Withness; The Lost Art of Companioning
About the event
Dealing with life's difficulties is part of being human. Dealing with them alone doesn't need to be.
That's what it means to be in relation with another person. To sit with someone, not to change them or tell them the way they're seeing the world is wrong. Just to listen. Just to be there. We all have the same needs, and when we offer that kind of presence, without judgment or advice, that's companioning. It's a way of being that could transform how we move through the world.
Through embodied practice and real scenarios, you'll discover what companioning is, and just as importantly, what it isn't, leaving with a deeper understanding of how to companion yourself and those around you.
This workshop is offered through Social Health Australia, a non-profit training citizen companions to bring resilience, compassion, and connection to Australians facing crisis and uncertainty.
It will be presented by Joe Sehee, a non-religious chaplain and Peabody Award-winning journalist researching companioning at Deakin University, Annie Whitlocke, a mindfulness teacher, death doula, and Palliative Care Coordinator for the Buddhist Council of Victoria, and MTS staff member, Margaret Schultz, a Master's in Art Therapy candidate on placement with Social Health Australia.
The MTS is committed to providing events that align with and further The three objects of The Theosophical Society:
• To form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour. • To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science. • To investigate unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in the human being.
However this being stated, the MTS does not endorse any health, spiritual, science-related, philosophical or theological /other assertions or claims made by any facilitator we host.
