Prologue
A few pages to welcome you to the website, find out what’s in it, and, more importantly, see if it interests you.
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I am the author/creator of this website, a psychotherapist, supervisor, facilitator and trainer.
My first love is community work, and since 1990 I have supported individuals and families that experience imprisonment – and all that goes with it. The content of this website is based largely on what I have learned over that time.
My principal aims are to ensure that voices promoting diverse views are heard, that common sense prevails, that reality is favoured over myth, and that we have beauty and elegance in our work.
My website is all about looking at age-old problems that have beset society since time immemorial through a different lens.
I propose a theory of change in respect of these problems, using ideas, concepts and propositions borrowed from the world of another love of mine – physics – which I consider to be new in this context, introducing what I call the root foundations of growth.
And I explore how the distribution of power in our society gets in the way of our attempts to ease the distress of the most vulnerable families.
I offer new design, and solutions that incorporate a high level of democracy, creativity, inclusiveness and boundedness – when sharing power. For leaders in this sector, I explore the concept of invitational leadership as well as, throughout, focusing on the power of love to effect positive change.
I’d love to join with any passionate individuals or groups to collaborate in our efforts to protect children and vulnerable adults impacted by imprisonment. If you like what you read please contact me through the Contact page or simply email info@larrydecleir.ie.
So, I invite you to have a read of the Welcome page to see if you’d be interested in exploring further.
A few pages to welcome you to the website, find out what’s in it, and, more importantly, see if it interests you.
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Reflect on the kind of world that we live in, how we perceive it – and the subtle messages that we are passing on to our children.
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Journey through the theories that underpin modern practice – and discover some new thinking about how the natural world affects our well-being! How we think about how we think about things?
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Explore things that we take for granted that have a substantial impact on our lives.
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A look at aspects of organisations not often thought to be important – and – some eye-opening perspectives on leadership.
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Protecting vulnerable people is far too important a job to be left to professionals!
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A few days ago the Dáil decided that landlords who own property have more rights than children who need stability and security. As my website concerns protection of vulnerable children I think that this decision is worth a few words. In this post in the website I discuss the context of our work in the […]
There’s an interesting article in the Irish Times this morning (Wed 22 March 2023) by author Livi Michael promoting her new book ‘Reservoir’. The article points to the value of free, unsupervised play in the lives of children, and how culture has changed since the author grew up in the 1960’s. Here‘s the link to […]
This evening (Tues 24/1/23) I was priviliged to give a presentation to the Mid-West Section of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, (IAHIP). After coming to terms with the technology (with the assistance of IAHIP Co-ordinator Conor, and very helpful Maldron Hotel staff Sarah) I delivered the hybrid presentation. My presentation focused on […]