by Allison Priestman | May 19, 2021 | Blog
I’m excited that my first book has been published. How to be a Bad Therapist co-authored by Nick Totton. This new short book has grown out of our successful webinar series of the same name. In it we aim to throw open some windows, to bring fresh air into the...
by Allison Priestman | Apr 30, 2021 | Blog
I have been running workshops and webinars on this theme for the past 10 years. I have just created a video to introduce my thinking about how to work with this inherently embodied and relational issue. Allison...
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...
