When Words Are Not Enough
Sometimes words are not enough
Sometimes you need more than words to overcome your fears, to face your hurt and frustration so you can safely let go of it and carry on with what’s really important in your life.
You need to feel that it’s OK to play, to enjoy life, to reclaim your childhood innocence, joy and creativity and let them become part of your adult life.
You need to stop striving for perfection, for only then will you fully realise the enormity of your potential.
Core Development Works With…..
Contact
Core Development focuses on the depth and authenticity of the “inner contact” you make with yourself ( your feelings, thoughts, bodily sensations etc) and the “outer contact” you make with other people.
Aliveness
Increased aliveness enables you to be more fully involved in all aspects of your life.
Freedom
“Aliveness” gives you more freedom to be yourself and to communicate what really matters. It’s the freedom to create and fully enjoy your life.
Excitement
As children. we often heard the phrase “don’t get too excited”. This diminishes our drive and suppresses the passion we allow ourselves even as adults.
Core Development helps you learn how you can enjoy as much excitement as you want, by learning how to contain, express and communicate your excitement.
Ripeness – allowing, not pushing
Core Development works with you not on you. There are no expectations as to how you should be. You are encouraged to move at your own speed and in your own way, to reconnect with your own personal rhythms.
Safety
Most of us have been raised to believe that it is wrong and dangerous to express certain feelings, such as anger, fear, excitement, vulnerability, trust…
In other words, “Don’t Be Yourself!” Spend your life attempting to fit into somebody else’s model of how you should be.
Core Development helps you find the safety to experience and communicate your feelings, thoughts and desires, however “bad”, “strange”, or “unacceptable” you may think they are.
Individual attention
Core Development offers a variety of techniques to suit your needs, including, as and when appropriate, body awareness, breathing, movement, massage, role-play, mindfulness and talking.
Core Development encourages you to discover the truth for yourself through your own experience.
What is Core Development?
Core Development is a method of self-development based on the understanding that disappointments and any other “unfinished business” are stored in your body as chronic tensions.
By learning how to identify and release these tensions, you can let go of past limiting experiences and enjoy a fuller and more creative life.
Core Development is a learning process not a clinical method.
How does it work?
By drawing on a number of methods as appropriate, including body awareness, breathing, movement, mindfulness and talking, a safe space is created for you to explore and communicate your feelings, and to reconnect with aspects of yourself that you are not currently aware of.
Every step of this process deepens and enriches your appreciation of life and increases your ability to create what matters most to you.
Who Can Benefit?
Anyone who wants to improve the quality of their life, to become more alive and spontaneous, to enjoy better relationships, and to be more in touch with their inner strength and passion.
What is required?
Core Development is for people who are willing to make their own health and wellbeing their number one priority. If you are willing to make this commitment, the rewards are most worthwhile.
What clients say
“I have been involved in a profoundly gentle process that has carried me through the major issues I needed to resolve.” M.M. musician
“The real me is starting to emerge again and I am more in control of my life and decisions. Thank you Donald for your patience and encouragement” D.D. Business Owner
“Thank you again for the help you provided. It’s made my life a pretty fun place to be and allowed me to appreciate it and the people around me more than ever…..I hope you’re helping lots of other people with your practice like you helped me” S.C. writer/producer
Core Development can complement and enhance the effectiveness of other methods, and may be helpful when other methods have not got you the results you were hoping for.
Read also the page on Somatic Psychotherapy