Innerwork is dynamic mindfulness practicewhich helps us connect deeply with the creative processes that move us. . It is an approach that enables us to unfold for ourselves the inherent meaning of previously marginalized signals and experiences. The guiding principles of individual sessions (one-to-one therapy), are applied within ourselves in Inner Work, empowering us to become our “own therapist”.
The Deep Democracy perspective (which we will explain later when we talk about Global Work) applies equally to Innerwork as it does to group work. From this perspective, when you work on yourself alone, all your voices – those that have more power and those that you don’t yet know – are important, needing support in their expression. To illustrate, the part of you that wants to feel harmony or meditate and be able to detach itself from the problems of the world, and the part of you that feels anger from the noise that comes from the street and from social injustices, are both necessary, as are all the others, in the process that you are trying to live through your experience.
You can find out more in Arnold Mindell’s books Working on yourself alone and El cuerpo del chamán.
“Instead of trying to change our nature to adapt to our preconception of harmony and peace, we could search to find the purpose behind the events. Maybe it’s the seed of just what we need.”