Andreas Labuschagne

Contemplative Educator and Counsellor in South Africa

Andreas Labuschagne

Contemplative Educator and Counsellor in South Africa

Welcome to my landing page, I am a contemplative educator, counsellor, yogi, and artist.

My professional practice conventionally focuses on the dissemination of in-person, online and distance instruction of pre-service teachers in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences with an emphasis on Philosophy of Education, Religious Studies, Academic Literacies and others.

In the public sphere, I continually aspire to facilitate the incorporation of practical and depth wisdom into the lived experience. Hence I offer guidance, counselling, facilitation, mediation and consultation to individuals and groups with a focus on supporting the discovery of meaning, creating purpose, pathworking, and growth toward fruition.

Additionally, I offer general & specialist counselling, which includes: trauma, grief and bereavement, relationship, sense-of-self, metaphysical & existential inquiry, life guidance, intuitive divinations, self-development, art-in-therapy modalities, rites-of-passage pathworking and more.

My approach adopts three pillars, these are:

1) wisdom orientation [WIZDOM]

- educational mentorship,

- philosophical inquiry,

- metaphysical-existential counselling.

2) contemplative practice [KONTEMPLATION]

- meditative observation,

- cultivating insight,

- yoga practice and instruction.

3) intuitive culture [KULTURE]

- critical and creative discernment,

- initiation and rite-of-passage work,

- personal mythography and archetypal inquiry,

- artefact creation

- visionary, sacred, and Dharma art

I have 20 years of experience in Buddhist practice, having received teaching from a Ch'an/Pure Land master of the Lin Ji and Shan Tao traditions. I also have experience with all major schools of Vajrayana Buddhism, with a focus on the Madhyamaka tradition, Mahamudra tradition, and the Dzogchen tradition.

Besides this, my exploration and engagement in seemingly eclectic avenues of Integral and Process Psychology, Therapeutic Art modalities, Shamanic and primal intuitive therapies, Druidry, the Gnostic, Hermetic, magickal and philosophical traditions of the world are in continuous development.

If any of these meanderings resonate with you and you wish to explore these offerings further with me then I welcome you to contact me and/or book a consultation.

Andreas Labuschagne

~ Ah, A Sincere Surrender, A Return Home, To Where The Heart Abides, And Mind Roams ~

https://linktr.ee/andreasLabuschagne

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