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Shar Edmunds MBBS, Dip POP “If you have come to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then we can work together.” Lilla Watson From when I was very young I dreamed of working in far-away places and living in cultures different from my own. Medicine was to be my passport. Instead life brought me Process Work. I discovered a way of being and thinking very different from how I was accustomed and therein I found new worlds repeatedly opened up. More than twenty years later, working as a therapist, that is still my experience. Repeatedly I am allowed to enter the unique world of another person and, with them, explore what holds their world in place while, at the very same time, opening to the creative potential that can take us beyond that known boundary. It’s a deep and humbling experience to be so invited. Working with couples, families and various groups I am convinced that one of the biggest challenges we face as a species is how to accommodate the differences between us and value the diversity of worlds represented there. Sophisticated technologies increasingly bring us into greater contact with each other but we are not very good at getting on together. Arnold Mindell’s Deep Democracy gives me a way. If I can find and reconcile the differences inside myself I’ve got a better chance of reconciling the differences between us. And so it is, paradoxically, I find myself working in ‘far-away’ places and exploring diverse worlds within and without, still far from liberated despite endless opportunities and grateful we can adventure together. Private Practice; Brisbane Australia Ph 07 32782009; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
