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Welcome to my summer blog. The third in this new series of blogs that I am writing for the Institute of Creative Counselling and Psychotherapy web-site.
As usual I am working with a particular poem that helps and holds me as I write, and as I meditate on the season we are in. In this season David Whyte`s poem Self Portrait stirs me and fits the experience of the opening summer as he says:

"I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living, falling towards the centre of your longing…"

Two further developments are emerging as the spring warms up:

I am announcing an exciting Men’s Healing Workshop “The Fire of Love”
a residential workshop June 24 – 27 in Wicklow. Where Leigh Tolson and I will offer a workshop combining integrative psychotherapy, and tantra practices, to provide a powerful healing workshop for men around wounding to their sexual identities. For further information contact me at germurphy@edgworth.ie

The spring seems to be slowly peeping through the hardest winter we have had for some time and it is time to write another blog for the ICCP web-site. It does feel like its been a long one and although the snowdrops are coming up, only the “hardy perennials” of us are in our element.
I thought I would open with a poem that has been a friend to me through the low-key February time that is upon us, where winter greyness is not yet past but possibility is emerging.

This is by Claire mc Donnell a Donegal poet:

A breeze, smooth as cream ,cools my cheek,

I have just come down from Killiney Hill having seen the sun rise on Winter Solstice morning, seems like a good time to start blogging ..a new year opens!! This is my first blog ever, (coming into a new age of communication is scary) a trust is called for, do not know who, if anyone is reading this, a strange feeling, feel like shouting ``is anyone there `` as if down a long corridor.