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Our Beginnings
The original Centre for Attitudinal Healing was founded by Dr Gerald G Jampolsky MD (Jerry) and friends in Tiburon, California. Jerry was a child and adult psychiatrist and graduate of Stanford Medical School. While making Grand Rounds at the University of California Medical Centre, he overheard a young boy with leukemia as the doctor ‘what is it like to die?’. The doctor changed the subject and asked the child about his symptoms. Jerry realised that there needed to be a safe place for kids to be able to honestly discuss their own questions, fears and thoughts. Before the idea of the modern day support group was conceived, Jerry started a small group with children who were all facing life threatening illnesses. Thus began the first Centre for Attitudinal Healing.
After Jerry published his international best-seller “Love is Letting go of Fear”, centres and groups continued to emerge across six continents. Each wanted a place locally where people of all ages and circumstances in life could come together for their own internal healing, and to help others.
In 1986 a small group of doctors and psychologists opened the Centre for Attitudinal Healing in Perth, Western Australia. Since then, the Perth Centre has served tens of thousands of individuals and families. In 1992 the Fetzer Institute awarded the Perth Centre its highest honour for the ‘Healing Family Relationships’ Program. The Perth Centre for Attitudinal Healing has had a wide reach over the past 5 decades, operating in hospitals, community centres, schools, businesses and at our beautiful Serpentine Retreat Centre. The Perth Centre has run workshops for multiple organisations, including the corporate sector, the judiciary, church heirarchy, medical professionals and first responders.