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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Simone De Beauvoir and Gender Today
9/3/12 Meg Barker March 8th marked International Women’s Day with the theme ‘Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures’. I would like to take the opportunity here to... Read more
Posted on 09 March 2012 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Happiness at the Northern Existential Group
10/2/12 by Meg Barker 10th February 2012 was the fourth meeting of the Northern Existential Group (NEG). This time we focused our discussions on Bo Jacobsen‘s... Read more
Posted on 03 March 2012 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Authenticity and R. D. Laing
24th November 2011 saw the third meeting of the Northern Existential Group (NEG). This month our reading was a paper called ‘A Road Less Travelled‘ by M. Guy... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mental Health: Reflections from an Existential Therapist
Meg Barker reflects on current understandings of mental health: A short while ago I was asked to take part in an Open University day about mental health for... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tragic Optimism in the Northern Existential Discussion Group
7th September 2011 saw the second meeting of the Northern Existential Discussion Group. This month our reading was a short essay by the existential psychiatrist... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hell is Other People? The Northern Existential Group Discuss No Exit
2nd June 2011 saw the inaugural meeting of the Northern Existential Group (a Manchester-based version of the London-based Society for Existential... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY