THE LIFE AUTHORING MANUAL presents a self-coaching technique Pierre F. Walter has developed as a result of a prolonged sabbatical, a psychotherapy and a self-therapy with Transactional Analysis (TA). It was a process spanning over two decades and resulted in the author's changing his career, to become a training facilitator and life coach. The technique is less esoteric than many others that are fashionable today, solidly grounded in our own tradition, using a combination of story writing, positive affirmations and voice dialogue to heal the scars of trauma and abuse, raise emotional self-awareness, build vision and dramatically boost creativity and spontaneity through inner child recovery, healing and art work. People generally know what authoring is, as for example authoring a book. But can one author one's life? The author claims that the method has proven to work in his self-therapy, realizing that it facilitates overcoming child trauma and sexual hangups, resolving a 'reject complex' or a co-dependence or emotional abuse pattern, and helping to realize unused talents, virgin potential, or an 'old dream'. Life Authoring does not mean that people become fiction authors. No writing skill is needed, and writing style is not to be epic but flow-style, practicing a deliberate let-go attitude. When the old sages said that 'writing is healing', they alluded to the fact that our consciousness is self-healing, self-cleaning and self-renewing. This is, then, what Life Authoring can effect, a total transformation of the personality into something more coherent and more in alignment with the person's soul values. The result of such an integrative work will produce positive results on all planes, the professional, the financial, the intimate and the spiritual planes all at once.
About the Author: PIERRE F. WALTER is an international lawyer, researcher, author and lecturer. After finalizing his studies in German law and European integration with diplomas in both disciplines in 1982, he graduated in December 1987 at the law faculty of the University of Geneva as Docteur en Droit in international law. The doctorate was funded by scholarships from the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, and from the University of Geneva, as well as a Fulbright Travel Grant for an assistantship with Professor Louis B. Sohn at UGA Law School Department of International Law, Athens, Georgia, USA, in 1985. Pierre F. Walter also served as a research assistant to Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer, Cologne, Germany in 1983 and to Lalive Lawyers, Geneva, in 1987. In his criminal law studies, he was specialized on elucidating the roots of violent crime and was for several years caring for prisoners who have been convicted for sexual crimes against children. Since 1994, he works as a consultant to government and industry, specialized upon service training and human resource development. In addition, he is a personal coach and has developed a self-coaching approach termed 'Life Authoring'. Pierre F. Walter writes, lectures and teaches in English, German and French; he has written more than ten thousand pages embracing all literary genres, including novels, short stories, film scripts, essays, selfhelp books, monographs and extended book reviews. Also a pianist and composer, he has realized 40 CDs with jazz, newage and relaxation music. Pierre F. Walter's professional publications span the domains International Law, Criminal Law, Holistic Science, Psychology, Permissive Education, Shamanism, Ecology, Spirituality, Quantum Physics, Systems Theory, Natural Healing, Peace Research, Personal Growth, Selfhelp and Consciousness Research. 110 Book Reviews, thirty-eight audio books and more than hundred video lectures were realized in the years 2005-2010. Besides, Pierre F. Walter is publishes 'Great Minds Series', which features scientists, artists and authors of genius from Leonardo da Vinci to Fritjof Capra. Pierre F. Walter publishes via his Delaware firm Sirius-C Media Galaxy LLC and the imprints IPUBLICA and Sirius-C Media (SCM).