Standing up for no one I was standing in the middle of a fight. In fact I had walked into it. I was a 55 year old man, the young Male assailants were unknown to me. Suddenly I was scared, I was lost. I had no point of reference. I […]
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I wanted to call this item “lost in translation" but in gestation it shifted to “the practice of misunderstanding”. It sort of wrote itself. How often do the best intended messages somehow not get the response that we expected? Or our killer stories fail to hit their mark. As […]
The stories we tell ourselves influence everything. Period. We make sense of the world in narrative. Whether that is in the way that we learn the journey from A to B. Remembering the last place that we left our car keys or recalling a memory of an interaction with another […]
I was listening recently to a podcast by scholar Joseph Goldstein. He talks about the discourses of Buddha as being invitations not instructions, as a conversation not a philosophical exposition (“Insight Hour, episode 53). In more common parlance, “here is an idea, go and try it out”. This subtle distinction […]
Mindful musings from lockdown is exactly what it says it is. I have been exploring my own mindfulness - both through practice and facilitation - during the Covid-19 lockdown. Some of those reflections have found their way into full blogs, whilst others have become shorter contemplations shared through social media. […]
I wanted to talk about The Path of The Mindful Horse, what is this? Well it brings together my learning and personal practice over the last 10 years. I have talked about this path before, but with a little more breathing space I realise that this path is also my […]
As a number of you know I often deliver workshops which involve drumming with horses. Over the years I have delivered them all over England, and abroad, to a number of different audiences. The audience that I suspect most will find surprising is to a business school. This was part […]
A few years ago somebody asked me to explain the embodied and somatic training and coaching that I do - with and without horses. And so I wrote this piece, originally as a LinkedIn article. I have revisited it and expanded here some of the ideas. So let me introduce you […]