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Befriending the Mutineer

ON RESISTANCE AND THE BEST WAY TO CATCH A CRAB There is a crab wedged under the rock, bubbling at me through his strange alien mouthpiece. He is the crab of my resistance. If the rock is loose and not too large, I might try lifting it – only to see a flurry of limbs…

Four Energies for Navigating Life

So excited to offer a first glimpse of the archetypal navigation styles I’ve been working on for so long – thanks to the beautiful artwork of Jinty Smith! I absolutely love them – not only Jinty’s beautiful renderings, but the characters themselves and how they resonate both as parts of me, and as familiar strategies…

When Drift Leads to Resurrection

ONE day in the late sixth century an Irish friar called Cormac clambered into his leather coracle and pushed off from the shore. With no map and no fixed destination, he surrendered to the wind, tide and deepening ocean as it pitched and flexed his vessel’s flimsy wooden frame, with only greased animal hides keeping…

Travel Writing: Having New Eyes

Travel Writing: Having New Eyes

Workshop 23rd May “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land,” wrote the Victorian novelist and essayist GK Chesterton. “It is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” What did he mean? When most of us are asked why we travel (leaving aside better…

Masculine Soul – resources

Masculine Soul – resources

Thanks to all those who came to today’s workshop on The Masculine Soul and contributed to such a rich conversation. As promised, here are links to many of the resources I mentioned during the afternoon. Enjoy! Nick’s website www.nickthorpe.co.uk – author, speaker, coach   Male Rites of Passage & Circles Male Journey Rites: www.malejourney.org.uk/rites Male Journey…

The Tenderness of Boys

The Tenderness of Boys

Pre-school boys often show an intuitive and joyous lifeforce which they later learn to suppress. NICK THORPE looks at what happens on the road to manhood, and what we can do about it. “There’s great native tenderness in children – in boys as much as in girls,” says the Australian novelist Tim Winton. “But so…

Is relaxation over-rated?

Is relaxation over-rated?

HAS anyone ever told you to “chill out”? If you’re anything like me, this injunction creates the opposite effect – intense irritation, followed perhaps by shame that I haven’t yet mastered the art of inner peace. But recently I’ve noticed I’m getting more relaxed about tension. While low-level stress rightly gets a bad rap, I’d…

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