ROBERT MACLEOD is a teacher/trainer/communicator from Western Australia.
He is a skilled teacher of the ALEXANDER Technique. He is the developer of IMAGINEERING
for acquiring ‘Life skills’ in action. He is the originator of the Mind / Motion experience of 'The AKUDU Dimension', training you in regeneration of physical experience through the power of the self.
As a young man Robert Macleod went in search of a teacher.
A strongly independent thinker he found it difficult to embrace any kind of guru whether scientific or mystical.
In the end he says
" I myself had to become the kind of teacher that I was looking for."
A recording artist and songwriter in London in the seventies Robert was in the ideal place to explore his interests in European Mysticism, Eastern Zen, meditation and movement. He also had a deep interest in healing and ‘natural’ health. Robert released two albums, Schadel No. 1 (United Artists) and Between the Poppy and the Snow (Charisma), He then trained and qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique.
In 1983 he began teaching the Alexander Technique in Perth.
But the radical, independent streak fired up again after some years when he found that the Alexander Technique was inadequate for what he wanted to communicate to people.
So in the 1990’s he began developing Imagineering. Robert says that what he calls Imagineering is how we manoeuvre within the dynamic of our 'mind as motion'.
"Imagineering pervades our life" he says. "Either conscious or unconscious Imagineering, through our beliefs,mental constructs and emotional drives is how we ‘hit the ground’ as an individual. It is how our creativity is engineered into the structure of our personal reality."
Our great problem says Robert, is that "we are savaged by our own emotions. Even though we realise intellectually what is wrong we don’t know how to free ourselves from that intensity.
Our life can be shattered and our health and well-being can collapse from waves of emotional intensity that seem ‘normal’ to us. We are always setting off our own emotional tsunamis"
A new tool was needed to release emotional intensity.
Robert began to develop ‘the edge’.
Over the last five years all of the awareness skills at his disposal have been fused into the practice he calls AKUDU.
Through an adaptation of the Magical passes of the Shamans of Mexico; through the awareness technique called ‘the edge’; through a conscious application of Imagineering to daily life and through a simple and practical reorientation of attention Robert coaches us into a new way of being.
Kathy has been instrumental in the development of Akudu. Her wide practical experience has made her a sought after practitioner.
Kathy holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education from UWA Perth and a Graduate Diploma of Psychology (Counselling) from Curtin University Perth WA
She also holds a Diploma of Hypnotherapy from the
Milton H. Erickson Institute of WA. She is a Member of the Australian Psychological Society.
Kathy has worked as a school psychologist for the
Western Australian Education Department and the Non Government
Schools Psychology Service and was a consultant for the
Dyslexia Speld Foundation of WA.
She is now in full-time private practice providing counselling and hypnotherapy
for children and adults.
Kathy sees many people with anxiety, stress, depression, fears and phobias. She also uses hypnosis to assist people with losing weight and stopping smoking and other unwanted habits/addictions. Many people seek help for grief, relationship or parenting problems, low self esteem and lack of confidence.
Kathy also uses Thought Field Therapy (TFT) as a self help technique and teaches self hypnosis and relaxation strategies. She is, of course, an AKUDU practitioner.
