On Adult Life Skills (and Shame, again)

Adulting Isn’t a Straight Line Growing up in London, I learned early that the city was both my home and my adversary. I committed bus routes, tube lines, and sandwich shops to memory. Yet this past week, when I returned to deliver a workshop at the University of London—an old stomping ground—I found myself lost,Continue reading "On Adult Life Skills (and Shame, again)"

The Art of Becoming: Person-Centred Therapy and Creativity

In person-centred therapy (PCT), there’s a quiet but radical belief: that every person has an innate tendency to grow, heal, and become more fully themselves. Carl Rogers, the founder of this approach, called it the actualising tendency—a natural impulse toward development, expression, and integration. But what does that have to do with art? Whether you'reContinue reading "The Art of Becoming: Person-Centred Therapy and Creativity"