Insight’s Integrative Holistic Counselling
An inside look by Healing Arts student Dee Rhodes
This was the final weekend in this module. Our learning journey has been so fulfilling for each and every member that whatever baggage we arrived with was allowed to be dealt with safely. A huge array of change has taken place for us all along the way including opportunities where we can use our new facilitation skills.
In group work we explored how situations we face in our daily lives can affect our “mind, body and soul”, and that if we do not deal with them at the time then the affect on our bodies will manifest itself in the weakest system.
“We need to acknowledge that we need time to heal”.
There were innovative ideas, for example we interestingly used the analogy of a “car”. If we do not look after the engine, break fluid, radiator or tyres, each component can tick along for so long but then affect another working part. We can attempt a “quick fix” and “patch things over” in the short term but eventually it will collapse and break down. We all agreed that we often take greater care of our “cars” more than our own bodies.
With all our learning we assist in facilitating others. This can at times invoke and provoke quite deep learning for each participant but enables awareness of self and others to develop and grow. Without a sense of self, you cannot build the strong foundations to facilitate for others.
We acknowledge that with any learning or “facilitation of a client” that there are beginnings, middles and endings. We reflected the how our learning journey has in fact gone through this similar process.
We have a lot of fun during our learning sessions. There is a lot of deep thinking, analysis, creation and communication that occurs at all levels.
We completed our learning experience with a presentation of “Alice in Wonderlands Mad Hatter’s Tea Party”, where we celebrated achieving our “impossible tasks”.