Wild Mind.

Hi I’m Allison Priestman. I am a white, slim, cis gendered woman; living and struggling with both my disability and my ableism. I have been working as an Embodied-Relational Therapist for over 20 years. I'm continually being woken up, challenged and nourished by my contact with clients, supervises and trainees. At this time of climate, diversity and equality crises, I’m interested in being part of a collective understanding of their interwoven causes. And part of a collective search for a way forward.I’m interested in creating training spaces from three-hour webinars to the two year-long residential Embodied- Relational Therapy training, which allow participants to drop deeply into themselves. Combining experiential learning with rigorous theoretical input. Supporting practitioners to relax into the complexities and paradoxes of working as a therapist. Of supporting work from the non-expert position.I'm re-running for the fourth time my Playing with Fire Online Course Oct 2024- June 2025. Exploring an Embodied, Relational, Intersectional and Wild Therapeutic Approach. How can working in an embodied, relational and wild way support the decolonisation of your practise?https://www.allisonpriestman.org/copy-of-playing-with-fireMore information to follow in the new year. Please note I will be running a series of Friday morning webinars in the Spring and Summer to act as tasters for the training.The next Embodied-Relational Therapy two year training begins in Juner 2025. It’s a robust, immersive, modular, residential training that will be run from Devon this year. I will be co-running the first year with Stephen Tame. For more information and the application documents please check out theEmbodied-Relational Therapy website. If you'd like to  know more about the Embodied-Relational Therapy  training check out this video.https://vimeo.com/498402917I’m creating a series of informative videos to communicate some of the ideas that inform my work. A video onworking with Erotic Chargecan be seen here.Thank you for reading, I hope you’re able to make it to one of my webinars or trainings, Allison

Allison Priestman

Stepping into our Ecological Consciousness

<h3>Drawing from Wild Therapy and Ecopsychology, this webinar explores how to bring richness and depth to our client work. Exploring the wider context to our work. How might Wild Mind, our Ecological Consciousness be part of a new story, offering hope in times of inequality, ecological and climate crises?</h3> Wild Mind is a way of being, an active meditation. A way of listening to all sources of information, that may be relevant to the work with our clients. The rational and liminal; embodied and theoretical.​When in Wild Mind, we are connected to our spontaneity, embodiment, dreaming, our animal selves and the breathing world around us.Wild Mind is the centre, it’s the ground of all the work I do -whether with clients, supervisees or as a trainer. In Wild Mind, I am listening to the aliveness of the embodied, ensouled beings who share this place, wherever I work from. The dancing plants outside my window, the guttering that sings in the rain, as well as being present to the entirety of my client.​Wild Mind can assist us to access our Ecological Consciousness. The part of us, which is bigger, wider and able to listen to the other-than-human and more-than -human voices.​When working from Wild Mind we centre our practice on a wild, indigenous, local, ‘gatherer’ consciousness. How can we respect indigenous people’s culture and lived reality, and reconnect, listen to our local knowledge, inherent to the places that we call home? I’m wanting to acknowledge the deep wisdom and leadership present in many indigenous traditions. While also being awake to the current and centuries long abuse of indigenous people.On this webinar we’ll explore how practising Wild Mind can hold open the possibility of a different paradigm of what it means to be helpful and human. Recognising the interdependence, mutuality, and reciprocity of all beings of this world.​Suitable for counsellors, psychotherapist, and allied practitioners. Especially those who wish to deepen and support their client's relationship with the wild, the other-than-human and more-than-human.​We will combine experiential exercises with easily accessible theory and group explorations. I hope that this will be an enlivening, thought-provoking morning.​Cost: £50. <a href="mailto:allisonpriestman@gmail.com?subject=concession%20for%20Wild%20Mind%20Webinar" title="mailto:allisonpriestman@gmail.com?subject=concession%20for%20Wild%20Mind%20Webinar" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Please contact me</a> f you wish to have a concession at £35.This would act as a useful taster for the <a href="https://www.allisonpriestman.org/copy-of-playing-with-fire" title="https://www.allisonpriestman.org/copy-of-playing-with-fire" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Playing with Fire </a>nine-month online training starting in October 2024.<a href="https://youtu.be/V94yHjru03Q?si=NfsCSRjHl81VVL9k" title="https://youtu.be/V94yHjru03Q?si=NfsCSRjHl81VVL9k" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">To watch a video of Allison talking about Wild Mind</a>

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