Mercy
Dvorah shows a startling capacity and willingness to sink to the depths of darkness, open her heart to absorb some alchemical lead of the human psyche, and then give birth to a poem that transmutes it into the gold of fully human consciousness. For this we can all be grateful and encouraged.
– Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D.
Author, The Courage to Love
Dvorah’s poetry reaches in to touch and awaken parts of us that have been buried or abandoned, and reminds us of who we are and what it means to be human. She keeps her eyes open on life’s journey and reports the experience in language that names and blesses pain and beauty alike.
– Selene Vega, M.S., M.F.T.
Co-Author, The Seven-Fold Journey
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Mercy has been selected by Nautilus Book Awards as a 2009 Nautilus Silver Award winner.
(2008) 249 pp. Softcover. 6 x 9 inches
Silver Nautilus Book Awards Wiinner 2009
The mission of Nautilus is “Recognizing Books and Audio Books that Promote Spiritual Growth, Conscious Living, and Positive Social Change.”
Mercy will be added to their Library of Imagination & Possibility. Nautilus award winners include Deepak Chopra, Caroline Myss, Angeles Arrien, Jean Huston, and many others known for their contribution to individual and world transformation.
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Walking in Two Worlds: The Relational Self in Theory Practice and Community
Edited by Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D. and Dvorah Simon, Ph.D.
Walking in Two Worlds Self-Relations Therapy is, in part, a synthesis of theory and practice from various prior traditions. However, the approach is more than an amalgam of ideas; rather, SR offers a meta-framework in which multiplicity – of form, meaning, presence, and so on – can be contained within an actively adaptive, aware, and present relational self.
Editors Stephen Gilligan and Dvorah Simon have gathered in a mosaic of content and communication to explain the perspective and to show how it can be applied across contexts. Divided into five broad sections – The Self-Relations Approach, Applications of Self-Relations, Self-Relations and Spiritual Paths, Dimensions of Self-Relations, Self-Relations and Expressive and Somatic Approaches – the book can be dipped into or read from beginning to end. Like a rich and colorful mosaic, the material can inspire or invoke whether you come in very close to follow specific themes or you stand back to take in the whole.
REVIEWS
“Walking in Two Worlds is a rich and stimulating book. It is filled with examples illustrating the profound and wide-reaching applications of Stephen Gilligan’s Self Relations work. The many varied articles, written by students and practitioners of the Self Relations approach, demonstrate how generative and deeply healing Self Relations concepts and skills can be for therapists, coaches and consultants. I myself have been deeply influenced by Gilligan and his work and recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn more about how to better bring together heart, mind and spirit in the service of healing and helping others.”
Robert Dilts
author of From Coach to Awakener and
Changing Belief Systems With NLP
“This book is a mosaic masterpiece of beauty, heart, and vision. It is a must for clinicians wishing to transcend the mechanics of therapy and open their inner pathways toward becoming healers. Beautifully landscaped, each teaching is a blessing, not only to be read, but more important, to be soulfully experienced.”
Joyce C. Mills
author/co-author of seven books, including
Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within
and Reconnecting to the Magic of Life
“Steve Gilligan and Dvorah Simon have put together the leading edge theorists and practitioners of Self Relations, an artful blend of Milton Erickson, spirituality, Jungian work, and the best of depth-oriented brief therapy approaches. The contributions are diverse, interesting and, in some cases, provocative. Reading this book will help broaden and deepen your ability to connect with your most challenging clients so that you may help them change more rapidly and effectively. It will touch your head and your heart.”
Bill O’Hanlon
author/co-author of 21 books, including
Do One Thing Different
and Thriving Through Crisis
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Dvorah Simon 