The Curious Place in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | Mental health service

The Curious Place

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 448 877 856

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25.01.2022 Welcome yourself as you would a small child, stay close, stay curious, stay kind. This is how empowerment is grown, not through denying, but through embracing our humanity and guiding it with love into its strengths.

24.01.2022 An invitation to get curious about rocks...the endless forms, colours, textures, compositions, layers...like people they are shaped by their formation conditions and environment. In different light they show different qualities. When grouped together they create shadows, spaces, and parts can be hidden or showcased. Is there a rock that you are drawn to today?

23.01.2022 These emotional and body memories are the reason that talk therapy isnt enough... We must reach below the level of conscious experience and declarative memory to subcortical emotional memory and body memory for automatic tendencies.

23.01.2022 Gayle King from the Curious Place is presenting this online workshop. For more information about Arts Therapy go to thecuriousplace.com

23.01.2022 When there are no words...exploring through colour movement shape dark light can assist with making sense and experience begins to find shape and the possibility of meaning and words emerge

22.01.2022 Be curious about your relational humanity. There is much beauty, lo e and wisdom I all of it. This piece by Matt Licatta.

22.01.2022 The curious place where we can turn up to our experiences and compassionately allow them to find a voice, a mark on the page that says I am here as I am in this moment. And from here a new moment can begin to emerge. Because we cannot find the impetus to move forward if we do not first yield into the ground on which we currently stand.

21.01.2022 embracing the coherence and complexity within people is vital part of o p ening to our wellness.

19.01.2022 Play, play, play...

18.01.2022 Nothing is impossible...once you push through, keep growing.

17.01.2022 Lets makes sure we have what we need on hand. Whilst I test my set up

17.01.2022 What else can we be curious about? What dont we know because it is hidden from obvious view

16.01.2022 When we get overwhelmed by life, turning up to the curious place within can offer reminders that we are at home in the world. Through attending to our felt sense, our relationships to our experiences and allowing time to accept, listen, trust in our inner wisdom and find what we need in this moment to be more congruent and well. When you visit with me at The Curious Place, I offer you a safe and compassionate place to inquire with support. Offering sessions in Arts Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and Professional Supervision. Find out more at thecuriousplace.com Gayle Crisp BEd. MA. SEP, AThR,

16.01.2022 Stay curious about emerging feelings, inner energies and the stories we tell ourselves..not to wallow but to give them space to be accepted, and allow new understandings to emerge. Its not always pretty, it can be messy and raw ... But there is an organic wisdom to be found here. When what wasnt felt is felt, when what was ignored is allowed movement, when what needed to arrive is allowed....it moves into the world and meets it...in doing this it is already changing and finding its way to what is next... Stay curious.

16.01.2022 Hold your humanity with compassion

15.01.2022 This is why empathy is so difficult AND important. Its not always our default response - its a skill and a choice to be connected. Even when its hard.

15.01.2022 Be Curious right here, right now. Morning art ponderings...keeping it simple in my art making so I can be with what is without overwhelm and allow creative curiosity to be here. Here is an activity: Find images, arrange them, add some watercolour or other media to join things, fill gaps and then write a few brief words How do things connect and fit together here and now. Not editing yourself...just being in this morning with what is hanging around. Is there anything in this... that feels better? Share below if you want to... Mine goes like this "Carrying the world and the world carrying me in a universe of dark and light with creative and playful possibilities. Allowing space for all things and me and the emergence. Slowing down the senses, taking rest when needed like the seeds waiting to grow hidden on a leaf. "

14.01.2022 Hanging out with humanity...mine and others. ..messy beautiful feelings sensations stories. ...love it

13.01.2022 Curious where more softness turns up in this day

13.01.2022 Curious about the self that is chaotic wild messy and alive...not as something to be tamed...but a resource for living. The writings of Matt Licata remind us of this wisdom in each of us. At The Curious Place we allow, explore and support the emergence of life energy as we inquire creatively and compassionately. www.thecuriousplace.com

12.01.2022 Are you curious about something? Is there something going on in your life that is rubbing you up the wrong way, uncomfortable, something you are trying to form,... to fix. Sometimes we are so urgent to get relief that we get busy with using the tools, formulas and old ways...and miss a new possibility. The old ways may have served us well at some point, actually keeping us safe and protected, and they hold much wisdom. But sometimes we rush right past another wisdom that is incubating within us, forming and not yet fully known. This is when getting curious, slowing down, noticing not only the situation, the story but also the wisdom rising from our own bodies, from our nervous systems, our viscera, our muscles, our innate impulses towards goodness. I invite you to slow down and get curious just for this moment... Give yourself time to listen, notice, feel...what might bring life right now? If you feel you need guidance or support to do this, then, The Curious Place offers Experiential and Creative Arts processes that allow you to get curious and inquire with your whole self, in a connected and compassionate way that supports wellbeing.

12.01.2022 Sensing into the confusion to see what support is there...what might be needed more, or less? At the edges of self gently testing. This is the often non verbal work of arts therapy. Where a therapist supports a healthy exploration of possibilities. [email protected]

11.01.2022 Curious about the soft and nurturing places.

11.01.2022 A simple provocation by Jane Clapp. So I am getting curious about pruning. How do we choose? On what knowing will we base this choice? Beliefs? Values? Felt Sense? Needs? Environmental demands? Allowing our attention to be given to all the possibilities...even those not yet in awareness... take our time... stay curious... Be compassionate... let the possibilities meet. A preferred option or direction will become clearer.

09.01.2022 If youre looking for an afternoon of FREE family-friendly activities Festival of Creative Wellbeing @ UQ this Sat 2-5pmIf youre looking for an afternoon of FREE family-friendly activities Festival of Creative Wellbeing @ UQ this Sat 2-5pm

07.01.2022 Mess is welcome here....one of my mottos.

06.01.2022 The word empathy is often used to describe a positive stance toward another, synonymous with being nice. But empathy is more radical than that. When engaged... deeply, it takes a lot of (sustained) awareness to maintain an empathic stance. Empathy is the embodied tending to the immediate experience of another, as it unfolds moment-to-moment. To dare to hold the other not merely as an object in our own awareness, but as a unique subject, with valid feelings and beliefs, and ways of making sense of their experience. If the other can clearly articulate their experience, that will make the empathic process easier. But this is often not the case. For each of us, there is psychic experience weve dissociated and disowned, and remains in an unformulated state. Somehow, we must attune to this as well, providing sanctuary and safe passage for it to come into the relational field and be met with mutual care. Empathy is the capacity to stay with the others experience as it unfolds, to attune to their subjectivity, while simultaneously being aware of our own contribution to the interactive field by way of our own biases, transference, and projection somehow using that material for the benefit of the relationship. Empathy is not something we offer only to another. We can practice empathic attunement toward our own experience as it is emerging right now. What am I experiencing in this moment? Setting aside all interpretation and even all agendas to shift, transform, or heal, right now, what is my actual, lived experience? What is happening in my body? What emotional tone or mood is there? What is the overall felt sense of being me, right now? How have I come to imagine myself, others, and the world, and how might I reimagine? It is more an art than a science an art of love, really, that perhaps we humans need now more than ever. Self-empathy, other-empathy, self-attunement, other-attunement. It is up to all of us to bring these realities into this world. We will not find these capacities outside ourselves, but awaiting discovery inside this miracle brain, electrically alive nervous system, and majestic heart. Photographer unknown

05.01.2022 Being with what cannot yet be accessed, by staying curious, welcoming, compassionate

05.01.2022 Making space for curiousity can look like a walk in the local bush with no agenda. Being surprised by simple things...like colour and light, texture, contrast, shadows, lines, forms, shapes,details, juxtaposition...what catches the eye, what is of interest? How does it resonate with you? How do you experience this?

04.01.2022 Exploring touch...curious about texture...And my relationship with the world

02.01.2022 To integrate and digest we need Curiousity and Compassion for our experiences.

02.01.2022 Dance! For fun and social engagement

01.01.2022 The curious place of touch with the other. Listen, feel, respond, know .... no words needed

01.01.2022 Well said from a deep understanding about the human condition.

01.01.2022 Lets all stop celebrating busy.