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From the margins…
My current working life feels like an odd combination of immersion in practice, questions, challenges and reading in working with marginalisation, particularly racism – in my work as a trainer, and a relative absence of this in my work as … Continue reading
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Returning to working with Clients in the Flesh – some viral thoughts
There will be risk in working with clients in the same physical space – we cannot remove all risk, and it would drive us crazy to try to do so! It’s worth bearing in mind that therapeutic work necessarily involves risk, … Continue reading
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Arriving – Sequence of Connection
I woke early this morning – with some thoughts emerging about arriving in a new situation, how we get connected… Our connection tasks include: -Contact with ourselves – to what extent are we inhabiting our own body in this situation, … Continue reading
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All Stages of Grief – I’m Having the Wrong Feeling
I’ve been unfairly dismissive at times of the idea of the ‘stages of grief’. I’ve been subject to the usual misunderstanding of seeing the idea as being offered as a rigid linear process, rather than as the as the supportive … Continue reading
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This morning I found my sit spot
This morning I found my sit spot, ( http://www.adrianharris.org/blog/2011/03/the-sit-spot/ ) Once I gave up on trying to think my way there, and simply followed feet, then sitting in the right spot happened simply. The sun slanting in, the fresh quiet, … Continue reading
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Sailaday Eco taster day
It’s been two weeks since I spent the day with Sailaday: http://www.sailadayeco.com/ and I can still feel it in the bones of my feet – I think the changes might well be permanent. It’s difficult to write of it, as … Continue reading
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Picture a body – what do you see?
Think of a body….. What do you see? “It is now widely recognised that our cultural habit is to treat the bodies of women, gays, people of colour, people with disabilities, children, old people, and so on as, in Elizabeth … Continue reading
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Musing on a bridge…
I’ve been musing on how psychotherapy can be a process of bridging – initially bridging to my client’s views, world, experience… …and that there is a process of building bridges together – extending ourselves from either side of our different … Continue reading
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Wild Times – new beginning
I’ve been feeling my way recently into loosening off the barriers between my life and work, and the natural world around. Various things have popped into my life to catalyse – Nick Totton’s new advanced course and book “Wild Therapy” … Continue reading
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