At De Witte Os I offer conversation sessions based on Compassionate Inquiry. These sessions are intended to create more awareness around themes that may arise during a treatment process and require attention. The initiative for such a session always lies with you, the client, and there is no obligation attached to it. The sessions last about an hour and I charge the normal rate for this.
As a client, you bring in an intention, something that you want to look at or that you want more clarity about and we will investigate it. Sometimes 1 conversation is enough and sometimes several conversations follow, depending on your wishes and needs. The sessions are aimed at letting you find your own answers, with your body as the most important doorway. Compassionate Inquiry is an accessible and direct way of self-examination for adults aged 18 and over.
More about Compassionate Inquiry
Compassionate Inquiry is based on the work of Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam Kaur ND and is a loving way of self-examination. This involves becoming aware of our thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations and observing them without judgement. Rather than trying to change or avoid our feelings, Compassionate Inquiry focuses on accepting and embracing our experiences. This can sometimes be very confronting and challenging. That is why you are in the driversseat and you yourself always determine the pace of the inquiry. If you do not want or cannot talk about something, that is also perfectly okay.
The CI approach focuses on developing a deeper, more compassionate relationship with ourselves. This involves learning to become aware of the ways in which we reject, criticise or judge ourselves, and learning to embrace and accept ourselves as we are. By developing a more compassionate and accepting relationship with ourselves, we can better understand our emotions and behaviours and can begin to heal our emotional wounds.
Another important aspect of Compassionate Inquiry is the emphasis on the role of the body in healing emotional wounds. This approach recognizes that our bodies are the repositories of our emotions and that it is therefore essential to involve our bodies in the healing process. By becoming aware of our bodily sensations and learning how to use them to understand our emotions, we can begin to heal our emotional wounds on a deeper level.
Compassionate Inquiry has proven to be very effective in exploring trauma, defining trauma not as what has happened to you, but as what it did to you. Furthermore, trauma can arise not only from something that happened to you, but also from something that you needed but that you did not receive.