tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31337900065294307872024-03-13T20:31:31.318+00:00Pathfinder-UKPathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.comBlogger375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-91269970208967025632013-08-24T07:30:00.000+01:002013-08-24T07:37:21.337+01:00The Three-toed Messenger
Peter Friebel from Sweden
sent this in about his experience with a Woodpecker. I thought I would share it
with you and I have added on the end two other stories in particular the one
about Zana is coming. This will help build on Peter’s story.
The Three-toed Messenger
During
one of my bushcraft courses this summer in Sweden, I was out with my students
on a hike through the wilderness. OnPathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-78505945081775455692013-08-06T15:55:00.002+01:002013-08-24T07:40:53.870+01:00And the wall came a tumbling down suddenly, I could see the wood for the trees...<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Written by The Editorial Staff on 28 December 2012. Posted in Natural Healing
Die hard conservatives love to disparage liberals as tree huggers, but
it has been recently scientifically validated that hugging trees is
actually good for you. Research has shown that you don't even have to
touch a tree to get better, you just need to Pathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-66889009202737922032013-05-10T07:51:00.002+01:002013-05-10T07:51:18.293+01:00Nature Awareness - Underwater Experience<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Before I met Geoffrey I had
only a vague idea of what Nature Awareness was. I mainly believed it
to be a way of reconnecting with Nature but not much more. I certainly
didn’t realise how powerful this work is and how it can be integrated
into more mainstream treatment methods. I am a Consultant Psychiatrist
and a few years ago I was working at a recovery centre where Geoffrey
was Pathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-70305494179217688192013-02-06T09:05:00.001+00:002013-02-06T09:05:46.915+00:00Natural Awareness How Does It Work?<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Not wishing to Boar you to death
but I would like to share with you tales of encounters with some Wild Boar by brave men and not so brave men,
well ok none were brave..
1. Stop snoring your keeping me awake...
As
they lay asleep in the sleeping bags in their two man army bivvy
(tent) Dave awoke to the sound of snoring. He dug he his buddy in the
back saying stop your snoring your Pathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-46890051852655603982012-12-17T11:53:00.000+00:002012-12-17T11:53:13.477+00:00What happens when we are in NatureThere is a great deal of research into the experiences of
adolescents, in the wilderness and very little on adult experiences,
particularly relating to addictions. While nature is considered the
primary facilitator for change, the shared-experience is without doubt
an integral part of the therapeutic-process, and the use of
wilderness-living-skills, meditation, alone time/sit spot, story Pathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-55137970632719070322012-12-11T11:26:00.000+00:002012-12-11T11:26:16.905+00:00Why Natural Awareness and not Nature AwarenessIn Nature
there is no right and no wrong there just is...
This may
cause some controversy I know.
However, I
feel if we can see the things we need to understand about who we are as
individuals, then and only then can we begin to change who we are from the
false reality of this world to who we truly are. We are not separate from
nature but an integral part of it and its process, we arePathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-76238639623986552662012-12-10T09:42:00.000+00:002012-12-10T09:45:56.128+00:00Has the Internet taken over from Nature?
For example we have Farm Town on Face-book
Explorative research into the causes and consequences of compulsive internet use: Prof. Dr. S. W. J. Lamberts
Although
there are obviously many positive aspects related to the development of
the internet, for more than 20 years indications have been emerging
that some people can become overly attached to computers and certain
internet functions,Pathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-41304915582898566242012-12-02T09:06:00.002+00:002012-12-02T23:23:53.812+00:00This is a personal appeal...To All My friends This is a personal
appeal, you all know how passionate I am about nature and the power it
offers in helping others. This project really needs your support through
funding. Please just have a look, see what their great creative and pertinent proposal is. give the gift of nature play this Christmas.
Its a fantastic project, so close to being fully funded and the ripple
Pathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-29521809611456264462012-11-29T10:31:00.005+00:002012-11-29T10:31:48.342+00:00Welcome to the Ring
Many
years ago I was running a workshop at a festival. I was working with
some boys doing shelter building, on entering deep into the woods we
came across a ring of trees with a clearing between them, which felt
quite scared.
The boys
were constantly talking about blowing things up and shooting animals etc
with laser guns, I think they may have been playing to many video
games? I Pathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-61222169466327983122012-11-26T08:02:00.001+00:002012-11-26T08:03:14.172+00:00The Earth Tree and the InvisiblesThe Earth Tree and the Invisibles is one of the most powerful exercises I do with people.
It requires someone to be buried up to their ankles in the earth while facing a tree.
Then we then begin to explore the invisible parts of the tree that we cannot see with our eyes, from the inner bark to the far side of the tree, down into the roots and up to the top of the canopy.
During this journey Pathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-55204646452319652992012-11-18T08:45:00.001+00:002012-11-18T08:49:36.239+00:00Spot the ThreadPathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-63578954408187349442012-10-24T10:10:00.003+01:002012-10-24T10:16:22.015+01:00Black Woodpecker<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Linden & Grut (2002).
Informs
us of the ‘Great Prophets’ who in NATURE found “Spiritual renewal…
Jesus in the desert, Moses up on the mountain, the Buddha in the forest"
or an ‘Addict Meeting a Tree’.
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I have been teaching tracking for over ten years now
and it still excites me, why? Quite simply each time I go out I discover
something new which gives me ideas on how to move my work forward be it in
tracking or in wilderness therapy.
The case in question while I was out in Sweden
teaching Peter from VaraVild Bushcraft School I was able to take him a few
steps further along in the Pathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-82594315556559421682012-08-13T11:04:00.000+01:002012-08-13T11:04:15.900+01:00Love Without Conditions: Reflections of the Christ Mind
This incredible book helped to bring me to an
understanding about myself and how to deal with some of my feelings. It gave me a tool
that allowed me to enter into my heart and not my head. It taught me a simple way
of dealing with my feelings and the lessons around forgiveness that I needed to
understand in my life, which I am still learning about.
When I first read this book a short Pathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133790006529430787.post-81381387614646934042012-08-08T07:50:00.002+01:002012-08-08T07:50:41.026+01:00Merlin and the Parabolic
I was sat around the camp fire this morning at 06:30hrs
having a cup of Dandelion coffee, Merlin having eaten was settling down for the
day, when suddenly he was surrounded my around 30 song birds, consisting of
blue tits, great tits, long-tailed tits, chaffinch and sparrow.
I did not pick up on the initial alarm call; it may have
been very subtle and to be fair I was still prising thePathfinder-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036639847008729171noreply@blogger.com0