Gregory Goodluck - Goodluck Consultancies

“We build the rainbow bridge
between the heavens and the
earth. Then we hold open the
door for people to walk through.
That is what any decent initiatory culture does. The shaman’s
are always the weirdo’s… Having studied Shamanism in many
cultures I know that. In some
Native American Tribes they
[Shamans] ride their horses
backwards.” - Deva Daricha
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winning
arguments or being right
for that matter (but I
could be wrong). I
recommend ACT to
anyone and everyone.
Some
think
it
is
Buddhism dressed up as
psychology, but ACT
deny it. I know it is and I
am right but it doesn’t
make me happy to know
continued
Psychologist / Social Worker
Holistic Psycho-Social Solutions
Medicare rebates may apply for mainstream treatments,
(Would you rather be right or happy?
Gregory Goodluck
HPSS
NEWSLETTER
Issue 2, Aug-Sept 2011
Counselling and Psychotherapy, Evidence Based Practices,
Mindful Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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from
page
3)...
that they have to
pretend
it’s
not
Buddhism. But seriously
ACT is more (and less)
than Buddhism is.
The core aspects of ACT
are ‘Values’, ‘Committed
Action’, ‘Self as Context,’
‘Contact
with
the
Present
Moment’,
Mindful
‘Defusion’,
‘Acceptance
of
Experience.’
ACT arrange these in a
model
called
a
‘Hexaflex’ (with each of six
points interconnected).
The ‘flex’ part of Hexaflex
refers to the central aim
of
ACT
which
is
Psychological Flexibility
which research has shown
leads to Happiness and
Rightness! Game over!
We all win!
What‟s happening

Mindfulness skills and
meditation groups.

Stress Management
groups.

Heartmath bio-feedback
for emotional coherence.

Healing the Family Soul
workshops.

Psycho-therapeutic
Body Work workshops.

Sand Play Therapy

Men’s Groups
Phone 08 89810064 for info.
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In this Issue
Suite 5/53 Ross Smith Avenue,
Parap, Darwin NT 0820
Ayurvedic home remedies for
Migraine head-aches:
1.Vapours
Five drops of eucalyptus oil in a bowl of hot
water—carefully inhale for 30 minutes.
(tip: place a towel over your head).
Or Finely cut 2.5 cm (1 inch) cubed of fresh
Ginger into a bowl of hot water–inhale as
above…
OR
2. Pultice
A) Make a thick paste from a quarter teaspoon
of Ginger Powder with a little water.
B) Apply paste over forehead
C) Lie down for 30 minutes.
D) Rinse off with cold water (Caution: avoid
contact with eyes).
Source: Veeta Gogia
If pain persists consult a health professional.
At Goodluck Consultancies mainstream and alternative
approaches to
health and wellbeing compliment each-other.
Reductionistic
understandings
work
side-byside with holistic, and radically
subjective existential and phenomenological
approaches.
with the Federal Attorney
General’s department as a
Family Dispute Resolution
Practitioner.
Gregory
practices
yoga, movement and
meditation and has
training in breathwork & other complimentary healing modalities.
Beata Goodluck is an
organic
chemist,
Teacher and Yoga and
meditation practitioner.
―Psycho-education (e.g. motivational interviewing); Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
(CBT)… Relaxation strategies
including controlled
breathing; Skills training for
problem solving, anger management, social skills, communication, stress management,
parent management training.
Interpersonal Therapy especially for depression. There is
flexibility to include narrative
therapy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Professional attendances at places
other than consulting rooms
would be provided where treatment in other environments is
necessary to achieve therapeutic outcomes.” (Medical Benefits
Scheme of Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging.)
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SWOT Analysis of Holism
1
Resilience = Cope,
Bounce Back, Go On!
2
The Phoenix is Rising
2
Align your Body with your
mind
2
Gregory Goodluck, is a
registered Psychologist,
and Mental Health Social
Worker who has served in
Public Health, Justice,
Corporate sectors and
NGOs, and is registered
Who’s Afraid of Holism?
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Holism‟s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats
Right vs Happy or win-win!
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Ayurvedic migraine help
4
Acceptance and Commitment 4
Therapy (ACT)
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HOLISTIC PSYCHO-SOCIAL SERVICES
Goodluck Consultancies
Stress Management Heart- 3
math style
‘The ACT Hexaflex:’ Conceptual diagram of the six inter-related core principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) a rigorously researched
evidence based psycho-therapy to maximise psychological flexibility thereby
restoring self acceptance, hope and joy.
Goodluck Consultancies:
SWOT’s good and bad
about Holism?
Strength: considers a
broad range of antecedents, causes, cures and
solutions within multifactorial schemata applying transdisciplinary understandings and method.
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Mainstream
services
provided at GC include
medicare
funded
„focussed psychological
strategies’ such as :
W e ak ne s s :
re q u ir es
broad information analysis and scope of understanding, therefore challenging to convergent formula-ism.
Opportunities: lasting
solutions emerge as clients adjust their lifestyles.
Threats: It
Challenges
dominant
onedimensional
explanations and lucrative,
but false ‘quick’ fixes. Client
responsibility can take time
to develop and take effect.
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Holistic Psycho-Social Solutions
Resilience = Cope, Bounce Back & Go On!
Who‟s afraid of Holism?
Resilience is about coping,
bouncing back to balance and
improving coping capacities for
future stress.
Holistic understandings
are not new. The simplest
definition of Holistic
comes from Aristotle in
‘Metaphysics’: ―The whole
is greater than the sum
of the parts,” (350 BCE)
Mental Attitude counts for a lot
when it comes to resilience,
and few have more attitude and
resilience than veteran punkrocker, Henry Rollins:
Resilience is
about coping,
bouncing back to
balance and
improving coping
capacities for
future stress.
Holistic Psycho-Social Solutions
“If I listened to everything they
said to me I wouldn't be here.
If I took the time to bleed from
all the tiny little arrows shot my
way I wouldn't be here. The
ones who don't do anything are
the always the ones who try to
put you down...
It's time to align your body with
your mind
It's hero time!
It's time to align your body with
your mind.
It's time to shine! I’m talking to
you. Hero time starts right now. If
you think you've got 100 extra
years to mess around you're
wrong
This time is real. Your time is
now. It's hero time!
Hard times are getting harder.
The liars are acting strong.
You better get a grip on yourself.
Or you won't be around too long.
No such thing as spare time.
No such thing as free time.
No such thing as down time.
All you got is life time. Go!
I’ve got grace in times of friction.
I’ve got truth in times of fiction.
I’ve got no time for the hype.
Suicide? ... I'm not that type No
time for drug addiction. No time
for smoke and booze. Too strong
for a shortened life span.
I've got no time to lose.
Shine! (Henry Rollins, Rollins
Band—Weight, 1994).
And over a decade prior to that:.
‘Jealous cowards try to control.
Rise above, we’re gonna rise
above. They distort what we say.
Rise above, we’re gonna rise
above. Try and stop what we do.
Rise above, we’re gonna rise
above. When they can’t do it
themselves. Rise above, we’re
gonna rise above. We are tired
of your abuse. Try to stop us, it’s
no use...We’re born with a
chance. Rise above, we’re
gonna rise above. I am gonna
have my chance. Rise above!
we’re gonna rise above... (Henry
Rollins, Black Flag—Damaged,
1981).
The Pheonix is rising from “Black Saturday‟s” ashes!
Healer,
Trainer, Shaman, 66 year old Deva
Daricha (Robin John
Barke-Hall) was knocked
down by smoke and fireduring Victoria’s 2009
Black Saturday fires.
Thanks to his profound
command of Rebirthing,
Breathwork, Spiritual &
Somatic
Therapies, he
lived, intact, to tell the tale.
Daricha is in Darwin in
September to share his
insights & healing methods and deliver talks and
workshops on:
―Fire & Water”: Surviving Black Saturday Infernos, healing and Lotus
Birth with a Lotus Birth
Movie Wednesday Sept
7th at 6:30 pm 7:00pm
start Groove Café .
Body
Transformation
Sat—Sun Sept 10th-11th
Healing the Family Soul
Sat-Sun Sept 17-18.
Both weekends at theSubud Hall, Rapid Creek,
Social and emotional
costs of Male Circumcision Trauma and what to
do about it. To be Advised
Phone: 08 898100 64
Yoga—Align your body with your mind “...Om…”
I went to yoga classes with
very bad scoliosis after my
friend’s suggestion. I had
never heard of yoga before.
I’d been to several doctors
about my condition, and had
some x-ray’s done. It didn’t
take long to realised that I
was knocking on the wrong
door. The advice was,
“Don’t lift anything and
when your back gets very
bad we will put you in a
wheel chair, in about 10
years.”
That was about 14 years ago.
I began Yoga 11 years ago
and after 3 years of committed practice, my teacher
Carole Baillargeon, examined my back and said
“There is not a sign of scoliosis!”
It was not easy to get there. I
was in a lot of pain for the
first year during yoga
classes. Things got better
with time. Yoga had worked
miracles in my life on physical and emotional levels .
Yoga stirred up a lot of my
emotions and “stuff” was
coming up. The more I was
releasing the healthier I become. The feeling of happiness became an almost daily
occurrence.
Now, yoga is part of my soul
and I will continue the practice for as long as I live. I am
forever grateful to my teachers Carole and Leisa from
Darwin Yoga Space. Thank
you ladies for being in my
life! - Beata Goodluck
Some commentators describe ‘Holistic’ as a
‘weazle word’ over-used
and covering too much
ground to be meaningful.
But health-care is ‘holistic’
when ‘transdisciplinary’
approaches to understanding the whole person
as a product of a variety of
systems, are implemented. Holism is something all social workers are
trained to appreciate, but
clearly struggle to realise
in some bureaucratic labyrinths.
A holistic approach does
not often lend itself to neat
categorical rhetoric and
challenges the limited one
and two dimensional explanatory models of the
modernist world order.
As the old edifices of the
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―The whole is
greater than the
sum of the parts.”
m ainl y
reductionistic
health system crumble we
are seeking to rebuild with
new cost-effective models.
The Australasian College
of Nutritional and Environmental
Medicine
(ACNEM) is leading many
GPs & allied-health workers to treat causes of disease, not just symptoms.
It takes intelligence, commitment and focus to seek
to rectify the causes of
illness and not just mask
the symptoms.
Aristotle 350 BCE.
Gregory Goodluck is an
Associate Member of the
Australasian College of
Nutritional and
Environmental Medicine
(ACNEM) and has completed their primary training designed for GPs.
Would you rather be right or be happy?
When
someone asks me
if I would rather be happy
or right I usually reply
that my preference is
“Both! Simultaneously!”
or “Neither!” or any combination! in fact I have no
preference really.
And ‘Right’ is a load of
bunk on stilts. ‘Happiness’
is equally a red herring
and one of my favourite
books right now is the
best selling self-help book
‘The Happiness Trap’ by meaning and purpose,
Aussie GP, Russ Harris
which is all about Acceptance and Commitment
Therapy (ACT), a well researched evidence based
Mindfulness based Cognitive Behavioural therapy.
ACT is more effective than
regular CBT. Harris and all
the ACT mob including
Steve Hayes point out that
once upon time not so
long ago fulfilment , from
prevailed over false egocentric notions of happiness that have become
the currency of today’s
cults of personality.
It comes down to definitions and of course none
of us believe that hedonic pleasure is the key
to lasting happiness, nor
accumulation of goods
and chattels, or...
(Continued page 4)
Stress! Getting to the Heart of the Matter!
My favorite mega-stress
busting activity —next to
Yoga with Sanjit at Om
Yoga— is using my HeartMath computer assisted
bio-feedback system
working with heart-rate
variability for coherence.
HeartMath is a well researched system that supports scientifically what
Poets and everyone intuitively knows, that The
Heart has it’s own intelligence and Wisdom!
HeartMath's solutions for
stress relief have been
published in numerous
peer-reviewed journals
such as American Journal
of Cardiology, Stress
Medicine, Preventive Cardiology, Harvard Business
Review and Journal of
Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
The HeartMath System is
being used by Duke Medical Center, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Blue
Cross Blue Shield, Sutter
Health, and many other
top medical centers around
the world.
HeartMath Quick Coherence technique comprises.
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Heart Focus,
Heart Breathing,
Heart Feeling.
Contact me to learn more
about Stress Management.
groups and individual treatments.
—Gregory Goodluck.
‘Holophobia’ — the
fear of holism’ by
those who don’t
understand it and feel
safer with
simplistic ,short term,
wrong answers for
complex, systemic
situations.