Awareness & Practice
Exploring how awareness, contemplative practice and psychological flexibility can help us relate differently to ourselves, others and the challenges we encounter.
For more than two decades, my work has explored how people change, recover and grow. Through mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), addiction recovery, behaviour change and reflective practice, I became interested in the role that awareness plays in helping people respond more flexibly to life's challenges.
Today, these ideas continue to inform my research into high-risk occupational cultures, identity, families and recalibration.
Why this matters
Awareness is not simply about paying attention. It is about changing our relationship with experience. Throughout my work in addiction recovery, mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), behaviour change and wellbeing, I have seen that lasting change rarely comes from trying to eliminate difficult thoughts or emotions. It comes from learning to notice them differently.
These ideas continue to shape how I think about adaptation, identity and flourishing, and now underpin the questions explored throughout The Aftershock Project.
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