Megbarker

MY BLOGS
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Social Mindfulness
http://socialmindfulness.wordpress.com/
Social mindfulness draws together projects which explore the social potentials of mindfulness. The kinds of issues and topics explored on the social mindfulness blog include:
The potential of existing mindfulness practices for addressing social issues, such as conflict, sustainability, and discrimination.
The development of mindfulness practices which are explicitly social and/or collective (e.g. with the aim of improving empathy, or conducted in conversations or groups).
Explorations of the possibility of mindful relationships.
Dialogues between mindfulness and social theory, social science and social psychology.
Mindfulness therapies which are located more explicitly within sociocultural understandings of human experience.
The application of mindfulness to social settings, such as healthcare, education, and social work. -
Northern Existential Group
http://northernexistentialgroup.wordpress.com/
Northern UK group on existential philosophy, psychology and psychotherapy
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BiUK
http://bisexualresearch.wordpress.com/
The UK national organisation for bisexual research and activism
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Rewriting the Rules
http://rewritingtherules.wordpress.com/
A blog on love, sex and relationships covering issues such as self-help, break-up, communication, conflict, marriage, LGBTQ, monogamy, non-monogamy, break-up, gender, sexuality, commitment, romance, depression, self-care, society, mindfulness, existentialism, philosophy, psychology, and counselling/therapy.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 326 )
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Tom Daley Comes out About Being Attracted to More Than One Gender
BiUK salutes Tom Daley for his brave coming out video. As he rightly says, he shouldn’t have to do this, but we are very proud of him for doing so. Read more
Posted on 02 December 2013 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Compassion All Round? A Little Story of Elan & Diane
When I woke up this morning a lot of people had shared a link on facebook to the story of a conflict between two people on a plane, ironically on a flight that... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Savage Advice on Monogamish Relationships
Dan Savage did this presentation to the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on monogamy, non-monogamy and monogamish relationships. Lots of interesting ideas in there,... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Mindfulness and Mental Health
On November 1st the Social Mindfulness group ran an event on mindfulness and mental health, culminating in a launch for Meg Barker’s new book Mindful Counsellin... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2013 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, PHILOSOPHY -
Book Review: New Directions in Sex Therapy
There’s a great new book out about sex therapy which draws on all kinds of perspectives to present an alternative way of working with people who have sexual... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
The Potentials and Pitfalls of Social Networking and Blogging About Research
For academic/research types I’ve posted about my experiences of using blogs and social media over on the Open University Engaging Research blog. Read more
Posted on 05 November 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
TED Talk: Rewriting the Rules of Relationships
Last Friday I was very privileged to be part of the TEDx Brighton 2013 event where I gave a talk which tried to summarise my Rewriting the Rules book into ten... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
“Bisexuality Does Exist, It is Not a Fiction, nor is It a Phase”, Edward Lord’s...
BiUK member Edward Lord presented a speech today at the Civil Service Rainbow Alliance conference 2013. He said…I had the privilege of giving a keynote address... Read more
Posted on 23 October 2013 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Gender in the Workplace
This week I was interviewed for a very interesting piece in The Telegraph about gender in the workplace. I thought I’d add the whole interview that I did here... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2013 CAREER, WOMEN'S ISSUES -
Pink List – Thank-you
Yesterday I found out that I was included on this year’s Independent on Sunday Pink List. This is a list of the 101 LGBT people who judges considered to ‘make... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Is Taking Care of Ourselves a Relationship Responsibility?
Recently Diabetes UK have been running an advertising campaign that sits uneasily with me and with a lot of my friends. In their posters they show images of... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Bad Sex Media Bingo!
Over the last week I’ve been working with a group of colleagues from Sense about Sex to put together this bingo card – and accompanying website. Read more
Posted on 02 October 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Pink News on Bi Visibility
Great piece on bi visibility in Pink News:Comment: Why bisexual visibility could be one of the defining LGBT rights struggles of our timeby Aaron Day 23... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2013 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
INTAR Conference, Liverpool 2014: Call for Contributions
The International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR) in partnership with the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, Liverpool Mental Health... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2013 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Bi Visibility Day
Happy bisexual visibility day!Here’s a link to a BiUK post from 2011 about why September 23rd is important:http://bisexualresearch.wordpress. Read more
Posted on 23 September 2013 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
DIVA Article on Non-binary Gender
I wrote an article for DIVA magazine last month (the September 2013 issue) on non-binary gender. DIVA kindly allowed me to reproduce the article here:Beyond th... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Kindness and Honesty: Can We Have One Without the Other?
I’ve blogged before on the tension between kindness and honesty: how, often, when we try to communicate honestly we sacrifice kindness, and when we try to be... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
These Are the Good Old Days: Mindful Relationships Via Carly Simon
When I wrote Rewriting the Rules one thing that I couldn’t include – due to copyright issues – were the songs that formed my soundtrack to the book.Various... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Monogamy and the Rules of Love
Last night there was an interesting Radio 4 documentary on the diversity of romantic relationship structures around today. One of the experts is the excellent... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2013 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
New Bisexual Magazine: BI 2.0
Esperanza Montero & Manuel Sebastia have brought out a brand new bimonthly bisexual magazine: BI 2.0. They say:This magazine was a dream and an idea of a... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2013 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY