Editioral.

Summertime is a time to relax and reflect, and also to think about the coming season. In this newsletter we have some interesting video’s to inspire you. In our web shop you can find various interesting books and we are planning to fill this shop with more items in the field of mental space psychology. If you have something interesting to offer in this respect, please let us know. If you have interesting articles or information to share, please send your copy material to editorialoffice@somsp.com.

Our organisation is growing fast. If you would like to support our work as a friend or partner of our Society and/or sponsor us financially, we would be very grateful. Please contact Michiel Brandt (m.brandt@somsp.com) of our PR and Marketing department; he can inform you about the various possibilities.

Welcome to our new business associates

We are happy to announce that Penny Tomkins and James Lawley have joined us as business associates of SOMSP in the UK.

Penny and James are co-developers of Symbolic Modelling and leading authorities on the use of self-originated metaphors for personal and professional development. They are supervising psychotherapists registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy since 1993 and have a private practice and teach Symbolic Modelling to therapists, counsellors, coaches, managers and teachers throughout the world. Visit their website for more information about their activities worldwide.

Their new book, "Insights in Space", will be published by July 30th and will also be available in our web shop.

Jacques Lacroix, NLP trainer, systemic executive coach and social panorama consultant, has also joined the Society of Mental Space Psychology and will help us with various activities in Spain and other Spanish speaking countries. We hope to publish an interview with him in one of the coming newsletters. Jacques lives in Germany and was brought up bi-lingual, as his parents were from Argentina.

Jacques Lacroix has recently translated the English version of the book Social Panorama Model of Lucas Derks into Spanish ‘Paisajes Sociales, Familiares y Espirituales’, (which is available now). You can purchase this book via their website or our own web shop.

Mental space and depression: new videos now online

There are a three new video’s available on the subject of Mental Space and Depression. These video’s are recommended for people who are interested in a non-medical treatment of depression, and are looking for a different approach of this problem.

Andrew Austin, a renowned psychotherapist in Great Britain, demonstrates his change work in the video Metaphors of depression. Andrew focuses on the spatial metaphors that depressed clients use for their unsuccessful coping strategies with serious life issues. He demonstrates that, based on their metaphors, what clients do will never work out successfully, as long as they stick to their old coping method. The solution is: they need to change their metaphor.

Wassili Zafiris, a Dutch psychological therapist and NLP trainer, recently wrote a Dutch book called ‘Geluk is deprimerend ‘about depression and mental space. This book is available in our web shop . In the video Just Happily Depressed Wassili speaks about the depressed inner landscape, and sees how this is caused by the client’s striving for happiness, regardless of what difficulties they experience in their lives. Clients need to face the darkness to deal with their life issues.

Lucas Derks PhD, social psychologist and NLP trainer, sees most depressions as dark objects, like clouds, which clients have unconsciously constructed in their mental space as a result of repressing an issue they find hard to cope with. In the video Where has my depression gone? Lucas declares that depression is not a process, but an ‘object’ that blocks the clients’ free awareness, which can be removed by dealing

Book Review (in Dutch)

Nelleke van Houts, a renowned Dutch systemic therapist and NLP trainer, has published her new book Zichtwijze, about the groundbreaking insights of systemic structural constellations of Matthias Varga von Kibéd and Insa Sparrer of the SySt®-Institute in Germany. Please read the book review Lucas Derks wrote about this subject. You can order her book in our web shop.

Whats on.

September 8 – 10, 2017
World congress Hypnosis & NLP, Holiday Inn Express, Paris (France) (http://world-congress-hypnosis-nlp.com/EN/)
Lucas Derks and Christine Beenhakker will be attending this interesting congress, where Lucas is listed as a guest of honor ( http://world-congress-hypnosis-nlp.com/EN/guests-of-honor-speakers)

October 17, 2017
Follow up DAS research (Depression in Awareness Space), Holthurnsche Hof, Groesbeek (Netherlands)
About 25 qualified therapists will be trained in the research protocol of the DAS method. This follow-up research project will take place under the auspices of the Society for Mental Space Psychology.

We all wish you a lovely and inspiring summer!

On behalf of the PR team,
Christine