Rich Hanhardt: about your guide

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Married to my lovely and loving, Christian, and patient wife, Marti for 52 years

Four successful and loving children who are dedicated to their families and their professions

Nine remarkable grandchildren who are one of the great loves of my life

Career of 50 years (now retired from practice) as a psychotherapist

Management of psychiatric services for children, adolescents and their families, a founder and an owner of two companies to provide these services

MS, MBA, Board Certified Christian Life Coach (now retired)

Founder and Executive Director of The Sacred Bond Center

Author: 

(All published by Sacred Bond Publishing unless otherwise noted)

The Healing Pathway, A Map for Your Journey Toward Wholeness  2016,2020 by Richard Hanhardt LLC

Story Building, Telling the Healing Story of Great Power

Living Waters, Healing Through Meditative Prayer

Sacred Bond, A Model of Spiritual Transformation for Therapists, Clients and Seekers,  2012  (published by Westbow Press Inc.)

Developmental Treatment: A Manual for the Treatment of Children and Adolescents

Mary’s Story, A Girl’s Awakening Story

The Story of the Magical Forest and Hickory the Tree and the Girl who Loved Him 

Lifelong immersion in and a fascination with Wild Nature, beginning with a childhood love and then an adult understanding that all of this is in fact a most marvelous Creation.

Beginning at about 22 years old, a search for The Way, Healing Practices, and an answer to a life question, which led to lifetime of study and practice in that which heals

The Art of Focusing and Certification as one of the first Focusing Trainers, the understanding of the key significance of the body in containing and healing the emotions

Intense personal and professional work with Carl Jung’s teachings, dream work, and completion of a 7½ - year analysis with a Zurich trained analyst. Ten years of study of Jung’s writings and the work of the neo-Jungians. This was the beginning of a lifelong work with dreams and their relation to the Healing Pathway.

Practice and study in Tibetan, Vietnamese, and Zen Buddhist teachings which initiated 30 years of meditation and immersion into the Eastern traditions of healing;  immersion for a time in the study of the perfection of the Heart Sutra.

Study and collection of stories of the Native cultures (Earth spirituality) and a look into the ancient healing practices of mythology and shamanism

Practice of the Taoist tradition of the I Ching, study of Taoism as a healing practice incorporating The Tao te Ching and the work of G.I. Gurdjieff

The ongoing study of Christian theology over a period of the last 25 years especially following an intense and deeply personal immersion into the direct healing presence of Jesus Christ in meditative prayer

The more recent study of the works of the marvelous Christian mystics and the Christian contemplatives

The practice of meditation and contemplative prayer resulting in a training program in four different structures, including creations of the Living Waters approach and Meditation with the Way of Three