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Encouragement
Collective care & social justice
Collective care & social justice
Collective care & social justice
"It is our collective ethical obligation as practitioners to bring reasonable hope, a believe-inhope, an embodied hope to our relational work with clients, and not to steal the hope they have." According to Vikki Reynolds, being able to hold people at the centre of our practice; stay with connection; and resist disconnection and enmeshment, empowers us to resist burnout and create sustainability.
Inspiring believed-in-hope as an ethical position: Vicarious resistance & justice-doing:
Connected
Collective care & social justice
Collective care & social justice
“The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”
The living mountain by Nan Shepherd, 1st pub. 1977
Our human-nature relationship
Collective care & social justice
Our human-nature relationship
"Our values and principles point to who we are and fuel our resilience in the face of adversity, the way weeds come through cracks in concrete."
'Therapy that breaks the heart' in Afuape, T. (2011). Power, resistance and liberation in therapy with survivors of trauma: To have our hearts broken (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi-org.ezproxy.uws.edu.au/10.4324/9780203806401
Existential pain & compassion
Our human-nature relationship
"The experience of loneliness... brings with it a form of self-awareness that we cannot otherwise attain. It is precisely the pain that accompanies it that allows us to uncover a new kind of compassion in ourselves, for ourselves and other people, that opens up new ways of living and allows us to deal with issues within ourselves.... Without this pain, we would not be able to seek closeness to other people, we would not be able to love"
Alone: Reflections on solitary living by Daniel Schreiber, 2023, p.109
Healing & integration
"if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet when we don’t close off and we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings”
Transformational change
"the therapist leads in process but not in content, always learning from the client what emotional learnings are present and what is occurring at each point in the process of their transformation"
Welcome
Thanks for visiting. Please browse the services, review the service forms and let me know if you have any queries. Warmly, Alison