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Opening to Grace

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Opening to Grace (formerly Terrigal Gestalt Institute) is an independent Gestalt training and healing organisation based on the Central Coast of New South Wales. Our professional, personal and spiritual development programs have been crafted to provide you with compassion and support throughout your learning and healing experience. Grounded in the Gestalt approach and contemplative practice, our O

pening to Grace healing and retreat programs, individual and group sessions, flow naturally from a synthesis of transpersonal healing practice underpinned with heart-centred Gestalt practice. If you are interested in either personal and/or professional development offered through a creative and exciting framework, give Dinah a call on 0439 752 710.

08/06/2025

🕊️ SINGING BEAUTY INTO BEING 💙

There is a sound beneath the chaos of the world
A tremble in the bones
A breath at the edge of Silence

It is the sound of the birth of Beauty
Born not of perfection
But from Presence
From Truth
From a Soul that has dared to remember

You are not here to echo the ache of a world that has forgotten its song
You are here to stir the waters
To Ignite the sky
To place your hands into the Earth and whisper
“Come alive. And Sing"

You carry the Chalice
It is not heavy. It was made for you
Crafted from obsidian and Starlight
Poured from the first word ever spoken:
"Let there be ..."

Let there be Beauty.. from the ashes
Let there be Love.. where it has been lost
Let there be Light.. from within, not above

You are not just the Echo
You are the Beginning

So when the world grows Weary and Wild
When the Darkness thickens like storm-heavy skies
When you forget yourself again ...

Drink deeply
Drink from the chalice that lives in your Heart
And sing—not to impress, not to be heard
But because it is Who You Are

A Singer of Soul-light
A Weaver of Wonder
A Flame that dances with Grace

One who sings Beauty into Being ...
Everywhere
And Always

❤️❤️
Dinah

20/05/2025

💢 WEEKLY MUSINGS ...

The beauty in YOU is far stronger than any ugliness you will meet in others.
It might seem that the ugliness and nastiness and violence in others wins ... but it doesn't!
Every spiritual force stands behind you to give you strength to stay connected to beauty ... even in a world that has grown cold and gray.

When you let this truth sink down to the depths of your being, you will begin to see beauty around you. More & more. And eventually, with trembling hands, you will discover it within you.

I believe this is possible for everyone, no matter your story ... no matter what you have had to endure in this life. Beauty is always calling to you, And she calls to you even now. ♥️

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04/05/2025

❤️ AUSTRALIA votes for Kindness, Compassion and Common Sense! ❤️

I'm SO happy to be Australian right now!
In a landslide election yesterday, Australians voted against the push for fascist right-wing extremism in this country. We do not want the nonsense we see going on in the US right now and other parts of the world. In fact the opposition leader of our right wing conservative party lost his own seat in parliament. This is seen here as a massive repudiation of Trump's fascist administration and everything he stands for.

Our left-wing Labour govt. will strengthen our free healthcare system and public education system, focus on climate change initiatives, advance reconciliation with our indigenous peoples and deal with our immigration issues with respect for their humanity and the incredibly rich diversity in this country. There is also a respect for women's rights and gender, sexuality choice with a slogan of
"NO-ONE HELD BACK, NO-ONE LEFT BEHIND!"

I couldn't be more proud of my fellow countrypeople right now, and for the first time in 3 months I have real hope for this world!
The world is changing and we now have a clear sense of who we want to be and who we don't!!
World, WE CAN DO THIS!! ❤️🇦🇺

*And both leaders were gracious in their winning and losing ... Australia showing the world what class, grace, and respect looks like 👌

24/04/2025

💢 ANZAC DAY ... April 25th
I've just returned from a very moving Dawn service to honour our ANZACS who have fallen in war.

Not a glorification of war but a learning from its destruction, and an honouring of those who willingly gave their lives in the belief it would bring Peace.

It doesn't, but those young Australian & New Zealand soldiers who stormed the beaches of Gallipoli on April 25th,1915, didn't know that. They fought because they had to, because they had no choice. And it was all for nothing. The ANZACS & the Turks they fought against were all slaughtered, and lay dead on the battlefield beside each other. United in death ...

But following the war, in 1934, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first leader of the Republic of Turkey, chose to reach out to Australia & New Zealand with words of Peace and Friendship. He spoke to the mothers of these young men cut down in their prime ... now lying dead in a foreign land far from home.

"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours ... You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."

His speech has always moved me and given me hope for this world. We CAN build bonds of friendship where once there was enmity and hate. Each generation has a chance to wipe the slate clean and begin to create a world of unity and peace. Let it be so ... ❤️

* pics from our Dawn Service in Terrigal, NSW.

13/03/2025

Living for each other is definitely how we build strong community that is resilient and sustainable. There is no other way ... ♥️

07/03/2025

💢 TOXIC MASCULINITY is way more prevalent than we think it is. It worships power and control and feeds on those who are seen as 'weak'. We must ourselves understand and promote authentic masculinity, that is the only way to build and sustain longevity and healthy relationships and communities. WE MUST BE THE CHANGE! 💢

02/03/2025

💢 "I cannot remain silent..

As a Psychotherapist, I can tell you that what we just saw in the Oval Office, was the narcissistic bullying of someone they had already decided was 'weak".

He was berated, talked over, and 'kicked while he was down'.

He was Gaslit and disrespected in the cruellest betrayal imaginable, the betrayal from a so-called ally.

Some will see it as a show of strength. As 'masculine strength' which is an

antidote to our feminised culture. Where empathy, respect, vulnerability, maturity and diplomacy are seen as WEAKNESS.

It will be difficult to change the hearts and minds of those who believe this. But for the rest of us, it's important to keep those values alive.

To live and breathe their essence in our everyday lives.

There will be worse to come for the US and the world. But hope is always threaded through the fabric of our lives, whatever happens ...
We must look for it and nurture it now more than ever.

Kindness is not just some 'nice idea'. Giving and receiving kindness changes neural pathways in our brains.It is the fabric that keeps our Communities functioning. Without it we are merely brutes. And in the end, brutes fall ..."

Dinah Buchanan

💢 Friends ... I am starting another IG page to post more like this. This is a time to speak up, not stay silent.
Please follow me on for more!

18/02/2025

💢 HOBBIT WISDOM
It is indeed the simple acts of kindness that will save us ... ♥️

"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."
J.R.R Tolkein
THE HOBBIT, 1937

05/01/2025

💙 All you gotta do is walk through those doors ...

29/12/2024

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19/12/2024

Beautiful wisdom ... ♥️

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