Embodied Images: Healing Containers For Trauma Judith Sarah Schmidt Ph.D The deep resources of healing and wholeness offered by dream and imaginal journeying are central to both my personal and professional practices. I would like to share with you some of my thoughts and reflections on the healing worlds of imagination in times of trauma. …
Fall 2011 CIL Newsletter – Autumn Reflections from Judith Read More »
Working with Space and Safety Alexis Johnson, PhD A few weeks ago I heard from a CIL graduate who wrote about starting another program and then added “I always miss the CIL training – it is the best and safest and most supportive I have ever done.” That got me to thinking about safety and …
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Cry the Beloved Country Judith Schmidt, PhD I am concerned for my beloved country. There are things I see that frighten me, that I believe are potentially threatening to our democracy. Being a culture focused on the cult of personality, we tend to look at our leaders as individual personalities. There are times, however, when we …
Alexis Johnson, PhD and Judith Schmidt, PhD Dear CIL community, Most of us are still reeling from the pictures of New Orleans. In many ways this tragedy is different from that of 9/11. The tragedy of 9/11 affected everyone equally; wealth and race were not factors. This natural disaster has been suffered predominately by the …
Hurricane Katrina: Staying Centered and Taking Action Read More »
Healing Depression by Barbara Miller, MD Depression is a withdrawal from life. It is usually felt as a sense of hopelessness, helplessness, low energy, eating and sleeping problems, poor self-esteem, difficulties in relationships, and thoughts that may be preoccupied with catastrophe, self-criticism and death. Why does this happen? When I’m trying to understand someone’s depression, …
Are You Ready To Take Your Bodywork Or Healing Practice To The Next Level? On the importance of the relationship between the client and the body-worker by Alexis Johnson, PhD. Velveteen Rabbit: “What is Real?” asked the Velveteen Rabbit. “Real isn’t how you are made”, said the Skin Horse. “It is a thing that happens …
Are You Ready To Take Your Bodywork Or Healing Practice To The Next Level? Read More »
Are You Ready To Take Your Bodywork Or Healing Practice To The Next Level? On the importance of the relationship between the client and the body-worker by Alexis Johnson, PhD. Velveteen Rabbit: “What is Real?” asked the Velveteen Rabbit. “Real isn’t how you are made”, said the Skin Horse. “It is a thing that happens …
Tonglen: Forms of Pre-Conscious and Trans-Conscious Communication Read More »
Florida Reflections by Judith Schmidt, PhD. “In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a new born child, a new face that has never been before and will never be again. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence it demands you”. (M. Buber) It was a wonderful Florida learning retreat…the …
Forces to Feelings to Words Body awareness in the pre-personal world by Alexis Johnson, PhD. You have to be very concentrated while you listen. You have to focus on the practice of listening with all your attention, your whole being: your eyes, ears, body and your mind. If you just pretend to listen, and do …
HELPING WITH SHOCK TRAUMA by Alexis Johnson, PhD “..Each man’s death diminishes me, For I am involved in all mankind. Therefore, send not to know for whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.” -John Donne “You can never solve a problem at the level at which it was created. You have to go to …
