Dr. Chris Walsh MBBS. DPM, FAChAM

 

Dr. Chris Walsh MBBS DPM FAChAM. is  psychiatrist working in private practice in Melbourne. His psychotherapy integrates diverse theoretical frameworks. including Mindfulness, CBT. Gestalt and Self Psychology. He has worked in jails. community settings. and drug and alcohol institutions as well as with urban and tribal Aboriginal communities and with the military. He has also been involved with psychedelic research at Monash University.

Chris Walsh has received mindfulness teacher training, as well as some relevant spiritual transmissions. He has been practicing this form of meditation for over twenty five years. Chris has organically integrated Mindfulness Meditation into his psychiatric practice from the beginning of his training as a result of assisting at the Tibetan refugee hospital in Dharamsala in Northern India when in 1983. He has been actively teaching it for over 25 years.

Much of Chris’s teaching draws on two millennia of Buddhist psychology and philosophy but not the religion.  Reincarnation, karma and deities are only considered from a symbolic point of view. Chris also draws on Hindu, Sufi. Islam and Christian teachings as well as Western psychology, philosophy and science.

Chris has taken a major role in Constellation Work in Australia. He organised the first Australasian Intensive which was uniquely successful. He was on the training faculty there and at the North American Intensive training. He has given presentations at Australian national and international professional conferences on both Mindfulness and Family Constellations and had articles published on both topics. Chris founded and moderated the international email group Constellation Talk from 2003 to 2020. It had over 800 members worldwide.

He has now adopted this work into Mindful Representations of families and organisations. This work is a distinct form of family constellation work due to the inclusion of mindfulness and the priority it gives to respecting facts and science. Any intuitive understanding that arises out of Mindful Representation will be checked against the facts. This approach means that workshop participants can much more easily integrate the experiential insights that emerge during representations.