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I was at a lecture in Leeds today about older people’s mental health and alcohol misuse (NHS Leeds & York Partnership / Forward Leeds). One of the main risk factors to alcohol misuse is social isolation: Lack of human contact […]

Dwell Time interviewed Doug Dennison and Logan Bonham Smith of Unmasked Mental Health: https://dwelltimepress.wordpress.com/2019/12/29/dwell-time-interview-with-doug-dennison-and-logan-bonham-smith-unmasked-mental-health/ (Content Warning: Discussions about suicide and child death) https://unmaskedmentalhealth.co.uk/ Their app is designed to get people talking, with the option of anonymity, to provide peer support […]

I’m now finalising my report on my bursary activity – and it feels quite lop-sided. There are some really positive results and achievements, and some disappointing dead-ends. The positive side is definitely the work of bringing together practitioners involved in […]

Do other artists find themselves obsessing over small things? I’ve been away from the studio for family and the festivities, so these things are milling around in my head, in my notebook, even in the occasional song lyric. I’ve been […]

The ‘Body Wisdom Discoveries’ workshop I held in Accra in August 2019 involved empathetic touch, body scanning, movement from a body part that ‘called for the attention of the participants,’ drawing, writing and witness feedback. Below are some testimonials from […]

I then went from California to Ghana to learn the Kpanlogo Dance, of the Ga tribe in Accra. This dance is known to be “the dance of the youth,” and originated during the wake of Ghana’s Independence in 1957 as […]

My project began with the start of the Tamalpa L2 Training course in Embodied Leadership at the Tamalpa Institute in California. Arriving at Mountain Home Studio (the training course location in Marin County) at the end of July 2019 felt […]

once upon a time there was a boy, he lived in a house with a dog and a cat. one day the dog came home and announced she was running away to the circus. the cat at this news was […]

So here we are, possibly my favourite day of the year, Boxing Day! I have some time to myself. I have begun sifting and sorting some of the sounds recorded on various devices. At the moment this is just a […]