Motivation & Personality

Course details

Understanding motivation and personality was always a difficult journey but now we can offer a verifiable description of how it is created and changed in stages piece by piece.

When we understand the inborn motivation system and how our personality builds and changes we will be better equipped to understand and deal with the many issues that plague us throughout our lives.

Behaviour, crime, motivation and relationship perplex us at times. These workshops  are for those who want to know how we are built and how we change.

The workshops are based on significant discoveries  of a scientific nature and supported by my thirty years work on behalf of the HSE  with young adults and adults in difficulty or suffering through diagnosed disorder, where “success” needed explanation.

Motivation, Consciousness and Personality.

The workshops will uniquely explain the inborn Primary Motivational System, how we become conscious and aware, and motivated or not and towards what – through the elements involved.  

The intent is to provide an accurate explanation and a language to outline and  illuminate a significant portion of what was obscure.

The content will be of value to anyone who seeks an accurate  understanding of people and their development and actions.

The workshop will be especially useful for parents and teachers and people who work as counsellors and psychotherapists or those who provide education and health programmes, or who plan or administer justice systems.

A young person’s version is being delivered in many schools now as a transition year piece. There the request is for real life stories and illuminative explanations.

The core content while similar is honed to suit the participants, accordingly the classes provided for counselling students is specific to that endeavour, and so on for parents or other groups. I broadly try to match the participants who have similar interests. 

A Biological Theory of Human Motivation and Emotion 

That Will Transform The Way We Work, Teach, Learn and Love

Though most of us recognize the influence of emotional dynamics in every arena of human interaction we have not had an effective theory to understand those dynamics.  Silvan Tomkins theory, first published over 50 years ago, provides just such an opportunity.  

Come discover why clinicians and scholars around the world are rediscovering this theory which has yet to be disproved by advances in neuro-science and find out how it is being applied to counseling, education, justice systems, parenting and intimate relationships with positive results that are staggering.

In this one day workshop you will gain a basic understanding of the theory and explore its application to counseling, education, justice systems, parenting and intimate relationships.  

Pierce Buckley BSc Counselling and Psychotherapy and high suport carer will explore how ASP can address the major challenges we face in education, justice, psychotherapy and intimate relationships.