PAUL DEITCH

Paul began acting with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain when he was sixteen.  After graduating from Guildford School of Acting, he worked as an actor for ten years.  His theatre credits include national tours, weekly repertory and working in the West End with Harold Pinter.

 

Paul's psychological approach to acting led him to explore Mythodrama with Mark Rylance, Richard Olivier and Robert Bly in the formative years of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.  At the same time, he was introduced to the thought and writing of Carl Gustav Jung through conferences and seminars on Soul In The World with Archetypal Psychologist James Hillman.

 

Paul later trained and qualified as a psychotherapeutic counsellor at Re-Vision and spent two summers in New York City at The C G Jung Foundation completing their intensive study programmes.  For over a decade, Paul worked closely with his mentor Nicholas Spicer (a Jungian Analyst who trained in Zurich with Marie-Louise von Franz and Dieter Baumann) learning the art of creative soul-making.

 

In his eight years of private psychotherapy practice, Paul helped a wide range of people including other counsellors and therapists.  At the Raphael Counselling Service, he attended to the concerns of many individuals and for Jules Thorn Day Hospital (NHS) he facilitated weekly group seminars.

 

Paul was introduced to the shamanic tradition over twenty years ago by Mayan shaman Martin Prechtel.  Paul's own shamanic initiatory experiences have led him out of the consulting-room and away from a conventional one-to-one therapeutic way of working.  He has painstakingly developed a deep, heart-felt knowledge that links him to the world and serves his own unique, grounded approach to healing.

 

Since 2010 Paul has devised and led pioneering creative workshops and in 2012 he adapted and performed the Grimm Brothers' folk-tale Bearskin as a one-man show.

 

Paul is married to the writer and author Shona Blass and lives in London.