Christine Talitha’s Experience (Participant) [she/her]

All you need, is an open-mind and the willingness to learn! As easy as it sounded, it wasn’t.

There is not a word I can think of that could ever encapsulate my experience with WOTS! The past 10 weeks have been an emotional rollercoaster for me, digging deep to uncover myself in its deepest intricacies. It has proven to be experience that I would love to relive, over and over again!

WOTS, as the name suggests, made me assume l would be working on myself but as cliché as it sounds, I learnt a very important life lesson - that we are all prisoners of our own emotions, and I am free to go however I choose to keep myself incapsulated in the cells that I have created. Prisoners of our own emotions - Poetic ain’t it?

I see this prisoner, not knowing how express care, to give or receive it, but soon it all changes. The prisoner realises that it is not only selfish to herself but also to the people around her, so she went on this journey of self-exploration but of course with the help of the facilitator guiding her through it. On this journey of self- exploration, there are a lot of things she needs to unlearn and then to relearn it again. Oh god! It was hard due to her stubborn nature and refusal to admit that she was wrong.

However, with an open-mind, and willingness to learn, she was able to navigate her chaos and find the key that would set her free, never to fall into her prisoner ways again. For this I am thankful for WOTS, an insightful, immaculate & essential experience.