Welcome sensitive soul,

** My apologies this website, my offerings (& myself) are currently being renovated… Thanks for your patience as I knock out a few walls and create something more aligned with what’s being called forward… fyi - What’s written below is the general direction (we as a collective) are heading… Stay tuned…

If you’ve found yourself here you’re either a pioneering parent seeking attuned care for your child. Maybe you’re wanting to better support your child through challenging behaviours Perhaps you’re planning a pregnancy and want to set your future Bub up for the best emotional & cognitive health possible. or you’re wanting to create authentic connection (attunement) with yourself and/or another. Fun fact: As humans we all face challenges in the areas of attunement, authenticity and connection.

“We’re born with a need for attachment and a need for authenticity. Most people abandon their true selves (authenticity) to please others and keep the relationship (attachment) even if they are toxic and destructive… When authenticity threatens attachment- attachment trumps authenticity.” Dr. Gabor Mate

Sometimes we face a choice to compromise ourself to sustain a bond, or to remain true to ourself and risk the relationship. FYI - For a lot of us this choice was highlighted during the ‘pandemic’ …These painful challenges are where the journey gets bumpy and we begin to wander from our path, our childhood “stuff” and adaptive beaviours rise to the surface. These challenges also lead us towards a treasure chest of deep healing. Attunement Facilitation can help!

My name is Emma Hawkins, I’m an Attunement Facilitator and certified Senior Interplay Practitioner. I’m trauma informed and the “seemingly simplistic” therapeutic method I use is based on modern attachment theory and evidence based neurobiology.

How do I do what I do?

By creating authentic, synergistic connection I tune into and feel WITH my clients’ experience to support the client (individual, couple, parent/child or family) with exactly what is. As clients’ relational patterns play out in real time, a process of recreating and reorganising begins to take place. By putting words to the unspoken I make the unconscious conscious. Through an experience of attuned, authentic connection; neural pathways are re-wired, adaptive behaviours are able to change, cycles of intergenerational trauma are broken and authentic connection (attunement) becomes the new normal.

Attunement Facilitation isn’t a “quick fix” … thankfully there’s nothing about you that needs “fixing”… However over a number of sessions (recreating, reorganising and rewriting) we WILL literally rewire neural pathways making life a hell of a lot easier and more fulfilling.

Parent/ child attunement:

“Practicing attunement is recognising what the child’s nervous system needs to feel safer. Nothing does that as effectively as a caring adult who can stay calm through a child’s emotional storms.”

Therapeutic/ relationship attunement

“Attunement can be simply defined as the focus of attention on the inner world. Interpersonal attunement is the focussing of kind attention on the internal experience of another.”

 

Stuff myself & our team offer to support your attunement:

ATTUNEMENT SESSIONS: Mon, Wed, Thurs 10am - 5pm. By appointment.

KIDS GROUP SESSIONS: Tues & Fri - 9.30am - 2.30pm. By enrolment. Casual school holiday spots available.

OCEAN THERAPY SESSIONS: Weekends. By appointment.

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In the beginning …

** Once Upon a Time … Head, Heart & Hand Holidays Cambodia was my main focus in life (literally.) Alas, my own healing journey continues to teach me a LOT … (cue Rumi quote: “One I was clever so I tried to change the world, today I am wise so I’m changing myself.”) Long story short - I’m no longer facilitating trips to Cambodia. It’s honestly been a heartbreaking letting go process, with layers of inner-child healing & grief involved …AND it’s brought me to this moment NOW , with a new way of BEing in the world & new wisdom to share. I am forever grateful for our Head, Heart & Hand Team in Cambodia & all the beautiful paths I crossed, as well as the hundreds of AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL participants who joined us over the years.

If you would like to travel to Cambodia please reach out and I’m happy to connect you with our old team over there.

For the moment we still have our Karma Shopping store … and you might feel warm n’ fuzzy to know that 10% of all profits from any service provided by Head, Heart & Hand Co. goes directly to where it’s needed in Cambodia.


 

Head, Heart and Hand Holidays HAS PROUDLY SUPPORTED various life changing projects in Cambodia, including projects at:

Anlung Pi Free School

Anlung Pi nursery

Anlung Pi Public School

Kork Trach Primrary School

Tlok Primary School

Ta Trav Primary School

Lvea Primary School

The Little School Cafe

Treak Community Centre

Tnai Samrap Srey (Days For Girls)

WRC (Women's Resource Centre)

Hearts to Harmony

We also support

Phare Circus, Healing Hands Blind Massage, Brak Sophanna, Rehash trash, Plastic Free Cambodia, Angkor Children's Hospital

and various other individuals on our team not only by creating employment opportunities but also via English and university sponsorships. 

Thank you for DONATING HERE

From our hearts we thank you for sharing the journey!

Much love from,

Em, Vuthy and the team : Toho, Chhorvoan, Sreyleap, Pahna, Kimsour, Kuy, Sen, Ponlock and all of us at Head, Heart and Hand Holidays. 

"Thank you Emma for awakening my shadow and light, for taking me on a journey where I had to face my weaknesses and the things I feared. It is from this journey that I have been able to recognise when I need to take time out to love myself, to re-connect with my head and heart, so what comes from my hands (my expressions and actions to the world) are a positive contribution. Bless you and your path."

"Em, you are such an inspirational lady and I am so grateful to have you in my life. You took me on a life changing journey to Cambodia and now I can honestly say I have found a friend and sista for life! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for showing me love, gratitude, light, resilience and strength. I love you Em" 

"I just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you. Thank you for providing such a wonderful, supportive, loving, majestical adventure. I pondered over attending the Head Heart and Hand Holiday for a couple of months. Needless to say I am so happy I made the decision to join you and all the other beautiful people on this journey. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to share such a beautiful place (Siem Reap) with such wonderful people. All I can say that if someone else is reading this and trying to decide whether or not to attend. DO IT!   I guarantee you will never ever regret it. Only wonder why you didn't do it earlier!  Love ya to bits Em. Xxxx"

"My abundance of gratitude and love right now exists for the recent retreat in Cambodia. What it means for me right now and forever more is that that I now live my life with passion and purpose. It has allowed me to see the amazing person that exists within me, that exists in all of us if this is what we allow and choose our lives to be. We are the magician and masters of our own lives. Once we break through the fear of potential it is only then that we realise we have wings to fly. The wings that have always been there, we just needed to find them. We find the strength, determination and courage to discover the freedom within us that evolves from the only place that we can be and that is from unconditional love. Love ya guts Em."

Take a journey from head to heart, straight to your soul …