My name is Alex Walker. I am a writer, artist, mediator of spirit, mentor and creature of the wyrd. I’m interested in following the call of life within me into and through love, sensuality, exploration, freedom, embodiment, responsibility and inspiration. I am imagining and working to create a world that celebrates and honours play, wholeness, nature, diversity, sensitivity, vulnerability and difference. I have spent years demechanising my nervous system and learning to move through states with ease and resilience – this work goes on. I am interested in conscious relating with all life systems. I work with people and animals.
My work is inspired by the company I find in otherness, ecology and the connection I feel to spirits and beasts, landscapes and creatures and the many marvels of the cosmos as they arrive through the portals in my being. As I create I come to know myself and am created this is an act of yielding to life and act of praise for each moment. I want to include sexuality, touch and the creative and healing life force energy that can be found in the bringing together of spirit and sensuality in our body/minds. I am constantly touched and grateful and inspired by the people and animals I work with.
I work to create community and honour the marginal as we work and move towards the end of capitalism, the end of exploitation and the end of white supremacy. This is where life has brought me, this is where my creativity has brought me. I am unashamedly queer, autistic and whatever other labels people throw at me and I am none of these things. I come from wealthy white people and I have known brutality and had some very violent conditioning. This context has given me the opportunity to develop a good witness and a capacity for unconditional love, messiness, creativity, surrender and transformation. I am interested in the magic that comes when we both embrace and transcend the differences we embody.
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If it helps to you know some of the content of my experience. I am a qualified Trust Technique Practitioner. I have facilitated workshops at the Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility Conference with Jayne Johnson and with Clare Raido. I ran the horticultural therapy programme at Hulme Community Garden Centre in Manchester for two years. I am a trained clown. I have attended climate camps and an ecopsychology gathering and have been part of many creative and direct action groups and actions. My passion for life has gotten me involved in many things – including neurodiversity and autism awareness, polyvagal theory, poetry, permaculture, infant development, education, dogs, mycology, swimming, art, stick and poke tattooing, crafts, zine making, cooking, singing, dancing and foraging.
I consider myself uniquely credible for the work I do because of who I am and my life experiences however if it helps to know, here are my academic qualifications: BA (hons) English lit, Secondary Postgraduate Certificate of Education, MA Creative Writing, Level 2 certificate in counselling, Foundation Year in person centred counselling (Temenos), Permaculture Design Certificate, RHS level 2 cert in Horticulture, Horticultural Therapy Training with Thrive. Think Dog Practical and Think Dog Theory level 3 with Sarah Whitehead, Dog Training Foundation Course with the Association of Pet Dog trainers.
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