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How You Are Already Seeding Transformation – Joe Brewer

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://medium.com/@joe_brewer/how-you-are-already-seeding-transformation-d14a516d2850 Click on the above link for this inspiring piece from Joe. Thanks to Justine Corrie on Facebook for showing us this. Here’s an excerpt:- “Imagine the surface of a mountain lake in winter. The air has fallen below freezing … Continue reading →

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2016: The Reveal – Charlotte Du Cann

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://dark-mountain.net/blog/2016-the-reveal/ Click on the above link to visit http://www.dark-mountain.net for Charlotte’s article, another powerful Zeitgeist piece at the end of a big, shadow-filled year:- ‘This alchemical moment has nothing to do with social justice, or environmentalism or any of the … Continue reading →

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Laurie Penny: The New Statesman – the issue for Europe is not migrants, but creeping fascism

Posted on August 15, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/08/europe-shouldn-t-worry-about-migrants-it-should-worry-about-creeping-fascism Powerful and accurate piece from Laurie, for which gratitude. ‘There is an urban legend about boiling frogs, and it goes like this. If you put a frog in a pan of cold water and slowly, slowly turn up the … Continue reading →

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Paul Hawken’s Speech at the 2006 Bioneers Conference

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

When I first saw this, it sent chills down my neck and I thought ‘We are part of this’. I watch it fairly regularly. I think what Paul is saying is vitally important. The purpose of this counselling service stated … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, empowerment, ethics, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, paradigm shift, Paul Hawken, therapeutic growth, transformation | Tagged Bioneers, Bioneers 2006, Blessed Unrest, cultural change, ecological, grass roots, indigenous people, Palace Gate Counselling Service, paradigm shift, Paul Hawken, social change, social justice | 7 Comments