Paul du Buf (he/him)
Vancouver Island
Paul graduated as a nurse in 1994 and worked in the area’s of prevention, treatment, aftercare, dual diagnosis, training and innovation in addiction treatment services in the Netherlands and UK. In 2018 he worked as a volunteer in downtown eastside in Vancouver. He worked in the National Health Service and in many varied environments from a private hospital to a police custody suite and with several charity organizations. Realizing the limitations of the medical model, he became a somatic practitioner in 2019, a Kiloby Inquiry facilitator in 2020 and an Embodied Processing practitioner in 2021. Inspired by his experience, he offers addiction services support to transform in trauma-integrated healing communities.
“ Social to me means connected.. it’s their premise that we are all connected. And justice hovers the premise of fairness… and an inherent equality. So it’s basically an intuition that we all have. I would call that an embodied intuition. It’s not something from the mind; it is a sense of being socially connected, being equally just, and so it’s something that’s part of being human and it is the sensitivity to allow that sense to be felt and valued.”
