“We are our own Centre of Being and Becoming. When this is Felt and Integrated, we are the enduring Magic of hope and new life. We create a Whole and renewed future for us all.”
Loretta do Rozario
Dr Loretta do Rozario {B. Occ. Thy. (Qld. Uni.), M.Transp. Psych. (I. T. P. USA), PhD. (Qld. Uni.} Approved Supervisor PACFA
Now in my early 60’s I especially open to live my deeper inner callings for optimal wellbeing and especially creating these enduring pathways for all. Let me offer a sense of my life’s journeying and work. For most of my life I have been a ‘seeker of other ways’. As a younger one voraciously reading biographies of lives of the famous and even infamous. Especially those who had made a difference for the world, the saints, sages and the sinners! Rather than pursuing my initial choice of Medicine, I intuitively followed a deeply personal and professional pathway to the world of psyche – inclusive of body, mind, heart, soul, community and environment – this Integral Wholeness called me.
I deeply travelled inwardly and branched outwardly to other lands, pursuing many experiential practises and intensive trainings – Jungian, gestalt, psychodrama, psychoanalysis, dream work, transactional analysis, existential, transpersonal therapies and breath work, EMDR and cognitive therapies as well as philosophical and spiritual teachings and mindfulness therapies. This immensely enriching learning time coincided with 9 years of working in acute, long term and community based psychiatry. There I had the privilege of working intensively and deeply with people undergoing major breakdowns and profound life challenges.
With these earliest and great teachers of psyche within me I also saw the desperate need for more enduring and transformative ways of practice and systemic change. Transpersonal Psychology and psychotherapeutic practises became my integration and cutting-edge framework for creating practical hope and enduring love. The transpersonal perspective offering an integral pathway and practises fo creating whole lives, and real wellbeing in systems, organisations, and communities.
In the 1990’s with other faculty members, I was moved to create the Australian Transpersonal Institute and Association, a nationally accredited education and training Institute for ‘Change Growth and Transformation’. In 2000 this evolved into my personal offering, Spirit Works Australia. In 2005 called from Perth to the countryside, I created Tree Song Retreat in Denmark, WA. For 15 years this home and retreat space, offered a beautiful forest Sanctuary of mountain, trees, river and ocean giving those a spaciousness to Be, grow and learn – becoming their vital essential greater Selves and Life Story, no matter what!
With the Joy of working and being alongside Sharon Mitchell, I continue my lifelong devotion and focus of enabling individuals from all walks of life, facing all manner of life transitions and challenges, to become more of who they really are and can become, rather than lessened by the dis-ease of constraints, incapacity and partial views. I especially value and love being with the health and helping professions and service organisations so that each system can grow and contribute their ‘personal and social wellbeing wisdoms’. For when each of us heals, embodies, integrates our Wholeness, our ‘Tree of Life’, we can live our full spirited Wellbeing. When we change and enliven, everything changes. In becoming beacons of hope, love and vitality, we model these Changes for our families, professions, organisations and communities. We become real practical leaders whoever and wherever we are. This nourishes us and transforms the world around us.
In Brief Education & Trainings
*1977, Degree in Occupational Therapy (Uni. Of Qld) specialising in mental health
*1995, PhD, Department of Religious Studies (1995, Uni. of Qld), research thesis: What Keeps People (Organisations and Communities) Alive and Well In Spite of the Odds – ‘The Spiritual Nature of Health and Wellbeing of People with Chronic Physical Disabilities and Illness: A Paradigm of Wholeness and Reconstitution’.
*1978/9 Diploma in Gestalt Therapy Brisbane Gestalt Institute with Dr Peter Mulholland & Patti Oliver
* 1983-85 Advanced Certificate (practise based) in Transpersonal Studies from the Brisbane Transpersonal Institute.
* 1987 Masters in Transpersonal Psychology (Institute of Transpersonal Psychology – Sofia University, USA), practise based & research thesis: ‘Transpersonal Growth Groups: A Peer Paradigm of Learning’.
* 15 years senior academic Curtin, Notre Dame and Edith Cowan universities teaching wellbeing, mental health and counselling practises for health sciences and supervision PhD’s and Masters research.
* 1991-92 President WA Occupational Therapy Association.
* 1998-2008 Adjunct Professor Dalhousie University Canada, developed graduate courses in Community Development and Wellbeing & supervising Masters research health science students.