Welcome to 'Learning To Play Your Mind' the place to find out what Dheeresh Turnbull can offer you

Hello,

1. Due to ill-heath I have retired from providing CBT, and am no longer taking any new patients/ clients. but see 4. below.

2. However, weather and other events permitting, I still provide chi gong. I have been teaching (Shaolin) chi gong since 1996. We meet on Friday mornings at 9.30am, in Stoneham Park, if the weather is reasonably clement. Text me (07758574567) if you are interested, or to check it is happening on a particular Friday.

3. From time to time I also (still) run mindfulness courses (eight x two hours weekly, plus an initial induction session).  Use the contact form to get in touch.

4. Interested in Zen? I am a Zen monk and teacher, and if you think I might be the person to help you, by all means get in touch.  But it won't be therapy.  Our group, the Brighton and Hove Boundless Zen Sangha, is part of Stonewater Zen Sangha, and we meet at 7pm every Wednesday evening (first sit 7.15) either in person at 22 SeaSaw Way, Brighton BN2 5LH or on Zoom.  Get in touch if you're interested.

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Dheeresh Turnbull provides Zen Meditation and Qi Gong (Chi Gung) classes.

In 2016 my then Zen teacher, Patrick Kundo Eastman Roshi, invited me to train as a Zen teacher (to my utter astonishment), a process that continued under my current teacher, Jeremy Ryokan Sensei.  

On 18th October 2020, I had the honour and delight to receive Dharma Transmission from him, receiving the name Shinkai (Ocean of Fidelity) and am now an authorised Sensei (Zen teacher) in the Wild Goose Zen Sangha, part of the White Plum Asanga founded by Taizan Maezumi Roshi. Some pictures, taken by Roy Webster, just after the ceremony, which happened at the Meeting House on the University of Sussex campus at Falmer, appear below:

About me:

 Publications include:

•  'The CBT-pot: Learning to play your mind' (Penpress 2013) 
• 'The Mindfulness Handbook: Learning to play your mind II' (Penpress 2014)
• 'Clinical Mindfulness, Meta-Perspective & True Nature' in: 'After Mindfulness: New Perspectives on Psychology and Meditation' (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) edited by my dear friend and Dharma brother Manu Bazzano. 

What I have learned is this: 

In essence, we are human beings (not fundamentally different from other beings) with particular sets of talents and difficulties.  The way we see things is affected by all kinds of conditioning and other programmes we have taken on board.  If we can accept that we are not our programming, we can begin to extricate ourselves from it and begin to find out - and act according to - who we really are. Our lives can be about learning to live in ways that enable us to celebrate the individual waves of our lives, without forgetting that yoeach of us is part of the undivided ocean. 

You can reach us on:

0775 8574567

You can also use our contact form.

Dheeresh Turnbull B.A., M.Litt., PGCE, Dip CT, BABCP accredited

a.k.a. Shinkai Sensei

dervish.terminal@gmail.com