Turning Ground

Turning Ground A place to remember our place. Turning Ground is a place and community of practice, offering pathways toward healing and transformation.

07/04/2026

We reflect on the diverse intentions participants hold for joining us, yet there is usually a shared acknowledgment that we come to such programs because conflict can be an extremely difficult and painful area of our lives. Learning skills, supporting each other, and exploring this challenging area of our lives together can be deeply enriching.
Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the upcoming program.

01/04/2026

Mike shares about the wonderful surprises we can discover in doing our conflict work.
Communication in Times of Conflict, our 5-part in-person program is starting soon. Find out more and apply by following the link in our bio.

23/03/2026

Mike and Vadim share about the importance of practice. Conflict skills are like a martial art, not something we can cultivate in the abstract.

Our program Communication in Times of Conflict is coming up in April. Follow the link in our bio to learn more and apply. We would love for you to join us.

In our latest newsletter we explored the topic of Becoming-Human-Again in our age of the Thinking-Machine. As part of t...
06/03/2026

In our latest newsletter we explored the topic of Becoming-Human-Again in our age of the Thinking-Machine.

As part of this exploration, we curated a selection of contemplative practices that support this call to become wildly human.

Here’s a small selection, but you can find the full selection of practice (alongside our essay) on our blog.

If you wish to stay tuned for more existentially juicy newsletter musings - you subscribe over on our website.

May we become wildly human together again.

Meet Our Therapists: Al Jeffery Hi there, I’m Al. I work with people at thresholds — where old identities no longer fit,...
27/02/2026

Meet Our Therapists: Al Jeffery

Hi there, I’m Al. I work with people at thresholds — where old identities no longer fit, anxiety or restlessness lives in the body, and something deeper is asking (or sometimes demanding) to be heard.

As an integrative psychotherapist, I understand therapy as a kind of relational meditation — a practice of making-contact. Through slowing down and being together with kind, attentive presence, we create space to hold the intricacy and fullness of your life as it unfolds. I draw on Western, Eastern, contemplative, and eco-therapeutic approaches to support people in developing greater agency, belonging, and meaning. I often work with anxiety, grief, identity and relationship challenges, as well as existential and spiritual questions.

Alongside my clinical work, I have a background in social innovation and organisational development, and I support purpose-led founders and CEOs navigating burnout, moral injury, and the inner conflicts that can live at the intersection of one’s calling and career.
As a q***r man with Indian heritage, I stay close to the ways the personal, social, and spiritual are inseparable.

Therapy with me is a space for slowing down, finding language for what feels most difficult to speak, and restoring contact — with yourself, with others, and with what feels most life-giving and meaningful.

I work with both individuals and couples.

Some recent film photos of our time together at the beloved We gather at the beginning of the year to meet in shared re...
13/02/2026

Some recent film photos of our time together at the beloved

We gather at the beginning of the year to meet in shared resonance.

Tending to our roots and the ground of our collective being is essential for us to all be in right alignment and right intention, from the ground up.

We believe that it is in turning and tending to the seeds and sprouts of our relational web, that we create the relational conditions for something life-affirming to grow from our in-betweenness.

Tending to the grounds of our communal body - through play, listening, prayer, wandering, dreaming, and friendship, we hope to turn away from productivity fuelled creation, and rather, let spaciousness and generativity infuse our organism, so that we are moving at the pace of nature and not of the machine.

We see that life-affirming culture is grown from the way that we tend to our relational threads, moment by moment, from the ground up. Weaving the world we wish to belong to through our ways of being with one another.

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Psychotherapy, from the Greek ‘therapeia’, originally means ‘attending to the soul’. In our modernised, fast paced world...
06/02/2026

Psychotherapy, from the Greek ‘therapeia’, originally means ‘attending to the soul’.

In our modernised, fast paced world, so often therapy can become another box to tick on our to-do list, something we do to ‘get back to normal’, or what Joanna Macy would call, ‘business as usual’.

Yet the essence of therapy is the ‘healing of the soul’. Healing is not something we ‘do’, but is a gift that we receive from a deeper way of being-with ourselves and others.

It is through relationship that we create the container needed to meet ourselves in a truly attentive and attuned way.

As we learn to listen to our wounds, to be a companion to our suffering, to speak all that is unspoken within us, we slowly water the seeds of our compassion and humanity.

We come to therapy to attend to our soul - to let what is broken and bleeding in us have a space to be heard - so that in time, we may softly, slowly, open our hearts to the world and to becoming ourselves.

As Carl Jung reminds us, “the privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are” — this is what therapy is really about.

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To book in.a session with one of our therapists, head to the link our bio to book a free

Psychotherapy, from the Greek ‘therapeia’, originally means ‘attending to the soul’. In our modernised, fast paced world...
06/02/2026

Psychotherapy, from the Greek ‘therapeia’, originally means ‘attending to the soul’.

In our modernised, fast paced world, so often therapy can become another box to tick on our to-do list, something we do to ‘get back to normal’, or what Joanna Macy would call, ‘business as usual’.

Yet the essence of therapy is the ‘healing of the soul’. Healing is not something we ‘do’, but is a gift that we receive from a deeper way of being-with ourselves and others.

It is through relationship that we create the container needed to meet ourselves in a truly attentive and attuned way.

As we learn to listen to our wounds, to be a companion to our suffering, to speak all that is unspoken within us, we slowly water the seeds of our compassion and humanity.

We come to therapy to attend to our soul - to let what is broken and bleeding in us have a space to be heard - so that in time, we may softly, slowly, open our hearts to the world and to becoming ourselves.

As Carl Jung reminds us, “the privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are” — this is what therapy is really about.

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To book in.a session with one of our therapists, head to the link our bio to book a free discovery call.

If you’re looking for therapeutic support at this moment in time, head to the link in our bio to book a free discovery c...
03/02/2026

If you’re looking for therapeutic support at this moment in time, head to the link in our bio to book a free discovery call, where we will find the most aligned practitioner for your individual needs.

Whilst many may find their way into the therapy room with a desire to fix what they feel may be broken in themselves, wh...
03/02/2026

Whilst many may find their way into the therapy room with a desire to fix what they feel may be broken in themselves, what we need most is a companion to accompany us into the unknown dimensions of our being.

Poet Nayyirah Waheed in her poem ‘therapy’ invites us to ‘keep speaking the years from their hiding places’ as the means that we slowly find our way towards healing.

If you are seeking a companion, to walk with you back into belonging, head to the link in our bio. We offer free intake calls to support you to find the most aligned therapist for you.

Meet Our Therapists : Kyle Miller“I’m Kyle.I work with people who feel lost, disconnected, or caught in patterns that no...
02/02/2026

Meet Our Therapists : Kyle Miller

“I’m Kyle.

I work with people who feel lost, disconnected, or caught in patterns that no longer serve them. I see healing as a deeply personal journey — often one that begins in a kind of dark wood, where old maps no longer work and the way forward isn’t yet clear.

My work is grounded in relationship and shaped by a personal interest in story, myth, and the ways our earliest experiences leave their imprint on how we love, suffer, and make meaning. I’m curious about how we come to know ourselves through relationship — with others, with the natural world, and how therapy can be a rich and fertile ground for exploring these relationships.

I’m especially drawn to work around trauma, identity, and the search for wholeness, including with men and veterans. I hold therapy as a space for slowing down, listening deeply, and remembering what has been lost along the way — and what might still be found and reclaimed.”

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If you or someone you know is seeking a therapist at this time, head to the link in our bio to book in a free intake call

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