Welcome to Wellspring Academy
Conversations of the Heart
Conversations of the Heart
Conversations of the Heart
Wellspring Academy provides counselling and conversation support for clients seeking professional support in improving the quality of their relationships and lives. Conversations are collaborative, with a skilled facilitator supporting each person to speak and listen in truth and love. Conversations help foster skills to understand and co
Wellspring Academy provides counselling and conversation support for clients seeking professional support in improving the quality of their relationships and lives. Conversations are collaborative, with a skilled facilitator supporting each person to speak and listen in truth and love. Conversations help foster skills to understand and connect, to discuss difficult topics, and to conduct repairs.
Many people have never experienced the power of listening, when one person is deeply present to another and able to reflect the reality the speaker is experiencing. With a heart-centred, warm, and rational and deliberative focus, individuals can learn the skills they need to improve their relationships and lives.
A Unique Approach
Conversations of the Heart
Conversations of the Heart
Our counselling services are different in a few ways from the type of therapy often offered now.
First, much therapy (but not all) adheres to ideologies rooted in postmodernism, which denies the existence of truth and instead promotes relativism. Relativism suggests there is no right and wrong, which is itself, a strongly biased view that
Our counselling services are different in a few ways from the type of therapy often offered now.
First, much therapy (but not all) adheres to ideologies rooted in postmodernism, which denies the existence of truth and instead promotes relativism. Relativism suggests there is no right and wrong, which is itself, a strongly biased view that can lead to suffering.
In contrast, our approach is grounded in holding conversations that are values-driven. We believe there is a right and wrong way to treat others and ourselves and that as image bearers, there is a right and wrong way to treat one another. We believe humans can learn the skills to emulate many relational qualities, and that individuals hold inherent and equal worth.
Second, while much therapy (but not all) focuses on centering the self, we believe that persistent self-focus can lead to unhappiness and confusion. Human relationships, personal well-being, and potential are enhanced when we center our lives on the the highest good, God, first, and then others and ourselves. Relationships are the holding place of service to others.
By embracing these aims, and learning to practice the aligned skills, we believe individuals can rise above misery and confusion. This focus does not diminish the pursuit of self-awareness and growth; it is a path to deepen our life journeys.