Gary Hawke

03/05/2024

It's 10 years to the day that I at last managed to get Roy Bhaskar in front of a computer and share the first of three lectures. It was a project that I cared deeply about and wanted to demonstrate to Roy that people outside the university wanted to understand his ideas and also wanted to connect with him.

The first part of: An Introduction to Critical Realism, recorded during a live session at the Institute for Education, hosted by Gary Hawke of Alethic Coachi...

25/06/2021

This day 9 years ago, I lost my job.

Rather than find a new employer, I decided to become self- employed. My aim was help others discover insights and be inspired to change. I am so grateful that not only have people shared how important it is for everyone to have a Gary in their lives, but years on from working with me the insights and inspiration discovered have become a life took kit for change.

18/06/2021

Is it time for you to have a Gary in your life?

24/02/2021

The printed copy of the South Korean translation of The Order of Natural Necessity arrived in the post. It's a really wonderful print. First proposed in 2017, it's great to have five copies of the book in hand. I plan to keep a copy but not sure what I am planning to do with the other four copies.

30/01/2021

In 2015, I began working on a transcription based on 6 hours of Roy Bhaskar talking about the three main stages of his philosophy during an on-line event that I organised and persuaded Roy to do, which took place over the Summer of 2014 at the IOE.

Due to the limits of the IOE on-line system, the recording was not great, and I began to persuade Roy to run the event again. Which he was much more enthusiastic to do. However, with his death in late 2014 I decided to create a transcription of the audio, which became the book - The Order of Natural Necessity, published in 2016, on the anniversary of Roy's death

As I wanted to keep the cost of the book low, I did all the work from editing, to over 100 footnotes, to the graphic design, and I published the book through CreateSpace.

In 2017 I worked on the Kindle version and published on the 2017 anniversary of Roy's death. It was with the publication of the eBook that I was contacted by a South Korean publisher who wanted to undertake a translation of the book. There were a number of hurdles in getting the translation, false starts, delays and changers in translator. which have all been overcome. Some three years later, I received the cover image of the book.

All being well the book should be launched around February.

25/10/2020

Remember, it is only by diving deep into the heart of your entitlement as intransitive Soul, that you can confront the vibrational dis-unity of your Shadow. Understanding, what lay in the heart of you through the interconnectedness of Love as the growth of connection, will lead you to the awakened realisation that in each moment of your awareness, there are yet multiple possibilities of you. Let the subjective become enthused with the objective, allow yourself to come to know yourself as an authentic moment, in which you meet yourself and the other as alive, changing, and free. Liberate the absolute understanding as yourself both within yourself and within the other, then you will truly come to the reason of who you are: the ever-present moment of subjective Spirit holding within itself all that is objective.

05/10/2020

Determination, motivation, commitment, and belief. All needed to complete my personal challenge of a year of daily mimimum 5 minute cold showers. October 6th 2019 to October 5th 2020. 366 cold showers.

28/05/2020

With therapeutic support now having to move online, I through I would share a post I made on my website in 2012, when I first started offering online therapy sessions.

An Investigation into Telephone Therapeutic Support For Growth and Change Posted by on An Investigation into Telephone Therapeutic Support For Growth and Change. In this post, I intend to explore how effective Telephone/Skype is as a medium to support personal growth and change. As a Health and Care...

06/04/2020

I am reposting this as it says something important about resilience.

In the past resilience was thought of as a personal characteristic, but this is really not the case. Resilience is not something we are born or not born with or a development of our character; this way of thinking about resilience is reductionistic, imperialist, and ever so slightly neoliberal.

Resilience is a category term given to a collection of strategies and practices that inculcate well being when we find ourselves within a toxic environment.

This make resilience not a character of being but a embodied activity of being. An example is: we can all enact the resilience strategy of personal distancing to ensure that we can manage the present toxic environment.

Seeing resilience this way, means that we can be resilient if we follow the resilient category strategies and practices that ensure our individual and collective well being.

This, of course means, that there will be people for which the resilience strategies will not work, but this does not mean that they were not resilient, it means that there are factors that effect strategies affect.

That we can be overwhelmed by a toxic environment, points to the fact that resilience is not inherent within people: it is not a characteristic.

Sadly sometimes, a toxic environment is just too toxic.

06/04/2020

31/03/2020

If you are looking for something to take your mind off the virus, and you want to read more about Critical Realism, I have made The Order Of Natural Necessity: A kind of Introduction to Critical Realism ebook free from the 1st April to the 5th April across all Amazon stores worldwide.

26/03/2020

I have been seeing quite a number of people posting about the new rise in consciousness that will come about due to the virus.

Although I can see a reason for this, it would seem to me that the important thing is not to plan for the future rise but to ensure that we are globally okay now.

I also have a feeling that some of the future rise in consciousness posting could be a repositioning of the biblical message. In uncertainty there is always a place for the biblical made a new. It can also be a way in which we distance ourselves from the present moment by making the other moment a better moment.

I would offer that right now there is an opportunity to engage with anxiety, to meet it head on, accepts it, not fight it, see that as humans we live in anxiety all the time. I am not taking away the pain, discomfort or fear that comes with anxiety.

But sometimes the only way to deal with anxiety is to move through it. Talk about it, not keep it in, share it with others.

I am all for the rise in consciousness but before we get there let's support each other in being with our pain, our anxiety, and our fear.

Because when we get to the "new eden" there will still be pain, anxiety, and fear, and why would we want rid of them; they are part of what it means to be human.

If after reading this you would like to talk through your own anxiety around life today, please get in touch and I would be happy to offer you a free consultation hour.

Gary