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Growing in the garden and in counselling

Counselling and horticulture inform each other

Horticulture has a lot to say about how plants grow and change, and therapy has a lot to say about how people grow and change. My experience is that these two worlds inform each other, which we might expect since both plants and people are organic in nature. For me, counselling or therapy is an organic process.

Physis – that tendency within each living thing to change and grow.

New article in Counselling Directory

I’ve written some of my ideas about how our understanding or contact with plants might inform our approach to counselling and this article was published in Counselling Directory. Here’s the link;

https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/memberarticles/horticultural-therapy-growing-in-the-garden-and-in-counselling

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Making Pilgrimage an Inner Journey

Pilgrimage as an inner journey

Over the centuries many people have made a journey to a destination which is sacred, or personally meaningful, to them.

And this outward journey into the world has also become, for many, an inward journey – an inner meeting of themselves in a way which is impactful or perhaps even transformational.

A Thin Place
Our pilgrimage also might become an ‘inner journey’

New article in Counselling Directory

I’ve written some of my ideas about how we might invite our pilgrimage to become an inner journey and this article was published in Counselling Directory. Here’s the link;

https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/memberarticles/can-a-pilgrimage-also-be-an-inner-journey