Adaptation Practice – Living Zen
with Dr Clive Sherlock
Adaptation Practice is a secular rendering of traditional Japanese Zen Buddhist practice: one of the oldest and most widely tested ways of relieving suffering, including, but not limited to, mental distress.
Dr Clive Sherlock
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It deals directly with the root causes of upsetting and disturbing emotion.
This will all be new to most of us here because there is nothing like it in our Western cultural background. It is a radically different way of understanding and relieving human suffering, a paradigm shift away from the biomedical basis of psychiatry. It is not based on theory, dogma or opinion and it warns against analysing or naming and labelling our moods and feelings.
By following practical instructions on what to do and guidance on how to do it, emotional strength and insight develop in us. This is the most effective way known for clearing the mind and dealing with the upsetting emotion and disturbing thoughts that lie at the heart of our suffering.
Over the last 2,500 years millions of people throughout the Far East have found relief from even the most severe emotional suffering by practising the way of life that will be discussed in this talk. It entails a transformation of our understanding of what it is to be human and our habitual ways of reacting when life seems to go against us.
Information about Adaptation Practice, including a videoed interview, can be found on the website www.adaptationpractice.org
Biography
Clive Sherlock has worked in two radically different traditions. After training in medicine,
he worked at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He then went to Heidelberg to study philosophy and from there started a life-long training in traditional Zen Buddhist practice under Zen Master Daiyu Myokyo Zenji of Daitoku-ji monastery in Kyoto.
On his return to medicine in the UK he continued Zen training while specialising in psychiatry at Oxford. He resigned from the NHS thirty-five years ago because psychiatry was (and still is) incompatible with the Zen way of life which he had found to be safe and effective.
Clive has taught Adaptation Practice globally in person and online ever since, training people who want to find a safe way out of suffering without drugs and for those who want to taper and stop taking psychiatric drugs.
A CPD certificate for 2.5 hours will be sent out via eventbrite after the workshop.
You can get tickets here.
