Welcome to Wellspring Academy
Conversations of the Heart
Conversations of the Heart
Wellspring Academy provides facilitated conversations for clients seeking professional support and instruction 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 a
Wellspring Academy provides facilitated conversations for clients seeking professional support and instruction 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.
For individuals, conversation facilitation models and teaches what connected and healthy conversations are. 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
Facilitated conversations are not psychotherapy. We do not support people with clinical concerns that require specific psychological treatment, nor do we provide any related assessment, psychotherapeutic, or clinical services.
Instead, we hold philosophical and practical conversations that help you learn skills and strategies for connecti
Facilitated conversations are not psychotherapy. We do not support people with clinical concerns that require specific psychological treatment, nor do we provide any related assessment, psychotherapeutic, or clinical services.
Instead, we hold philosophical and practical conversations that help you learn skills and strategies for connection. We also differ from therapy in a few additional ways.
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. Numerous approaches used in therapy are offshoots of postmodernism and can be harmful.
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. Our work aligns with a spiritual view that we are sacred image bearers of the divine. 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 (self-centeredness), 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, and spiritual good, first, followed by focusing on others and then ourselves. Relationships are the holding place of service to others. The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber wrote that love is the opposite of objectification, which is what we do when we use another to meet our own needs. Rather, he argued, love is connecting with and taking total responsibility for another.
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.
Coaching
Coaching
Coaching approaches are rooted in attachment theory, neurobiological approaches to bonding, phenomenology (applied existentially, this approach refers to the observer self and harnessing this self for change), and skills learning to support cognitive, emotional, and behavioural challenge. We work collaboratively with clients to help th
Coaching approaches are rooted in attachment theory, neurobiological approaches to bonding, phenomenology (applied existentially, this approach refers to the observer self and harnessing this self for change), and skills learning to support cognitive, emotional, and behavioural challenge. We work collaboratively with clients to help them better self assess, deepen reflection, overcome limiting beliefs, and develop and practice strategies for achieving their goals.