My name is Christopher Ash. I have been presenting workshops in Australia, in personal growth skills, since the late nineties. I am a retired psychotherapist, and also a Voice Dialogue facilitator. I have been a Buddhist meditator for fifty-plus years, and a Dharma teacher (Insight tradition, Ajahn Buddhadasa‘s lineage) since 2002. I’m also a Focusing trainer (twenty years), trained by Ann Weiser Cornell. And a teacher of The Philosophy of the Implicit. I have found that Gendlin’s philosophy complements Buddhist teachings and contemplative methods, safely supporting depth of realisation.
I have a B.A. in English Literature and History, and post-graduate diplomas in both Education and Psychotherapy. I have been meditating since 1967, and practising body-based awareness since the mid-seventies. My interest has always been the relationship between self-knowledge and the development of a peaceful society.
Christopher, 2025.