Phil Gardner
Listening for Home
Empowering Parents and Children
Supporting parents to help their children discover their inner world
I work with a group of facilitators building resources for parents to help their children discover their inner world and be OK with the often uncomfortable and frightening feelings that can arise in daily life.
When we're not OK with our feelings, symptoms can include suppression, depression, anxiety and a whole host of mental health difficulties, and eventually these manifest in the body as chronic tension and pain and disease.
We offer programs that run over a number of weeks and also work one-on-one with clients. Much of the work is done with the parents themselves, as the fears that create trauma in the children have been passed down from one generation to the next. This is no-one's fault, but an ongoing evolutionary step and a deepening into living full and meaningful lives. So, we provide you with the tools needed to meet your own trauma, and to work skillfully with your children so that they grow their understanding of their emotional, mental and physical bodies.
This is somatic and mindful work, and we will become aware of how sensations in the body velcro to thoughts to create both emotional and mental experiences. We learn 'resting' techniques that bring a holistic awareness to the body and its relationship with the external environment, and over time we learn to become familiar with the whole emotional spectrum so that all feelings can be allowed to move through our beings so that nothing is blocked and we can more easily flow with what life brings up for us.