reflections

Inner Space Turns 9 today, 26th December. As always, it is deeply satisfying and humbling to be a part of so many lives. We feel lucky and very grateful that we get to deeply share and process something very human with everyone we meet, over and over and over again, whether in a therapy session or in a workshop. What kept us Ticking in 2019? Everyone loves good work and we are no different! Each year brings with it its own flavor. Here are some things that we loved doing in 2019! Therapy and more Therapy Well yes, this is the foundation of all our training and work. Most of us from the team have had some therapy experience even before Inner Space began in 2010, but this keeps us ticking all the way! Just to be a part of people’s lives in a free flowing, intimate way, where they share themselves as they are and we meet them as we are, is an abundant experience! Working and Interacting with NGOs This year, we did a lot of work with NGOs. We were overjoyed to facilitate mindfulness workshops for the Antarang Foundation team and the Apni Shala Foundation team. We also aligned the social-emotional learning curriculum of Apni Shala with the mindfulness principles of compassion and non-judgment, for 18 Municipal schools. This was a new, fun experience! Any work with children calls for more creativity, which we thoroughly enjoyed. Previous slide Next slide We also continued our therapy and mindfulness work with Kranti, an NGO that rescues and rehabilitates children of sex workers. We have been working on personal and trauma therapy with them for many years now and they now are an integral part of many of our mindfulness workshops! Our New Mindfulness Course! In addition to our 8 week mindfulness course (we did 4 courses this year!) and our mindfulness retreat, we were very happy to begin a new program – The Breathing Happiness Mindfulness Program for children! This has been in the pipeline for long but picked up steam after our work with Apni Shala. Our child counselor Shubhra Mehta facilitates this program. It was surprising to see how effortlessly the children took to the practice. We began a meditation circle for those who have attended our programs and wish to keep up the practice. We also now have regular guided meditation sessions on Thursdays. The more there is meditation, the happier we are! It gives us a lot of joy to watch people grow more peaceful and joyful as they meditate Previous slide Next slide Workshops for Organizations This year, we worked with Mindfulness for Engineers and their families at Tata Power, mindfulness for women at Asian Paints and Mindfulness for Leaders at Motilal Oswal and Microsoft. We also conducted a mindfulness workshop for young employees for Endurance International Group. It is wonderful to see more organizations explore this practice and explore the benefits of mindfulness for their workforce. Previous slide Next slide With this, we close this year and look forward to whatever 2020 has in store! Deep gratitude to each one of you, for all your love and support. Wishing each of you wellness and happiness in the year to come! Stay well, stay happy!

Inner Space Turns 8! We turned 8 on the 26th of December, 2018! As always, we are excited and happy, more so because we have moved into a new office space! We feel deeply grateful towards everybody who has been with us on this journey, our clients, our therapists and staff, our readers, and whoever has interacted with us in some capacity. We work each day looking to make a difference in some way, through action, intention or through the heart. You all are a big part of what keeps us going, and we thank you for every bit of it! Inner Space in 2018 We’ve put together snippets of how this year was for us and some highlights of the year.   We have a New Office! The biggest change this year was that we moved into a new office space, the inauguration of which we held recently! In addition to bringing in fresh energy and novelty, this space also has a dedicated meditation hall that we are very excited about! Geshe Lobsang Tenzin graced our center with his peaceful, embodied presence. He conducted a meditation session for us and blessed the center. It was a beautiful experience. Previous Next Our Meditation Workshops We hold mindfulness meditation workshops through the year. As always, we feel joyful to hold these workshops and create a space for mindfulness, rest and compassion. This year, we conducted: An eight week course on mindfulness and meditation A mindfulness based psychotherapy course A mindfulness meditation retreat, Introductory mindfulness workshops Previous Next Workshops in Organizations We also feel grateful and happy to have conducted mindfulness meditation workshops in more organizations this year. Among others, we conducted mindfulness workshops for :- Employees and their families at Tata Power Senior Leaders at Mercedes Benz Women employees at Asian Paints Students at iCall (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) A Mindfulness Retreat for Antarang Foundation Sadia Saeed, our founder and chief psychologist also represented Inner Space at the 100 Wellness Leaders’ Meet, Mexico in May 2018. Previous Next Some Sharings from the Team Entering Inner Space began the most beautiful phase of my life. Thank you Inner Space for accommodating me with so much love and warmth in the past three and half years, being patient, allowing me to make mistakes and learn from them, supporting me and giving me space to find my unique style in therapy, fulfilling all my needs and instilling in me a sense of unshakable confidence to take up bigger challenges. Gitali Chatterji, Psychologist and Counselor Working with Inner Space has been rewarding and invaluable. The physical space, team interaction and group work, Sadia’s backing when we’d be stuck with difficulties in cases and the amazing client journeys we could aide through inner space has been wonderful. Truly enriching and adequately stimulating has been my experience. Wishing all of the Inner Space team and the clients a healing, rewarding experience Kunjal Shah, Psychologist and Counselor, 2012-2018 I have seen myself grow with the space since it was founded. Sadia and my other team mates have helped me overcome many a difficulty over these years, be it personal or professional. I have found the practice of mindfulness meditation and its underlying philosophy immensely useful, both in my life as well as in therapy. I am deeply thankful to Inner Space for being a space of warmth and growth. Malini Krishnan, Psychologist and Counselor I have met so many incredible people, as clients and as colleagues, through my 6 years at Inner Space. It has been a very powerful journey, where I have grown internally, been trusted and accepted, where I have unfolded deeper realms within myself while touching other people’s lives. I feel truly grateful. Megha Tulsiyan, Psychologist and Counselor, 2013-2018. We hope to continue working as best as we can and growing with you. May each of you be well and happy, as you enter into the new year. Wishing you the best!

In the wake of our 5th Birthday and the New Year turning in, we find ourselves reflectively looking back at the work we have done in the year that has gone by. As we do that, we wish to share with you all about the ongoings at Inner Space for 2015. We deeply thank each one of you for being a part of Inner Space and showing your support.

We turned five on 26th December, 2015! It’s the end of a year and the beginning of a new one, setting the stage for deep introspection…Our Chief Psychologist, Sadia Saeed Raval pens down her reflections and insights that the year gone by has offered, leaving us with some thoughts about how we could contribute to world peace!

This post is always my favorite post of the year because I ritually sit down with a nice cup of tea and I can indulge myself in reminiscing about all the wonderful people I saw in therapy, about their movement and growth, about all the work we put in as a team, the activities we did and all the articles we wrote thinking of all of you who read this space regularly.

Inner Space turns three on the 26th of December 2013 and we also near the end of another year.

The year has been eventful, lots of action, work, an additional office, new associations, more therapists and so on. But amidst the enjoyable inertia of all this work and action, I want to remind myself and all the Inner Space therapists to not lose sight of why we started Inner Space…