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The Neuroscience of Walk and Talk Therapy
Susan Greenfield is a leading thinker on the neuroscience of consciousness, so my ears pricked up when I heard her talking about how walking can help us think. Do her ideas help illuminate how ‘walk and talk’ ecotherapy works? Walk … Continue reading
Posted in Psychotherapy
Tagged counselling, ecotherapy, environment, nature, neuroscience, psychotherapy, therapy
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Mindfulness in Nature
Mindfulness and ecotherapy are two of the most ancient and powerful approaches to healing mental distress. What happens when you bring them together? Last week-end I spoke about practicing mindfulness in nature at a conference on ‘Psychotherapy and the Natural … Continue reading
Posted in Mindfulness
Tagged connection, environment, Focusing, meditation, nature, Patterson, psychotherapy, spirituality, therapy
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Ecosomatics: An Embodied Ecology
Most people accept that our behaviour is destroying vital ecosystems, yet there’s very little being done about it. Why? There are several factors, but a key part of the problem is that we’re in denial. I find it pretty hard … Continue reading
Posted in Embodiment
Tagged connection, Ecosomatics, embodied knowing, embodiment, environment
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Where is wilderness?
I’m currently featured as a ‘wilderness thinker’ for a project on ‘Thinking Wilderness’. I took a sideways look at the question of what ‘wilderness’ means and came up with more questions than answers. I explore the question ‘Where is wilderness?’ … Continue reading
The psychotherapy of place
Blog posts to Bodymind Place have been scarce this year, and for good reason; I’m working on an MSc dissertation about the therapeutic relationship in outdoor therapy. But this morning my research reached out and touched the themes of this … Continue reading
Posted in Psychotherapy
Tagged embodiment, environment, Focusing, Gendlin, Merleau-Ponty, place, psychology, therapy
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Sex, sensuality and the natural connection
I can’t help thinking that Valentine’s Day is too early in the year: Sex in the great outdoors is often as good as it gets, but not in mid-February! The Pagan celebration of sex and fertility, Beltane, falls on May … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged connection, environment, nature, senses, sex, spirituality, wellbeing
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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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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
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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