Magdalen Bowyer
CEC, RPC
Narrative Therapy
As a writer, scholar and narrative therapist, I work in a field of love to bring you home to yourself – the self who is sovereign, wise and inviting you to grow in wonder.
My spiritual modality of therapy is to acknowledge the wholeness of who you are and serve to facilitate the emergence of wisdom from within you so you can live empowered and free. And I rely on the language of your own life story to guide us rather than expert knowledge or professional language of the clinician.
With an academic background in creative writing, women’s studies, psychology and communication, I’m a Registered Professional Counsellor with the Canadian Professional Counselling Association and a Certified Executive Coach with the International Coach Federation.
In years past, I have interned students for Sofia University’s coaching program as well as Royal Roads University’s executive coaching program and I was an Associate Coach at the University of British Columbia. I’m certified in transpersonal psychology and through the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy, I’ve enjoyed and continue to benefit from advanced narrative practice training. In my private practice, I’ve designed and taught three programs: Therapeutic Writes, LOVE 101 and The Art of Rising. Put simply, I’m inspired to engage and explore the mystery of life while learning to express my deep intuition of order and my desire to help with living.
What I know for sure is this: in every conversation I’m privileged to have with the people who entrust me with their story, there is always a moment that feels miraculous. An insight is received. A direction is revealed. Imagination is sparked. And something is healed.
“There is, in truth, no such thing as a collective progress that does not spring from individual growth.” – Helen M. Luke
My Journey
The Path to Narrative Therapy
My practice originates from a deep, personal passion for holistic living and conscious purpose. Experiencing the transformative power of narrative therapy for myself, I am inspired to generate space where individuals have the opportunity to experience the same compassionate and comprehensive care I did at critical times in my own life.
As your counsellor, I share wisdom, creativity, new science and deep intuition to support your path to empowerment. I'm not the expert in your life -- you are! But I can midwife your potential when we work together.
There is no cure and no means of improving the world that does not begin with the individual.
~ C. G. Jung
Why I Care
Because every life matters! And every life is a story unfolding in wondrous potential.
At the core of storytelling -- the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves -- lives a self-identity. This sense of self becomes our centre of narrative gravity; that is, we believe it is who we are but it's actually part fantasy, part projection, part reflection of others.
But when our stories create lives we no longer want to be living, we can change. It is a decision. And when we decide to change, everything changes ... in the most magnificent ways! Sometimes we need a little help in this process. For none of us are in this game of life alone. If we are here, and we are, then rest assured we definitely BELONG here. And we are designed to love each other through the changes.
Self-Knowledge
The dilemma of the individual in modern society
What our age thinks of as the "shadow" and inferior part of the psyche contains more than something merely negative. The very fact that through self-knowledge, i.e., by exploring our own souls, we come upon the instincts and their world of imagery should throw some light on the powers slumbering in the psyche, of which we are seldom aware so long as all goes well. They are potentialities of the greatest dynamism, and it depends entirely on the preparedness and attitude of the conscious mind whether the irruption of these forces and the images and ideas associated with them will tend towards construction or catastrophe.
~ The Undiscovered Self, C.G. Jung
Creativity
There is a difference between self expression & art.
Self expression is an exploratory endeavour; a way to learn the selves accessible through a human life.
Art is the moment of truth when all fragments of a self merge into the light of wholeness and speak to a higher love.
Every human being is a vibrant life-artist participating in creation's cosmic story.
