“In this moment of great vigilance when it is important that we remain at a distance from each other and to help you deal with this anxiety-provoking situation, I suggest that you work by videoconference. “
Since the start of confinement, the Chartraine sophrologist Noëlla Guimard has offered her students what she was already putting into practice, sporadically, with students, athletes at their place of competition … She chose to continue her activity via a screen .
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“When I started group lessons in video, it was strange, because in class, we rely on the presence of people, on what emanates from them, on their breathing … Fortunately I see them. “
His practice is very exceptionally open to individual sessions because some people need a physical presence, “support in terms of anxiety management. It’s a bonus in some cases, we recover faster than if we’re alone. ”
Over the whole of her appointment book and of the participants in the sessions that she provides in associative places, a third of the clients followed her in these collective sessions by video which brought together between ten and fifteen people.
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“I recreate proximity. I immediately composed, from the start of confinement. I can do exactly the same session as face-to-face, it doesn’t change anything for me. There really is an exchange. “
People are much more often confronted with silence and they tame that silence
Noëlla Guimard (Sophrologist)
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In this context, and even if this technique requires more energy and attention than face-to-face, Noëlla Guimard believes that this new technique will change the way she works, “especially with people who have agenda problems.” ” And to quote his exchanges with a child who had problems of sleep and anxiety related to the situation, to the distance from his school friends. “He quickly got into practice. ”
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“People’s issues are different today. I feel it during my five weekly group lessons. I no longer have a whole presence when I am in the group. My work has really changed from the usual lessons and I have used a few hypnosis techniques, I have worked to restore volume and space in confidence. I worked on body exercises in opening and stretching. This confinement means that we reduce our breathing capacity, our chest, we are going to be less straight … I worked to open the body, consciousness and breathing. It’s like an oxygen bubble. “
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If she has not changed the form of her interventions, Noëlla Guimard has changed the substance. “This situation allows me to work on other spaces such as the time available to me, which allows me to regain creativity, to be able to offer other spaces. “
Noëlla Guimard believes that “with this confinement, people are much more often confronted with silence and they tame this silence and their capacities of interiorization and concentration are very greatly improved. We can see the progress throughout the sessions and during the discussions. ”
“A positive side of what we are experiencing at the moment”
The practitioner then sees “people open up and have acuity in the feeling. They open more because they are not bothered by those next to them. They are more focused on themselves, they enrich themselves. And this enrichment work is a positive side of what we are experiencing right now. People will meet and find out, it can change the path they take. “
Immediately, what she feels in her clients is the fear of tomorrow. ” What are we going to become ? “
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“I think it brings at the same time more inner tranquility, appeasement, peace, openness, a breath of fresh air, autonomy and confidence. I always end my sessions by working on self-confidence and the development of hope. ”
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