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WOMEN, SOCIAL WORK & SPIRITUALITY
  • Earth
  • Being here
  • Silver moon
  • Our voice
  • Social work & supervision
  • Deepening & Ongoing conversations
l Manu and magic'-(Bird and magic). Art, Acrylic, ink and foil on canvas. 2008. Simmons-Hansen

'What is the meaning of it all?' 'How can I tell you who I am when you don't believe that I am real?'so writes Bakara, (in Hartman 1991). Where is the ground beneath your feet? Your words and finding your story can lead you deeper to your life possibilities and reimaginings; how else can we recognise ourself, understand our past, see a future? ​  "I am, how it all comes together. For it can't be any other way "(Participant).

If you would like to explore conversation with myself working with women,  please do contact me; e mail Merwolh@live.com. I practice as a social work therapist in The Bay of Plenty engaging with your questions, struggles, safely,  gently. I am available by appointment at the Wesley centre, Te Papa, Tauranga. We will work with narratives, with arts, engage Indigenous knowledge systems, slowly build on  emotional spiritual intelligence. Learning together, you can recognise your meaning,  utilise safe  support for you as you grow well in your life.

My work also shares a recent research study with womens sharing those extraordinary ordinary ways spiritual identity informs her in social work in Aotearoa. For in being together we remembered, reimagined, recovered  extensive and deeper legacies of meaning of great value.

These are the following pages: Earth, Being here, Silver Moon, Our Voice, and more....
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Speaking of spirituality had significance in bringing dimensions and richness to indivduals and  in relationships. In sharing these , please note the research copyright is owned by the author  of this final thesis, Women and Spirit. Permission is given for this thesis content to be read and referenced by  you for the purposes of research and private study provided you comply with the  provisions of the Copyright Act 1994 (New Zealand).  This completed thesis may not be  reproduced without the permission of the author. Copyright (2019),  asserted by Merrill Simmons-Hansen in Whakatane, New  Zealand.


Nga mihi manaakitanga kia koutou, 

Merrill

Merrill Simmons-Hansen. 

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