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Julie Barnes
Julie Barnes
Living and working with heart and soul
Welcome to my website where you can find out more about me, my interests and the resources I offer. Each page provides information and easy access to other material and resources.
This website is still developing - watch this space as it evolves.
About Me
I am a counsellor, coach and facilitator, using person-centred principles, Appreciative Inquiry and Havening Techniques®, (Ruden MD).
I am based in Nottingham and work across the UK, currently on-line.
Originally from West Sussex, I now live in Nottingham with my husband, family and allotment! We enjoy music, walking, gardening and travelling.
Other recommended connections:
online yoga with Jay Rossi www.yogastronglife.com
online pilates with Louise at www.InReachpilates.com
singing with Bevox community choir www.bevox.co.uk
Ukulele lessons with John Caudrey www.johncaudrey.co.uk
Learning about Havening www.Havening.org
staying connected with clients and peers at the Oasis School of Human Relations at www.oasishumanrelations.org.uk
‘Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go and do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive’.
Howard Thurman
Whole hearted living and working
‘If I could ask one thing of a crystal ball in any situation, it would not be how can I fix this; but what’s possible and who cares?’ Weisbord
As a whole person counsellor, coach and facilitator, I support people in healing, growing and living whole-heartedly; developing their potential in their personal and working lives. My approach is person-centred, creative and experiential, believing that, in a supportive and stimulating learning environment, people have everything they need to create the lives they want to live.
What gives life?
When do you feel most alive? When are you at your best?
I am committed to strengths-based and collaborative approaches, and am an experienced Appreciative Inquiry (AI) facilitator, working with individuals, groups and whole organisations to create strength-based sustainable u
For more information about AI see www.davidcooperrider.com and www.Champlain.edu/appreciateinquiry
Follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8V8ej4imR4 or see my Blog section for Living Well with Dementia - report and video of AI in action.
‘If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to gather wood, give orders, and divide the work. Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and endless sea.’ Antoine Saint Exupery
At the end of life
What are your choices and wishes for the end of your life? What will a ‘good death’ look like?
As a practising Soul Midwife, I support people who are dying; helping them and their families in their final journeys. I also work with people who are bereaved, with those preparing for the end of their life and people who are seeking to understand their own relationship with death and dying.
I am part of the Companion Voices Community who sing for people who are dying, at their bedside. For information about the Nottingham Companion Voices group, contact me.
What would love do now? Follow this link https://soulmidwivesshop.org/product/what-would-love-do-now-at-the-end-of-my-life/ or see my Blog section for a poem and video about voices and wishes at the end of life
‘When death comes…Soul Midwives lovingly assist and accompany a dying person on their journey. Their most important role is to provide comfort, continuous support and reassurance in helping a dying person to experience the death they want'. Felicity Warner
Music for health
What is your favourite song or piece of music?
I am passionate about the benefits of music, singing/humming and sound healing for the well-being for us all. I co-facilitate the Blue Skies Singing Group for people with dementia and their supporters, currently running online only. Singing together brings stimulation, joy and respite for us all.
If you follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGI7C3irojZNf14Jy0Rg_trkFLBO41ZIU it will take you to a YouTube playlist of 10 Blue Skies YouTube videos to help people sing-along at home.
'Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?' Mary Oliver
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Havening for healing and growth
Havening Techniques®, (Ruden MD.)
Julie Barnes offers Havening within her well-established counselling and coaching/facilitation practice, working relationally in a supportive environment. Clients are discovering the benefits of healing, growth and sustainable change through the gentle touch, creativity and empowerment of facilitated self-Havening.
‘Havening brings a new dimension to my work with people seeking healing, personal empowerment and growth. It offers powerful ways for clients to:
· clear life-limiting responses and emotional blocks,
· build their personal resilience and well-being,
· heal themselves in a sustainable way.
using their inner creativity and resources alongside the gentle Havening touch,’
My clients have found it ‘deeply relaxing’, ‘transformative’, ‘highly energising’ and ‘personally empowering’.
‘I started this session as still water and am leaving with sparkling bubbles’.
‘I have moved from feeling powerless to standing in my own power’.
‘I have tools to take away and practice’.
‘This is the best thing I have done in the whole of lockdown’.
