Living Inquiries Facilitator: Dorene Palmer

Let's dive in and find out what the Living Inquires are about.

The Living Inquiries invite you to examine your identity, beliefs, doubts, misunderstanding, and confusion, which visit us all from time to time. They give you the opportunity to delve into the habitual patterns and conditioning which can seem very real - to the point of taking over our lives. The inquiries can help with seeing directly how they have formed an apparent identity, which sometimes gets in the way of your true nature being expressed.

In my life I have found the Living Inquiries profoundly beneficial. The most valuable impact of the Inquires is really knowing and trusting in a deeply embodied way that presence itself includes everything: the pain, suffering, fear, pleasure and joy. When whatever arises is embraced in genuine presence, it is liberated and comes to rest. 

What can you expect from coming for a session with me? Firstly I want to share how much I love the Living Inquiries, both receiving and giving sessions. What I like to do is hold the space for you to be there for yourself with me as a witness - for you to meet, allow and be with as I gently mirror what’s showing up.

Sometimes I ask clients what inquiry means to them, words like ‘really radical’, ‘peace’, ‘month's of therapy in one session’, ‘intimate and more present to life’.

I have been a life-long seeker, but also a life-long lover: of sanctuary, of resonance, of expansion, presence and being. I have been steeping in fields of presence for many decades, and this is my calling and love. Like many of us, along the way, I have been challenged and confronted by patterns, traumas and issues, and have found ways to work with these in embodied, undefended and courageous ways.  I have a particular resonance with themes of unworthiness, inadequacy and self-expression. 

In my life I have found the Living Inquiries profoundly beneficial. The most valuable impact of the Inquires is really knowing and trusting in a deeply embodied way that presence itself includes everything: the pain, suffering, fear, pleasure and joy. When whatever arises is embraced in genuine presence, it is liberated and comes to rest. 

I welcome those who share my wish to be fully present– even curious – in meeting whatever is arising, and sensing the layers peel away. Be that: spiritual seeking or bypassing, relational or sexual issues including sexual identity, financial matters or deep-seated unworthiness.

How do the Living Inquiries work?

Simply put, it involves deep inner listening, responding to where you are at without any advise or push to change anything. It’s what I call present moment listening, listening to the resonance of the words and images and how it’s experienced in the body. With the support of a facilitator, we follow and track the sensations as they arise, welcoming and allowing them to be as they are. Nothing to change, just being with what’s present in the body, and with that authentic meeting and often at a profound and deep level, somehow it comes to rest in the ground of your being.

The gift of Inquiry is here for you, you are welcome to contact me for an introductory chat or a session. Looking forward to hearing from you.