My dog Zen, of course,

and I know this is because he helps me reconnect with my inner intelligence (the true therapist in the room) which will always guide me towards healing, adaption and flourishment if I listen to it.

Whatever the therapeutic approach taken (be it somatic experiencing, IFS, person centred, CBT, trauma recovery, breathwork, PAT) the success of that therapy will be determined by the extent to which it enabled you to listen to and trust more in the inner healing intelligence that's built into the human operating system.

 So what is this inner intelligence?…

Discovering how life is regenerated from the inside-out – through a humanitarian and psychological lens

Beyond the idea of recovering back to a previous state, regeneration points to long-term transformation and the active rejuvenation of people, communities, and ecosystems.

We explore peoples capacity to survive, adapt and grow in devastating circumstances through the combined lens of Mox’s work with the physical realities of recovery and Kirstien’s work with psychological experience.

When Mox travels to places like Gaza, or when I sit with someone recovering from burnout or loss, the questions we hold are surprisingly similar:
What enables adaptation and growth?

How can we harness resilience?

And what can we learn from the intelligence that moves through all living systems?

A personal account of walking the Dartmoor section of the Two Moor Way, and what being immersed in nature revealed to me about my resilience and wellbeing at this transitional moment in my life. It illustrated to me, as it might well do to you, the ongoing role nature (internal and external) plays in creating our experience, and expanding our awareness of life.

How often do you pay attention to your insights?

An insight is a new thought that comes to us and shifts our understanding of who we are and how life is. Through that change in understanding we get to experience life in a different way and it shifts our behaviour.

We are designed to have these insights. We are designed for new and fresh thought about how life is but often we haven’t been taught this so we are too focussed on what we already know, what other people tell us or what we read in books so we don’t readily listen out for those insights.

Awareness of our state of mind, helps us to assess the extent to which we are able to see things clearly.

We can’t think our way out of a busy mind (that just makes it busier) but if we sense we are in a snow storm we can know not to take our thinking so seriously.

The snow (thinking) will naturally settle when we are less interested in it. In a quieter mind, we experience clarity and we’re more likely to see / hear new and fresh thought that’s relevant to the present moment.

Kirstien joined Christine Petersen on her podcast "A Toolkit for a Better Life" to talk about "Living from the inside out" - a really interesting discussion on what this means, what are the benefits to us, and how to apply this to our normal lives.

We really enjoyed listening to Kirstien Bjerregaard being interviewed by Linda Sandel Pettit for The Wild, Intuitive Way of Love podcast this month.

She shared about the impact love and possibility has on her life and work.

They also discussed the retreat they will be running together in Devon, UK in September with Sarah Webb and most deliciously what the joy of embodied love looks like to them.

When you have a moment we invite you to take a listen.

We are sooooo excited!!

Listen to our invitation to you to join us on seasonal and annual immersions in nature.

I just found the perfect sign for my door.

Most of the people I work with are surprised to discover that the solution resides in the magic of their mind.

We exist within the convincing illusion (upheld by a predominant but outdated social understanding) that our experience comes from the outside-in and our moods and feelings are caused by something or someone. Within this illusion it makes sense that we look to external things, or other people, changing to change our mood and experience.

“No one can give away wisdom. A teacher can only lead you to it via words, hoping you will have the courage to look within yourself and find it inside your own consciousness”. Missing Link, Sydney Banks

Nevertheless sometimes its helpful to have a reminder of where to look, and to hear how others found it. Here are links to podcasts and talks with some of the people who have helped us.

When we slow down.

We realise that we don’t need to keep up with the pace of our thinking.

Urgency fades and distraction is no longer required.

When we live in the moment and not in our thinking about the past or future, we tune into the pleasures of being alive.