Posts by Andrea Palframan
Maggie Kenny
At the heart of Maggie Kenny’s therapeutic approach is a focus on client’s holistic well-being within a safe and encouraging space. Offering empathy, understanding and support, she guides you through a personalized therapeutic journey focussed on self-discovery, personal growth, and healing. What I did: Website develoment/design, logo design, writing. https://maggiekenny.com
Read MoreDelve Care – Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
Dr. Jonathan Carlson is building a dream-team of practitioners to carry people over the threshold, using the psychedelic experience as a catalyst for developing a richer, more examined life. My origin story involves meeting Timothy Leary at his house in Hollywood in the late 90’s, when the internet was still a cyberpunk fantasy that, in…
Read MoreInterview on CBC’s Tapestry
The idea of Engaged Buddhism can seem like an oxymoron: how does fiery activism co-exist with the Buddhist philosophies of peace and nonviolence? In fact, mindfulness practices have powerful benefits for activists. I loved my conversation on CBC’s Tapestry – have listen here: Listen here: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/engaged-buddhism-1.4113121/sit-down-rise-up-how-meditation-supports-activism-1.4113264
Read MoreDia de los Muertos 2021
“To the resident of New York, Paris or London, the word death is never pronounced because it burns the lips. The Mexican, on the other hand, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it; it is one of his favourite games and his most steadfast love.” — Octavio Paz Mexico City is aquatic. The…
Read MoreSite-C Caravan
With Helen Knott. On September 12, 2016, the Federal Court of Appeal in Montreal heard Treaty 8’s legal challenge to the massive Site C hydroelectric dam already under construction on Treaty 8 territory in northeast British Columbia. First Nations community members from Treaty 8 travelled 4,500 kilometres to be there. This is the story of…
Read MoreLet the ancestors rest in peace
(Published in Ricochet, January 2015) Grace Islet is a victory for protecting Indigenous gravesites, but work remains Grace Islet rests just a few meters off the shore of Salt Spring Island in British Columbia. Formerly part of an ancient village known in the Hul’qumi’numlanguages as Shiyahwt, its harbour was a hub for Aboriginal fishing families from…
Read MoreAn ugly monument
(Published in West Coast Native News, July 2014) I live on Salt Spring Island. The adjective most used to describe this little dot in the archipelago sprawling across Canada’s Pacific coast is ‘bucolic’. Organic farms, yoga centres, pastures roamed by grazing lambs, grinning hippies on bicycles: get the picture? There’s a great deal of giving…
Read MoreWelcoming African Friends to Saltspring
(Published in Island Tides, 2011) Markets and barns, farms and tables. Welcoming African guests to Salt Spring seems to have much to do with: “what shall we eat?” Herein we find common ground: while our drive in the islands is to return to our land-based roots and away from an industrial food system, for Mamello…
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