The Ellis Method

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Time Travel

Welcoming an Alternative Motion - Life doesn't stop to wait. Journaling lived experience through Waves of Wisdom will now appear as Living Waves.

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Activities of Daily Laughter

Combining who we are with what we want, by expressing, reflecting and projecting our perspective, activates our inner strength and energy.

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Creative Embodiment

Activities of daily living are the self-care tasks we do each day. These actions are considered to be instrumental in understanding our health status.

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Good Mornings to Good Nights

Combining familiarity with the unknown, by adding small joys to daily routines, activates our inner strength and energy. This vitality sustains our personal momentum throughout unfamiliar, inflexible, and inconsistent lifestyles.

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Creative Time

Possibilities are endless when we feel creative.When our sense of vitality is weighed down by challenges, transitions, and obstacles, adding this colour throughout everyday life gets tricky.

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Inspiration Guide

It’s our inner strength and energy, our second wind. It brings us that pep in our step and the get-up-and-go feeling throughout our day. 

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Autumn Revival Statement

Out of the box and into the world anew, we’ve come full circle in our own revolution. Setting out to enhance ageing experience led us to sing a new tune.

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Lifeworld Led Revolutions

Edmund Husserl was a 20th century philosopher who provided a deeper understanding of our experiences in everyday life.

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The Battle of Ability

How could life be over when you’re still living and breathing? After all she was still Margaret Ellis; compassionate, curious, and caring, with a life to live and no regrets behind her.

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Open Access Research

Despite decades of medical, theoretical and philosophical advancements, Canadians continue to experience dehumanized, undignified and undesirable death stories which creates unnecessary suffering for individuals experiencing complex conditions at end of life.

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TEM Sliding Scale

We are human and we can relate to financial stress and strain. It’s not simply what you can afford, it’s what you can confidently afford to do and value to trade.

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Value in Vitality Launch

Our oldest generation is living and dying with a low sense of vitality, diminished individuality and an overwhelming amount of obstacles.

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Travel, Path and Journey

I was passing by Peace Park the other day when I met a traveler. Not yet knowing where he would go, he knew for certain he would not stay here.

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Enable, Don’t Disable

When we consider the word disabled, what do we think? How do we feel? Who are we imagining? Why?

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Perception Over Pressure

With no clipboards or tests between us, TEM POP turns assessments into developments by valuing your Perception Over Pressure.

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Lifeworld Perceptions

With the recent tragedy in Toronto among one of the many difficult experiences we have been influenced by this year, I would like to offer a reflection in our everyday life.

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The Point of Purpose

Reminiscence isn’t just a fun activity; it is essential in our development. The process begins with reflection, leads to meaning and develops into wisdom.

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Spring Bloom

For some spring means budding trees, chirping birds and longer days. For others it could mean a lot of rain, a need to clean or the smell of the streets after a season of snow.

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Vitality in Calamity

When we talk about calamity, we make progress. Calamity begins with experiences of major loss or misfortune that create distress, misery and suffering.

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Enhanced Ageing Circles

The goal of providing Enhanced Ageing Circles (EAC) is to bring awareness to the value of a Lifeworld-led approach in developing our inner strength.

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The Myth of Mental Illness

Originating in Greek, the word trauma literally meant ‘wound’. I would have thought this meaning of trauma, discovered in the late 17th century, would have been used more in the past than today. I was wrong.

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Blessing in Disguise

The word adventure is rooted in Latin as a way to say ‘something is about to happen’. If we look towards the French, adventure is rooted in the perception of something happening from luck or chance.

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My Meaningful Life

There’s more to the story of Margaret Ellis’ Battle of Ability. We first went through Margaret’s Life Story, a common life review activity in older age, developed through reminiscence.

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Our Messenger of Meaning

Mood is rooted in the Old English word mōd and even then it offered many possible paths. An original translation of mood is heart, mind and feeling.

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Nitor in Adversum

Like a tree whose roots can only be seen deep underground, our personal roots lie within. Roots are established deeply and firmly, it is the part of us that attaches to the ground for support.

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Value in Vitality

Vitality is a word we don’t often hear anymore. In fact it was used more in the early 1900s than it is right now. Popular words that reflect a sense of vitality are quality of life and wellbeing, but are they the same thing?

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Breaking Down Barriers

There’s a new strength in town. We have the numbers. We have the knowledge. We have the wisdom; our ability to think and act from life experience.

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It’s Possible

Possible is a word that we don’t hear often enough and when we do it’s usually in a negative tone; “That’s not possible”, “It can’t be possible”, “As soon as possible” or how about, “Well, sure, anything’s possible”.

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Create Climate

Climate is a word we hear often in connection to our changing environment. If we consider the lifeworld-led meaning of spatiality we find connections between climate and mood, climate and spirit, climate and atmosphere, climate and possibilities.

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Find Your Super Self

A full spectrum is always my style so naturally my experience hasn’t only been with our oldest generation but also our youngest.

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Be Weird

The word weird derives from the German word ‘Wyrd’ meaning ‘destiny’. In Old English, weird was the characteristic of having the power to control destiny.

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TEM Beginnings

The Ellis Method is a platform for the voices of our eldest generation. It is the cultural change in society that includes older adults as valued participants in the community.

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Find Inspiration

Inspiration is a noun to describe the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something. Inspiration also describes the drawing in of breath.

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Journaling everyday perspectives one word at a time.

Journaling everyday perspectives
one word at a time.