In the summer of 1990, I was travelling down the west coast of the United States, and for a short while I stopped by in the Bay Area. While I was there I met a student of the Diamond Approach, who pointed me towards Hameed's books.
I was already beginning to develop a deep interest in both psychology and spirituality, but back then these two worlds seemed very separate. Hameed's work, as we know, unites these seemingly different disciplines, or better, shows that they are a single whole, a unity.
I quickly realised that this teaching was what I had been looking for; my inner flame had found its home, and in 1991 I joined the first group to meet in Europe.
I joined the European RISNG seminary in 2012, and I have been ordained to teach since 2022.
I live with my wife in the south-west of England, and I am working both in person and online with private students.
If you are considering having private sessions with me, and you want to learn more about me, you may want to visit my psychotherapy website.
I always offer a short free meeting, online or in person, if you'd like to discuss working with me - please contact me to arrange this.
As a student in a group that met in Germany, it was there that I first became aware of the work of Jean Gebser.
Gebser is well-known in Germany, in both academic and spiritual circles, and more widely too. For example, Universitas, an influential German state-funded academic review once selected its three most important and influential German-speaking thinkers of the twentieth century.
You will have heard of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud; Jean Gebser was the third person selected. But in the English-speaking world, very few of us know about him or his work.
It was only in 2011 that I started to read him more closely, and back then I wrote an introductory article. Recently I posted it online here.