Connecting to My Inner Still Voice & my Dreams ~ Episode 47 ~ My Conversation with Lynette Fox

Summary: Connecting to my Inner Still Voice & my Dreams Mark [0:00] Good morning Lynette Fox, it’s lovely to be able to welcome you to the Heart of Connection Podcast conversation.  I’ve known Lynette for many years and Lynette was a wonderful trainer in Transpersonal and Emotional counselling.  It’s now changed its name to the Association of Transpersonal and Experiential Psychotherapists (ATEP).  Lynette had been a trainer from Queensland and would come down for nearly two years for 10 day blocks over that two year period. There was a break in between and it was an amazing commitment that Lynette gave to 10 of us to train us in transpersonal and emotional release counselling.  So I’d like to thank you Lynette for that.  Lynette by way of introduction, would you mind offering listeners a little bit of a synopsis on your kind self? Lynette [1:00] Thank you. Connections from Primary School Teaching to Jungian Psychotherapist Lynette [1:03] Well, originally I was a teacher, a primary school teacher.  I became more interested in in-service training. I worked on a really interesting program called the ‘early illiteracy in-service course,’ which is a national program helping and training early childhood and early primary teachers in early literacy strategies.  That’s when I started to work with adults more, and I really enjoyed that.  I also really loved working with children and then at some point, I changed over, I heard a call from within me to leave teaching, but I didn’t know what else to do.  So I resisted leaving teaching at first and finally, I found there was no more energy to be in teaching.  So I developed chronic fatigue and as I result I took a few months off and then my energy didn’t still didn’t come back so I took some more time off.   Then I started to do in that time, just be interested in a range of different interests that I had.  So I started investigating those.  I went off and did a one day programme called emotional release for children.  It was while I was doing that, by the end of the day, I thought, this is the work I want to do.  I started training with Mark Pearson, and his Emotional First Aid for children course – it was a 15-day course at that time.  I then decided to train as a counsellor in order to put that into action.  So that’s how I found my way into Transpersonal and Emotional Release Counselling. Connection to Mark Pearson & Patrica Nolan Mark [3:21] Was Patricia Nolan involved with Mark back in those days around the Emotional First Aid for children? Lynette [3:26] Yes, that’s right.  She was Patricia Nolan and Mark they were actually developing all their ideas and strategies.  They worked in a particular orphanage I think.  They were working in children’s home or orphanage, where they develop their attitudes and work with the children that had all sorts of emotional issues in the home.  Mark was moving to start working in Toowoomba, with Pat Quinn at the Portunicla centre.   When he was working at the Portunicula centre, that’s where I met him as he had put a flyer out for this one day program.  I went along to it.  I lived in Brisbane, but I traveled Toowoomba.  That opened up to eventually I did all of Mark’s training and I trained as a Transpersonal and Emotional Release counsellor with Pat Quinn in Toowoomba, and Mark.  After this, Mark and Helen Wilson started their own business and at that point, Pat was looking for staff members. I applied actually to be an apprentice trainer and I worked there on a part-time basis for 10 years, roughly.  During that time was when I took a break and was working in Melbourne with you, Mark at that point.  So, there was a period where I wasn’t working in Toowoomba because it was a bit much being away so of