by Allison Priestman | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog, Events, Uncategorized
In early January 2021 Katey Paradine interviewed Stephen Tame and Allison Priestman – two Embodied-Relational Therapy trainers. Stephen and Allison speak about the tradition of ERT and the next training starting in June 2021. It’s a longer interview, and...
by Allison Priestman | Oct 21, 2020 | Blog, covid-19, Events
It feels a useful moment after nearly six months of running webinars to have a reflection on and review of my online training work. On Friday, 2nd October I ran the first meeting of my Playing with Fire online course. The course has proved attractive and was fully...
by Stephen Tame | Jul 17, 2020 | Blog, coronavirus, covid-19
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, as does breathing. …and as...
by Emma Palmer (previously known as Kamalamani) | May 29, 2020 | Blog, coronavirus, covid-19, ecopsychology, outdoor work, Wild Therapy
In the therapy networks I’m part of discussions have popped up recently about moving to working outdoors in the context of working safely during the covid-19 pandemic, as a possible alternative to working on online platforms: zoom, skype, etc. I’ve been practising as...
by Admin Webmaster | Apr 28, 2020 | Alone together, Blog, personal, psychotherapy, Uncategorized
(Stephen Tame – April 2020) I’m making some sense of my response and choices in the current context: An infectious virus, a government encouraging physical distancing, with the government narrative being taken up and reinforced by the media, with strong...
by Emma Palmer (previously known as Kamalamani) | Apr 22, 2020 | Alone together, Blog, Culture declares emergency, ecopsychology, grief, Letters to the earth
There’s this quiet whisper in my heart, ‘be well, be happy’. I only hear it late at night, breathing out in this new-found familiar strangeness. Or I hear it as I end a Skype or a Zoom or a Facetime, with a stab of missing the person I’ve only just seen and heard, not...