by Stephen Tame | Jan 25, 2017 | Blog, Events, psychotherapy, Uncategorized
Speaking with Allison yesterday has rekindled my passion for our core Embodied-Relational Therapy training. This brief video gives some sense of our current thinking and feeling. Taking part in (what has now evolved into) this training myself, some 26 years ago was a...
by Stephen Tame | Nov 20, 2016 | Blog, Uncategorized, Wild Therapy
This morning I found my sit spot, ( http://www.adrianharris.org/blog/2011/03/the-sit-spot/ ) Once I gave up on trying to think my way there, and simply followed feet, then sitting in the right spot happened simply. The sun slanting in, the fresh quiet, after the...
by Stephen Tame | Nov 2, 2016 | Blog, psychotherapy
Just Relax! Someone might say this to us when we are stressed or anxious… when we’re feeling uptight. The subtext might be: “just relax because it will be ok” or “because it’s not that important” It’s unlikely to work – for us it is important,...
by Allison Priestman | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
The idea of play may fill you with delight or horror or a complex mix of both. It seems to me that play is fundamental to our development as children, and also to our healing and therapeutic process. The interaction between therapist and client is a way of exploring...
by Stephen Tame | Jul 19, 2016 | Blog
Something happens; a client cancels, or a workshop books up quickly; a friend thanks me for how I am with them, my car breaks down… …and I immediately jump to making meaning out of the event: this means that I am a good therapist, a bad therapist, a valued and...
by Stephen Tame | Jun 15, 2016 | Blog, Wild Therapy
It’s been two weeks since I spent the day with Sailaday: http://www.sailadayeco.com/ and I can still feel it in the bones of my feet – I think the changes might well be permanent. It’s difficult to write of it, as it was an experience which was one of integration, of...
