Harvest Winter 2010
Driving across Sydney yesterday one could not help noticing the depth of this year’s autumnal changes. The wind and rain of the past week had denuded the trees. Leaves lay thick and sodden on footpaths and in gutters. The skies hung grey and heavy. Once again I was captured by the appropriateness of the “seasonal” metaphor at the heart of Seasons for Growthâ.
I wondered how many people I passed felt the same sense of loss so graphically depicted by the world around them. I wondered too how many children, young people and adults would have the opportunity to name their experience and be encouraged to enter into the “winter tasks” of claiming or owning their feelings.
Seasons for Growth is a wonderful tool to help this process. As Companions you play a critical role in this process. You facilitate and encourage people to stop and look inside their life experience, to create a safe space to reflect on and enter the mystery and challenge of change.
Thank you for “being there” and enabling this process of unlocking the feelings associated with the pain and loss caused by the “winters” of peoples’ lives.
We congratulate Lorraine Dominish, a Companion from Greenwood, WA, who won the competition to name the Companion Newsletter. Her name, Harvest, speaks strongly of the gathering of all our experiences and gleaning from them the gifts needed to live life to the full. Lorraine won 6 Seasons for Growth Journals. Congratulations also to Rosemary Carter who was the 500th person to register for an event on the website! The event was a Reconnector in Melbourne, and Rosemary won a set of the RU? Series, a set of I Can cards and a copy of Picking up the Pieces.
May our “winter” experience be a time of deep inner listening as we enter the mystery of our lives.