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02/10/2025

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Join Beyond The Irish Question, an 8-month journey fostering healing, connection, and cultural renewal through Irish history, lineage, and somatic practices.

02/10/2025

Join Beyond The Irish Question, an 8-month journey fostering healing, connection, and cultural renewal through Irish history, lineage, and somatic practices.

21/10/2023

"Where do you stand?"

11/02/2023

I learned hard lessons when my oldest friend, Pete, plunged into depression.

09/12/2022

'Our needs are so manifold we dare not declare them'

a little kernel from Leonard Cohen: 'What we want our artists to tell us is the truth, and as we get older we produce a wide variety of speakers, of artists, of painters, because our appetites are very wide. We want the modest poet, the arrogant poet, the alcoholic poet, the ascetic poet, the sad singer, the happy singer, the austere singer. We want the singer who has retreated, the singer who is hiding, the singer who is dancing. We need to produce a whole variety of artists to address our own situation, which is so vast that we can hardly locate it. There's a line from a Hebrew prayer: 'Our needs are so manifold we dare not declare them.' Our needs are so vast that we cannot even begin to locate them. So we produce a whole number of figures to speak to us and nobody speaks clearly enough or perfectly enough. So we all have work to do....'

06/12/2022

'Ring them bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering...'
Leonard Cohen

Because it's nearly Christmas, and because I love the theory behind this small offering, I've made this mini-course free on Teachable for the month of December... if you know (or are) someone who feels doomed in any aspect of life, and would like to regain a little bounce, this is a rich perspective....

Between Defeat and Destiny is a carefully-crafted distillation of a theme I have been passionate about for many years: how to retrieve passion, buoyancy and vitality from the shadows of stagnation and despair. Bollas' understanding of this territory is potent, original and a hugely supportive vehicle for those deeply engaged in inner work.

aligning with vitality

06/12/2022

Because it's nearly Christmas, and because I love the theory behind this small offering, I've made this mini-course free on Teachable for the month of December... if you know (or are) someone who feels doomed in any aspect of life, and would like to regain a little bounce, this is a rich perspective....

aligning with vitality

04/10/2022

exploring the ways we need each other

24/09/2022

21/09/2022

'We have the gift to engage with two very different qualities and streams of time. One of them is a quality of the present moment that is basically an extension of the past. The second is a quality of the present moment...as a gateway to a field of future possibilities...'

Otto Scharmer

How can we live nearer this second possibility, aligning with what is possible in fresh ways? When we balance our respect for past, present and future, we enable our own ripening.

On Tending our Futures, we seek conditions for our blossoming, engaging our 'evolutionary impulse' to serve our unfolding futures...

This course will appeal to those seeking a deep, textured context in which to freshly sense our own lives. The group will be small, (max 14) and our live sessions form the heart of the course experience.

20/09/2022

TUMBLING EXTRAVAGANTLY...(beautiful words from Andreas Weber)

“There is only one immutable truth: No being is purely individual; nothing comprises only itself. Everything is composed of foreign cells, foreign symbionts, foreign thoughts. This makes each life-form less like an individual warrior and more like a tiny universe, tumbling extravagantly through life like the fireflies orbiting one in night. Being alive means participating in permanent community and continually reinventing oneself as part of an immeasurable network of relationships.”

― Andreas Weber, Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology

19/09/2022

'We have the gift to engage with two very different qualities and streams of time.

One of them is a quality of the present moment that is basically an extension of the past.

The second is a quality of the present moment that functions as a gateway to a field of future possibilities...'

Otto Scharmer

Tending Our Future explores rich essential territory in all our lives.
Through a focus on presence, integration and emergence, this course looks at how we may tend our own futures as sources of inspiration, clarity and nourishment.

We do this in three ways: looking at how we may best make room for the impacts and residues of the past; how we may engage more vitally in our present experience; and what pathways and perspectives support us in awakening to our future as a source of inspiration and renewal.

This course will appeal to those seeking a deep, textured context in which to freshly sense our own lives. The group will be small, (max 14) and our live sessions form the heart of the course experience.