Nigel Hamilton is the founder and director of the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, London, which is a psychotherapy training centre and clinic established in 1984 that has grown to be one of the largest training centres for transpersonal psychotherapy in Europe. Nigel is a psychotherapist, lecturer, and teacher and a professional member of the UKCP and the BACP.
Originally a research physicist at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology in Boston, USA, he has a particular interest in transformative dreaming and has facilitated dream groups and trainings in the UK and on the Continent for many years. Nigel has continued to develop the dream research that formed the basis of his PhD in transpersonal psychotherapy and has presented several papers in the UK and abroad via the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD).
Nigel is also the UK Representative of the Sufi Order International and has an extensive background in Sufism, alchemy, and guiding spiritual retreats spanning thirty years. He lives with his family in the Malvern Hills area of England and likes to play the bagpipes and ride his motorbike (but never at the same time!).
Most Western approaches to dreams are limited to a psychological paradigm. Building on Jung’s work, which was heavily influenced by the transformative model of alchemy, a new multidimensional... (more)