All set for running the Workshop for Artists today – linking our body resources to our creative process. The chance to share some of my art & images, words & writing that support the way I work with others creatively and therapeutically.
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Birthlight
Light in Water – Birthlight International Conference – Cambridge Listening to presenters from around the world telling inspiring stories from their work as scientists, midwifes, marine biologists, swim teachers, Birthlight tutors, yoga teachers and Occupational Therapists. Hearing how their work informs the fields of water birth, water parenting and baby swimming. There’s lots I could […]
Workshop for Creative Thinkers
I’ve been invited to run a session for a group in Mid Devon on 25th September 2016. Details here
The Beginnings of Relating
Notes and Reflections from Rock & Roll Dads this month. A quiet group today, so lots of space and time for Dads to follow what they need in the rock and roll, the stillness and rest, the watching and sensing. Talk of broken nights sleep, changing patterns, sometimes making sense, sometimes not. We […]
Book Review – Kids Beyond Limits
Anat Baniel – Kids Beyond Limits (2012) Pedigree I’d like to recommend this book to anyone who’s involved in supporting the development of others, particularly children with developmental delay or other special needs. I was recommended it by a colleague who had heard about my Somatic Movement Therapy work with children. Having read it, I wanted […]
Linking Body & Soul
Some notes following the 2nd Limbus Critical Psychotherapy Conference at Dartington at the weekend. ‘Soul-Searching, Soul-Making & Soul-Breaking: Neuroscience, Psychotherapy & the Soul’. A really rewarding day. Time for reflection. To listen to interesting ideas. To have familiar perspectives affirmed and new ones introduced. I appreciated the format, of after each speaker, having the chance for round […]
Digital Human
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nnnlf Interesting listening to this programme about technology and the body, and the use of ‘body as machine’ metaphor. As someone working with the body and our emotional, psychological selves, I’m interested in how one affects the other. This comes to mind reading about working with children with special needs, and not trying to ‘fix’ […]
Light in Water – Conference
I’m delighted to be involved in the next Birthright Conference, Light in Water – 22nd – 23rd September 2016, in Cambridge, UK. I’ll be running a workshop: The Embodied Practitioner – Key skills in moving, sensing and tuning in – Details here.
Creating Memories – Rock & Roll Dads
Rock & Roll Dads This Saturday – 2nd April 2016 Looking forward to the session at Totnes Children’s Centre, 10.30am – 12. As well as time to hang out with other Dads & Male Carers and their babies, I’ll bring along some props again to play with. We’ll revisit the simple framework of how your babies […]
Rock & Roll Dads Start the New Year
Rock & Roll Dads Starts the New Year. As well as the usual safe, clear space to roll around and explore, each month I want to share some aspect of infant movement development. My aim is simply to enable parents to notice and celebrate all that is going on in their baby. We tend to view their movement as, […]
Rock & Roll Dads – March 5th
We’re 6 months old! Since starting in the Autumn, each month we’ve been welcoming men and their babies to come and move and play. As well as our regular informal time for Dads & Babies to move and roll and stretch, they’ll be the chance to follow on from last time, a simple framework of […]
Why Bodywork & Movement Therapy Is Needed
An interesting programme on BBC Radio 4 today: Unhappy Child, Unhealthy Adult – highlighting how our early life experience impacts on our longer term health, through the impact at the cellular and physiological level. This relates to much of my work: Adult Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy includes the use of touch to support the […]
More Socks Off Info
Why giving your baby time with socks off is a good thing. In working with babies and young children, I’m often asked what parents can do to support their child. And time for babies with socks off and bare feet is one simple way parents can offer many benefits to their child. In terms of […]
Rock & Roll Dads – What’s on in Feb
Rock & Roll Dads next session is this Saturday, 6th Feb. As well as the usual time to play, I’ll be sharing a simple framework of how babies movement is organised. There are a handful of key themes, that if you know them, you can then spot these change and evolve in your baby. […]
It’s all about the Nervous System
Rock & Roll Dads Starts the New Year. Looking forward to our next session on Feb 6th 2016. At our January session, 3 new Dads joined us, and one Dad-to-be called in at the end to say hello, and hopes to come along in future months. As well as the usual safe, clear space […]
Workshop at MARJON Uni.
I ran a session today for the 3 year groups of the BA (Hons) Children’s Physical Education course, at The University of St Mark & St John, in Plymouth. I shared a Developmental Movement Map, of how children’s early movement patterns are built up as the nervous system develops. We looked at nervous system […]
Socks Off
A great morning at Totnes Childrens Centre at Bumps & Babies. Supporting early movement development, and seeing the impact of taking a babies socks off has. Straight away it’s possible to see all the aliveness of a babies feet, as they flex and extend, wiggling and getting to grips with the floor. And then, […]
Dads Slow Down
As I look forward to the first session of Rock and Roll Dads in 2016, here’s an update of the December session at Totnes Children’s Centre. In the big clear space, we had the chance to stretch out, take up some space, to move and to rest. With bare feet, we were able to […]
Rock & Roll Dads Coming Up
Planning for the next session on Saturday 5th December : 10.30am – 12noon at Totnes Childrens Centre. This will be the 3rd session we’ve had – it’s been great to adapt and develop how they run each month, responding to feedback and what’s needed. I’ll be sharing some key principles for the session that I’ve […]