Category: Social issues

• The Danger of Sport As Metaphor

  The dawn revealed a world held in deep fog, the snow cover having melted away in this week’s warmth. Bare ground and limbs remain. I’ve succumbed to the mid-January doldrums, and have taken to sitting before the fire with a good book. Occasionally I journey up to the studio and muck about. I’m not much…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 22, 2017

  Arts, Social issues, spirituality

  healing, metaphors, Narrative Therapy, rural communities, sport

• The Complexity of Reciprocity

  Another very warm day. The snow we had Tuesday night is rapidly melting. Here at the mid-latitudes climate change proceeds at a fast pace. I’ve been thinking about the negative tilt that can occur with reciprocity. Reciprocity refers to the tendency for systems to co-evolve, and is usually used to describe  small-scale human interactions that…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 19, 2017

  Healing, Social issues, spirituality

  healing, reciprocity, Shamanism

• Epiphany

  It’s late afternoon on a Tuesday, a gray, murky, fiercely windy day, shortly before sunset. The aforementioned wind is howling, scouring the deep cold from the valley. I’m listening to a choral concert for Epiphany on BBC3. It’s been a day of cancellations, mostly due to illness of one sort or another; it seems to…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 10, 2017

  Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Social issues

  Epiphany, healing, psychotherapy, Shamanism, wisdom

• The Past in the Present

  

  Today dawned cloudy and cold. The ground is bare save for the occasional skiff of snow.  Our two-year long snow drought continues, the cold interrupted by warmth and rain. As we collectively limp towards the inauguration, I find myself strictly limiting my Facebook time. I’ve noticed that I seldom write anything remotely personal, only reposting…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 8, 2017

  Disability, Social issues

  healing, Polio, Social Change, stories