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Joy – David Whyte

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

David has dedicated this post today on his Facebook page to his daughter, who is beginning college. May all those venturing into the world, and those who love them, experience joy and aliveness. Here is the text, for those who … Continue reading →

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‘The Truelove’ David Whyte

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Beautiful poem about coming home to love, from David. Lovely picture too. One or two of our readers are having difficulty reading some FB links, so here is the text:- THE TRUELOVE There is a faith in loving fiercely the … Continue reading →

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Contact Improvisation

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The writer does quite a lot of conscious dance (or movement meditation). Contact improvisation is one form with which she is less familiar. As she understands it, the idea is that the dancers remain in more or less constant … Continue reading →

Posted in child development, communication, core conditions, creativity, Dance, dependence, empathy, encounter, flow, interconnection & belonging, love, movement meditation, parenting, person centred, physical being, presence, relationship, touch, trust | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, aliveness, benefits of movement, benefits of physical contact, benefits of touch, connectedness, connection, conscious dance, conscious parenting, contact improvisation, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, dance, embodied process, embodied relationship, embodiment, empathy, encounter, expression in movement, holistic, intimacy, intuition, Itay Yatuv, low cost counselling exeter, movement meditation, non verbal dialogue, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parenting, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, physical contact, presence, relationship, self expression, TED, Touch, trust, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

The Longing for Belonging – Charles Eisenstein

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-eisenstein/indigeneity-and-belonging_b_8011302.html Originally written for our local Schumacher College, in the context of a course Charles was leading. Charles features regularly on this blog – the writer believes him to be one of the important thinkers and writers of our time. … Continue reading →

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David Whyte – Second Sight

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘To know those arms around you and to make your home in the world just by being wanted’ Thank you, David. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in acceptance, awakening, beauty, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, David Whyte, empathy, friendship, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, love, natural world, person centred, physical being, presence, relationship, spirituality, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, touch | Tagged acceptance, affordable counselling exeter, awakening, beauty, belonging, consciousness, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, David Whyte, empathy, friendship, healing, human condition, interconnectedness, interconnection, love, low cost counselling exeter, natural world, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, physical being, poetry, presence, relationship, second sight, spirituality, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, Touch, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Nathaniel Hawthorne on Expressing love

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.” Nathaniel Hawthorne With thanks to … Continue reading →

Posted in emotions, human condition, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, love, relationship, touch | Tagged affection, affordable counselling exeter, belonging, compassion, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, emotion, expressing emotion, expressing feelings, feelings, human condition, interconnection, interdependence, kindness, love, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, relationship, Touch, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Contact Improvisation: An Intuitive, Non-Verbal and Intimate Dialogue: Itay Yatuv at TEDxBGU

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link for this interesting TED film/talk by Itay, artistic director of the Hakvutza Dance School in Jaffa, Tel Aviv. Itay has been practicing and teaching Contact Improvisation for over 10 years to professional and amateur dancers. He … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, child development, communication, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, Dance, emotions, empathy, flow, growing up, interconnection & belonging, movement meditation, parenting, person centred, physical being, relationship, TED, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, touch, trust | Tagged actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, belonging, child development, conscious dance, conscious parenting, contact improvisation, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, embodiment, Hakvutza Dance School, interconnection, intimacy, Itay Yatuv, low cost counselling exeter, movement meditation, non verbal communication, organismic, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parent child communication, parenting, person centred counselling exeter, physical being, relationship, therapeutic growth, therapeutic process, Touch, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 3 Comments

4 Ways Parents Teach Kids that Consent Doesn’t Matter: Parenting Gently with Paige

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Thank you (once again) to Monica Cassani and her site http://www.beyondmeds.com for posting this. A really useful short film about 4 basic changes we can all make to ways of parenting that are culturally common, but which can make it … Continue reading →

Posted in child development, childhood abuse, communication, core conditions, cultural questions, empowerment, family systems, growing up, internal locus of evaluation, Monica Cassani, parenting, person centred, relationship, sexual being, teaching, therapeutic growth, touch | Tagged assertiveness, autonomy, child development, confidence, conscious parenting, consent, developmental stages, http://parentinggently.blogspot.co.uk, internal locus, Marshall Rosenberg, Monica Cassani, Non Violent Communication, NVC, Paige, Palace Gate Counselling Service, parenting, Parenting Gently, person centred parenting, person-centred, saying no, self esteem, Touch, unwanted touch, unwelcome touch, www.beyondmeds.com | 1 Comment

Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar: Touching the Relational Edge

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘There are some pubs where any topic of conversation is allowed except for politics. The combination of alcohol and political discourse usually ends up with fists. In these pubs you may speak and fight over football, rugby, or the royal … Continue reading →

Posted in Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, body psychotherapy, bodywork, interconnection & belonging, physical being, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, touch | Tagged Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, attachment, body psychotherapy, bodywork, connection, core conditions, developmental need for touch, Palace Gate Counselling Service, physical being, relationship, socialisation, taboo, therapeutic growth, Touch, Touching the Relational Edge, trust | 1 Comment

The Story of Maddy & Fiona: A modern fable: Palace Gate Counselling Service

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

I first published this on my personal blog on 2 April 2013. Lindsey Talbott, Therapist Palace Gate Counselling Service Mary Kilborn (1943-2000)“Her preparedness to take risks and to run the danger of being accused of over-involvement (a favourite term of … Continue reading →

Posted in core conditions, Disconnection, empathy, empowerment, ethics, fear, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, love, person centred, physical being, political, regulation, therapeutic relationship, touch in therapy, values & principles | Tagged boundaries, ethical practice, external locus, internal locus, Palace Gate Counselling Service, paradigm change, person-centred, risk, safety, self-responsibility, therapeutic process, therapy, Touch, touch in therapy | Leave a comment

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