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Anastasia Rosen-Jones, a retired psychotherapist with more than forty-five years experience in the mental health field, was widely recognized for her innovative and powerful treatment strategies before she lost her eyesight in 1998.
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| Anastasia and Abkhazian Elder, Murat Yagan, put their heads together about peace. |
Soon after, most serendipitously, while blind, Anastasia met Murat Yagan, who, with his ancient Abkhazian traditions was to become the light that helped guide Anastasia through her term of darkness (1998 - 2006).
Through Murat, Anastasia discovered the communal and spiritual traditions of his people, the Circassions, lived out today in British Columbia by other students of Murat's, placing altruism, community cohesiveness and spirituality at the center of day-to-day life.
Prior to this time, Anastasia's greatest love and greatest impact, professionally, had come through her developing and running a model therapeutic community that formerly treated relationship and personality addictions.
Through her research and development of innovative clinical treatment strategies, in conjunction with her mentor, Martin G. Groder, M.D., Anastasia had become one of the first clinicians to identify and treat the addict personality with particularly innovative strategies, working with power addictions the specialty of the duo.
(For a discussion of the Groder-created therapeutic community model, Asklepeion, developed in the federal corrections system, scroll down on this link to the discussion on the U.S.)
With Murat’s support and guidance Anastasia went on to evolve her former clinical treatment strategies into an art form that provides a bridge between the healthy psychological, the sociological, biological and spiritual.
That art form is, today, expressed through New Horizons/Small “Zones Of Peace” Project's mission – building and sustaining “exceptional communities” that are psychologically sound and spiritually transforming.
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