Each year we open submissions for our Annual Wise Therapy Spotlight, where we ask a question of particular importance to our wider therapist community. We are always moved by the depth and generosity of our community voices.
This year, we asked our community, What Is the Soul of Therapy? Read more about our inspiration for this, our 5th edition, in the letter from the editors and Academy of Therapy Wisdom founders, Brian and Ian.
Continue here to read the submission by Irene Limbasan (art therapist, leadership coach) and collaborators. We hope you enjoy it as much as we all did.
Spanning continents, participants from Bayo Akomolafe’s Where Do We Go When Healing Becomes Ill course worked collaboratively on a Soul of Therapy-inspired art piece. Starting with the notion that therapy calls in the ’embodied village’ and we as therapists become ‘beacons of belonging’, the soul of therapy feels relational. Then, in a nod to Deligny´s maps of autistic movement, the contributions were traced and layered, creating the images seen here. Themes of emergence, witnessing, and being lost together inspired and compelled our work, mirroring the therapeutic invitation to be present with a process without knowing where it will lead.
The piece is pen and charcoal on paper.
The views expressed in this essay are not necessarily the opinions of Academy of Therapy Wisdom, its presenters or its staff. This is part of a series featuring the unedited voices of our community in conversation. All content is used with permission and is copyright 2024 by Academy of Therapy Wisdom. Only the author may reproduce their content.
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