Ar dTús. Níor thug mé aird ort Ar dtús. Bhí cuidiú uaim A dúirt tú, aríst, Ag faire, ag fanacht Le troid uaim. Ró-thuirseach Ró-bhrónach Le troid. Racht géillte Do mo nochtadh. Ró-fhada domh Do mo thachtadh. Moladh gaoithe Ráfla inchinne Bealach ar strae. Ansin a chuimil tú, Glacfaidh an oilithreacht seo Smidiríní mo shaoil…
General thoughts if you didn’t vote for the people who are now in charge of the professional political power structures that govern you, when it is also pretty clear they don’t care about how many people get harmed or killed in their pursuit of the economic- or power-grabbing interests of the privileged few: 1.…
I am interested in the coaching possibilities opened up by Winslade and Monk’s mediation technique of “double listening”. Drawing on the work of Michael White, they make note of the “absent but implicit” story of hope that sits alongside the voicing of a story of conflict: “Mediators can give this story of hope for something…
Self-care isn’t impossible in culturally unsustainable environments of enclosure (difficult, even toxic working environments), but it does tend to be rendered unlikely, unless you make ready, strengthen your sense of presence and resolve, and clarify what’s important to you before entering the arena. When all around you is swirling, it’s important that you don’t start swirling…
It is an overlooked truism to say that many of the thoughts we think, the feelings we feel, and the things we do come from other people, other times, and other places. Back in the 1980s I remember that visiting a supermarket tended to be a fairly unthinking activity. We would take down cans of…