While the Hebrew phrase shalom bayit is 'a peaceful home', in its simplest sense, shalem bayit is 'a complete home'.
Shalem is wholeness, completion, fulfillment, and coming to an end. It carries a sense of commitment, maturity, and healing. It is the fullness of our relational person, with human and non-human animals and the world. It is the completion of our tasks. Eventually, it is the completion of our time in this world.
Together, we will deepen our reflection, understanding and creative practice across the four worlds of intellect and contemplation, emotion and feeling, action and embodiment, and meaning or spirituality. The four worlds come together in community, understood as relationship.
These worlds don't exist in isolation; each is integral to, inseparable from, the others. We can’t build a house with just a roof and no walls to hold it up, or a floor and walls but no roof. A complete house is built with floor, walls, a roof, and even the spaces between them, all working together to form the structure. We complete our house through our physicality, our intellectual and emotional needs, our familial and communal relations, and our meaningful connections. This is Shalem Bayit.
What is Shalem Bayit?
אצילות, Atzilut, Emenation
the world of meaning and spirituality
בריאה, Briyah, Creation
the world of intellect and contemplation
קהילה, Kehilah, Community
relationship
יצירה, Yetzirah, Formation
the world of emotion and feeling
עשיה, Assiyah, Action
the physical world of action and embodiment
Who Am I?
The Shalem Bayit model is respectfully and gratefully adapted into the Four Worlds of Kabbalistic thought from Mason Durie’s 1982 Te Whare Tapa Whā model for Māori health and wellbeing. If it isn't speaking to you personally, don't worry too much. We can find an holistic model that's a better fit for how you think about your world.
I am a creativity coach, therapist and ex-academic cyber-commuting from Western
Australia after years of travelling and teaching overseas.
My practice areas focus on creativity, grief, loss and end-of-life, and spirituality
(understood broadly as meaning, purpose and connection). I have worked in
immersive cross-cultural contexts, and in gender violence, mental health and
palliative care.
I hold doctorates in existential phenomenology and creative writing and in death in the
ancient Near East, as well as qualifications in counselling, psychology, creative arts in
health, religious studies and philosophy. I bring an array of interests in literature,
ecology, philosophy, twice-exceptional adults, and writing to my work with clients.
I am a member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia
(PACFA Reg. Clinical 28298), and am guided by the PACFA code of ethics and
the Australian Association of Buddhist Counsellors and Psychotherapists code of conduct.
I work with individuals and groups who are seeking to cultivate the life, death, or creative practice they find meaningful. The holistic Shalem Bayit model (above) ensures we address all areas of your life in our focussed work together.
Please use the contact form below to get in touch, or email or message using the links on the home page. Please note that I am not often able to answer a direct telephone call as I am often with clients. If you leave your details I will attempt to get back to you within two business days.
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