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Dr. Chris Goto-Jones uses the pronouns he/him. He moved to Victoria from Leiden (The Netherlands) in 2016. Before that, he lived in Japan, but he grew up in England. He was educated at Cambridge (BA, MA) and then Keiō (Tokyo) and Oxford Universities (MPhil, DPhil).
Chris is a diplomate counsellor of the International Association of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis at the Viktor Frankl Institute (Vienna), as well as a certified philosophical counsellor and fellow of the American Philosophical Practice Association (New York). He is a registered counselling hypnotherapist (RCH) and holds advanced certifications in Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) as well as Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness (TSM). He is an alumnus of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy (Harvard Medical School/CHA). Chris' work is informed by IFS (Internal Family Systems) and CI (Compassionate Inquiry). Chris was professor of comparative philosophy at Leiden University for 10 years and is currently professor in philosophy at the University of Victoria and honorary professor in Asian Studies at UBC. He teaches topics in Existential/Continental philosophy as well as Asian/Buddhist philosophy with a focus on the impact of ideas on everyday life. |
Acknowledegments
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With humility and gratitude, Chris would like to acknowledge and respect the Lekwungen peoples on whose traditional territory he lives, learns, and works, as well as the Songhees, Esquimalt, and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose vital relationships with the land live to this day.
He would also like to acknowledge the efforts, resilience, and accomplishments of the many generations of Asian Buddhists who developed the living traditions of Buddhist philosophy and psychology that so greatly enrich his therapeutic practices today. |