A Touch of Gentleness is rippling through East Sussex bringing new solutions to our world addressing the disconnection, loneliness and isolation that has become so endemic in our society.
Everyone needs to feel valued, heard, seen and cared about. A Touch of Gentleness offers people just that.
Committed to bringing ‘connection touch and gentleness’ back to the forefront of society we train volunteers to give a beautiful hand massage whilst listening with deep gentleness. This service is then offered out to the local community, care homes, hospices, organisations, and at events.
A Touch of Gentleness is a non for profit community interest company set up by Helen Prosper a counsellor, play therapist and massage instructor with the help of Jerry Brooks a priest and lawyer.
The benefits of A Touch of Gentleness include:
- Up-skilling people who become volunteers, giving them a sense of meaning and purpose and community. This in turn increases their self-worth and sense of wellbeing whilst reducing loneliness.
- We also provide an outlet for people who have reached that stage in life when they want to give back, maybe to a particular group of society, in a heart led way.
- Providing recipients with some comfort, care and attention, helping them feel seen, heard and valued. In doing so we are reducing feelings of isolation and ‘care fatigue’ for those that are constantly giving but don’t get to receive.
- Bringing touch and all its emotional and physical benefits safely back to society.
- Supporting other local communities such as Help The Aged or Help The Homeless, etc, by adding to what they are offering or by giving their volunteers and staff some-much needed care back.
- Bringing more gentleness into the world and encouraging people to live by its wisdom. Gentleness is a balm for the nervous system and as we soothe our own nervous system so we can then co- regulate and soothe another nervous system – and so the ripple effect begins. As we become calmer and feel more connected with ourselves, (thus healing ourselves from the inside out) and then connect with others, we become more heart centred, creative, and kinder to one another. It is with this energy, at this grass root level, that we can then co create a better more peaceful world.
For too long we have talked of world peace, though it isn’t our words, it is our action and the energy with which we do that action, and with which we live by that makes the difference.
Our next training day is in Eastbourne on Wednesday June 29th 2022.
If you would like to join us please do get in touch. For more information please visit – www.atouchofgentleness.org
Helen Prosper
