Haiku Therapy
In the year before the pandemic, the year of my Wild Therapy training, I wrote lots of haiku. I wrote for myself and I took part in a haiku writing group online...
Author: Kaspa
Recent writing
For Extinction Rebellion Buddhists: Healing Oppression – an article exploring a Buddhist approach to healing oppression For Bright Earth Buddhist Temple: ...
Mindfulness Dawdle
I’m looking forward to co-leading a mindfulness walk in the Malvern Hills this weekend. Satya and I scouted out the route earlier this week. We’re beginning in ...
Lock-down can be tough, and lock-down can be an opportunity
How are you doing in these unusual times? My dreams have been particularly vivid since lock-down started: old memories finding their way to the surface and invi...
Online Therapy
Due to the cornavirus outbreak I am now seeing all clients online via Skype and Zoom. I’ve always had mix of face-to-face clients and online clients from ...
New Year, New You? How to Make Real Change
It’s that time of year again. We’re just in to the second week of January and many of us will have broken our New Year’s resolutions already. What’s going on, a...
Grief and Climate Change
In our Buddhist community, at the invitation of our local XR group, we dedicate one practice session each month to the living earth. In our most recent session ...
We have to go slow to go fast
We come to therapy when we want to change. Sometimes we are desperate to change, and that urgency makes complete sense; we feel awful and we want to feel better...
Why therapists should be clients
I’ve just returned to personal therapy. I’m confident this is a good thing for my clients, as well as for me personally. Being a client reminds me how it is for...
What is Wild Mind?
I’m half-way through my training in Wild Therapy. You may have seen me writing about the power of working outside before (here and here). We work outside a lot ...