BIOGRAPHICAL COUNSELLING
Your Life as a Path of Self-Discovery
Biographical Counseling invites you to look at your life not simply as a series of things that happened, but as an unfolding journey with rhythms, chapters, turning points, challenges, relationships, gifts, and possibilities.
At the heart of the work are the septenniums—seven-year phases of human development.
Each seven-year period can be explored as a chapter carrying different experiences and developmental questions. We revisit these chapters not to remain in the past, but to understand how your life has shaped you, what you have developed through it, and what may now be ready to change or emerge.
THE SEPTENNIUM JOURNEY
0–7 | ROOTS
Where did my story begin?
We explore early environment, family, belonging, the body, senses, play, imagination, security, and your first experiences of the world.
This is the landscape in which the foundations of your biography began to form.
7–14 | DISCOVERY
How did I begin to experience myself and the world?
School, friendships, creativity, authority, beauty, learning, comparison, confidence, and emotional development become important themes.
We explore what inspired you—and what may have begun to silence or shape your natural expression.
14–21 | IDENTITY
Who am I becoming?
Adolescence brings questions of identity, independence, relationships, belonging, sexuality, ideals, dreams, and finding one’s own voice.
We look at the emerging individual beneath family and social expectations.
21–28 | ENTERING LIFE
What will I do with my freedom?
Work, relationships, exploration, independence, choices, mistakes, and experimentation often characterize this period.
We explore how you began creating a life outside childhood structures.
28–35 | BECOMING
Is the life I created truly mine?
Questions around career, partnership, family, responsibility, identity, and direction can deepen.
This period may invite us to distinguish between the life we thought we should live and the life that feels ours authentically.
35–42 | REASSESSMENT
What is asking to change?
What once worked may no longer be enough.
Questions about meaning, authenticity, relationships, creativity, purpose, and unlived possibilities can become stronger.
Rather than seeing this only as a crisis, biographical work can approach it as an invitation toward greater consciousness and choice.
42–49 | REORIENTATION
What wants to be lived differently?
We may begin releasing identities that were built around expectation, achievement, or external validation.
The question gradually shifts from “What am I supposed to become?” toward:
“What is genuinely mine to bring into the world?”
49–56 | INTEGRATION
What have I learned from my life?
Experience begins to become wisdom.
We can look back with greater perspective and recognize connections between events that once seemed unrelated.
This can become a period of integration, creativity, contribution, and renewed direction.
56–63 | MEANING
What matters now?
The emphasis can increasingly move from achievement toward meaning.
What do I want to give?
What deserves my energy?
What no longer does?
What wants to be completed, created, taught, shared, or transformed?
63+ | WISDOM & LEGACY
What do I want to leave behind?
Biography becomes not only personal history but also wisdom, contribution, transmission, creativity, and legacy.
The question becomes less about accumulating and more about what we can offer from everything life has taught us.
HOW WE WORK WITH YOUR BIOGRAPHY
We don’t simply create a timeline.
We look across the septenniums for threads and relationships:
Turning Points — moments that changed the direction of your life.
Patterns — situations, roles, or themes that appear repeatedly.
Relationships — people who shaped, challenged, supported, or awakened something within you.
Challenges — experiences that asked you to develop capacities you may not otherwise have developed.
Gifts — qualities and abilities that have accompanied you throughout your biography.
The Unlived Life — creativity, dreams, desires, or parts of yourself that were left behind.
Transitions — endings and beginnings that changed your identity.
Future Impulses — what now seems to be asking for your attention.
BIOGRAPHY + HEALING HAUSCHKA THERAPEUTIC ARTS
This is where your approach becomes more than simply telling your life story.
We can bring biography into the creative process through:
Painting • Color • Drawing • Nature • Poetry • Journaling • Collage • Clay • Symbol • Storytelling
A septennium might become a color.
A turning point might become a landscape.
A relationship might become two forms meeting.
A difficult chapter might be explored through light and darkness.
A future possibility might begin as an image before you can even put it into words.
We don’t only remember our biography.
We experience it creatively.
A PATH OF SELF-DISCOVERY
I would describe your process through five movements:
- REMEMBER
What IS YOUR Essence?
We gently revisit the important chapters of your biography.
- RECOGNIZE
What keeps appearing?
We identify patterns, relationships, turning points, challenges, and gifts.
- UNDERSTAND
What has my life been teaching me?
We begin seeing connections between experiences and the capacities developed through them.
- TRANSFORM
What no longer needs to define me?
Through awareness, reflection, and creative work, we explore new ways of relating to the story we have lived.
- CREATE
What wants to happen next?
The work turns toward the future.
Biographical work is ultimately not only about who you were.
It is about who you are becoming.
THE HEART OF BIOGRAPHICAL COUNSELLING
Your biography is not only the story of what happened to you. It is also the story of what you developed, what you discovered, what is still unfinished, and what you may now choose to create.
PAST → AWARENESS → MEANING → TRANSFORMATION → FUTURE
For Healing Arts Collective, I think this is much closer to your real work: the septenniums give you the structure, biography gives you the story, creativity gives you the experience, and self-awareness opens the possibility for a different future.
WHEN WE BRING THEM TOGETHER
This is the heart of Healing Arts Collective:
CREATIVITY gives us a language.
THERAPEUTIC ART gives us a process.
NATURE gives us rhythm and inspiration.
BIOGRAPHY gives us our story.
COMMUNITY gives us connection.
Together, they create a space for:
Awareness • Expression • Wellbeing • Resilience • Connection • Becoming
And I think this sentence could sit prominently on your new website:
We don’t create art simply to make something beautiful. We create to experience ourselves, receive new impressions, discover new possibilities, and bring something new into our lives.