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Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse – Umair Haque

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://eand.co/why-were-underestimating-american-collapse-be04d9e55235 Click on the above link to Eudaimonia’s site for this – perceptive, insightful and scarily accurate from where we are looking – piece by Umair Haque, on the cultural pathologies of the current US situation, and what this means … Continue reading →

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We Were Made For These Times – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.grahameb.com/pinkola_estes.htm Click on the link for this beautiful and inspiring piece from Clarissa. It won’t be new to some of you….and stands repeating. Thanks to Jewels Wingfield on Facebook for a timely reminder of this passage, in the run up … Continue reading →

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I Am Not Old – Samantha Reynolds

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Culturally, we do not value aging, or our Elders. We think this is a disastrous and heart-breaking piece of short-sightedness, which generates huge loss for us all. It seems linked to a view of the human being as a production unit. As we … Continue reading →

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Jane Fonda on Life’s Third Act for TEDx Women

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Interesting talk by Jane about how the ascension of the human spirit reverses entropy (the universal arc of deterioration and decay), and how moving into our ‘Elder’ years has the potential to bring us ‘into wholeness, authenticity and wisdom’. The … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, congruence, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, empowerment, feminine, flow, forgiveness, Gender & culture, growth, human condition, identity, internal locus of evaluation, neuroscience, non-conforming, organismic experiencing, paradigm shift, perception, power and powerlessness, relationship, research evidence, resilience, self, TED, transformation, Viktor Frankl | Tagged actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, aging, authenticity, awakening, congruence, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, despair, elders, empowerment, entropy, expanding self, growing older, growth, Jane Fonda for TED, last of human freedoms, life's third act, low cost counselling exeter, Man's Search for Meaning, neuroscience and change, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, personal development, personal growth, task of old age, TEDx Jane Fonda, therapeutic growth, Victor Frankl, wholeness, wisdom, wisdom of age, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Occupy Your Brain: On Power, Knowledge, & the Re-Occupation of Common Sense – Carol Black

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.filmsforaction.org/news/occupy_your_brain_on_power_knowledge_and_the_reoccupation_of_common_sense/ This is an absolutely brilliant article. ‘……it becomes quite interesting not only to look at what your children are required to learn in school, but at what they are not required to learn. While your kids are very busy … Continue reading →

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Shel Silverstein on validation

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The Little Boy and the Old Man ‘Said the little boy, “Sometimes I drop my spoon.” Said the old man, “I do that too.” The little boy whispered, “I wet my pants.” “I do that too,” laughed the old man. … Continue reading →

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Maria Popova – Review of The Farmer and the Clown by Marla Frazee

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/11/the-farmer-and-the-clown-marla-frazee/ Click on the link to read this unusual review of a lovely and unusual child’s book – which also speaks profoundly to adults, as the best books intended for children do….It’s beautifully realized and illustrated by Marla Frazee. Maria … Continue reading →

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The Way that You Walk – Toko-Pa

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://toko-pa.com/2014/09/17/the-way-that-you-walk/ Click on the link for this beautiful, resonant post from Toko-Pa, about how it may serve us in our current circumstances to walk slowly…. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in beauty, consciousness, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, grief, human condition, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, natural world, paradigm shift, perception, physical being, political, reality, spirituality, sustainability, Toko-pa | Tagged aboriginal culture, aboriginal dream, aboriginal dreaming, affordable counselling exeter, ambiguity, beauty, belonging, conscious living, consciousness, counselling exeter, creativity, disconnection, dream time, dreaming, dreaming time, ecological, ecology, elder wisdom, elders, embodiment, grief, human condition, indigenous people, interconnection, low cost counselling exeter, natural world, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, paradox, social inequality, social injustice, social justice, spirituality, sustainability, Toko-pa, Victo Ngai | Leave a comment

Palace Gate Counselling Service, Viktor Frankl & Carl Rogers

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, Carl Rogers, core conditions, Disconnection, ethics, human condition, internal locus of evaluation, love, Palace Gate Counselling Service, person centred, person centred theory, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, Viktor Frankl | Tagged 19 Propositions, achievement, Brian Thorne, Carl Rogers, cultural shift, cultural values, Dave Mearns, elders, Freud, Man's Search for Meaning, Maslow, Montagu, old, On Becoming a Person, Palace Gate Counselling Service, paradigm shift, PCA, person-centred, proposition 18, therapeutic growth, therapeutic process, usefulness, Victor Frankl | Leave a comment

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