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Relationship is the key: dirt and therapy
I’m just home from an event organized by my local Transition Town group that focused on soil, poetically described by Bill Logan as “dirt – the ecstatic skin of the Earth”. We watched the movie and then grounded the experience … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged connection, counselling, environment, psychology, psychotherapy
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Forests and minds
I suggested earlier (Brains, bodies and places) that it might be useful to think of the dynamic of bodymind and place as like an ecosystem, and today the image emerged during my personal therapy of the mind as a dark … Continue reading
Focusing in Nature
Put simply, Focusing is a means of opening our awareness to the “bodily sensed knowledge” which Eugene Gendlin calls the “felt sense” (Gendlin, 1981). The term ‘felt sense’ describes those fuzzy feelings that we don’t usually pay much attention to … Continue reading
Living Embodiment Conference
I’ll be presenting at the Living Embodiment Conference this October. I’m very excited about this event, mainly because it brings together some of the most innovative embodiment trainers in the World. The line up includes people like Don Hanlon Johnson, … Continue reading
Imbolc: The Pulse of the Seasons
February 2nd is the Pagan festival of Imbolc, and to celebrate I went for a long walk in the countryside. Imbolc is the time of ’the quickening of the year’ when the first signs of the coming Spring appear, & … Continue reading
Hand, World and Self
Mark Cahill has just had a hand transplant. His existing hand was so damaged by gout as to be useless, so surgeons amputated it and transplanted a donor’s hand. The team involved are pleased. Not only does the the transplant … Continue reading
Posted in Embodiment, Psychotherapy
Tagged bodymind, counselling, embodiment, Merleau-Ponty
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Running Late
I was running late, so instead of going to my usual sit spot I headed for a small park near work. I sat on a park bench and opened my sensory awareness to the place. Despite the closeness of a … Continue reading
Liminal space
I found myself at my sit spot at dusk yesterday evening. The sun had already pretty much set; the sky was a deep, almost purple, blue and the Park was slowly sliding into shadow. A few birds were still singing … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged anthropology, Eco-Paganism, environment, nature, place, spirit of place, spirituality
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Twyford Down
Twenty years ago protesters struggled to save Twyford Down from destruction by the M3 motorway, and although the road was built the campaign continues to have an impact. Twyford Down marked the beginning of a movement which was active at hundreds of anti-road campaigns … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged connection, deep ecology, Eco-Paganism, embodied situated cognition, spirit of place
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Being Embodied
I’ve been less active here lately, but not been slacking! I’ve recently written a blog post for Mark Walsh of Integration Training. Integration Training is unusual in that they use an “embodied learning” approach to corporate training. The training is … Continue reading
Posted in Embodiment
Tagged embodied knowing, embodied situated cognition, embodiment
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