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        The exploration and mapping of the ‘self’ have been at the heart of psychological and spiritual inquiry. There is the  self we have access to in our day to day lives and a Self that is obscure and reveals itself primarily through peak...

Art by Heather Mclean                   As the yearly cycle draws to a close, people I work with have been reflecting on the year that has suspended most of our habitual ways of being. Their reflections have been...

We are in the midst of a collective crisis and initiation, where peril and potential sit alongside each other. Humanity has always understood that change and transformation require sturdy containers to hold the fluid process of becoming. That all seeds of growth...

We are in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, a crisis that in its speed, spread and intensity has exceeded any other experience of our lifetimes. This crisis is nudging us beyond our current social structures. We are being called to transcend the usual order of...

In the West, our understanding of the processes of repair and regeneration has been conditioned by the medical model and its inbuilt treatment paradigm. This paradigm has spread beyond the medical profession, becoming the dominant model of how we relate to all...

This book is a stitching process, trying to bring back into contact what has become separated and separate. Trying to reconnect us to a lost feminine wisdom and lineage and to its capacity to bring us back into a state of greater wholeness.   We are living...

Intentional rites and rituals are meaning carriers of great spiritual and psychological importance. They bring us back into belonging with the wider whole we are part of. As we call on the unseen to meet the seen, the higher and the lower worlds to meet us in the...

The creative act initiates in the deepest layers of the psyche. It rises out of the ancient bones of everything that has ever lived and everything that is yet to come, the land of primordial wholeness, our collective unconscious. Step by step, breath by breath, it...

The journey of discovering ourselves is life-long. Every step forward takes us further into a deeper knowing of who we are, yet in the dormant edges of our consciousness will always lie forgotten and neglected aspects of our Soul. Our sense of Self remains limited,...

A world that is aching requires more of us to be available as a resource for its healing processes. It needs us to show up fully and engage responsibly with the collective task at hand: supporting the intricate balance of environmental and relational ecosystems that...

  Image by Paul Lewin We all come from a long line of ancestors, of fates and stories once told and later lost. However lost and forgotten our ancestral past may be, it still lives through us, mostly unconscious and unexplored. Our lives are influenced by events...

One of the primary archetypal tasks of political establishments is to harness the energies of chaos and order, in ways that support the collective developmental maturity and growth. Invariably however, they have a long and dark history of acting out in the face of the...

Modern life has alienated us from nature and that has cost us a disconnection from our own inmost nature. The seasonal cycles are life-sustaining and attending to them can enrich us and resource us for meeting life’s demands. The cyclical rhythms of the seasons...

When we do our inner work, we invariably come up against deeply ingrained patterns of being in the world that have outgrown their purpose. These might be ways of relating or behaving that developed at a young and tender age; ways of seeing, experiencing and being in...

In our fast-paced societies and busy lifestyles we have lost the art of inner stillness and deep listening to ourselves, to who we are or who we are becoming. We  tell ourselves we don’t have time but the real obstacle is in our discomfort of being intimate with...

The idea of ‘wholeness’ is at the heart and core of any healing journey, found in many practices and traditions across the world. It is a symbol that holds the restorative energies of completion and integration. It depicts a state where everything is included and in...