Here are a few things that our course
participants have kindly said about APAC and the play therapy training
courses.:
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"I found this quote by Henri Nouwen from
his book "Reaching Out". It says much about how I experienced my
time at Fern Hill. Thank you for that" - Fran (Diploma Course) |
Hospitality, therefore,
means primarily the creation of a free space where the stranger can
enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not
to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
The paradox of hospitality
is that it wants to create emptiness, not a fearful emptiness, but a
friendly emptiness where strangers can enter and discover themselves as
created free; free to sing their own songs, speak their own languages,
dance their own dances; free also to leave and follow their own
vocations. Hospitality is not a subtle invitation to adopt the
lifestyle of the host, but the gift of a chance for the guest to find
his own. |
| "Thorne speaks on sessions with
clients and as it mirrors my own experience I needed to share it with
you. " - Deirdre (Certificate and Diploma Courses) |
"I feel in touch with myself
to the extent that it is not an effort to think or know what I am
feeling. It is as if an energy is flowing through me and I am
simply allowing it free passage. I feel a physical vibrancy .... I
feel powerful and at the same time irrelevant. My client seems
more accurately in focus: he or she stands out in sharp relief from the
surrounding decor ... it seems as if for a space, however brief, two
human beings are fully alive." |
| "Thank you Nancy!"
Evelyn -
(Certificate and Diploma Course)s |
At a recent residential
weekend play therapy diploma course we had two blissful days of sharing
knowledge, skills and experience with Nancy Mellon who helped us see how
therapeutic story-telling can help us all.
Little did I know that it
would change a rather difficult work relationship. |
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