In between the polarities        of this              and that                 I AM   I AM interested in your I AM.   Ah so! Ah so!     (Ram Dass reminds me) [i]   “It doesn’t interest me what you do               for a living” ( whispers Oriah Mountain Dreamer, from inside the frame of her poem on the top of the metal filing cabinet, in the staffroom at Wigan & Leigh College, 2004 – challenging me to be present each time; to I and thou) [ii]   but I do want t

What does ‘soften often’ mean?   Over the last few years, I’ve been encouraging the counselling students I’ve worked closely with, to...

ADPCA 2021 Conference, 7-11 July. 11.00AM GMT, Sunday 11 July, 2021. This workshop is intended as a space for participants to explore...

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