Therapeutic benefits of attending the Art of Life and Curiosity One Day Retreat

When we participate in a cohesive group, where opinions, life stories and individuality is respected and appreciated, we may experience opportunities to rewire damaging family system dynamics, gain empowerment and give ourselves permission to move forward.

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.

Kintsugi

• Appreciate the strength of understanding our vulnerabilities.

• Learn to self compassion in order to heal. 

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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)

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Wabi Sabi

• Find beauty in unlikely spaces.

• Experience tranquility amongst chaos.

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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