The Human Relations for Everyday Living

2012 - How We Change and Grow Program

INTEGRATION THROUGH
– MINDFULNESS
– EMOTION FOCUSING
– SMALL GROUP PROCESSING

The central aim of this program is to provide a safe relational environment to allow the transformational power of each member’s emotional experience to contribute to the emergence and development of their authentic self.

So many of our personal difficulties are the result of anxiety, self-criticism, shame and emotional isolation, and the consequent lack of access to our own emotional resources. The Human Relations Program aims to reverse this process, unlocking experience and giving each person the chance to follow the flow of their own stream of feeling and engage in new experiences, utilising previously unavailable potential.

The program works to facilitate our individual organism’s natural inclination towards healing and wholeness. Through establishing a greater connection with ourselves and others, unlocking well-worn, semi-automatic fear mechanisms, our emotional flow is enabled to move toward increased integration with our authentic self.

The single most important and defining aspect of the program is that it is experiential. The focus throughout is on each member’s personal experience. This is simply the embodiment of the fundamental assumption that the genuine expression of heart-felt experience, in the context of a supportive and meaningful interpersonal environment, is the primary agent of personal change and growth.