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
Weird #Archeaology.
The island of Samsø, Denmark, is home to a holy spring, that has been in use since the 12th century. This freshwater spring is located at the beach at Ilsemade.
Here's the weird bit: The tree trunk, the water is appearing from is C14-dated to the Bronze Age.
The island of Samsø, Denmark, is home to a holy spring, that has been in use since the 12th century. This freshwater spring is located at the beach at Ilsemade.
Here's the weird bit: The tree trunk, the water is appearing from is C14-dated to the Bronze Age.
November 18, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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
February 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
#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
February 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#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
A stunning summary of the power of the Neolithic #archaeotherapy
To study the Long Neolithic is to study the duration of intimacy. Not just the intimate relationships people have had with the stones for millennia, but often the intimate relationships stones have with each other. Lithic tensions, power dynamic alignments. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 24, 2024 at 6:24 PM
A stunning summary of the power of the Neolithic #archaeotherapy
#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?
November 14, 2024 at 7:42 PM
#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?
How about beginning our adventures into archaeotherapy with a spot of archaeology Zen?
Just a dose of #Archaeology Zen. Sealed agricultural layers by the coast of Southwestern Norway. Black and brown layers are the old agricultural fields. The bottom one is both field and the initial forrest clearance in the Bronze Age. Fields were regularly covered by sand over time.
November 14, 2024 at 7:33 PM
How about beginning our adventures into archaeotherapy with a spot of archaeology Zen?
#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.
November 17, 2024 at 8:33 AM
#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.
#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
March 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
#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
#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.
November 15, 2024 at 10:29 AM
#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.
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?
November 16, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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?
Please do! I’m teaching an intro course on it for the Tariki trust next year. You’re very welcome to come along if you can. Heritage as Healing: Archaeotherapy as land & community connection (course) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heritage-a...
Heritage as Healing: Archaeotherapy as land & community connection (course)
Introduction to Archaeotherapy – a Series
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November 22, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Please do! I’m teaching an intro course on it for the Tariki trust next year. You’re very welcome to come along if you can. Heritage as Healing: Archaeotherapy as land & community connection (course) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heritage-a...
You’re so welcome. I hope it showcases the potential for the discipline of #archaeotherapy
November 22, 2024 at 11:28 AM
You’re so welcome. I hope it showcases the potential for the discipline of #archaeotherapy
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...
onlinevents.co.uk/courses/a-ve...
A Very Brief Introduction to Archaeotherapy Workshop with Harriet Sams – Onlinevents
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November 17, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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...
onlinevents.co.uk/courses/a-ve...
#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
Tree Cards to Plant Trees
Support tree planting with children in the UK. Your backing will connect children with nature and grow new forests!
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November 18, 2024 at 1:27 PM
#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
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
November 23, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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
#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
February 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#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
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...
“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...
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November 22, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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...
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.
January 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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.
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...
‘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’
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November 19, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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...
That’s a really interesting question and I can’t answer that as it isn’t necessarily a comparison of disciplines, more as a potential integrative approach. In essence, archaeotherapy is the therapeutic potential of a site to support well-being/medicinal outcomes. Autoethnography adds to evidencing.
November 22, 2024 at 11:30 AM
That’s a really interesting question and I can’t answer that as it isn’t necessarily a comparison of disciplines, more as a potential integrative approach. In essence, archaeotherapy is the therapeutic potential of a site to support well-being/medicinal outcomes. Autoethnography adds to evidencing.
#getadifferentnameday and you might even get some hair care advice too. Or just more #archaeotherapy advice from Buddha or Cat.
February 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
#getadifferentnameday and you might even get some hair care advice too. Or just more #archaeotherapy advice from Buddha or Cat.
I wonder if you would like something about the phenomenon of archaeotherapy? I’d happily write something. 🙏🏽
November 21, 2024 at 12:01 PM
I wonder if you would like something about the phenomenon of archaeotherapy? I’d happily write something. 🙏🏽
Pilgrimage is often a key aspect of #archaeotherapy, a potent method of heritage connection.
November 20, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Pilgrimage is often a key aspect of #archaeotherapy, a potent method of heritage connection.