About Hope
From Hope
I wish I’d found Focusing first, before Somatic Experiencing, before somatic Attachment and Early Trauma work, before the adventures in consciousness of Generative Change, maybe even before Feldenkrais. Everything I’ve ever studied shapes the ways I meet clients, but nothing has helped me move so far so fast into feeling whole, balanced, and unbroken than Focusing, specifically, the Inner Relationship Focusing I’m studying with Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin, building on Eugene Gendlin’s Philosophy of the Implicit.
In Living a Generative Live, Part 1 I will incorporate the best of the best of my experiences, modalities, trainings, curiosity, and creativity to present an experiential environment that fosters new domains of sensing your self, of being with your self, of knowing and recognizing your self. This course is about finding a new sense of your self and developing new ways of engaging with what you find, every day.
More about Hope
I have a history of trauma; my journey has been deeply personal - a search for hope amidst the deepest hopelessness.
I hold numerous certifications, predominantly at the level of bodily experience and the meaning we make of it. To experience trauma is to feel profoundly alone, separate, isolated. Cognitive-based approaches have offered me only temporary relief; approaches that foster an integration between the phenomena of my body and my intellect have born me the greatest fruit. It is in Focusing and Eugene Gendlin’s Philosophy of the Implicit that I am finding, building, achieving the greatest sense of Hope.
I am excited to be launching this next phase of my work, where all of my experience and trainings integrate and flow in service to wholeness, mine and yours.
“My body no longer feels like it is at war with itself, but at peace.”
— Suzy Smith, on working with Hope
“Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.”