Welcome to my reflective journal
This is a blog that I have kept since the beginning of my research project, it shows the journey I
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Numinous Reciprocity – A reflective journal
Confronting 'diseases of despair': How can I facilitate self-reflection and the discovery of existential meaning in order to improve wellbeing?
Research
#30: The Story Chapel
After many weeks of work, last weekend I attended Camp Bestival with the latest incarnation of my project, now called
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#22: Interview with Emma Connor and The Ilford Experiment
I met a brilliantly useful stakeholder in Emma Connor, a Child Psychotherapist for Your Space Therapies (https://yourspacetherapies.org). She specialises in
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#9: The Spirit of The Gift
My thinking has been heavily influence by The Gift by Lewis Hyde, using literature, anthropology and psychology he explores how
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#8: Leaflet Research
I will be hand making a small flyer containing information about the project and a request for individuals to share
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#6: The Open Hand Project Proposal
The hand is among the first images our species created. It is a gesture of greeting, of openness, of vulnerability.
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#5: Only Connect
“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be
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#4: A Replacement for Religion
I have just finished reading A Replacement for Religion by The School of Life, there are lots of helpful thoughts
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#3: Take to the streets – find a bench
Inspired by the practical philosophy described in Street Wisdom I decided to take myself on a flaneur, to hold the
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#2: What is the heart of it?
Over the past week or two my mind has been almost constantly working, trying to think my way forward with
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