I’ve created Healing Ways Gestalt to share/teach what I’ve learned about finding and maintaining well being.  In many ways, this includes simple concepts that are difficult to achieve.  Difficult because of the multi layers which interfere and coat what we know to be true and of course, doing the work that is required to get there.  Arrival at a state of simply being at peace is a journey with no end, however, in retrospect there are markers that give us information on how far we have come. 

  So what qualifies me to share what I know?  Who am I and what are my credentials?  I’m human just like you.  I knew at a young age I needed to do healing work to be and feel comfortable with my world and myself.

  I have a degree in Psychology and Dance Therapy.  I began my studies in Gestalt Therapy at the age of 22.  Today, I’m 56.  I am an astrologer and meta physician. The experiences I share are mine.  I don’t have your answers and frankly, those who claim to know more about me than I do frighten me.  No one knows me better than me.  I am responsible to my actions, feelings, thoughts and beliefs.  The journey of self knowing, AWARENESS is work only you can do.  There is no magic formula or guru to tell you who and what you are and what you should do.  I will offer tools, share my process, share me and some theory, which I hope you will use to help yourself.

  I founded and taught at the Gestalt Institute of Calgary for nine years. The GIC was a school for professionals to learn Gestalt methodology as well as for humans to apply learned tools to live fully in the present. 
  

  We are all part of the Gestalt, the whole, the globe, the universe, the earth, the human race.  What we tend to becomes our reality in the moment.  This moment in time is what is real.  Yet this moment is but a fleeting reality because there is now and then now and then now.  Our perception is our reality.  I suspect Dr. Phil had some Gestalt training.  I’m fond of the seeds of healing he plants to assist others well-being.  His one-liners often encompass the theory of Gestalt Therapy.  Here’s one I am especially fond of, “there is no reality, only perception”.  Gestalt psychology is based on perception.  Gestalt psychology is not the same as Gestalt Therapy.  Gestalt psychology is part of the Mandela of Gestalt Therapy. 

  Theoretical concepts alone will not offer personal well-being.  Applying these tools in an experiential way is the only means to achieve felt awareness.  Our experiences provide the learning required to grow.  Some intellectuals believe knowing through mental concepts is the end of the work, in gestalt therapy it is the beginning and knowing comes from sensation.  We are a living organism; our bodies provide information on how we are.  For many this requires tending to what our body experiences. 

Healing Ways Gestalt is about spirit, mind and body.  Our feelings rest with in our bodies.  Full sensation happens through our breath.  In the course of the information offered on this website. I will offer exercises for you to experience new ways of being to live an authentic life.

  I dream and desire a better and more peaceful world.  Any change begins with us.  Therefore, that is where we will begin.  The journey within impacts and creates our world without. 

 Welcome to Healing Ways Gestalt Website.

  My name is Paula Hirson