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Oppression 101

Oppression 101

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Oppression 101

Overcoming oppression is one of the primary things that clients need your help to do. They may not realize it, because they may not understand yet the ways they’ve been hurt and limited by oppression. That makes it all the more important that...

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Which Story Do You Want To Tell?

We come to understand the experiences we have, even as we’re having them, through the stories we tell about them. Stories help us make meaning of what’s happening. We are made of stories.

Life is an ongoing choose-your-own-adventure...

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Steve BearmanNov 21 Conscious Communication Comments Disabled

Making Friends With Your Inner Critic

Human beings are complex organisms. I mean, I don’t know when the last time was that you tried to design a self-aware, interactive, embodied consciousness with the capacity to to learn and evolve and alter its environment, but it’s not...

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Steve BearmanNov 02 Loving Yourself Comments Disabled

Why You’re Really Here

Why are you here? No, I mean why are you really here?

There are two ways you could take this question. The first is, “Why have you come back to check out this blog again? What are you hoping you’ll get out of it?” The second...

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Steve BearmanOct 08 Change, The Year-Long Counseling Training Comments Disabled

Follow the Absurd

Some things about you set you apart. There are ways you don’t fit in, beliefs and behaviors of yours that are outrageous, ways the world is that have never made sense to you. If you pay attention to these parts, let them lead the way, they will...

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Steve BearmanSep 25 Becoming Powerful, Deconditioning, Enlightenment, Free Your Mind, Liberation Comments Disabled
6 Steps to Completing Relationships

6 Steps to Completing Relationships

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6 Steps to Completing Relationships

Relationships have a natural life cycle: a beginning, a middle, and an end. Along the way, they pass through a series of stages. Some relationships make it to the next stage; some don’t. If they last long enough, someone eventually leaves the...

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Steve BearmanSep 17 Advanced Counseling Tools, Conscious Communication, Couples Counseling, Relationships 1 Comment
5 Ways to Make Your Life More Like Burning Man

5 Ways to Make Your Life More Like Burning Man

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5 Ways to Make Your Life More Like Burning Man

by Steve Bearman & Troy Dayton (co-posted with Burner Love)

So you’ve been to the playa, and you’ve seen the promised land – the promise of freedom, of self-expression, of immediacy and creativity and community. The playa fed you,...

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Steve BearmanSep 14 Burning Man, Deconditioning 1 Comment

Living an Off-Trail Life

Do you live your life on-trail, or off-trail? Trails, roads, and paths make it easier to get from place to place, but only if you want to limit the places you go to the places the trail goes. To gain access to the rest of the world, however, you need...

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Steve BearmanSep 06 Deconditioning, Free Your Mind Comments Disabled

Slowly Approach the Object of Fear

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There is a formula for overcoming fear. In the world of counseling, applying any formula is always an art form, as no two people or situations are alike. Nonetheless, the process of overcoming fears (in forms such...

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Steve BearmanAug 27 Healing, Overcoming Fear Comments Disabled

5 Ways to Maximize Personal Growth at Burning Man

by Steve Bearman & Troy Dayton (reposted from Burner Love) Check out the list of Steve’s workshops at Burning Man 2017

Ordinary reality is not designed with personal growth in mind. If you like conformity, competition, or pretense, then...

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