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On Being a Good Ancestor, our Interconnection, & the Land

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link to visit Greenpeace USA on Facebook, for a beautiful and moving (and heartbreaking) short film about a woman living in an area subject to fracking, in the U.S. This is very relevant here too. The government … Continue reading →

Posted in 'evil', awakening, communication, compassion, cultural questions, ecological, ecological issues, empathy, ethics, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, loss, love, natural world, non-conforming, objectification, paradigm shift, power and powerlessness, sadness & pain, sustainability, trauma, violence, vulnerability | Tagged activism, affordable counselling exeter, altruism, awakening, compassion, connectedness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, empathy, fix democracy, fracking, Greenpeace, interbeing, interconnectedness, interconnection, interdependence, Lancashire fracking, low cost counselling exeter, natural world as sacred, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, person centred counselling exeter, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Seeking Sanctuary in Our Own Sacred Spaces – Parker J. Palmer

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.onbeing.org/blog/parker-palmer-seeking-sanctuary-in-our-own-sacred-spaces/8928 Click on the link to visit http://www.onbeing.org for this wonderful piece by Parker J Palmer on the importance of creating sanctuary in our lives, to support our doing what we can to survive in – and challenge – the … Continue reading →

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