Stephen McCabe is an ecotherapist, storyteller, Ten Direction course tutor and practising Zen Buddhist. Always a true nature lover, he is a down-to-earth ecotherapy practitioner who works with mindfulness, creativity and story. Having grown up in the working-class suburbs of Liverpool, he adored wild animals as a child, encountering them in city parks amongst the broken glass and litter. A person-centred counsellor, he completed the ‘Ten Directions’ training a few years ago as well as the PRANA Ecotherapy introductory course in Edinburgh. He is a trained meditation guide and I also run workshops on how to use tarot for personal wellbeing. He runs ecotherapy sessions for Edinburgh-based organisations LGBT Health and Wellbeing and Health All Round and has years of experience providing mental health support in counselling settings and also via a national helpline. A full time eco-therapist, he works locally with people in Scotland, but also internationally through online nature programmes at www.naturetherapyonline.net and www.naturecourses.info
Caroline Brazier is retiring this summer from her role as course leader of the Tariki Training Programmes (formerly the Amida training programme) since 1996 but will continue to teach on the Ten Directions programme. Author of seven books on Buddhism, psychotherapy and ecotherapy as well as many papers and articles, she is a BACP accredited psychotherapist. She has a lifelong interest in nature and loves camping and walking in wild spaces. Caroline originally trained as a teacher and has worked extensively in education, community health and with women's groups. She is also an ordained Jodo Shinshu Buddhist priest (Japanese Pure Land Buddhism). In the past she has taken a special interest in eating disorders. Caroline has three adult children. Caroline Brazier presenting at the First International Conference on Other Centered Approach in Berkeley Conference in February 2011 and talking at Buddhifield in 2011 on 'Finding Yourself in Love With the Earth' and in 2016 on Whose World are You In?
Paul Maiteny: Why are humans so cruel and destructive to each other, other species & the ecosystem; and what might our human role be as members of the ecosystemic web? Since childhood, these question have informed my life and work - in ecological education and habitat management, research in ecological anthropology & organisational behaviour (UCL, Oxford & Open Universities), & psychospiritual therapy practice integrating ecological & transpersonal understanding. My teaching includes Transpersonal Ecopsychology & Psychotherapy, Education for Sustainability (since 1995) & psychotherapy research. Publications include: Ancestral warnings of ecosystemic holocaust, its psychospiritual causes, and clues to resolution (Self & Society Journal, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2015) Longing to be Human: evolving ourselves in healing the Earth (In Rust & Totton ed. Vital Signs, London: Karnac, 2012), Finding Meaning without Consuming (In Stibbe, ed, Handbook of Sustainability Literacy, Green Books. 2009), Psychotherapy as an Eco-Systemic Activity (The Psychotherapist, Winter 2008/9)
Elise Tate: is a counsellor working for Maundy Relief, a Lancashire-based charity for which she is a trustee and where she is also involved in the training and development of befrienders. A longstanding member of the Ten Directions teaching team, Elise has long had a particular interest in working outdoors and runs an outdoor therapeutic group for the charity. She has also had a long term involvement with the Tariki psychotherapy training programme and with the wider life of the Tariki community. She is a practising Buddhist and studied on both the Psychotherapy Diploma programme and the Ten Directions programme in the past. Elise takes a particular interest in student support.
Harriet Sams: is a prehistoric archaeologist, ecotherapist, ancestral connector, yoga teacher, ritual celebrant and eco-Druid. Harriet heard the voice of the goddess when a young child, and became an archaeologist in order to connect deeply to the Earth and to listen to the land in the UK. She has led a life fully immersed in Earth-based wisdom and eco-druidry, and, since many transformative, expansive experiences, has dedicated her work to holding space for those who also feel the call of the Earth. The dominant paradigm is shifting, and what is needed most now is a strong network of connected souls, awake and listening to the voice of the Earth. Harriet guides and facilitates authentic connection to the land, so that we can truly listen, and become ambassadors for Earth wisdom. She offers online workshops, yoga practice, eco-listening, and celebrancy, and is currently initiating a rewilding and ecotherapy project in France. She occasionally writes articles for magazines and her own blog www.nwyfre.com Harriet holds an MA in European Civilisation and an MSc (post graduate) in Green Economy.
Fairlie Winship is a graduate of Tariki’s Diploma in Counselling and is currently working towards the Psychotherapy qualification. She has been interested in Buddhism since travelling in India in 2000 when she first attended the teachings of His Holiness Dalai Lama 14th at Tsuglakhang Temple in Dharamsala. Fairlie has worked therapeutically with children since that time when she set up a school for street kids in Delhi. She formalised her training in 2016 with a diploma in Counselling at Tariki Trust and has since been employed as a CAMHS Counsellor in Norfolk where she also continues to volunteer as a drug and alcohol Counsellor.
Sam Lewis is a qualified art psychotherapist (HCPC registered) and has been working in private practice for ten years. Alongside art, she has an abiding love of nature so an instinctive progression over the last 5 years has taken her more and more into outdoor settings with clients; both individuals and groups. She attended the Ten Directions training at the Tariki Centre, completing in 2019 and also works as a Shinrin Yoku practitioner. She lives in the New Forest with her partner and three children. Sam's website is: www.arttherapyhampshire.co.uk
PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAMME STAFF
Jeff Harrison: works as an integrative therapist, supervisor and trainer in Liverpool. He is accredited with BACP. He currently teaches for Tariki Trust and on an MA programme in person-centred counselling and psychotherapy at Liverpool John Moores University. He recently relocated from London where he worked in private practice, taught at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and managed a small counselling service in an educational setting. He also has a PhD in comparative models of psychology/therapy. He has written several articles and book chapters and recently co-edited a collection of essays entitled The Wisdom of Not-knowing.
Liz Igoe: (BA Hons) is a psychotherapist and graduate of the Amida Diploma programme and has a post-graduate certificate in ‘Creative Counselling, Psychodramatic Techniques and Action Methods.’ She is also a qualified supervisor. Liz worked for many years as a drama teacher, trainer and workshop leader as well as spending 17 years working for the BBC as a journalist, producer and director. She has a special interest in positive psychology and has also run ‘Confidence Building’ courses for adults for the University of Bath. Her interest in writing prompted her to study for a diploma in the use of ‘Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes’ at Bristol University. For nine years Liz worked in a counselling service for people with alcohol problems. She is currently in private practice as a psychotherapist and supervisor and helps her husband run Eco-therapy courses at their summer home in Portugal.
Bo Gort: is a graduate of the Tariki counselling diploma and a current student on its psychotherapy diploma. She has been co-facilitating workshops with Caroline in The Netherlands (since she is Dutch) and is now part of the new staff group who will take the counselling training courses forward under the name of Shoshin. Bo lives in the wilds of Northern Scotland where she and her partner Owen, run EarthMind Integral Health and Wellbeing, offering psychotherapy, herbal medicine, mindful movement and therapeutic wilderness retreats.