Transforming Trauma in Aotearoa / New Zealand
Transforming Trauma in Aotearoa / New Zealand
While I have been travelling in South America I have been able to stay connected with the Focusing community by attending the Weeklong in Chile and the International Conference in Mexico. I have also been active in two very different focusing groups. One is as a mentor on Charlotte Howorth’s new two-year online training programme. …
Restarting the volunteer programme after the summer I held a session to help reduce the ‘burn out’ experienced by community volunteers at Maryhill Integration Network (MIN). The workshop aimed to help them to understand the everyday effects of trauma on themselves and clients. Volunteers reported being sometimes caught-up in the difficulties experienced by the asylum …
I am celebrating teaching Focusing Skills to a group of Person-Centred Counsellors-in-Training. I have been studying Focusing with The Focusing Institute in New York for a year and a half and this is part of my accreditation, which I hope to complete in the Summer. I met with each individual and guided them through a …
Since I’ve been in Hong Kong I have been a member of Pure Yoga and go four or five times each week. I realise I have nearly been doing this for two years. The tiny central flat combined with weather thats almost always too hot, too rainy and possibly too polluted makes exercising in a …
You know how when something is new to you it seems to be coming up everywhere? Well this idea is an old treasure to me but the practice of living it is something I want to embody and any advice seems new. I have been listening to recordings of Miki Kashtan’s principle based teaching calls …
We began the recent Garden Gathering in Hong Kong with a circle in Which The Global Sisterhood Manifesto was read. I had never heard it but I found it magical and immediately went to ask what I could find the words that has just been read out. I wanted to subscribe to doing this for …
Self-regulation begins with evolutionary perspective because we need to start with what is hardwired in us and our basic brain system has been around a long time and links us together, so in different places across the world and in different parts of the world and at different times have all been rather similar. We …
Last Saturday I attended Dr Francesco Pagnini Mindfulness talk at the Hong Kong University where he distinguished two types of Mindfulness. Firstly, inspired by Theravada Buddhism, is the Mindfulness championed by Jon Kabat-Zinn who Westernised Buddhist practices for a contemporary audience. He focused on strategies for managing people’s relationship with their pain. With these techniques …
This is in celebration of Miki Kashtan’s Principle-Based-Coaching calls which she offers free each month for people sharing Nonviolent Communication. Being in Hong Kong I can’t attend them live but it is possible to download previous calls and listen whenever. The thing I love about them is that anyone who is sharing Nonviolent Communication can call …