So what are the principles of Zen that we can we draw upon in our everyday practice and approaches, how can these principles influence the way we work with individuals? As a practitioner we have been the recipient of many hours of theory based on the concept of the practitioner being the expert aiding the patient in identifying their problems or worst still digging deep to find a problem as the cause of their current distress. The practitioner’s ego has been bloated for many years through these methods of education and westernized concepts of expert led “therapy”. Although I think the majority of practitioners have applied these methods of therapy through a genuine desire to help the patient through a recovery process, there has been too much pressure placed on the practitioner to be an expert in the field of aiding recovery.
