‘Experience is not what happens to a person.
It is what a person does with what happens to them.
Our experience is divided up into island universes.
We jump from one to the other - there are no bridges.
Because of their peculiar quality, we say that some of these experiences are more real, or at any rate more significant than others.
But the others, nevertheless, continue to exist.’
Aldous Huxley [1933]
Change can be so many different things: unknown, difficult, anxiety-provoking, exciting, or liberating.
Sometimes we don’t want to confront change. It might mean we have to embrace a part of ourselves we had been hiding or holding back. At times, we will have to make sense of our experiences, and our worlds in a new way. This growth in our knowledge may challenge our assumptions, and all the illusions we have constructed about how our society works, and how people relate to one another.
As people, organisations or systems we all need to continually grow and find way of living responsibly, in a way that is true to our values, and commits to the kind of world we want to build for ourselves, and future generations.
No matter whether we are standing up for people’s rights, transforming the services they use, or finding meaning in our own lives, we believe that human growth and experiencing should be at the heart of change.
Our practices focus on providing clients with advice, training, psychotherapy and movement to build capacity for change, and a passion for human growth and experiencing.
We deeply care about people’s lives and experiences, and have used this to create models of working that honour your creativity, and promote the realisation of individual and collective change.
You can learn more about our services and who we are below.
Dr Marc Boaz
Marc is a consultant existential psychotherapist, researching and practicing in the fields of applied psychotherapy, psychology, sociology and philosophy.
He is a member of the UK Trauma Council (hosted by Anna Freud Centre for Children and Families), and a visiting Professor in Public Mental Health at the University of Northampton. Marc has a background in social research and social policy, having been a director in the UK charity and public sectors focusing on mental health, disability, health and youth. He has worked with Governments, public sector bodies and NGOs (in the UK, Europe, and internationally) on legislative and policy reform, approaches to research and insight, engagement and involvement, and service change.
Marc’s latest book explores psychotherapeutic approaches to working with people’s experiences of trauma: An Existential Approach to Interpersonal Trauma (Routledge, 2022).