Sarvamangala

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I’ve studied and practised using creative arts for personal inquiry (we like that word and practice better than “therapy”) for the last ten years or so. I work with a wonderful friend and we’ve been practising this process in the community and amongst ourselves. It’s a great way for gaining insight without being “directed” – it’s also not a cathartic type group process that exposes people when they are feeling vulnerable – rather it’s an unpacking of personal experience using modalities other than just words and talking “about” stuff.

Done a lot of stuff with kids in foster care and who’ve undergone all kinds of crap and abuse. I’d be honoured and happy to share the process with kulis. I guess my hesitation in the past to offer anything within ISKCON was due to several factors, such as the very conceptually orientated “head space” of how most people arrive at understanding, which is fine but without more spontaneous or intuitive knowing, I find things don’t have much relevance to your actual lived experience. To be honest, another reason I didn’t offer anything before was my own unprocessed fears about acceptance, knowing there are some people out there who I’ve offended or don’t like me. I’m over wondering about this and have moved on to work in a lot of contexts, including professional development in community and corporate contexts so I’ve had to deal with my own stuff in that regard. So this is who I am (in limited type space) and this is what I do or how I like to BE with people. i haven’t had the experience that kulis have had in their lives and don’t pretend to know what that is but I love lots of you and hold you very dear. I’m only filling this out as a prerequisite to contacting organisors in order to offer a creative arts personal inquiry workshop at Radhadesh as I’ll be in Europe then (I live in Oz). I’d really like to come with my friend/business partner. Our new website will be up soon and then I“ll send out a link. By the way , this is not about being an artist – I don’t draw or paint – more about being present in an unfolding process . Don’t want to try to articulate all this in this space. I’m happy if anyone does want to k now more and website will be up in about a week..