This course is about using the art of Kintsugi: the repairing of broken pottery with a golden resin, and applying it as a metaphor to help with deal with our perceptions of trauma and how we define ourselves; as something independent of outside forces, or something harmonizing with outside forces. This helps us to determine how we think about traumatic events and our identity. Welcome to Emotional Kintsugi.
Lesson 1: Everything Serves Me, Everything Empowers Me
Looking at what happened to us is tough to do especially when it hurts us, our sense of self, our sense of value. This track goes into the concept of perceiving these events with enough time passed, so we have the benefit of hindsight to be able to apply a sense of trust or belief to current "harmful" circumstances so we shift our perception and look for the golden opportunities in the broken pieces. Some prompts to consider are: What trauma happened to me? Why did it happen to me? Why did I experience this? What happened after the trauma What did the trauma gift me? How has this experience shaped who I am? What skills have changed as a result of this trauma? What changed in my life after the trauma? Which relationships changed? For better or worse, as a result of the trauma?
Lesson 2: Interactions With The Universe At Large, How I Harmonize With Fate
Do we have control of things? Are we fated in some way? Is life just a mixture of both? In this track we discuss the concept of taking responsibility for our perceptions of events and the need to control the way we define ourselves. Some helpful prompts are: What do I need to own? What uncommon or unique trauma have I experienced that I need to own? What experiences/ traumatic event or events have I experienced that have created a unique imprint on me, to define me as different from most? How am I outside normal? What trauma can I own that makes me 'not normal'?
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