the still place
find your centre
in the chaos
what’s your still place?
Is it an internal anchor? Perhaps a solid keel that keeps your ship sailing level through turbulent waters? Maybe it’s a quiet subterranean lake that you dive into when times get rough. A deep well that keeps you cool in the heat of the moment? Or a quiet place like our photo above, where you can watch the river of life roll by.
…or maybe it’s just home
but why have a still place?
Or an internal anchor?
Ever noticed how your impulses get you in trouble?
Wouldn’t it be nice to put an end to knee-jerk reactions?
and where is your still place?
and how do you get there?
How do you find your way back home when you’re all turned around?
How do you re-centre yourself in the chaos? Clear your head? Calm your frazzled nerves?
Without self-medicating or shutting off?
Want to find your internal anchor?
Want to learn how to retrace your steps when life leads you down the garden path?
How great would it be to develop the mindsight to deconstruct exactly how you got knocked off centre, and how to get back on track?
well… that’s what we do!
the still place
Life Coaching
One-on-one sessions to unpack your specific circumstances and build your own unique path home. We just help you find the answers you already have inside you.
Workshops
Deep dives into various aspects of coming home to yourself, such as our connection to each other, our meta-narratives, or our connection to the planet.
Support Groups
Daily and weekly groups that meet online or in-person, from open door to post-workshop practice groups, through to specialist topics such as trauma or addiction recovery.
Years Experience
Hours of Workshops Delivered
Hours of Coaching Provided
Life Changing Processes Facilitated
The gentle art of coming home to yourself.
so how does it work?
It may help to understand what differentiates this work from other modalities of transformation and healing. In this work the premise is that we are already whole. Most of us can remember an experience of profound well-being we’ve had at some point in our lives. We believe that this state of wholeness is our natural state. There are countless ways to label this state of being. We could call it our “centre”, “quiet place” or “home,” but suffice it to say we all can recognise the experience, no matter what words we use to describe it.
We all have a kind of equilibrium, which acts as a beacon lighting the path home to ourselves. Our facilitators point out and mirror the light of this beacon, encouraging you to follow it to its source, home. The experience of “centre” is one of joy, contentment, creative responsiveness and a spacious playfulness which allows for the entire range of emotional possibilities to arise without resistance.
We all recognise when we are not in that place of well-being because as soon as we leave that place of centre we begin to suffer home sickness. The entire spectrum of suffering, all the way from mild irritation or slight boredom to emotional upheaval or breakdown is the result of leaving that place. What we do in this work is examine how and why we abandon our natural state of being. Once you’ve identified and remember where your “centre” or “home” is, your facilitator will encourage and guide you to recognise the pathways you took to abandon that place. With guidance, you’ll become more and more subtly aware of your exit strategies. The journey becomes one of deep inquiry and genuine curiosity about how you creates your own inner conflict and pain. Once you can see how you do this and recognise that you’re doing it to yourself you can easily return home.
It doesn’t need years of therapy and treatment to recognise and enjoy the delight of coming home to yourself. As you see this premise of being in “centre” cultivated and modelled as the easiest and most natural place to be, you become your own healer. The work then becomes a moment by moment practice to stay present to ourselves with diligent, kind intent.
There is an old story about a zen master who is travelling with his sincere and diligent disciple. On their journey one day they are somehow split up and for a long time the student cannot find his old master. He is starting to get quite upset and worried about his teacher when he comes to a wide, raging river and sees his master calmly observing him from the opposite bank of the torrent. The disciple cups his hands to his mouth and yells out, “Master! How do I get to the other side?” The master yells back, “Dear Student! You ARE on the other side!”
“Awareness in and of itself is curative.”
– Fritz Perls
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