There is that passionate spark in all of us that has never ceased to ask: “What is it to be human?” It's not an intellectual question – it's both visceral and compassionate. You can see it sometimes in children's faces: what's it like to dive deep into THIS experience of being human, in THIS moment? I've kind of made it my profession to ask it – it's at the center of my work, with groups and individuals, in therapy and supervision, even with the Gender-related work. It always opens a freshness, takes people onto new ground.
I describe what I do as Body-Centered, with a Spiritual or Transpersonal perspective – the teachers who continue to inspire me are A.H. Almaas, Saniel Bonder, Adam Bradpiece, and also Jo Hardy and Colin Harrison. I offer individual (and couples) sessions from my beautiful home in an eco-community in Totnes, Devon. I also teach at the Iron Mill Institute in Exeter, lead a supervision training in Slovakia, and run workshops on Intimate Relating, movement, and meditation in the UK and Germany. I am blessed to be stepfather of Callum (8), and am thrilled to be running the new Psychotherapy of Awakening training from September 2008.


Other people involved with Presence in Action are Heather Whitelaw, clinical psychologist and group facilitator, Norman Duncan, Coordinator of the Gender Dialogues Project, and the other members of the project team: Bettina Knothe, Stefan Beier and Klaus Schwerma from Genderwerk, and staff from the University of Lodz .