Wholeness: Exploring A Core Principle Of The Heart Of The Wild Heart Expressive Arts Teacher Training Program

And for a very long time it has puzzled me as a result of I simply do what I do and Tim does what he does and we don’t consider it as notably particular. I do know our work is nice and highly effective and efficient and I do know we’re good AT it, however apparently there’s a secret sauce that I simply take with no consideration and so I wished to attempt to articulate what it’s that we do that’s so very particular.

There are just a few fundamental therapeutic rules that we’re very dedicated to and take very critically and the primary one is our devotion to the idea of wholeness. And what we imply by wholeness is the method of claiming all of who you might be… and which means ABSOLUTELY every little thing.

It’s proudly owning our energy but additionally accepting ourselves after we really feel weak and susceptible. It’s recognizing not solely when our hearts are open and loving but additionally how and when they’re closed and cranky. It’s making area to be offended, jealous, pissed off, chaotic and scared in addition to joyful, expansive, calm, energized and assured.

Being complete means we’re typically dissolved right into a puddle of grief and at different occasions radiant with an incandescent happiness. Wholeness welcomes the knowledge of our despair and hopelessness in addition to our capability to indulge in delight and be impressed by awe. Wholeness contains the expertise of tightness, contraction and rigidity and the candy softness that comes from being in an atmosphere the place you might be held and protected.

As you possibly can see from this quick listing , wholeness is extremely wealthy and complicated. And what we be taught from our households and tradition and society at massive is that solely sure elements of ourselves are deemed precious and worthwhile. So we suppress, repress and OPPRESS issues that we’re informed usually are not acceptable. And after we reject elements of ourselves we lose our connection to our full vitality and sparkly aliveness.

So Tim and I are VERY clear, when individuals enter our world, that ALL of who they’re just isn’t solely completely welcome but additionally celebrated.

We don’t simply merely tolerate your anger or your whiny resistance however bounce up and down with pleasure when these elements of you present up. While you take a threat to be daring, we invite you with nice enthusiasm to grow to be even BOLDER. When your coronary heart breaks into one million items we don’t shrink back from the depths of your ache however sit by your aspect, serving to you to carry these shattered items with the utmost tenderness and compassion.

There’s nothing and no a part of you that’s ever, ever, ever, TOO a lot, TOO intense, TOO bizarre or TOO massive.

And experiencing that degree of radical, no-holds-barred acceptance is a revelation for a lot of of our college students. It can be a bit disconcerting to really feel that form of acceptance with out restrictions, as a result of it’s usually the primary time that has ever occurred.

So the primary precept we speak about in our program is wholeness and the apply we use to facilitate that wholeness is Full Artistic Self Expression.

Creativity, the expressive arts and the intuitive portray course of are extremely highly effective modalities for opening the sacred portal into that have of wholeness as a result of they bypass the judging thoughts and make a direct connection to our soul and psyche, our bodies and hearts, which is the place wholeness really lives.

Once we invite individuals to color and specific themselves creatively and not using a plan or an agenda, expectation or judgment, all KINDS of emotions and qualities and energies begin clamoring for consideration and the will to be seen and proclaimed.

And that means of reclamation leads not solely to a larger expertise of joyful aliveness however to additionally getting access to elements of your self that know what you need and who you actually are and help you be related to a deeper sense of function and that means.