There is much talk about neurodiversity these days. This term refers to brains that are wired differently from those of the average person. As...
Articles on Therapies
Sad Book and the Power of Dance
Michael Rosen’s Sad Book, a novel written after the death of his son Eddie, has been adapted by the 201 theatre company and was performed at the end...
Eldership conference: the gifts of ageing
A café-style conference was held at the Quaker Meeting House in Oxford on Saturday 15 March 2025, with thirty participants from around the country....
Seeds in the Dark
I recently read an article in the Guardian (1 March 2025) by neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan. She writes of a startling rise in medical diagnoses of...
Being proximate: when a hug is too much
There is a young boy, aged 11, called Pete, who loses his beloved mother to cancer and his world changes. The ground he walks on longer feels solid...
A glint in the eye: the importance of mirroring
I have always thought that people's eyes matter. Perhaps when we meet another person and look them in the eye we have a sense of whether we are...
The Time for Statutory Regulation is Here
A shorter version of this article was published in The Guardian on 25 October 2024 Rachel Hall’s argument in The Guardian of 19th October 2024 is...
Sing when your voice has been silenced
I recently read an article about an ex-offender musician who volunteered to play for an absent chapel pianist during 18 weeks in prison. He wrote:...
Green spaces for trauma
In the UK the warmth is seemingly elusive but longer days and activities does tend to mean we are outside more. How can being outside help us when...
Working with LGBTQI+
However we choose to express ourselves deserves our respect – meaning to see – again. Something is out of our experience requires our curiosity and spacious understanding.