what’s this yarning all about

when we yarn, we are equal. I have skills, you have skills and together we are giving each other and our knowledges time to be heard. In yarning, no one view can give a full picture and each view informs the complete picture so there’s no wrong answer, just questions about where our knowledges can take us.

my goal at Hobajing Practice, whether it is counselling, supervision or training, is to hold spaces that give voice for all stories. Think of it like taking a friend out to your favourite creek or trail. Somewhere you’ve been a hundred maybe even a thousand times where you can name every branch, every crevice, every stone and of course you know the way so well that you never sink into a hole or fall over a log. You know the history of the land and how the weather, the people and the fauna have impacted the landscape for good and for bad. Your friend though notices something different, something you don’t even see at first and maybe insist is not even there, but they keep pointing it out and it starts to shine. Something you can’t believe you have either missed for so long or thought had no importance at all.

narrative yarns are just like that friend bringing other parts of the landscape to the front to learn how it was shaped, who was involved and how it can be brought right up close or pushed away. In combination with maybe a bit of humour, some poking and a lot of listening, our skills expand the view so the influences that are keeping pain, worry or suffering alive for you, can be fully seen.

it’s not usually comfortable, but being yourself usually isn’t anyway.

See below for more info on individual counselling, supervision and group training. Note that when services require additional supports I bring professionals into the practice who share the non-judgemental exploration of narrative practice even if they are not specifically narrative practioners

from daily frustrations through to truth and repair, we offer individual counselling on a variety of platforms, click here for more details on individual live and offline counselling

open safe spaces are provided where no details are provided to an employer, so people can explore their professional and cultural understandings of who and how they are in the workplace, click here for more details on supervision

whether it’s your material or ours, we utilise collaboration and vulnerability as learning in group settings from small groups of up to eight and larger groups up to 30, click here for more details on groups and training