Therapeutic benefits of attending the Art of Life and Curiosity 3.5 hr Wellness Workshop

Active Listening and Dadarri

• Listen with our whole body in order to understand and appreciate other’s perspectives.

• Enable a clearer process of ideas in your personal and work life.

• Aboriginal Elder Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann, 2021 Senior Australian of the year, describes Dadirri as inner quiet, still awareness, waiting, and being available to everyone.

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Creative Art Therapy

• Use image making, movement, and music to shift unconscious material into consciousness with the intention of meaning, making to create beneficial insights and perspectives. 

• Give a voice to untapped longings, and unspoken truths that often go unheard.

• Unlock your dormant creative energy and inspiration. Appreciate it's importance in work, rest, and play.

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Flight, Fright, Freeze, Fawn

• Understand why your body reacts the way it does to certain stimuli, and how to make valuable intentional changes with simple and convenient to use practice.

• Take action in the functioning of the amygdala and autonomic nervous system to aid healthy blood pressure and breathing rates.

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Focussing Therapy

• Discover links between your emotions and behaviours by identifying and naming your emotions.

• Learn how to safely prioritise your emotions with the intention of processing challenging thoughts and feelings.

• Manage complex experiences and processes by uncluttering the mind and emotions.​

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Inner Child Integration

• Recognise the importance of play in adult life. 

• Engage your curiosity, intuition, sense of humour and openness to learn.

• Replace judgement with curiosity to become a student of your own life experience.

• Inquire into work and personal challenges as if they are adventures to be explored.  

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Mindfulness

• Practice the 3 key Characteristics of Mindfulness (Buddhism) - Intention, Attention, Attitude, and the 7 Key Attitudes to Mindfulness (Jon Kabat Zin) - Beginner’s Mind, Non-judging, Acceptance, Letting Go, Patience, Trust, and Non-Striving.

• Learn how to integrate these practices into your present life experience.

• Release past pain and perceived anxieties about the future.

• Cut ties that bind you to unnecessary burdens.

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Responding V’s Reacting

• Recognise unhelpful actions that result without intentional thought that keep you feeling stuck.

• Transform unhelpful actions into conscious, constructive responses, moving you forward at your desired pace.

• Learn to speak your truth using nonviolent communication. (Marshall Rosenberg)

Wellness Wheel

• Following philosophies of the Native American medicine wheel, Australian Aboriginal medicine wheel, the Celtic cross, the Mandala of Eastern religions, and the Labyrinth of Greek mythology, we will create a large medicine wheel designed by the group.

• Utilizing insights gained from the group Medicine wheel, we will then engage the Art of Life and Curiosity book and Reflective Cards to explore our individual medicine wheel.  ​​​​​​​​

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