Tarquin Ward

23/08/2024

When we have been stuck for too long, the path ahead may become narrow and ridgid. Conventional sense making in the search for change or healing might only strengthen the web of reality that has been holding the problem in place, causing more frustration and suffering, the struggle to escape only making the web tighter.

Sometimes we must step outside the web of ordinary reality, and with action and imagination make contact with what is non-ordinary and sacred, to discover what solution is waiting that can untie the knot and open up a new path and possibilities.

11/11/2023

In a society that has co-opted spirituality via online algorithms, wellness gurus, corporate mc-mindfulness and spiritual by-passing, the collective banishing of grief and suffering has been amplified through a culture of narcissistic late-stage capitalism that is hyper individual while relying on deification and mass consumption to perpetuate itself. In this techno-mediated loss of soul and sense making, indigenous technologies, such as ritual, language for, connection to the other, and the capacity to seek what is sacred and turn towards what is painful have been fragmented and lost.

In contrast to this ongoing titan struggle for perpetual growth, positivity and predictability, grief and loss is the reminder, our common humanity that will visit everyone, that there is a beginning and an end, that we will be shattered and break apart, that there will be many losses along the way both big and small. With this certainty of death, it is only by orienting ourselves to this oneiric centrality of shared experience that a more cohesive sense of self and society can be explored. Perhaps by forgetting to tend to the dead, we have forgotten how to tend to what is alive in us and the world.

01/11/2023

28/11/2022

You create yourself in ever-changing shapes
that rise from the stuff of our days-
unsung, unmourned, undescribed,
like a forest we never knew.
-Rilke

24/02/2022

It has been such a privilege and blessing to work with Hummingbird House and the courageous father's they support.

I have a strong passion for working with groups and in community settings to help make mental health support accessible and healing a collective and empowering process.

When we realise our suffering does not need to remain hidden anymore something beautiful can emerge.

22/02/2022

03/02/2022

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"

Mary Oliver

26/01/2022

"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."

Rainer Maria Rilke