A Return to Wholeness.

The Mind Academy seeks to share practical knowledge and processes where a powerful, meaningful and life enhancing holistic approach to life is created through the understanding and integration of the rational logical conscious mind, the symbolic, powerful subconscious mind and the collective unconscious mind.

We integrate hypnosis, NLP, psychotherapy, modern psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, coaching and subconscious narratives to achieve this.

 
 

For over 2000 years, psychology was a part of the domain of western philosophy and before western philosophy, there was ancient wisdom and knowledge within cultures such as Egypt and spiritual traditions within shamanic tribes in south America, Europe and Africa.

The great minds of the past saw a fundamental error in separating the meaning of life from the psychology of behaviour. They knew they were fundamentally inter-linked. 150 years ago psychology separated from philosophy and spirituality and became a seperate science. The outcome is seen throughout every area of western life.

As people compartmentalise their feelings, thoughts and actions from the greater themes of life, psychology has become a failing science project devoid of philosophy, heart, soul and deep connection to the spiritual. People have been left struggling and often turn to the unbalanced world of the new age, or confused interpretations of eastern mysticism, endless self-help books, personality cult gurus and worse.

It’s time for a return of the whole mind.

Our visual identity represents a combination of two primary concepts.

The first is the clarity and intent of the European enlightenment, a time of inspiration and intellectual greatness, a time of the highest values and aspirations.

The second is Kintsugi, the Japanese idea of repairing with gold, the art of transforming broken pieces into a new object; the mended cracks become part of its unique history and enhance its beauty… representing that when we heal our broken places, we become better than ever before. Through ‘repairing’ with gold and aligning to the best of ourselves we can once again become heroes and live full and meaningful lives.

Our Manifesto.

  • A genuine learning institution teaches people not what to think, but how to think.

  • A genuine learning institution does not define success, rather it teaches people how to succeed.

  • If a training course can only be taught by one ‘special’ trainer, it is at it’s core, a personality cult, and therefore it is inevitably about the ‘guru’ and not the students or the use and impact of the knowledge created and shared.

  • The purpose of life is to maximise as much of your innate potential as possible, and then help as many people to do the same.

  • Humanistic principles before religious and spiritual values creates a more empowered world for everyone. A world of positive self regard for all comes first.

  • Growth and learning requires leaving ones existing comfort zone, embracing challenging and often contrary knowledge, attitudes, values, ideas and concepts, with the end outcome being that if the new works better than the old, that it is obvious we will choose it.

  • Humans are born to thrive and succeed, to be creative and expressed. If the ‘therapy/psychology/coaching’ approach is to only teach ‘coping strategies’ then this is not possible. We have the capacity to resolve and go on to the new and the successful. Suffering is not meant to be our life.

  • We become conscious through knowledge and understanding of others, life and ourselves… not through sitting in a cave meditating.

  • To live fully is to live with meaning, to be a part of something that is for both the greater good and for the good of oneself.

  • The world always requires good people to step up with courage and be the change they want to see, rather than what most do, which is to try and change the people they see. Change ourselves and become the light that says ‘it is possible, I did it’.

  • True NLP is about excellence, freedom and growth. It is wanting these, embodying these and living these values. NLP courses or trainers that do not display these values in body, relationships, success and life have not embodied what it really is.

  • Coaching is about empowering others to not just dream their dreams but to live them. Coaching is less about goal setting and far more about goal achieving. If a coaching course or the trainers are more about goal setting than goal achieving, then it is not truly coaching.

  • Hypnotherapy is about connecting with and engaging rapport with the intelligence and resources of our unconscious mind. It is not about having power over another. It is always about learning how to harness our own power and becoming as conscious and as self aware as we can. Any hypnosis course or trainer that attempts to teach or exert power over another is by default highly questionable.

  • Psychology without philosophy leaves the person non-integrated. Someone can have anxiety and be unhappy and without purpose and someone can resolve anxiety and still be unhappy and without purpose. Psychology is only 50% of the solution. Philosophy is the other 50%.

  • The end always comes. What will you do before the curtain falls? How conscious will you become and how much will you contribute humanity?