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the human group - session 92 - love and freedom
TOPIC The tyranny of love and care. Why do we watch with such critical detail those we love and consequently wish to perfect them?...

Hadley Perkins
Sep 26, 20225 min read


the human group - session 91 - how to make friends
TOPIC There seems to be a viral seriousness that speeds up our lives upon individual paths and friendship is forgotten, undervalued and...

Hadley Perkins
Sep 19, 20223 min read


the human group - session 90 - relationships
THE TOPIC This is an open inquiry into relationships. What curiousities would you like to explore? The different forms of relationship;...

Hadley Perkins
Aug 30, 20223 min read


the human group - session 89 - loving
Loving: a topic that has an abundance of curiosity, especially when in discussion with the opposite/same sex, or different attachment...

Hadley Perkins
Aug 15, 20223 min read


the human group - session 88 - avoiding failure
The discussions this week took us through failure as a construct, habits of failure, failing ourselves and others, and choice paralysis...

Hadley Perkins
Aug 2, 20223 min read


the human group - session 87 - the collapse of convenience
This week’s discussion was confronting and reflective of technology’s impact on our human experience. The collapse of globalisation...

Hadley Perkins
Jul 16, 20224 min read


the human group - session 86 - deep time
Deep time. This discussion was inherently spiritual as it called into play the story of life after death. A space in which we do not have...

Hadley Perkins
Jul 1, 20223 min read


the human group - session 85 - baddies
The topic ‘baddies’ is a comment on the childish game of ‘goodies’ vs ‘baddies’. As adults we still play this polarising dynamic of good...

Hadley Perkins
Jun 17, 20224 min read


the human group - session 84 - prophets
Back to the human group after 8 weeks off. It was quiet and intimate with the first discussion being a flow of spiritual sharing...

Hadley Perkins
Jun 3, 20223 min read


the human group - session 83 - freedom in commitment
The freedom in commitment topic had the group exploring the components of choice before countless options, ways of behaving, and...

Hadley Perkins
Apr 11, 20223 min read


the human group - session 82 - perception of self
We started this week’s conversation with a Gestalt exercise. Each participant chose a personal item and described this item from the...

Hadley Perkins
Mar 29, 20223 min read


the human group - session 81 - the water
This week was dedicated to all that is emerging from the current crisis in our region here in the Northern Rivers, Clarence Valley,...

Hadley Perkins
Mar 11, 20222 min read


the human group - session 80 - choice paralysis
This week’s discussion on choice paralysis was an intricate exploration into the deep philosophical question around free will and the...

Hadley Perkins
Feb 25, 20223 min read


the human group - session 79 - fighting dragons
This week’s discussion was centred around the drama triangle; a model created by Stephen Karpman illustrating unhealthy relationship...

Hadley Perkins
Feb 14, 20224 min read


the human group - session 78 - taking stock
The first discussions of 2022 were personal and beautifully intimate as the group attended to each other in empathic and compassionate...

Hadley Perkins
Jan 24, 20223 min read


the human group - session 76 - human animal
This week’s exploration of ‘human animal’ was slow, exciting, deep and hilarious as we navigated scales of existence, sense-making and...

Hadley Perkins
Nov 11, 20213 min read


the human group - session 75 - incentive
Incentive was a topic that lead us to an amazing discovery. We started with seemingly simple ideas driving actions to maintain skills and...

Hadley Perkins
Oct 31, 20214 min read


the human group - session 74 - AUTONOMY
This week we once again had the two discussions, one on zoom and one in-person. There was a major dualistic theme that ran through the...

Hadley Perkins
Oct 9, 20213 min read


The human group - session 71, 72, and 73 - the wave, AUTHORITY and good intentions
These three discussions are all centred around the current social climate. Authoritarian control, centralised fear-mongering media,...

Hadley Perkins
Sep 24, 20215 min read


the human group - session 69 - tribalism
When a human passionately defends a stance on any particular subject but refuses to discuss in depth, why are they so attached? Can they...

Hadley Perkins
Sep 24, 20211 min read
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