anticlockwise individual report-back or check-inwith full group attention. |
| Satipattana | A form of awareness orinsight meditation |
| sangha | Traditionally the phraseused to describe the learning community of Buddhist monks it can includeall those who undertake spiritual practice with a community reference. |
| sharing circle | similar to a round butno ordering, - speaking when moved to do so. |
| Theravadan | adjective given to describethe ‘first wave’ of Buddhist teaching before the expansion to the far east.Literally, ‘the teachings of the elders’ |
| T.M. | Transcendental Meditation- popularised/commercialised by Maharishi. |
| Transmutation | Changing the energy ofemotion into another form of energy through conscious intention (lead togold alchemy metaphor) |
| Vipassana | A form of awareness orinsight meditation |
| Wicca | Witchcraft - pagan mysteries,earth magic |
