Founder and lead facilitator on the Essence Foundation. He started his career as an artist, designer and actor working for the BBC and other media. He is a fully qualified Family & Systemic Psychotherapist and Psychologist and holds BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from the University of London. He is also a Family Therapist supervisor within the National Health Service.
For the last 20 years, he has designed and facilitated personal development courses in the USA, UK, Bulgaria, Hungary, Sweden and Russia, appearing on television and radio.
Essence
By weaving together his interest in human potential, art, culture and developmental psychology with a thorough grounding in research he developed a simple, sensitive and unique approach to personal development – an approach grounded in transferring intellectual and theoretical understanding to our day-to-day living experience.
Parental Influence
His Doctorate degree in Family Therapy underpins most of his work with The Essence course.
“We are our parents”
“We carry our parents everywhere we go”
“We separate from our parents twice; first time physically when we were born and it takes only few hours, the second time emotionally and it can take life time”
These are themes running through the Essence journey towards peace; to come to terms with the subconscious invisible family structures and patterns that can prevent us from being effective.
A simple approach
After looking deeply at the impact of the parental influences, his work ultimately facilitates people to feel and recognize what, and where, they are now. And to take them on a journey to embrace the past without resistance, and seeing the past as passed. Compassion and acceptance of the past releases people from constantly failing. It stops them from trying very hard to create the unachievable ideal world, which compensates for unresolved, unaccepted past hurts.
His work is about seeing the past as a gift and an experience not a problem to be solved, not as an obstacle, This is true acceptance – of self, others and what life offers, with no opinion, no distinction between good or bad, no right or wrong - real wisdom for our age.
His approach to self-development is simple and self-revealing, conducted in a kind and compassionate way. The way he uses himself and relates to others has been the deepest inspiration to people's transformation. He suggests that when we cannot stand some aspects of ourselves, such aspects often manifest as an attack on other people. And at times can manifest in attempts to nurturing other people i.e. to give them what we could do not have and could not accept ourselves for not having them, therefore embracing such painful deep parts of ourselves with mercy, compassion and forgiveness can create peace with oneself and consequently peace with the world.
A simple philosophy
Dr Yousry's work also draws upon Eastern spiritual philosophy. He believes that ultimately there is no ‘method’ that works other than looking deeply inside oneself. Observing our inner being and conflicts with compassion can lead to transformation. Fighting to change or achieve inner harmony creates another battle - fighting war with war. Accepting, and compassionately observe, the issues in one's life without judgment may lead to lasting a transformation in one’s consciousness.
If we desire to be perfect in life, then many obstacles may come our way however, if we obey our destiny and agree to every thing that happened to us with compassion, we are free
The process in an Essence course facilitates a change in the way we think about “letting go” to “letting be” by dealing with every difficult situation in our lives with compassion and acceptance. This can lead to transformation. Because we cannot let go of anything, we cannot accept. And if we do not accept anything, we are controlled by what we cannot accept and it becomes stronger, our every attempt to try to be free of it actually creating more focuses on it.
The need for change only targets change, not transformation
The investigation of all our negative feelings, rather than rejecting them, brings the peace to be with negative feelings with compassion, a change of a type that is the opposite of suppressing our negative feelings by unconscious compulsive activity to change. Fighting negative feelings is like fighting one war inside with another war. If we can experience and explore our own suffering, then a realisation, beyond suffering, untouched by suffering, reveals to us who we really are. Nothing can give us more confidence than watching and accepting our self-doubt. Nothing can give us more compassion than being tolerant of our anger. Nothing can give us more love than being tolerant of our lack of love and judgments. Otherwise, we will be fighting the war inside us with another war.
Fighting for peace is another war
Gandhi said we should never fight injustice, instead we must strive to make it visible. This philosophy is explored in Essence courses, and in particular depth in the Advance course.
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