Welcome to Listening Skills Practice - Scotland.  I am in the process of updating this website, so please bear with me. Currently I work full time running Glasgow Piano Project CIC though I will offering a new series of workshops soon, starting at Skypark in Finnieston and then in late Spring of 2026 also at G41 Art Space in Shawlands, sough Glasgow. I am also happy to respond to requests for working 1-to-1 and in small groups.   I am working on a wee booklet - that will be published here.

  Welcome to Listening Skills Practice - Scotland.

This work is not therapy, and I am not a therapist ~ though,    it may well be therapeutic. I am a qualified practitioner of 'Experiential Focusing and Listening' and the aim here is to lend my voice to rediscovering a resource for anybody to enjoy and be able to draw energy from in everyday life.   

The practice of listening through the body supports the flow of whatever we are already doing in life . . . in relation to: 

     creative practice - decision making - personal process,    problem solving - dealing with grief and loss - health issues,     pain management - science & mathematics - martial arts,        the list goes on . . .                                  

My aim is o blend my best understanding of David Bohm’s work 'On Dialogue' and the Suspension of Everything, with Eugene Gendlin’s ‘Experiential Listening & Focusing’, while reframing Gene’s Clearing a Space with a fresh intention: to remain aware of how the thinking mind can only ever offer an imitation of life, if it is never proprioceptively engaged in being conscious of what 'thought' itself is responsible for. in   all aspect of our lives, both individually and collectively. 

Here, the invitation is to let the thinking mind rest, noticing  how we do whatever we are doing, while we are doing it, using basic art materials to help externalize experiencing and rediscover how just being in contact with ourselves, others and any life situations, in a fresh way, will also help support us to form boundaries and act spontaneously . . . a whole. 

II am not a teacher, so my way of working is a little different from how I have, mostly, found that education is offered. This work is learning by doing grounded in the understanding that we may well be ok just as we are.

If you have a creative project or life situation that that needs to move beyond existing stuckness - then this way of working could be helpful.

 If you are new to the experiential landscape, I offer support as you find your own way of navigating your internal world. No technique or method is a magic wand or guarantee of anything shifting. For actual change to occur we will likely need to nurture deeper insight into any given situation and create the conditions we need to allow change to unfold. We cannot ever happily force ourselves to change, though we can aim to clear a space with intention and nurture the resources we need that will support our process. We can also allow ourselves to rest just as we are and develop a practice of Listening, Sensing & Pausing in the midst of our busy lives.