Ahly Titchener on Skilfully Working with Anxiety, Grief & Rage at the NZ Parliament Protest Feb-Mar 2022

Conversations with Kara-Leah

This conversation was originally recorded in May 2022.

In this conversation, we explore the role of Anxiety, Grief and Rage, and how Ahly was able to work with these emotional states throughout the highly polarised time leading up to the Profest occupation at Parliament grounds.

On February 7, 2022, a Freedom Convoy converged on Parliament Grounds in Wellington. Tents were put up, and occupation began which lasted 23 days.

Since then, I've been having conversations with people who were on the ground.

As time moves on, the nature of those conversations is beginning to change and expand - like this one with Ahly Titchener.

In this conversation we get to experience what it's like, as Rainer Maria Rilke's famous poem pens it; to live into the question, in an open and curious way.

What becomes apparent is that where one landed in their decision to vaccinate or not to vaccinate was not the juice to be squeezed, but rather it was the journey itself - of seeking to understand the emotional landscape, and experiencing the universality of these emotions.

The conversation circles around Emergence as an energy force that - like a universal law - is set in motion after a severance.

The conversation concludes with outing the predominant psychology of safety, fast becoming our 'new normal' at the expense of developing a psychology of resilience both for one self, and for our society at large.

This conversation covers a lot of subterranean ground - partly because Ahly is a trained practitioner in the modality of Hakomi - a trauma informed, body-centered approach to psychotherapy. She brings her passion for self reflection, poetry and mindfulness into how she shows up in the world, offering her clients a gentle, empowering and respectful therapeutic relationship. You can find out more about Ahly and Hakomi at her website here.

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