The Healing Communities initiative

The Healing Communities initiative

Healing Communities “The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we all have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships” ~ Rachel Naomi Remen The Healing Communities Initiative seeks to...
Healing cultures: The 8 S’s of healing practice

Healing cultures: The 8 S’s of healing practice

The following S’s offer a sample of ways to support healing practices that can be adapted and integrated into any setting or context – schools, workplaces, organisations, community groups etc. Safety and security Health, resilience and healing are rooted in a sense of...
Healing cultures: The 10 R’s as pillars for practice

Healing cultures: The 10 R’s as pillars for practice

In seeking to create healing cultures and healing ecologies the 10 R’s can act as pillars that guide healing practices. Resources A resource is anything that can be drawn upon to support relief, recovery and healing. Resources empower individuals, communities and...
Healing cultures: 6 principles of collective healing

Healing cultures: 6 principles of collective healing

There is a real need for a collective healing movement in the world today. Our communities, cultures and wider ecosystems are in deep need of repair and restoration. A vision is needed to support the development of healing ecologies and resilient systems. Such a...
Therapeutic tools: Accepting is the first step in change

Therapeutic tools: Accepting is the first step in change

Allowing and accepting emotion is important in working with emotion and the first step in changing it. This involves observing it, welcoming it, acknowledging it is there and accepting it. Then it is important to step back from it and experience it like a wave,...