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This last week saw the end of the holidays and now it’s time to start in earnest with my business plans for this coming year. So I’m having a look over the ideas I had for the business going forward at the AGM in December in extending the main healing with Photography course to three hours for each session. So that needs writing.
And I’m also looking at how best to set these courses out, whether to do them in three and half days or to keep to the format that worked well with the MIND centre of half a day every week. When the idea of HWP first came to me, I realised that what I was developing will work particularly well in a professional area of which I have personal knowledge of from previous jobs. People in this industry can be unable to work through injury and illness for long periods of time from many months to a year or more. Depression and anxiety during their treatment and recovery kicks in pretty quickly, particularly if time is the only healer of bones or tissue.
It’s because I have knowledge and I the contacts here, I’m seriously thinking of going back to this area and offering my expertise in a field that is slowly opening up to the advantages of more holistic approaches. From experiencing them to understanding them to gradually accepting that there are other ways forward other than purely medical treatment when looking after a person’s well-being. This field could lead on to a much wider area of similar jobs and similar problems and hopefully through word of mouth, I will be able to help more people.
One thing that I didn’t quite bring to fruition last year, and this is one that I am going to pay more attention to this year, is getting a mentor. I think that there were definitely times when I could have done with having someone there who I could turn around to and get some advice from. Although I did take some time to send a couple of letters to someone who I wanted to be my mentor, time and distance now tells me that as I’ve moved the goalposts in the business, so this person wouldn’t now be a good fit with me. So it’s just as well that they never bothered to reply!
When I think about what I achieved in 2011 I realise that by listening to myself and going with my gut feeling I was able to answer most of my own questions. That said though, I still feel that it never hurts to have someone who has been there, seen it and done it to be a guiding hand. So I’m going to pay some attention to attracting a mentor whom I admire and trust.
So there it is then, January is going to be a busy month. Whilst I’ve been relaxing over Christmas, I’ve been looking forward to it arriving and getting started on it…..so here I go!
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Living in the beautiful rural county of Yorkshire it was perhaps natural for Ruth to have an affinity with the countryside and its wildlife. Creativity is Ruth’s driving force finding an outlet in television & radio she worked for many years as producer for BBC & ITV.
However a love of photography and for being surrounded by nature called her to go back to her photography training and bring pleasure and joy to people through her connection with our planet.
Staying in the moment when taking her images allows her to experience the natural magnificence unfolding before her eyes. It is this moment of mediation, of gratitude, that she evocatively conveys through her images.