Tag Archives: connection

Relationship is the key: dirt and therapy

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Administrator

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 →

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Focusing in Nature

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Administrator

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 →

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Twyford Down

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Administrator

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 →

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Connection

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Administrator

I was at the launch of a new ecopsychology anthology last week. Nick Totton, one of the editors, commented that one common theme sang through all the very different chapters; connection. Many of my blogs have explored the interconnectedness of things, and … Continue reading →

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A new sense of place

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Administrator

I’m just home from facilitating a series of Nature Connection workshops for staff and students from the University of the Arts London. The weather was pretty good –  cold but bright. Each workshop was only an hour long, yet by the end participants … Continue reading →

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Janus January: Looking back and forward

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Administrator

January is a good time to look to the past and the future, so, like the Roman god Janus, I’m casting a look over some images from 2011 and giving a glimpse of 21012. Our Nature Connection workshops went well in 2012 … Continue reading →

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The power of place: Protest site pagans

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Administrator

Research has established that spending time in the wilderness can have profound effects on people. This “wilderness effect” (Greenway, 1995) usually occurs in truly wild places like the Grand Canyon, but my research shows that it can work it’s magic … Continue reading →

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Eugene Gendlin

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Administrator

Writing a PhD thesis on embodied knowing was a tricky task and at times I doubted that I could research something so nebulous. My big breakthrough came when I read the work of contemporary philosopher and psychologist Eugene Gendlin. Gendlin … Continue reading →

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Nature Connection Workshops: Reflections

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Administrator

Back in the Spring I wrote about the new series of Nature Connection Workshops Karen and I had planned. Now I find myself in early Autumn preparing for the last workshop of the year. The more I do of this work the more … Continue reading →

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Twyford Down

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Administrator

Although my chapter in ‘The Wanton Green’ tells of life on recent protest sites, the spirit of an older campaign hovers in the background like a ghost. Twyford Down was an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and a Site of Special … Continue reading →

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