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About Us

Welcome! Thank you for taking the time to get to know Innate Thriving and myself.

In essence we bring to you a wealth of holistic therapeutic services to help you overcome your challenges and live an authentic and fulfilling life.

Jawai Shamayim
(Gustavo Se Cestari)

Experience

Jawai is the founder of Innate Thriving. Jawai’s experience in the mental health and human wellness sector stretches over 12 years and amongst various things he has:

 

  • Assisted thousands of individuals to address mental health issues and promote wellbeing via psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and courses.

  • Worked with over 4,000 people in the past 12 years helping them to cultivate mindfulness and live with greater self-awareness and fulfilment.

  • Facilitated over 100 mindfulness meditation day retreats

  • Offered mindfulness training services to large organisations like:

            - Queensland Health

            - Village Roadshow Theme Parks

            - Seqwater

  • Been featured in the Mindfulness Summit, an international online event broadcasted to over 250,000 people worldwide.

  • Co-created and co-facilitated a variety of overnight wellness retreats

  • Authored an innovative therapeutic approach and process for human thriving, Innate Thriving.

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Modalities

Our services are informed by a wealth of modalities learnt over a period of 23 years of professional development. They include:

 

Psychotherapy

Hypnotherapy

Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness-Based Interventions

Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Release

Parts Work

Spirit-psyche Integration Coaching

Life Coaching

Trauma Therapy

Quantum Healing Hypnosis

Transpersonal Psychotherapy

The Innate Thriving Process

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Schema Therapy

Yoga

Chi Gong

Amongst others

Sessions

Our sessions take place in a space of compassion, confidentiality and integrity. A nurturing environment rich in conditions for positive change. Our clients consistently report feeling exceptionally safe and supported, and that the sessions are being extremely helpful.

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Thriving and Spiritual Growth

We also understand that people often don’t seek to just cope with life, but rather that they long to actualise their true potential, achieve their goals and live a fulfilling life.

For this reason our services attend to the whole spectrum of the human experience, from healing trauma and addressing chronic mental health conditions to assisting people to live a meaningful life where they are:

  • Living mindfully

  • Having fulfilling relationships based on trust and love

  • Pursuing inspiring visions and achieving meaningful goals

  • Believing in themselves 

  • Experiencing self-love

  • Living authentically with zest

  • Sharing their gifts with the world

  • Growing their connection to nature and the universe. 

  • And evolving their consciousness and spirituality

Education

Jawai’s education include the following:

 

Bachelor of Social Sciences (Psychology)

Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology

Master of Clinical Psychology

The Richard Trauma Process - Hypnotherapy

Complex Trauma Intervention

Yoga Teacher Training 500hrs

Spirit-Psyche Integration Coach Certification

Chi Gong Facilitator Training Level 1

Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Instructor Training

Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living

Mindfulness in Schools (Oxford)

Schema Therapy Training

Amongst a wealth of other professional development workshops and courses.

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Personal Note

I believe that people benefit deeply from doing inner work, growing emotional mastery and living authentically from their heart.  

And when done so they live with greater wisdom, begin to thrive and are able to create a fulfilling life. 

 

It is my inspiration to not only share therapeutic change and healing spaces with people, but also to make sure I am living by the pillars of wellness and thriving myself.

 

On that note, when away from professional endeavours, you'll likely find me wondering amongst the wonders of nature, meditating, reading, surfing, dancing joyfully, savouring music, enjoying the warmth of friendships, and immersing in exciting adventures.

Thank you so much for getting to know myself and Innate Thriving!

I look forward to connecting and supporting you to create the fulfilling life you deserve. 

With gratitude, Jawai.

 

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