Core Development - Donald Marmara

11/10/2026

Core Development is a learning process not a clinical method.

It offers you the opportunity of exploring all aspects of yourself :-
Body, mind, feelings, relationships, work, assumptions and decisions about life.

It encourages you and guides you so you can translate what you learn into everyday life to make your life more fulfilling and enhance the world we live in.

10/10/2026

If your life is not the way you want it to be, I believe that is often because some of your inner resources are unavailable to you, and my expertise is to help you connect with these resources.

Rather than looking for what’s wrong with you, therefore, I help you access the inner resources you need to create the life you want.

28/08/2026

Donald Marmara
Emotional & Somatic Learning Facilitator

I am an experienced facilitator who
has never quite fitted into conventional boxes.

That’s why I created Core Development- an
experiential learning process for personal
growth and self-discovery.

If you often feel the same—alienated by rigid structures,
tired of superficial spaces, and longing for deeper,
more grounded human connection to life and relationships -

let’s talk.



Website: www.coredevelopment.com.au

Please note:

Core Development is a process of personal growth, exploration and self-discovery not psychotherapy or clinical treatment. It is not a substitute for clinical psychotherapy, psychology or medical treatment.

My focus is on facilitating Somatic and Emotional Learning not to persuade you but to invite you to reflect and come to your own understanding.

Contact Core Development if you are looking for a potentially life-changing form of emotional and somatic learning in Artarmon Sydney.

19/04/2026

Everything I say and write is my opinion. Most of it is based on my lived experience. It is not intended to persuade you but to invite you to reflect and come to your own understanding. Donald Marmara

01/04/2026

SO TRUE.......

31/01/2026

IS IT IMPORTANT TO LOVE YOURSELF? YES IT IS.

SAYING THAT YOU CANNOT LOVE OTHERS IF YOU DON'T LOVE YOURSELF, HOWEVER, IS SHEER NONSENSE.

On the contrary, If you truly love someone, then you're capable of love. You are a loving person.

Telling someone who doesn't love themselves that they cannot love others will only reinforce their belief that they are not worthy of love.

If you love someone but don't love yourself, your task is to discover what is stopping you from giving yourself the love you give others.

YOUR LOVE FOR OTHERS IS CONFIRMATION THAT YOU ARE CAPABLE OF LOVING.

23/01/2026

It's important to distinguish between a person and his or her opinions and actions. We may like someone and disagree with their actions, or dislike someone and agree with their actions.

We have every right to argue for or against someone's opinions and actions, but we do not have the right to attack them personally nor to involve their families. That is abusive and helps nobody.

If we all understand this perhaps we will have a more peaceful world. Perhaps we will have less wars.

I may disagree with someone's opinions, but that does not give me the right to attack them personally.

And it most certainly does not give me or anyone the right to attack their family.

If we want respect we must be willing to respect others.

15/01/2026

THE WAY WE TREAT CHILDREN
All too often in our society, instead of providing the most nourishing, stimulating and supportive environment for children to grow and develop into healthy adults, we assume, often with the best intentions, that we need to tell them how to grow and what to become.

This is rather like assuming that we need to teach an apple seed how to grow and what to grow into.

As a result of this unfortunate misunderstanding, many of us grow up rather like apple trees that are expected to produce oranges.

Then we feel that something is wrong with us and of course it is.
Instead of being supported in being who and what we are, we are trying to become something other than what we are meant to be.

Can you imagine an apple tree feeling such a failure because it is unable to produce oranges?

Think about this: how many of us are actually doing this today?

01/01/2026

QUOTES FROM SENECA ELDER TWYLAH NITSCH (1912 - 2007)
“The Earth Mother is changing her garments. She’s going to put on some new stuff. She is going to be dancing around. And it’s about time. She’s sick and tired of the way she’s been treated.”

Twylah repeated the importance of standing in one’s truth during the troubled times ahead: “Supposing right at this moment the Earth began to quake and up in the sky world there would be thunder and lightning and so much noise that we couldn’t think.

The best thing that we could do for our survival would be to stand in our truth. To run in panic never accomplishes anything.” 👌 🙏

31/12/2025