How do you do inner work? Inner work is known by many names: carpet work, psychodrama, guts work. The goal of inner work is to bring a past painful feeling or event to the surface and allow the participant the opportunity to find it, face, it, feel it, and free it.
Inner work–done in a safe and trusted group environment–is a process where a participant reenacts a past experience in order to see that experience from a different perspective. An inner work process allows the participant to gain greater insight into what happened originally, and how they can create a “win” in the present to overwrite that past memory. Our old brain does not understand time, so what happened years ago, can have a new outcome today and your brain won’t know the difference in time. Inner work can include thoughts, feelings, attitudes, impulses, images, and behavioral patterns.
An inner work process unfolds as the participant tells their story. This is the great adventure into the unknown that awaits us in inner work!
The facilitators at Daughters of Light were introduced to facilitation work beginning in 2009. They were trained beginning in 2014 and have been leading carpet work for over 10 years.
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