Sage Practice and Development

Stay tuned for more news on these retreat days which I’ll be running every month starting in May. They are tailored for those of you in helping professions who would benefit from taking some time out in nature to apply trauma-competent practice and nature-based therapeutic techniques to your own self care. These techniques are also tools that can be added to your practitioner toolkit. More details to come …

STORY
The current theme we are exploring is story .... story or narrative is such a deep part of being human. All cultures have stories, in fact Tahir Shah is quoted as saying "stories are a communal currency of humanity". Story is at the heart of the work we do ... Therapeutic Life Story Work privileges the child's story, their truth and the need to integrate that narrative and have mastery over it. As Maya Angelou said "there is no greater agony than an untold story inside you". Stories are powerful - they can be used to protect privilege, to create change, and to understand and make meaning in our lives. When we explore and understand out stories (including the painful parts) we enable ourselves to move beyond. As Brene Brown explains "when we deny the story, it defines us. When we own the story we can write a brave new ending".

COURAGE
Laura Beveridge inspires us with her courage. May we take her example and re-commit to supporting all of the most vulnerable children in our community to reach their potential, and to feel loved ...

Kids in Care: Let’s Start a Revolution! | Laura Beveridge | TEDxGlasgow There are currently 15,404 children and young people in care in Scotland and many more thousands of people who have gone through the same themselves. Whilst ...