Diversity OT

22/01/2024

Welcome everyone to 2024! Now capacity to take new referrals in southern Brisbane area, Bulimba based. Bookings linda@diversityot.com.au

04/01/2023

Welcome to 2023! Let this be a year of stepping into true healing for all beings, their families and community. We are happy to announce that we are based in Darwin Australia ready to service the community here! What are your health goals for 2023? How will you care for yourself? Prioritise connections with others? Spend more time in nature?
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20/10/2022

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03/09/2022

I have wanted to share this with you for a bit.

For a long while, I have been very wary about the ubiquity of 'trauma' discourse and the concomitant flourishing of a subculture that focuses not only on healing as a self-evident and exclusive response and/or entitlement but on the human body as a fixed and static matter conforming to our habits of perception.

As a cross-cultural ethnotherapeutic researcher (by training) and a recovering psychotherapist (by the unexpected goings and comings of unknown gods), I have felt the need to say more about the colonial dynamics at work within the discipline of psychology: how it 'manufactures' its object of analysis, how it is value-laden and culturally composed (instead of being - as is often presumed - an epistemologically superior glimpse of the 'true nature' of the psyche), and how it is entangled with a politics of sameness and control. To that last point, a dear colleague of mine - and Professor Emerita of psychology - goes so far as to suggest that "psychology is the policeman of capitalism."

With colleagues, with elders, through my studies and readings, along with my students in postgraduate classrooms, in conversations I am privileged to have around the world, and through shockingly generative social media encounters, I have nurtured an urgency to decenter western psychology; I feel the urge to unpack the fascinating histories of trauma as a concept, to denaturalize trauma as a world-building project, and to sit with trauma as a globalizing trope.

A couple of months ago, I composed a small post here about trauma - but from an animist, postactivist perspective. I ended my post with: "The thing to note then is that we are not traumatized subjects after all, we are subjects within trauma. We do not have trauma. Trauma has us." Someone posted a comment in response to my post - a comment so alive and inviting that I immediately sought to meet her, a dear sister I now consider a friend. When we eventually met, after sharing fascinating stories about a black man "building muscle to look formidable", the curious phenomenon of 'go-bags', as well as the intergenerational patterns in her family, she ended by saying something I'll never forget: "Bayo, trauma is not just the meteor hitting; it is the sculpting of bodies to take the heat." She was crafting a notion of trauma that was more-than-experiential, more-than-personal, and more-than-human.

I have shocking and potentially disturbing things to say. About triggers. About trauma. About healing. About the cultural phenomenon of cancellation. About modern subjects. And about how wounds are co-produced.

Thankfully, I won't get to say these things alone.

If you sense a certain indigestibility around the topic of trauma and healing, embodiment and justice, and the prolific binaries that preserve modern impasses, I invite you to join us at a 4-day web gathering I call "The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound" - much to the chagrin of the guardians of brevity. My friends will be coming: Tyson Yunkaporta, Vanessa Andreotti, and Sophie Strand.

October 19-22. Register at the link:
https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/webinar/wandering-winding-way-1

A different signal is churning the landscape, zigzagging through the cracks, offering a fragile suggestion to wary ears: another path is possible.

Bayo Akomolafe

19/10/2021

Diversity OT launches in Central Queensland! Wellness on the Coast event, Yeppoon for Queensland Mental health week 9-17 October. Take time for mental health, to connect more, to embrace nature, to get healthy, to show kindness, to keep learning, to take notice. Connect. Heal. Respect. Excited to join a inspiring group of change makers showing up to share and inspire the community including powerful talks, yoga and healthy lifestyle tips.

14/09/2021

Now offering face to face services from Yeppoon Central Queensland Coast Australia and Internationally online. Get in contact for your individualised Mental Health Care Plan or NDIS Plan (psychosocial disability). Get your health back on track naturally and shine your light into the world! www.souladvisor.com/practitioner/diversity-ot

12/09/2021

sharing this on behalf of Peter Masters - My esteemed Okido Yoga teacher
OKIDO SPRING YOGA INTENSIVE🔻
🌱ONLINE MON 20 SEP - FRI 1 OCT🌱
Spring's the time of new life, vision and growth. In the Five Element system, Spring relates to the Wood Element and the Liver and Gall Bladder meridians. Key Wood concepts include flexibility, patience and creativity. Being mindful and wholehearted is the focus of all the practices.
Early morning yoga sets up the day with many physical, mental and daily life benefits. Practising consistently over two weeks can create a real shift in wellbeing. Get the new season off to an inspiring, grounded start and make the most of magical Spring!
All levels of experience and flexibility are welcome.
Includes:
✅ Unique Okido Japanese Yoga
✅ Meridian Yoga for the Liver & Gall Bladder channels
✅ Hogushi Self-Massage to release tension in body and mind
✅ Guided Visualisation, Relaxation & Sound Exercises
✅ Practical Lifestyle tips & info
✅ Key Springtime Acupressure points
✅ Yoga Community
✅ Special International Guest Okido Yoga Teacher each week
Peter Masters is one of Australia’s leading Okido Yoga teachers and Shiatsu therapists with decades of experience in Australia and Japan. Okido is a unique union of Indian Yoga, Zen and Taoist practices.
🔻DATES: Mon-Fri, Mon 20 Sept-Fri 1 Oct
🔻TIME: 6-7am Sydney AEST
🔻PRICE:
$145 ($100 deposit secures your place)
🔻ONLINE via Zoom
🔻Bookings and info :
Peter - 0418 139 232 - info@zencentral.com.au
http://zencentral.com.au/yoga_workshops_events.html

06/07/2020

Hello Everyone, This is my brand new Instagram account, follow it for future updates about diversity OT and mental well being.

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