Dr Amar Dhall

Clinical psychotherapist, counsellor, coach and Somatic Experiencing practitioner in training

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Dr Amar Dhall is a true polymath. 

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Over the last 15-years Amar’s career has evolved from being an award-winning university lecturer and obtaining a Ph.D. to exploring the intersection between law and quantum mechanics to being ranked as a top-ten chill out DJ. 

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We talk about his research into the deeper, quantum implications of law and his more recent work in supporting lawyers to understand their trauma responses, to make them better lawyers.  

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Bio

Show notes

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Bio:

Dr Amar Dhall is a true polymath.  Over the last 15-years Amar’s career has evolved from being an award-winning university lecturer and obtaining a Ph.D. to exploring the intersection between law and quantum mechanics to being ranked as a top-ten chill out DJ.

 

He brings fierce intelligence and deep authenticity to find and balance both science and art through every encounter and all his work.

 

Amar is a highly-skilled and experienced clinical psychotherapist, counsellor, coach and Somatic Experiencing practitioner in training.

 

He is a coach-therapist, author and facilitator in the fields of trauma, wellbeing and sustainable high-performance. Amar is one of the directors for The Canberra Trauma & Well-Being Centre.

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Show notes:

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• [1:42] Amar explains his pre-law career in property development and management and what motivated him to study law.

• [6:11] While studying law, Amar had a spiritual epiphany and ended up exploring the relationship between the law and quantum mechanics as part of his doctoral thesis in law.

• [7:54] Amar theorises that applying quantum principles to law - getting to the essence of the observer and the thing observed - results in better legal reasoning.

• [10:20] Keeping in mind the 'meta' issues around law will also lead to lawyers contributing more to society, allowing us to apply the law as the organising principle in society that it was intended to be.   

• [15:49] Amar faced criticism and bullying in his work. However, his love for law kept him committed to exploring his perspectives and finishing his thesis.

• [20:56] Amar and I discuss the personal relationship of a lawyer to the law.  Amar brings up the idea of aligning our laws with the laws of nature.  Amar's idea is that neo-natural law will develop as we begin to look beyond the materialist paradigm as a species. 

• [25:16] Amar embarked on a career in therapy to assist lawyers to find more meaning in the way their relate to the law.

• [26:54] Lawyers tend to be above average in IQ and below average in EQ, with a trauma response of using achievement to channel anxiety.

• [29:38] Part of Amar's motivation is to help younger cohorts of lawyers to manage their responses to engender an overall healthier legal profession.

• [31:50] Amar and I talk about the law as a living sacred thing and how that brings concepts of love into it,

• [34:44] Finally, Amar shares with us his work with groups of men in the Mankind Project and the idea of enantiodromia, that moving too far into a polarised concept results in adopting the opposite!

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Links:

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Amar Dhall's website: amardhall.com

The Canberra Trauma & Well-Being Centre

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Brene Brown's concept of courageous vulnerability

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Natural law theories from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

A YouTube video on Thomas Aquinas's theory of natural law.

An explanation of how Martin Luther King's letter from a Birmingham jail ties into natural law.

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The Mankind Project website.

 

An explanation of enantiodromia from the Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences.