In this episode we explore Wildness and Wild Therapy. Stephen Tame is a trainer on the Wild Therapy training course, and also on the Embodied Relational Training course that I’m currently taking.
We talk about what wildness means. Is it chaos and unpredictability? Or something else? We talk about what supports wildness, and wildness in urban settings.
We talk about the ideal of Wild Therapy – what kind of people is it trying to produce?
You can find details of the Wild Therapy training and Embodied Related Training on erthworks.co.uk, including a Wild Therapy weekend workshop in October 2018.
Nick Totton’s book is called Wild Therapy. The Charles Eisenstein essay Stephen mentions is Invitation into a Living Planet and James Lovelock has written about the Gaia hypothesis in many of books. Stephen also mentions Joanna Macy (if the world’s dying, let’s go down with some grace) the environmental social activist, and Buddhist scholar, who has written eight books.
Stephen’s own website, with details of his therapy practice is: https://www.stephentame.com/
Great conversation guys. Thanks very much. Namon Amida Bu( :
Wonderful ! Thank you for putting this up.
The idea of finding the rhythms in chaos/natural world through the body. “Even in an urban environment there is that softer communication possible if you can slow down …”
“Gardens: where the wild and the domestic meet.”