Join me in a driftwood hut on the Humber estuary, where we explore what I believe to be your most precious asset - your attention and presence, where your consciousness, focus and attention goes (and your body along with it). I call this ‘aliveness’ for short.
We’ll explore why aliveness isn’t necessarily something ‘out there’ to chase, but life that’s already within you (like desire, wants, attraction) and why and how it demands expression, as well as fulfilment.
I’ll share stories of how my attention can leak into rumination, resentment or numbing (like social media, phone, addiction) and why choosing where you place your attention is your most precious act of agency and asserting yourself in the world.
I also map three natural, human attentional pulls (one-to-one; group/collective; self) and how your old wounds affect each of these.
Join me as I wonder aloud about whether that impulse to seek aliveness from others or out there is really an invitation to meet the aliveness already within you, and then express it - through movement, play, creating, or simply walking the beach and writing messages in the sand.
Along the way I touch upon the impact of grief and loneliness, the improvisational and ephemeral nature of aliveness, and how to hold yourself in strength and softness through all of this.
