Spirituality is a concept that has meaning for many but may mean different things to different people. ‘Spiritual’ is a term that is often used in common parlance, which lets us know it is part of our day-to-day experience.

The Spiritual Companions Trust defines spirituality as follows:
‘Spirituality is everyone’s natural ability to connect with the wonder and energy of life and the instinct to explore its meaning.’

We use terms like ‘the human spirit’ and ‘lifting the spirits. But what is the nature of the spiritual experiences we speak of? What impact do they have on us and how can we tend to our spiritual wellbeing?

The College of Healing approach to spirituality is a practice-based approach concerned with our overall sense of wellbeing. It is about understanding how we ‘keep our spirits up’ or how we stay ‘in good cheer’. COH helps an individual to be more aware of how to tend to each aspect of the whole self and create the most nourishing sets of conditions to support a happy, healthy life.

Ethics as a branch of philosophy can be concerned with what is morally right or wrong. This might be informed by a variety of cultural, political or economic principles that may or may not be universal or agreed by all. While some philosophers argue that theoretically we cannot use concepts like ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, and that we need to move away from dualistic ways of seeing the world, the College of Healing asks questions like ‘What are the conditions that support life?’ and ‘What are the conditions that do not support life?’

The College has worked hard to create an inclusive and expansive approach to self-care that gives people the freedom to explore their own concepts around spirituality whilst, at the same time, providing a universal structure to develop a self-care practice that helps to move us towards the solution for the highest good of all.