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The most powerful moments of my learning have always been when integrated with experience. It’s when I really get it, when the cogs suddenly slot into place in my mind and body. It’s when I integrate meaning into the knowledge. The trainee therapists and counsellors I work with have been taught a variety of psychological and psychotherapeutic theories. Turning this theory into well-grounded practice is always a challenge but time and again I see them really get it when they

The world is ‘bright with May again’ (Sara Teasdale), and with the extended daylight and increased warmth comes more and lusher growth—a more assured gathering of energy, vitality, of physis. In the animal kingdom, there is a corresponding shift: gardens and fields are full of young creatures frisking in the morning sunshine. In ourselves, too, there may be a sense that something is moving, asking for space—perhaps before we quite know what it is, or feel fully ready to meet

I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I waterd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears: And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night. Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine. And into my garden stole, When the night had veild the pole; In the morning glad I see; My foe outst