I began this Year of Inquiry into Healing with a question I wanted to spend time with: What are we healing? Each month, a Greek word offers a doorway. Returning to Greek evokes a different part of my experience of the word. Its etymology draws me closer, sometimes shifting a meaning I thought I knew. As my relationship with the word changes, so does what it invites me to consider about healing. We began in July with BEINGNESS, with what is here before we name or explain it.

What happens before we know? As I continue my Year of Inquiry into Healing, I arrive at September, my third month, with the Greek word θαῦμα, thauma (pronounced thavma) θαῦμα carries a sense of wonder, marvel and astonishment. For me it is that moment when something interrupts the way I have been seeing or sensing and it catches me out. I don't quite know what it is yet, but something in me wants to move a little closer. The Greeks have been thinking about this for a very lo

How does our beingness meet life? Last month I began my Year of Inquiry with Τὸ Ὦν. A year of exploring a living meaning of our beingness. That the quality of being that is present before identity, before achievement and before we explain ourselves away in this world. And I arrived at Who is the one who is asking this question? Actually I arrived at many more questions but this was a memory of past readings from authors who spoke of mysticism and consciousness. This paths mo

For most of my life, I never asked the question: Where does healing begin This question can seem almost insignificant. Healing begins when it begins. We meet a client, apply our knowledge, offer our presence, and accompany them through a therapeutic process. In many ways, the answer appears self-evident. Yet that was not what the question carried for me. The more I sat with it, the more it felt as though healing may already have begun before the first session, before the fir