| Dr. Jim
Dincalci brings over 37 years of experience in counseling
& the healing arts. Besides presenting public workshops since 1973, he has taught important aspects of emotional, mental and spiritual health
in several universities and professional conference since 1984.
He's been doing forgiveness and reconciliation counseling and training across the United States,
for the past 14 years. He presently lives in Southwest Florida and is on a sabbatical preparing to publish his book on Forgiveness Therapy.
Jim has Doctorates in Divinity and in Religious Studies with a cross-cultural and metaphysical emphasis from Emerson Institute. His dissertation was on Forgiveness. His
Masters Degree is in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. He is a trained psychotherapist; has worked as a child,
adolescent and family therapist; has three years of experience as a facilitator
in domestic violence and anger control groups for men and teens; worked
as a school-based clinical therapist in Hawaii; was a
meditation instructor for ten years in Sonoma County, California; is trained as a police, fire, and emergency medical chaplain; and was a volunteer Law Enforcement Chaplain in Sonoma County.
Besides
his work since the 60's in traditional and alternative health, pastoral counseling and psychotherapy,
he worked intensively with anthropologist Angeles
Arrien, Ph.D., and others in cross-cultural healing for over ten years.
From 2001 to 2005, at Sonoma State University, as an associate professor, he taught a regular forgiveness therapy course in their Conflict Resolution program. His forgiveness courses have been in the curriculum of California State University- Hayward, California State University - Fresno, University Of The Pacific, City College Of San Francisco, Santa Rosa Junior College, and College of Marin. From 1984 to 1991, he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in cross-cultural healing & spiritual perspectives in Holistic Health and Psychology at John F. Kennedy University, The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and California Institute of Integral Studies, all in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Over fourteen
years ago, he had a personal transformation through
a profound forgiveness process. This transformation
and his forgiveness work with others has encouraged him to become a very strong advocate
for the power of forgiveness and for the development of an effective forgiveness
therapy and training. He has formed "The Forgiveness Foundation" with its 501(c3) status
so that forgiveness can more readily occur around the world. Please check it out at: http://www.forgivenessfoundation.org
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Forgiveness
Therapy Perspective
My
own life was completely transformed through a forgiveness process which
came to me one afternoon as a result of over thirty five years of studying
and practicing various psychological, spiritual and holistic health practices. In addition, since then, I've gained a great deal of experience and insight from 1) studying forgiveness and brain research plus, 2) developing and presenting many forgiveness processes in my workshops, and 3) doing forgiveness groups and private forgiveness counseling through the years. As a result, the forgiveness training and work I present has been refined, expanded and used very successfully across the country to bring healing and transformation into peoples' lives. My book on this life-changing
forgiveness work will be published in 2006.
My
approach integrates brain/mind research in medicine, professional research
in forgiveness, the psychological/ emotional mechanisms within the
brain/mind which prevent forgiveness and the spiritual methods used through the ages which are effective in aiding forgiveness. In addition, we have an intuitive
ethical/moral sense within us which when connected with, assists us in
the process of forgiving. Through forgiveness, we reconnect with a tremendous
Power, which brings much more love, peace, and joy into our
everyday emotional and spiritual life.
The
un-forgiving mind and the mental defense mechanisms we use to keep it in
place must be addressed for deep, effective forgiveness to occur. If these defenses are not addressed, forgiveness will be more difficult to maintain, thus joy, love
and peace can be less available. People have used forgiveness through
the eons to transform their lives. Major life changes have occurred without
knowing these defense mechanisms; however, now, coupled with the understanding
we have of the brain/mind functions and defense mechanisms, we have an
even more powerful tool which can help people to look deeper at difficult
situations thus, forgiving more easily and effectively.
Here
are links to articles I've written. (These links are also on the Articles
page.):
The
Power inForgiveness
Why
Forgive
Defining
Forgiveness
Brain
Functions
The
more I do this forgiveness work, the more I continue to be astounded at
the power of forgiveness to heal all avenues of life - physical, emotional,
mental and spiritual. When people forgive, their lives become
richer, healthier, happier and certainly filled with more love and peace.
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