Leoma Hague, Rev. Master

I’d like to share with you something that I’ve found helpful in my own training recently, in the context of training in difficult situations. Most of us have probably had one or more events in our lives that have affected us deeply and that we continue to have to work with, situations that have caused us much grief. Perhaps we still feel traumatised, or angry. Or perhaps we just don’t feel we have closure, we’ve not yet laid the event to rest. The ongoing nature of this work can make us despair that we shall ever have ‘dealt with it’. Then it’s easy to fall into thinking, “I’m not a very good trainee, because I’m still grappling with this after all these years”, or more subtly, “I’m not a very good trainee, because this is still coming up”. We can’t seem to help having an ideal of training, which we don’t measure up to.

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