Writing Proper Haiku Affects the Way You Are in the World In their Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy (1994), Cox & Theilgaard offer brilliant insights into the way that conventional poetry can be used to stimulate the seamless progress of formally therapeutic interventions; they describe how very skilled operators can use poetry & drama in their […]
In Part One of this Glob, I outlined a template that I might encourage others to use when I’m doing what I euphemistically call ‘coaching’. It provides a framework for thinking. I never do an exercise with others that I haven’t first tried out on myself! I walk my talk and talk my walk… So […]
…it sometimes seems as if in her work a cat came at us speaking English… (Blackmur) Reality leaves a lot to the imagination… (John Lennon) I Trained to be a Teacher Between 1964 and 1968 They were great years! The first essay we had to write was to be called, without a second thought about […]
So many different parts we play in life; yet at this moment now they all become focussed in this whatever it is that I call ‘I’. The ‘I’ that takes itself forward from this moment now into whatever activity it might have planned for the next minute, hour, day, week, month, year… Different time-scales define […]
A few days ago I heard myself making the rather rash statement that if I had done anything right as a parent umpteen years ago it was to help create the conditions for my children to be able to choose to be open-minded. I wonder if they’d accept that they were offered such a choice… […]
Life is an accident waiting to happen; it happens in the only way it can otherwise it would be different… (From My Notebook—13th November 2011) It seems, it feels, as though, in this time long before sunrise, that I am the only person in the universe who might respond to a sentence in Gabriel Garcia […]
The dynamic concept of the Figure of Eight was introduced in my Blog ‘Somatic Markers’ dated 16th November. The bottom half of the Figure of Eight represents the ground of our being—core self—that which we can become more aware of in meditative exercises of one kind or another: the rush of blood in the ears, […]
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