Last month I shared a piece about the practice of disarming the mind, and introduced Earth Matrix — the group space that carries the heart of my work.
At the time, I thought I was describing something finished. A container that had been carefully shaped and stood ready to hold others. But in the weeks since, something unexpected has happened. The form began speaking back. The shape I had built — one that I’ve led three times before — started to feel too fixed. There was nothing ‘wrong’ with it; it was simply done.
I’m starting to see that every living system, whether group, dream, or practice, has its own intelligence, and when we over-determine its shape, it eventually begins to resist. In other words, formlessness speaks. It tells us when it has outgrown the container we built for it. The same is true of the psyche, the body, and our lives. The work is to listen for when structure has become armour, and let it liquefy back into flow.
“To make something well is to give yourself to it, to seek wholeness, to follow what wants to take form.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering the Craft
When I teach or facilitate, I’m listening all the time — not just to what’s being said, but to what’s surfacing, what’s hiding, and to what the shared field itself is asking. That same kind of listening began to meet me from within the form of my own creation. Quiet at first, then persistent. The flow was blocked. I realised that if Earth Matrix was going to stay alive as an embodied, impactful experience, it needed to keep evolving, beyond my control, and beyond what I already knew.
Through that enquiry, I also found new freedom to step away from the language of coaching and return to the slow intelligence of my psychotherapy roots — where change unfolds in its own time, where a matrix is built through relationship, and where words like launch or results lose their meaning. What’s emerging now feels like integration — a natural evolution of all the modalities I’ve lived, practised and value, meeting one another in real time.
In a culture that rewards speed, progress, and visible transformation, depth work becomes quietly radical. The psyche doesn’t respond on demand; it opens in its own time, and in the company of others who are willing to wait. What I’m building with Earth Matrix is a return to that rhythm — a place where slowness itself becomes a form of devotion.
So I’ve changed the shape.
Earth Matrix is no longer a six-month programme with fixed open and close dates. It’s now a slow-open group field — held all year round, with space for eight people at any one time. You join when the timing is right for you, for a six– or twelve–month cycle, with an open invitation to stay longer if the work is meeting you.
The soul of the container hasn’t changed an inch, nor my commitment to being a space where formlessness can be met and the survival intensity of the mind can be outgrown. Earth Matrix brings together the full synthesis of my work — Psychotherapy, BodyMind Maturation, Dreamwork, and Elemental Chi Kung — as one field. A field where the confusion of the past in the present becomes visible, where the ‘someone’ who is blocking the flow can be distinguished, and where the deeper current of your unconscious knowing can be felt and followed.
A single image shared in dreamwork might find its echo in someone else’s Chi Kung practice. A story of deep worthlessness might bring insight to another’s inner landscape. Slowly, the boundaries between my process and yours dissolve, and what begins to emerge is something larger — a collective intelligence remembering itself through us.
The shift I’m making didn’t come from a strategic review. It came from practice. From letting go of what I thought it needed to be, and meeting what was actually there. That’s the real teaching — not just the content of Earth Matrix, but the way it continues to reshape me as I hold it, and how it invites every member into the same reconfiguration.
If this work is about anything, it’s about the willingness to release the picture your mind is carrying and listen: so that you can rediscover your innate capacity to walk a path that is both more unknown, and more alive.
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There’s currently still space to begin this November, or prepare to join next January.
I also have an opening for a year of 1:1 BodyMind Maturation Coaching this Autumn — for someone ready to dig deep.
→ Read more about Earth Matrix
→ Enquire about 1:1 Maturation Work
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
— Mary Oliver