SensitiveBeing Completed Work
The Highlights of 2022 so far:
- Jan-May: Online Mental Health Well-Being Coaching Sessions.
- Jan-May: Online Qi Gong for Mental Health Well-being
- Extensive work on SensitiveBeing website
- Extensive networking
The Highlights of 2021:
- November-December: Online Qi Gong for Mental Health Well-being
- January-March: Online Qi Gong for Mental Health Well-being
- All year: Offered online support without charge on a 'befriending' basis with people who had attended my Weathering Storms workshops in past years. Some were in and out of hospital.
- All year: Online Mental Health Well-Being Coaching Sessions.
- All year: Working on SensitiveBeing website.
The Highlights of 2020:
- November-December: Online Qi Gong for Mental Health Well-being
- July-November: Supported someone coming off Risperidone
- April-June: Created video material to support people with mental health issues during lockdown
- All year: Offered online support without charge on a 'befriending' basis with people who had attended my Weathering Storms workshops in past years. Some were in and out of hospital.
- All year: Online Mental Health Well-Being Coaching Sessions.
The Highlights of 2019:
- September: Weathering Storms: Mindfulness based Applications for Emotional Pain, Trauma & Psychosis Workshop, Jamyang, London
- June: Weathering Storms: Mindfulness based Applications for Emotional Pain, Trauma & Psychosis Workshop, Jamyang, London
- May: Weathering Storms: Mindfulness based Applications for Emotional Pain, Trauma & Psychosis Workshop, Jamyang, London
- Private online video 'chat' sessions with individuals experiencing 'psychosis'.
- Private Sei Ki sessions throughout the year with individuals experiencing extreme anxiety / dissociation, sexual abuse trauma, war trauma (PTSD), psychosis, bipolar...
The Highlights of 2018:
- November: Weathering Storms: Mindfulness based Applications for Emotional Pain, Trauma & Psychosis Workshop, Jamyang, London
- October: Crazy Zen & HeartTouch for Psychosis at Dragon Cafe, London
- June: Published a paper / letter in the BPS & gave a presentation at BPS London
- May: - Talk in London on Spiritual Emergency with the London Philosophy Society
- April: - Online interview with Tamara Russell on Mindfulness for Psychosis
- March: Presented in the Schizophrenia Awareness festival in Lugano including discussion on stigma and the role of Tai Chi as a daily balancing therapy.
- March: One day workshop for psychological professionals in Milan on understanding madness / psychosis.
- March: Practice Weekend in Locarno sharing some of my methodology for helping both professionals and experiencers come into their hearts, bodies and quieten their minds.
- Private Sei Ki sessions throughout the year with individuals experiencing extreme anxiety / dissociation, sexual abuse trauma, war trauma (PTSD), psychosis, bipolar...
The Highlights of 2017:
- October: 1 day Introduction to Zen Mindfulness & HeartTouch for Psychology related professionals in Milan.
- August: 5 day Zen Mindfulness & HeartTouch retreat for Psychologists in Switzerland
- July: 2 day workshop on Zen Mindfulness & HeartTouch for Psychosis : Sao Paolo, Brazil
- June: A day of Zen Mindfulness & HeartTouch for Psychologists, Ticino
- June: Talk on Psychosis at Supsi University, Switzerland for Psychiatric Nurses
- May: Talk on Mindfulness for Psychosis at London Philosophy Society
- March: Lectures and teaching on Mindfulness & Psychosis - Bellinzona, Switzerland
- Private Sei Ki sessions throughout the year with individuals experiencing extreme anxiety / dissociation, sexual abuse trauma, war trauma (PTSD), psychosis, bipolar...
The Highlights of 2016:
- Mindfulness for Anxiety & Burnout Workshops through the year.
- Mindfulness for Health & Well-being Courses
- Tai Chi & Qi Gong Workshops
- Sei Ki HeartTouch workshops
- Private Sei Ki sessions throughout the year with individuals experiencing extreme anxiety / dissociation, sexual abuse trauma, war trauma (PTSD), psychosis, bipolar...
The Highlights of 2015:
- Mindfulness for Health & Well-being Courses
- Tai Chi & Qi Gong Workshops
- Sei Ki HeartTouch workshops
- Private Sei Ki sessions throughout the year with individuals experiencing extreme anxiety / dissociation, sexual abuse trauma, war trauma (PTSD), psychosis, bipolar...
News / Events
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New: Check out an interview I gave for the Shiatsu Society.
It's on my personal journey developing HeartTouch: Embodied Mindfulness & Compassionate Connection through Touch for anxiety, emotional pain, trauma & psychosis.
New: Check out my latest video:
New: Check out my latest essay:
Reflections on the 'here and now' from the perspective of non-ordinary experience.
Check out this essay:
A Letter to the Psychiatric Profession from One Who 'Got Away'
One to One Online 'Mental Health' Wellness Coaching Sessions for Experiencers
These sessions can be in the form of a conversation or a Hara Conditioning coaching or a combination of the two.
I am happy to consider sessions with anyone but am especially interested in supporting people with spiritual crisis, psychosis, trauma or anxiety issues.
Session Fee: £80 / hour, £120 / 1 1/2 hours.
I offer 1-1 recovery courses of 1 hour-long talk session and 4 combined talk & practice sessions for £400. Students are expected to practice daily throughout the course.
HeartTouch: Mindfulness & Compassionate Touch Training for Anxiety, Emotional Pain & Trauma.
These workshops are open to people experiencing extreme human states, whether that be labelled as psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar, manic depressive along with people with personal histories of sexual or emotional traumas.
They are also open to people experiencing milder forms of anxiety and emotional pain, however it expresses itself.
This can include co-issues such as addiction or eating disorders, though I would request people to find additional support for the side-issue as this is not part of my experience.
The workshops are also open to people interested in enhancing their capacity to work with people experiencing this kind of distress, whether as a bodyworker, psychotherapist, clinician or family member.