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What Is Your Window Of Tolerance?
Here is helpful tool to familiarise yourself with during the unsettling times of Covid-19. This helpful metaphor tool can be very helpful in coming to understand yourself and your fears. It can be helpful to use if you want to move away from fear and expand your world. Here we go. Do you know you […]
Our Human Right to Inclusion
We are born as babies, with little parts of our body, little breaths, little heart beats. But right from birth we are not all born the same. As we get older our own identity and uniqueness becomes more apparent. The journey this takes us on can for many be challenging. Childhood Conditioning As we move […]
Sensing Friends: Helping You to Help Yourself
Do you feel like you could use some help right now? We offer a free counselling service for young people who have any physical or emotion sensory need, such visual/ hearing impairment, PTSD, anxiety or high sensitive Counselling You can get in touch by contacting us on 07584 201 837 or make a self referral […]
Sensing Friends Coronavirus Update
Fancy a Cuppa in The Garden? No!!! But Let’s Meet Online Instead Well it’s true, sadly, that Sensing Friends cannot meet right now. We cannot do hot chocolate check inns, walks together in the woods, magical group storytelling in the garden or face to face peer support. Unfortunately for now, we are sorry, we will […]
AGM Jan 2019
Sensing Friends Annual General Meeting Jan 2019 Present: Emma, Kay, Daisy, Pat, Will, Moira, Pete and Penny Discussed Current status and run through of Sensing Friends work last year, the successes and any problems that occurred. • General feeling that it has been a big success and that all the children had grown together and […]
September Blog
Sept 2017 25th September Sharing a Moment I had a moment to reflect on a moment, a moment of time when I was outside in nature. I was not alone. With me were some sighted and visually impaired friends. Also, further afield, was the sound of the wind. It came in and out, letting us […]
Next Sensing Friends day: 10th September 2017
We are holding another therapeutic friendship day for visually impaired and sighted youngsters. This is a funded event and free for those who attend. Through creative sharing on this day we aim to explore deeper friendships and connections with each other. As we move into Autumn, our theme is: The Alchemy of the Earth Element. […]
Next Friendship Day: October 22nd 2017
We are holding another therapeutic friendship day for visually impaired and sighted youngsters. This is a funded event and free for those who attend. Through creative sharing on this day we aim to explore deeper friendships and connections with each other. We will be doing some tasty outdoor cooking including pizza making As before there […]
I’m Ok and you are OK
Life positions: I’m Ok and your Ok. In light of supporting young people with issues around social exclusion, because of differences, it seems maybe poignant to think about the idea of projection and objectification in relation to the prejudices that play a huge role in social exclusion. Many a time people may not even be […]
Update On Sensing Friends Day
This event is going to be held at Moulscoombe Forest Garden, just around the back of Moulscoombe Railway station. Please see link to directions below. http://seedybusiness.org/directions.shtml You don’t need to worry about bringing refreshments or a lunch as the young people attending will get involved in helping to make their own lunch which will be […]