ABSTRACT
Dreams have, throughout history and in cultures all over the world, served to connect people more closely and can allow healing. Dreams can break us away from our usual way of looking at things. The creative power of Indigenous dreaming depends on the interplay of making and breaking, connecting and disconnecting, creating and destroying. The approaches to counselling and working with suicidal people are as varied as the number of practitioners working in the field. The authors' approach focus on creating a balance in the person’s threefold nature: body, soul, spirit. A full history and mental state examination specifically considers significant incidents and traumatic events from the beginning of a person’s life, and is taken in a safe and non-threatening environment. The client is made aware of the process to come, the aim being to break the strongholds from their life so that they can begin to ‘connect’ again and have freedom.
