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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Gender and Superheroes
My Open University mate Helen Owton and I just got together to write a piece about gender and superheroes in the run up to the new Batman v. Read more
Posted on 17 March 2016 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Interview on Gender & Sexual Diversity
I recently did an interview on gender and sexual diversity with the excellent folk at Sheffield Central Counselling.This seems even more timely now that it’s... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2016 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
New Zine – Queer Relationships
I just spent the whole weekend and two excellent events on relationships: Queer polyday in Leicester, and the Polyamory, Consensual Non-Monogamy and Relationshi... Read more
Posted on 22 February 2016 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Happy Valentine’s Vid
Happy Valentine’s Day all. Here’s the first of the vids that Jacqui Gabb and I made with the Open University folks about some of the findings in our new book,... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2016 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Happy Valentine’s Vid
Happy Valentine's Day all. Here's the first of the vids that Jacqui Gabb and I made with the Open University folks about some of the findings in our new book,... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2016 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
New Book out Today! The Secrets of Enduring Love
My new book – with Prof Jacqui Gabb – is out today! The Secrets of Enduring Love was published by Penguin RandomHouse and is available now in paperback and eboo... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2016 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Explore More Summit
Tomorrow you can hear me being interviewed for the Explore More Summit about love, sex, and relationships. There’s a quick teaser of me talking pressures on... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2016 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
2nd Call for Papers: EuroBiReCon Amsterdam 28 July 2016
First European Bisexual Research Conference (EuroBiReCon): Bisexuality and (Inter)National Research Frontiers28 July 2016, University of AmsterdamEuroBiReCon... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2016 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Purpose and Integrity
Existential psychotherapist and blogger Emma Wilkinson recently very kindly asked me to be part of her ‘people of integrity’ project. Read more
Posted on 04 January 2016 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
That Was 2015, What About 2016?
I’ve been a bit quiet lately because I’ve been recovering from surgery and then working on the first draft of a new book on The Psychology of Sex which will... Read more
Posted on 30 December 2015 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Book Launch – Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and Theories – 29 January 2016
BOOK LAUNCH: Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and TheoriesAuthor Surya Monro (University of Huddersfield and BiUK)Discussants Christian Klesse (Manchester... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2015 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Non-Binary Feminism: The Personal is Still Political
Content Note: There’s mention in this article of the heated debates around feminism and trans, of societal gender inequalities, and of gender-related bullying i... Read more
Posted on 13 November 2015 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
What Have I Been Doing? All of the Things
Many blog posts are brewing at the moment but none quite ready to bottle and serve. However I did spend this afternoon collating some of the things I’ve been... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2015 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
New Vids: Key Ideas in Therapy
The excellent folks at the Open University have just helped me and a couple of colleagues – Naomi Moller and Andreas Vossler – to put together these three... Read more
Posted on 19 October 2015 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
LGBT Hate Crime Project: Number of People Seeking Help for Hate Crimes More...
Number of people seeking help for hate crimes more than doubles There’s been an increase in the number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2015 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Coming out Day: Non-binary Gender Q&A
Today is international coming out day. I wasn’t planning to write anything for the occasion because I’m in the extremely fortunate position of already being... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2015 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Bi Visibility Day
September 23rd is bi visibility day: something I’ve written about here before. This year I thought I’d post a Q A I did recently on the topic of bi visibility t... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Bisexual Health Videos
There’s a brilliant set of videos on bisexual health available now on the Rainbow Health Ontario website covering friendship, partners, family and... Read more
Posted on 27 August 2015 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Sex and Gender Beyond the Binary
This week Ladybeard magazine published a piece that a wrote for them on thinking in non-binary ways about sex, sexuality and gender. Read more
Posted on 20 August 2015 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Polyamory Book Reviews: Useful Ideas for All Relationships
I was excited to be asked by the excellent people at Thorntree Press to review two new books about polyamory: Franklin Veaux’s memoir – The Game Changer – and... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2015 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY
