About Courtenay Young
I joined the Findhorn Community in 1986 as a practising psychotherapist and parent with our child 'choosing' to be incarnated with you at Findhorn. 17 full years later, I was allowed to leave. I now live in Edinburgh.
Came to the Findhorn Foundation Community: April 1986
Left the Findhorn Foundation Community: June 2003
Areas of involvement with the Findhorn Foundation Community: Psychotherapy; Spiritual Emergencies, Health & Safety; Night Porter in The Park; Christmas Dinner Focaliser: The Park; Building Bag End; Boundary Walks & Hill Walks; Signs; Sailing; Crisis Awareness; Bus Driver; Complementary Health Practitioners Group; Universal Hall lighting and film projection
Community leadership: Psychotherapist in Residence (1986-2003), Health & Safety Officer (1992-2003)
Experience in the community affected your work in the world: The 'politics' of psychotherapy, Professional Ethics and Competencies, Publishing books and articles, Mindfulness practice, Gardening
List of publications: First Contacts with People in Crisis & Spiritual Emergencies (AuthorHouse, 2011); Help Yourself Towards Mental Health (Karnac, 2010); R.D. Laing: 50 years after 'The Divided Self' (Ed.) (PCCS Books, 2012); The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy & Somatic Psychotherapy (Ed.) (North Atlantic Books, 2015); Being in the Body: The Handbook of Biosynthesis (Peter Lang, in press); The ’New' Collected Papers of Biodynamic Massage & Psychotherapy: 2022 (BPP, 2022); A series of edited books in Body Psychotherapy Publications (2012-present); Masses of published articles (available on personal website)
