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What does H.O.W. stand for?
Healing Our Wounds
Having Our Wholeness
Habits of Wellness
Hunting Our Wildness
Heart Opening Ways
Heritage of Wonder
The Experience
Healing the Father
Wound®
Healing the Mother
Wound®
When searching for a name to encompass the series of seminars we
offer, we looked to our signature workshops Healing the Father Wound
and Healing the Mother Wound. What about Healing Our Wounds
workshops? Indeed, without healing, wounds fester. In the words of
Christiane Northrup, M.D. – “Healing can occur in the
present only when we allow ourselves to feel, express, and release
emotions from the past that we have suppressed or tried to
forget.” In the HTFW and HTMW workshops participants learn how
to find, excise, clean out, and repair old hurts. We know the
workshops are successful and effective and the name for each workshop
is appropriate, and yet there was some reluctance to have the
seminars linked to wounds. Being mindful of the theory of
“woundology” formulated by Caroline Myss,
we did not want to give the impression that we were encouraging
connection and identification with wounds. We believe these workshops
help people to release the embrace their history has on their psyche.
Caroline also says that our biology is are biography. Why not reshape
the effect our past has had on our physiology? Why not Heal Our
Wounds?
Part of having our wholeness is accepting who we are, with all our
attributes, experiences, history, dreams and fears. Many of us try
and deny parts of ourselves. These denied parts can surface
unexpectedly, reminding us that we are more than the façade we
project -- more than masks we hold up to the world. These hidden,
stuffed and denied parts have come to be known as our Shadow.
Psychoanalysis Carl Jung first used the term Shadow to describe the
qualities we try to hide. Our Shadow can be a potent teacher. The
trainings, workshops, and seminars offered by How Workshops explore
the power we give to our Shadow.
We have all learned habits that have ultimately not served us.
What may have worked in the past to help us survive in difficult
situations, may now actually keep us trapped in dysfunctional
behavior. When we identify these self-sabotaging habits we can
transform the pattern. It took us years to become expert
self-saboteurs. It has been said that it takes only 21 days to change
a habit. In How Workshops seminars, participants will be given tools
to access their self defeating patterns. They will also learn
techniques, and exercises that will help shift these patterns into
habits that support and facilitate physical, mental, emotional, and
spiritual wellness.
Within each of us is a little wildness, a spark of spontaneous chaos. Sometimes this wild part can come out unexpectedly, and with disastrous consequences. We can be triggered and act out. We can be enraged and unleash a torrent of energy far exceeding the actual slight or perceived violation. Or we can let down our guard, and open up to our passion and find that we feel remarkably alive. We need our wildness. It activates the desire that brings vitality to our life. It is the juice that stimulates our senses.
Wildness can protect us, challenge us, frighten us, and delight
us. We need to track down this wildness, bring it to the surface,
look at it, play with it. Wildness can be enjoyed when we know its
dimensions. And as we stretch the limits of our containment, we will
expand our awareness of wildness and of freedom. In the HOW workshops
series we dive into this mystery.
Part of learning to survive in the world is learning how to
protect ourselves from pain, hurt, and rejection. We do need
protection from real threats. Unfortunately, many of us build walls
around ourselves effectively shutting out contact that is far from a
threat. In the process we close ourselves off to true intimacy.
Eventually the pain of settling for safe, secure and predictable
interactions exceeds the pain of potential rejection or abandonment.
We often forget that when we risk opening up to another, we stretch
the capacity of our compassion. Each time we survive a loss, or hurt,
and choose to open again, we validate ourselves as lovable. In the
HOW workshop series we practice heart opening ways to loving
ourselves and of loving others.
We came into this world full of wonder. We were innocent, open, excited, playful, creative, loving beings. Scientists have discovered that, as infants, we assimilate and learn information faster than any other time in our life. We are like sponges – soaking up all the data around us. For many of us, this state of delightful wonder is short-circuited. We discover that the world is not a safe place and that we must move our awareness into self-protection. We may even find that the thrill is gone. Some of us become numb, depressed, or angry. Some find that they need increasingly outrageous activities to stimulate their sense of the miraculous. We always have within us our legacy of wonder and amazement. We need only coax it back. In the How Workshops seminars, we visit this place of playful, creative amazement. We encourage a return to our heritage of wonder.
We offer a number of Experiences to address these topics.
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