Owl’s Well Counseling

07/03/2024

You are invited to attend Shadow Liberation

1pm Sunday July 14th 2024
TPS Blackbox Theatre
Armory at Seattle Center
305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98109

Register here

About the Play
Shadow Liberation uses shadows and audience participation to tackle harm and repair in communities. This student-devised production blends drama therapy and shadow theatre to create space for exploring situations around gender, sexuality, violence and joy. Actors use their bodies to form evocative shadows, allowing for layered storytelling that avoids graphic depictions while conveying emotional impact. But Shadow Liberation is more than a performance. Audience members can actively participate and even take to the stage to intervene in the drama. This interactive format, Forum Theatre, empowers communities to explore ways to prevent assault, seek repair and become active in creating a safer environment.

This show is created by Community Based Theatre and Sociodrama students at Antioch University Seattle.

10/01/2023

New office for Owl’s Well Counseling!

09/20/2023

Excited to be moving to new office space in the historic Penney Lofts building in downtown Renton. I will be offering new drama and expressive arts workshops and have space for new individual clients - all ages.

05/24/2023

The nation's first Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman recites "The Hill We Climb."FULL COVERAGE: https://abcn.ws/361BpUeSUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS: https://bit.ly/...

05/23/2023

THE GLEAM

Sometimes,
in the midst
of every difficult
and everyday
awkward
way, you try to
make your
onward way,

sometimes
sitting down
at the edge
of everything
that has made you
too tired
to take
another step,

there’s that
caught sight,
now here,
now gone

of a half imagined
wavering light
just among
the trees

just a gleam
or a wisp
of white gold
in the dying sun

a strange kind
of beckoning,

an ache
outlined
so intimately
as it is,
against
all of the doings
you have
labeled
so lovingly
as sins,

the place you
should have gone
all those years ago
still, it seems,
willing
to invite you again,

simpler this time,
not too far away

touchable now,
and within reach

just a single step
on the other side
of what you always
come to call
in the end,
forgiveness.

…

Lough Inagh Light.
Photo : David Whyte
Lough Inagh, Connemara May 11th 2023

…

THE GLEAM
in ‘Still Possible’
Many Rivers Press January 2022

05/23/2023

EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy) is a type of psychotherapy used to treat trauma-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression. EMDR therapy involves a structured approach that includes eight phases of treatment. During....

05/23/2023

ADMIT

Admit, that once you have got up
from your chair and opened the door,
once you have walked out into the clear air
toward that edge and taken the path up high
beyond the ordinary you have become
the privileged and the pilgrim,
the one who will tell the story
and the one, coming back from the mountain
who helped to make it.

…

From MAMEEN
River Flow: New and Selected Poems
Many Rivers Press © David Whyte

…

Photo © Derek Bullen
A Touch of Mountain Madness
At The Summit of Lingmoor Fell.
Cumbria England.

Posted in anticipation of my upcoming walking tour in the mountains of Cumbria, otherwise know as 'The Lakes'. Being back in those mountains always brings out a certain wild exuberance, here, caught so finely by one of my participants a few years ago on a previous trip, in the elements in which I feel most at home in the far North of England: the immovable endless horizon of mountains, the fresh flowing air, the glimmering lakes in the late evening, the experience so beautifully expressed by Wordsworth :-‘Thus daily were my sympathies enlarged, / And thus the common range of visible things / Grew dear to me: already I began / To love the sun, a Boy I lov'd the sun, / Not as I since have lov'd him, as a pledge / And surety of our earthly life, a light / Which while we view we feel we are alive; / But, for this cause, that I had seen him lay / His beauty on the morning hills, had seen / The western mountain touch his setting orb, / In many a thoughtless hour, when, from excess / Of happiness, my blood appear'd to flow / With its own pleasure, and I breath'd with joy…”‘The Prelude: Book II’ DW

05/23/2023

I am a lover of what is. Why? Because it hurts when I argue with reality. xoxo bk 💞

Join me live every M, T, W from 9-10 am PT: athomewithbk.com.

05/23/2023

A gorgeous card featuring Seena Frost, founder of SoulCollage.

-- This is a card from Seena's deck. She titled it...My Creative Spinner and put it in her Committee Suit. ​​​​​​​​​Here's what her Neter had to say...I Am One Who spins webs of images to hold and heal my Soul. Whenever a bridge is needed between my Neters, I create these cards. It is like spinning webs out of my dark depths. ​​​​​​​​​.
Putting cards into suits is one of the many ways you can work with your personal deck of cards. The suits in SoulCollage® add another layer of depth to the practice and create a wonderful portal into the deeper work of SoulTending.
Do you have cards in your deck with pictures of yourself? Tell us about them. ®

05/23/2023