Welcome to .... Listening Skills Practice ~ Scotland 

It is some years since I updated this website.  As it is, it still gives a sense of the work that I enjoy. Currently, at the start of 2025, I work full time with Glasgow Piano City though I will be leading a series of workshops for a small group of up to six people in the Spring, probably in south Glasgow. I am also happy to respond to fresh requests for any 1-to-1 work deepening a Listening Skills Practice. 

I offer tuition in Listening through the Body ~ with A r t. 

This is a Listening Skills Practice, useful to both creative and therapeutic process and a blend of all the good stuff from the common ground between ways of working that all benefit from from - listening with more than our ears.  My training is in ' Experiential Listening and Focusing ' where a central attitude of sincere playfulness supports  us to just notice whatever we notice in ourselves, interact imaginatively with our experiencing and sense the energy to move forward differently through our life ~ as a whole.  Easier said than done, perhaps. It is worth being aware of how David Bohm describes an authentic 'dialogue' with ourselves and others as being a process where we gently hold an awareness of everything going on - in suspension.

This work is learning by doing based on understanding that a necessary starting point is knowing in your bones   we may well be ok just as we are . . . 

Including therapeutic Art Making into a listening practice adds an extra playful dimension, in tune with principles of Neuro Plasticity underpinning both Feldenkrais and EFT.  My work is built on 'Clearing a Space' - before choosing to go into anything and on resting as much as doing while just noticing whatever is there without trying to change it. Sitting back into listening from the wider perspective of our bodily felt sense of situations can paradoxically create enough space for things to shoogle themselves loose a bit.

If you have a situation or creative project that you want to move forward beyond any existing stuckness . . . then this way of working could be helpful. I can offer 1-to-1 tuition and small group sessions in this gentle way of being with ourselves and each other. No technique or method is ever a magic wand or guarantee of anything shifting in our life. For genuine change to happen we need deeper insight and for that we need to create conditions where it can happen. We cannot force ourselves to change, we can only aim to clear a space ... and nurture any resources that support us. We can also let ourselves rest for a while ~ just as we are and develop our practice of Listening, Sensing & Pausing.