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Els Thissen and Paula Baker discuss the challenges and pitfalls you may encounter whilst facilitating an Attitudinal Healing group
Els Thissen and Paula Baker discuss the challenges and pitfalls you may encounter whilst facilitating an Attitudinal Healing group
Els Thissen—author of Attitudinal Healing and A Course in Miracles: Effortless Living—brings over 30 years of experience in living, teaching, and facilitating Attitudinal Healing and A Course in Miracles. She founded the Centre for Attitudinal Healing in the Netherlands in 1991, building a nationwide network of AH groups and facilitators, and also works with Family Constellations.
Below, you’ll find video conversations between Els and Paula on the art of facilitating an Attitudinal Healing group. Together, they explore the challenges facilitators may encounter, the core skills and attitudes that support the work, and the inner journey toward becoming a compassionate, unconditionally loving, and forgiving presence.
To find out more about Els and AH in the Netherlands, please click on the links on this page.
If you would like to know more about becoming a participant or a facilitator of an Attitudinal Healing group, please contact Paula for more information: attitudinalhealinguk@gmail.com
Staying clear of judgements
Staying clear of judgements
In this conversation, Paula and Els explore the experience of facilitating an Attitudinal Healing group — with a special focus on what to do when judgment arises.
They share gentle reminders to pause, breathe, and return to your heart space, seeing others through the lens of wholeness rather than critique. Judgment, they say, is like a passing cloud — it doesn’t define reality and doesn’t need to be held onto.
In Attitudinal Healing groups, advice is never offered. Instead, we hold space with presence, compassion, and deep respect for each person's journey. Els invites us to question our thoughts: Is this judgment really true? Is it 100% true?
When we recognize that our thoughts are not facts, we can let them go and simply choose kindness.
No advice giving - no fixing!
No advice giving - no fixing!
In this warm and insightful conversation, Paula and Els share their experience of how to respond when someone offers advice or tries to fix another’s experience.
Els shares her gentle yet direct approach: when advice is given, she simply says, “Stop it!” - and lovingly invites the person to turn the focus inward. In Attitudinal Healing, we see each person as whole, capable, and wise enough to navigate their own life.
Two key group guidelines are called upon when someone tries to offer advice or fix another:
Guideline 3: “We are here to heal ourselves. We are not here to give advice or change anyone’s beliefs or behaviour.”
Guideline 8: “We practice being present with others, seeing each person as whole—not defined by appearance, mood, behaviour, or circumstance.”
They also discuss how to handle moments when someone asks for advice—by gently reflecting the question back: “What have you done in the past to support yourself?”
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If you would like to see more videos about facilitating Attitudinal Healing groups please visit Paula's You Tube channel: Paula's Place Scotland.
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