Wayne Woodthorpe

Inner Child Work

Inner Child Work is the foundation of approach for reviewing and resolving breaches in the safety container before further archetypal work is usually available. After this stage we can quickly drop into archaic narratives that may be waiting for you to bring to life. These integration stories often lead to resolving mysteries from our past and/or considerations that help us to progress through deep soul lessons and purification processes to achieve a more comfortable state of mind. Participants have approached me after connections to plant medicine and psychic readings in order to complete integration work that is ready to be addressed.

Chaptering

Chapters are guided meditation narratives that allow our inner child to present and perform chronological episodes. Within these episodes our inner child can bring almost anything to our attention for consideration and resolution using symbols and metaphors that give us the appropriate distance to attune to the message and meaning being presented. A standard chapter is 3 sessions, given over an agreed period of time. This also allows our inner child to incorporate lessons and activities between the sessions. If held correctly, the length of the chapter is decided by the inner child who will often bring us back to the place we started and promptly make a courtly departure.

Chaptering arose from a blend of separate inner child activities. We regularly balance inner child work equally between work and play, so an adventure is a good way to balance up in between regressions. At a certain point in the work we also tend towards ancestral work and this is where the blended narrative became a complete practice of open adventure with an ancestral scope. This work, play and archetypal adventure became a platform of exciting exploration for the inner child with a deep interpretative reach. We are continuing to analyse the typical content structure alongside folkloric oral ancestral tales from tribes worldwide, an although we’re not in a place to anthropologically match these patterns on a scientific level, we may find a rewarding parallel which indicates a deeper reason why ancestral inner child work through Chaptering does show up with a familiar form.

Wayne is an extremely knowledgeable, insightful, and supportive therapist with this work. I have felt and seen a real shift in my reactions and triggers after doing this work. I’m really blown away about how much this work has shifted my perspective, self-awareness, and my emotional wellbeing. – Theresa Guenard, USA

Wayne is a solid and compassionate presence who has clearly practiced for many years what he teaches in the workshop. I felt heard and validated throughout the process, which helped me feel more relaxed in the presence of the unknown. His passion toward the subject matter is always apparent and he is very supportive before, during, and after. – David Farrell, USA

Wayne will not give you answers or a ready-made plan. He makes you go on this journey by yourself and it is the most powerful thing, even if it feels difficult at the start. – Dikshita Mahadik, Qatar

Wayne has created a space where I feel safe to ask any and all the questions I have and he answers them openly and honestly or offers me the tools to answer them myself. – Toni Lambert, USA

Working with Wayne has been a joy! He’s very creative and flexible in his delivery of the Inner Council content. I appreciate his dedication to this work and being a great resource for students on this journey. Wayne exudes a sort of grace and tenderness in the way he has chosen to engage me at each step of the way. I quickly grew to trust him and his insights as we moved through the workshop series. – Yhav Sims, USA