About Cliff Bostock, MA
I have worked as a writer and editor for over 20 years — including stints as editor of small-town weekly newspapers, Creative Loafing and Houston City Magazine. In the early-'80s, after being awarded a book contract by HarperCollins, I became blocked. Although I managed to continue producing enough work to (meagerly) support myself, this block continued for about seven years.
During that time, I could find nobody to work directly with my creative block. I did discover that my own extended family was full of writers, musicians and artists who abandoned promising careers or otherwise became blocked. This in turn suggested that blocks to creative expression originate in the same (intergenerational) problems that block people in free self-expression in other ways. In a very real sense, I saw myself becoming like everyone else in my family. Still, I could find no way out.
Eventually, through some very intense experiential and psychospiritual therapy, I began to unfreeze my block. As I did so, I found myself able to write three weekly columns as well as attend graduate school fulltime and undertake training as a psychotherapist. My life began to change in many ways.
In 1995, I completed work on my MA degree in psychology, with emphasis in counseling, at West Georgia College — one of the nation's pioneering programs in humanistic psychology. In 1996, I enrolled in the new PhD program in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, Cal., where I commuted for classes one week a month for three years. A Jungian school under the influence of James Hillman and archetypal psychology, Pacifica attempts to take psychology out of the realm of the purely personal to examine how the "soul of the world" finds expression through and demands nurturing by the individual as well as our social institutions.
During supervised work as a psycho-therapist, I developed the Greeting the Muse workshop for blocked writers and artists. It soon became apparent, though, that this kind of work is not only useful to artists, but is helpful to anyone — individuals and groups, including business groups — who want to transcend the personal history examined (often repetitively and endlessly) in classic psychotherapy. It is now my main work, whether in groups, workshops or individual sessions. In all my work, I try to help people uncover purpose and meaning in life and recover the passion that connection to our purpose naturally generates. It is not psychotherapy. It is soulwork.
Call 404-525-4774 (Atlanta) or email here for information or to schedule an appointment.