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Happy New Year 2024

Happy New Year 2024                  The Year of the Dragon (February 10th) The Year of the Dragon invites us to look at our relationship with this mythical, yet illusory creature and our fighting of illusory battles and our defending of illusory … Continue reading

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A Workshop on Addiction and Co-dependence  

Saturday, 18th November 2023, 10 am –  4 pm in Stroud  A workshop for qualified counsellors and students at the placement stage of their training. £75 / £65 if booked before October 31st.   CPD Certificates provided.  What made this workshop … Continue reading

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Happy New Year 2023

Happy New Year 2023                   The Year of the Rabbit (January 22nd) As we continue to work towards putting the pandemic behind us, when everything went haywire in the year of the Rat, we were supported by the burden-sharing Ox … Continue reading

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Happy New Year 2022

Happy New Year 2022                   The Year of the Tiger (February 1st) As the Year of the Ox drops you off at the corner, the Year of the Tiger meets you with a fearsome roar. Tiger energy offers a brave, … Continue reading

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From Montréal to Bengaluru – My Four Years on the IPTN Board

Act 1: 2017 – 2018, Organising the Conference. ‘So where does your story begin?’ Looking back on my time on the Board of the International Playback Theatre Network (IPTN), I served one term of four years after joining in Montreal … Continue reading

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Act 2: 2019. The Conference and an unexpected (non-spiritual) plot twist…

“If hate eats chilli, love gets heartburn.”  Nick Booth “If you wake up in the morning, you’ve got options.” Jessica Butcher In early December 2019, I arrived back in India to meet with the rest of the IPTN Board to … Continue reading

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Act 3: 2020, Unrequited Love.

The CPT Code of Ethics and the Search for a Resolution “We always come back to this; can’t we just cut to the part where you say sorry?” Kermit the Frog breaking up with Miss Piggy. Back home having regained my … Continue reading

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Book: Playback Theatre Around The World

PLAYBACK THEATRE AROUND THE WORLDDiversity of Application Edited by Brian Tasker and Baiju Gopal Published by Christ University Press, Bengaluru, India Available from amazon.co.uk: Kindle version £3.01 / Paperback £7.62ISBN 978-93-82305-99-6 Playback Theatre Around The World: Diversity of Application was … Continue reading

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Happy New Year 2021

Happy New Year 2021, The Year of the Ox (February 12th)              As the chaos of the Year of the Rat begins to fade, the image of the humble Ox emerging from the apocalyptic haze provides … Continue reading

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Gratitude in the time of the Coronavirus

Gratitude in the time of the Coronavirus This journey just startedIts destination unknownTime to destination unknown.Already I feel frustrated and crossNot wanting, not accepting this changeThat seems to have come so suddenly. At the supermarketI grab what I can Not what … Continue reading

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