Growing Orbits is both a place and a process.
As a place, it is situated in the village of Sgonico, in the Karst region near Trieste, Italy. From its position on a hillside, it overlooks a protected natural landscape where traces of past ways of life are still present. Meadows, vineyards, woodlands, and stone formations unfold according to seasonal cycles and elemental rhythms, in a setting shaped by the constant presence of the Bora wind – a reminder of repetition, return, and the circular nature of experience.
At the horizon, the sea opens the field of perception toward depth and continuity. It evokes questions of origin and transformation, and invites reflection on the layered, often unseen dimensions of inner life. In this meeting between land and sea, external landscape and internal experience begin to resonate with one another, giving form to questions of identity, meaning, and personal narrative: how one comes to understand oneself, how patterns repeat, and how experience may be symbolised and integrated over time.
Growing Orbits is not confined to a physical location. It is also a space of experience that unfolds in dialogue, reflection, and shared inquiry. You can explore below some contributions and publications that illustrate its meaning and approach:
Podcast: a conversation with Prof. Roger Kneebone on relational and observational practice: Listen to my episode
(Prof Kneebone is a surgeon and Director of the Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science at Imperial College London, whose work bridges medicine, performance, and the arts, and who hosts the Countercurrent podcast)
Article: published following one of our events, highlighting the interplay of listening, attention, and relational understanding: Read the article here
Our Services
Growing Orbits offers a range of services and programs designed to support processes of personal and collective inquiry, growth, and psychological transformation, both in person and online. Through individual, couple, and group work, you are invited into a reflective space where experience can be explored, understood, and given meaning.
By attending to emotions, relationships, bodily experience, dreams, images, and recurring patterns, it becomes possible to deepen awareness of the forces that shape one’s inner and outer life. Through this process, a more integrated and authentic sense of self may gradually emerge, like expanding orbits that develop through attentive care, reflection, and connection.
Our work aims:
- to foster dialogue between different aspects of the self, including those that may be in tension, conflict, or remain outside awareness, supporting greater psychological integration and a more grounded way of being;
- to cultivate a deeper relationship between thought, feeling, and embodied experience, enabling individuals to draw upon their internal resources with greater flexibility, resilience, and self-understanding;
- to explore the relationship between the individual, the wider human community, and the natural world, recognizing that a sense of belonging and meaning emerges not in isolation but through connection: to oneself, to others, and to the living environment of which we are a part.