I met with an antenatal group last night – to tell them about Rock & Roll Dads. So I’m prompted to open the invitation to any ‘expectant’ Dads to come along to future sessions. Our next session is on 1st April. You’ll get the chance to meet other Dads with new babies, and can have a […]
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Goldsmiths Teaching
Started my teaching at Goldsmiths, MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, this week. Great to meet the staff and students, and find my way around the place. I’m covering a colleague’s maternity leave, teaching a Dance Lab module – that follows key body systems (skin, bone, muscle, organ etc) to support students exploring their embodied movement […]
New Dads & Toddler Group Announced
All the details here
Newsletter December 2016
It’s been over a year since my last newsletter, and I hope that what I write here is a way of giving you an update about my work and keeping in touch. If you would like to have more regular updates, please subscribe to my News/Blog. And as I look ahead, I’m particularly open to working with […]
Workshop Announced – 25th Jan 2017 – Preston
Movement Resources for Reflective Practice Wednesday, 25th January 2017, 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm UCLAN, Preston. Fee: £30 (£25 UCLan Graduates) Book here. Open to all dancers, movement practitioners, bodyworkers, therapists, and those with an interest in how our bodies and movement support our work in the field of health and wellbeing. How do you reflect on the […]
Somatic Movement Gathering – 14 days for early bird discount
I’m involved in the organisation of this event that’s happening in London next March. I’ve been as a participant and workshop leader in previous years, and I can strongly recommend it to those involved in movement work for health, well-being and development. They are great events to meet others, share work, ideas and make connections […]
Rock & Roll Dads November
Visited the ‘Weigh & Play’ session at Daisy Play Centre this morning, talking to parents about Rock & Roll Dads – Our November Session is happening this coming Saturday 5th November. Looking forward to welcoming the Dads I met this morning.
Rock & Roll Dads – October
Rock & Roll Dads getting set for our October session, this Saturday, 1st October 2016. We’ve got a new banner, to help spread the word. Watch out for it around town.
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 […]
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 […]
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 – 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 […]
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 […]