#StandingStoneSaturday I went off all social media for a while for all kinds of healthy reasons, so I hadn’t shared equinox pictures of my dawn moment at the #BronzeAge burial circle behind my house. Numb fingered, I drummed slowly to the dawn, a rhythm I’d only minutes before dreamt #archaeotherapy

#getadifferentnameday and you might even get some hair care advice too. Or just more #archaeotherapy advice from Buddha or Cat.

#standingstonesunday a random stone in a forgotten field somewhere in north Cumbria. It’s not got a name, not a tale to tell. Yet it’s there, silently standing, under Orion’s Belt. #cumbria #obodsky #neolithic #archaeotherapy

Orion and the moon #nightsky #obodsky #archaeotherapy of the stars #astronomy

#standingstone at Broomrigg Neolithic complex. A stunning azure sky, silence but for flocks of fieldfares. Calm amongst the trees and the ancestors, balm for a frazzled soul #archaeotherapy #neolithic #cumbria #heritage #ecotherapy

When we work with clients in burial grounds and Christian sites, #archaeotherapy requires that we pay attention to complex narratives about shared culture, religious and family traumas, shame and guilt, as well as fears around death. Too is found comfort, and an immediacy of spiritual connection.

A stunning summary of the power of the Neolithic #archaeotherapy

When the rain lashes down and we’re kept indoors, are you still being called by your #WhatPlaceWhy ? Where do you fly to in your mind, that place in nature, a ruin, a heritage site, a glade, a rock formation, a mountain, a beach, that gives you solace? #archaeotherapy

You’re so welcome. I hope it showcases the potential for the discipline of #archaeotherapy

“Finding the Orphaned Irish Parts of Me” at the New Cut: Defining Self-Identity Through Encountering an Archaeological Site | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online This paper presents a case study of a participant’s experience of exploring and connecting to the New Cut docks, in Bristol, UK, which had been excavated by Irish immigrant labourers between 1804 to 1...

Can #archaeotherapy happen unplanned? Here I write about someone who found and explored the human-dug river cut in the backwaters of Bristol, helping to heal the ‘orphaned Irish parts’ of her. www.aup-online.com/content/pape...

Pilgrimage is often a key aspect of #archaeotherapy, a potent method of heritage connection.

‘I hit the boom operator’s car with an arrow. He was inside’: how we made Robin of Sherwood ‘We’d invite famous actors to guest star for a fee topped at £3,000. “Come and have some fun!” we’d say – and nobody ever turned us down’

For anyone who loved Robin of Sherwood, this might tickle you. What connection has this to #archaeotherapy, I hear you bellow? Reenacting myths and legends has a huge impact on well-being and connection to landscapes. (Now, where are my bow and arrows..?) www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

What makes us cherish our own ancestral heritage? So much so that we retain unfathomably ancient artefacts to build our holy wells around? #archaeotherapy at a site like this could offer powerful meaning. @handansken.bsky.social

Tree Cards to Plant Trees Support tree planting with children in the UK. Your backing will connect children with nature and grow new forests!

#archaeotherapy with #ecotherapy support nature-heritage connection for everyone. The Children’s Forest project aims to teach and guide young people as they learn to belong in the natural world. Please consider supporting their crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/treecards #obodsky

A Very Brief Introduction to Archaeotherapy Workshop with Harriet Sams – Onlinevents

If anyone is interested in learning more about what #archaeotherapy is, here is a one hour talk on what it is.
onlinevents.co.uk/courses/a-ve...

#archaeotherapy with older participants offers possibilities for memory, insight, reflection and healing to occur. Here one participant goes to the old quarry his house was built from. Munching crisps, he reflected upon work, effort, reward, wondering if his own efforts will endure, like his house.

What could a young person’s #archaeotherapy look like? Sometimes taking kids out to heritage sites can be anything but therapeutic. It’s all about dates and events long ago. But what if we change the story? Rather than imposing upon them what we know, does heritage connection have room for what IS?

#archaeotherapy happens when we entwine with a place where human activity of any kind has occurred, and we have a meaningful experience there. Integrating #ecotherapy and #culturalheritagetherapy we notice that human acts and ancestral remains seamlessly enmesh with ecological process.

#archaeotherapy is where well-being, heritage, landscapes, interbeing, indigineity and psychology merge. Ordinary acts, like paying attention to sites and learning about the past, to deeper long-term site immersion, and everything in between, can be called aspects of archaeotherapy. What’s calling?