Do you feel that you’re not fully present at work, that your fear of being fully seen is blocking the creativity that wants to flow through you and your organisation?

Do you long to have time with yourself rather than constantly striving to please others? Do you fear burning-out?

Do you realise that by having more time with yourself that you will not only be healthier, but better serve the world around you, including your business?

Do you understand that real change must first take place inside of you?

Do you recognise that what modern society calls “strength” is actually weakness? (e.g. maintaining a facade of resilience, certainty and independence.)

And that there’s a big difference between understanding “resilience” intellectually and actually embodying it.

Do you wish to have a real conversation that goes beneath the surface of life, that talks to root causes and explores real solutions?

Have you the appetite to venture into the right hemisphere of your brain, into your creativity and intuition? Would you like to be operating with the left and right sides of your brain in balance – to be firing on all cylinders?

Note: embodying the elder is a lifelong enterprise. In any given moment, your reach for wisdom is limited by your readiness. The psyche can’t be fooled.

Following contact by e-mail we’ll have a free Zoom or telephone call, up to one hour, to ensure the process is a good fit for you. If so, we commit to seven meetings, aiming for one each week.

A meeting is up to an hour and a half — an expansive space free of judgement where what’s shared between us is held in complete confidence.

Ideally the meetings would be in person and in nature. Depending on your location (I’m based in England’s Lake District), the meetings are likely to be via Zoom, which can aid the process of integration.


MEETING PROCESS:

1. Identifying with the Observer as a bridge to the elder. The importance of robust boundaries.

2. Getting to know your flawed way of belonging.

3. Making a deal with the saboteur — reframing perceived threats as allies.

4. The power of image when the storm intensifies — a journey to a meeting deep in the psyche.

5. The dark night of the soul — gateway to the elder.

6. Befriending the storm — developing a deeper understanding of your journey and the time you’re living through.

7. Integration — proving to the psyche that you’re serious about becoming an elder.


In order to integrate each meeting into your daily life, simple exercises will be set and reflected upon at the start of the next meeting.

In the worlds of psychotherapy and business there is a growing interest in the use of psychedelics for healing and insight. They can crack open our shallow sense of identity and offer an empowering glimpse of our true, interdependent nature and its vast potential, along with the fears that appear to block the way.

Aside from psychedelics currently being illegal in many countries, including the UK, without grounding the experience they can also become a distraction, like other spiritual practices.

The real journey is the life-long integration of their simple lessons on how to be both present in the world and increasingly connected to its mysteries.

An initiatory story has the same objective, offering us glimpses of who we might become and how to arrive there. It’s a map of the psyche showing where we are in a given moment. Such stories never leave us stranded. They ground us in a sense of ancestral belonging and reveal how life is rich with meaning.

Over time these stories are just as powerful as psychedelics, especially when combined with the grounding experience of a wilderness fast.

In indigenous cultures, where psychedelics (aka medicine plants) are legal, they make use of all three tools, along with dreams. Each communicates in the same language — one which speaks through images. It’s the language of psyche, guiding us back to robust sensitivity, to being fully embodied. And though none of these tools can do the work for us, their invaluable insight can save us years of time.