About The Adult Chair
The Adult Chair Model was developed by my teacher Michelle Chalfant who is a physiotherapist and trained in many personal growth and alternative healing techniques. For the past 25 years she has been working with her clients and developing The Adult Chair Model to help people heal more deeply and expeditiously. What really impressed me about Michelle’s method is the training we get to help support clients find their own truths and healing. Often in life, we feel powerless and we believe that others have the power to heal us, we give our power away. The Adult Chair model empowers us to find our own truths. It teaches us that we can heal ourselves. When we are in our Adult Chair we respond consciously in our lives and live from our trueest healthy adult self for our best life.
The Adult Chair and its lessons are the salve to my broken heart and the first stepping stones to my healthy conscious life in presence and practice. It’s my light at the end of my tunnel.
The Adult Chair Model
The Adult Chair is a manual for your life. It’s a tool that helps you feel empowered, confident and equipped with a clear roadmap to your healthiest, most authentic self. Through The Adult Chair, you will understand how your life experiences have shaped you, give a voice to the different parts of who you are, gain greater self-awareness and respond to life in a healthy way.
The Child Chair
Your inner child forms between ages zero and seven, and it is the foundation of your true feelings and needs.
The inner child is deeply vulnerable, which makes it the source of deep, connected relationships. It is also where early wounding can occur, which shapes our view of the world as we grow up. When seated in the Child Chair, we find creativity, passion, spontaneity, trust and intimacy.
The Adolescent Chair
In adolescence, you begin to develop your own identity and realize that you are separate and unique from the world around you.
As the ego forms, so does the desire to protect yourself, whether the daggers are real or imagined. When seated in the Adolescent Chair, we become perfectionist, judgmental and controlling, and we develop a mask to hide our authentic selves from a world that seems cold and rejecting. Most of us live from this place until we awake and decide we are ready to change.
The Adult Chair
The Adult Chair represents your highest self: living in the present moment, dealing with facts and truth over stories and assumptions and being able to set boundaries from a place of patience and compassion.
While seated in the Adult Chair, we can deeply connect with our inner child’s needs and feelings and objectively observe our adolescent’s behaviors. It is here, and only here, that we can become aware of—and overcome—the emotional triggers and negative patterns that hold us back.
