Dave Waugh, RPC (Registered Professional Counsellor), is a Midlife Awakening Specialist, Mentor, and is the director of Elements Counselling in Courtenay BC. He is also the co-founder of the Meaningful Life Design Center Ltd in Vancouver. He has over twenty-five years training and experience in wholistic psycho-spiritual development. His private practice provides compassionate support for individuals interested in healing, transformation, psychospiritual development and improving relationships. His general orientation is to assist people in accessing their inner resources in order to develop more conscious choice in their lives, thereby fostering the potential for growth in their evolution of consciousness. This often unfolds as one develops deeper connection and awareness that leads to greater individuation, while contributing their gifts to their community and society. He believes that if we want meaningful change to happen in others, we must first model the change we want in ourselves.
Presently Dave is 70 and has been living on Vancouver Island BC on the beautiful West Coast of Canada for the past 6 years. Home is in Courtenay, close to the mountains, river and ocean and is shared with his beloved wife.
In the past, Dave has worked as a counselling instructor in a three-year training program at Langara University in Process Counseling. He also worked as a senior’s program coordinator in a community center for seven years. While in this position he co-created health fairs for senior men and women which were very popular. In this position he facilitated two weekly groups – one for frail elderly women, and the other for retired men that fostered a sense of camaraderie and support. In the distant past Dave also was the owner of a successful electrical service company for over 10 years with a staff of up to 13 people.
WHOLISTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY & MENTORING:
As a Mentor and Wholistic Psychotherapist, the approach that Dave uses is a soulful creative blend of different counselling modalities that together comprise the discipline of Mentoring and Wholistic Psychotherapy. It is an integrative approach that honors body, mind, heart and consciousness. It looks to the client’s unfolding process for direction in which method is applicable for their particular situation and where they are at in their process. The goal is to access inner resources that support deeper intimacy and the conscious awareness process for development of true free will. Over time this can assist the individual to develop the potential to grow in their evolution of consciousness and unfold toward individuation while fostering deeper intimacy and contribution in the community and the world.
The mentors for Dave’s training and process in Mentoring and Psychotherapy have been many but the two local counselling therapists with whom he studied and had sessions with the most were Ian McNaughton PHD (Bodynamics, Gestalt, Family Systems, Focusing & EMDR) and David Roomy MA, (Jungian Psychotherapist and Process Work Diplomat.)
Dave has major certificates in two, three-year Counselling-training programs, one in Client Centered Counselling and another in Process Work (Track III). This led to a part time teaching position in a three year counselling training program called “Process Counselling” offered at Langara University in Vancouver. Dave also has various other certificates related to counselling, psychotherapy and spirituality: Gestalt Therapy, Meditation in Counselling, Conflict Resolution & Voice Dialogue (The Psychology of Selves & The Aware Ego Process). Dave is also a graduate of the Wilderness Leadership Program from Capilano University in North Vancouver.
For nearly 20 years Dave received training and spiritual guidance from Sufi Teacher and Psychotherapist Thomas Atum O’Kane. This led to graduating from his two year training program in the Art of Spiritual Guidance. Dave also assisted him in another two year program. He has since attended numerous additional graduate programs with O’Kane including a one year training called The Soul of Christianity.
Dave is also trained as a Certified Belief Closet Facilitator which is a creative process that can transform persistent limiting beliefs that distort how we see and experience reality.
As a Midlife Awakening Specialist Dave helps adults who want to discover inner resources to clear barriers to discovering their essential gifts so they can their shift their midlife crisis into a quest for meaning and purpose that unfolds into a midlife awakening process. Over time this can lead to more vitality, deeper intimacy and a greater sense of meaning and purpose.
As a Meaningful Life Design Mentor Dave assists busy professionals to get clear direction toward creating a dynamically balanced life of vitality, intimacy, meaning and prosperity.
In the past Dave has served as the president of the Process Counselling Society in BC, Canada.