Sammy Alattar
@samo_al83

Hi, my name is Sammy and I run workshops that help people connect with and share their un-masked selves (authenticity, vulnerability), remind people of their insignificance/natural place in time and the universe (perspective, awe, gratitude), gather people together for shared journeys (community, comradery) and bring people into contact with their culturally unacknowledged losses (disenfranchised grief/taboo loss). In the spirit of humanism, I want to support people to live more meaningful lives through exploring themselves, their reality and the reality of others. 

I strive to do this in unique, captivating ways that deeply immerse people in the subject matter at hand, via playful, creative, feeling-provoking, non-dogmatic, non-intellectualising, sometimes humorous & always participant-shaped practices and invented rituals (a mantra of mine is “all rituals were invented at some point”). 

I draw on my life experiences since birth, my career so far as an integrative psychotherapist and couples therapist, my decades-long work as a musician and experiments in video art, as well as whatever I've come across or have tried so far in any area, field or specialisation. 

From horticulture to cabaret to mythology to geopolitics to independent film to evolutionary neurobiology to human interest stories to esoteric religion to psychogeography, I'm endlessly fascinated and influenced by the explorations, research, personalities, meanderings, tragedy, performances, developments, wrong-turns, cultural impacts, rhetoric, delvings, wisdom and lore of other humans, as well as the non-human world that can't directly speak to us but is equally communicative and inspiring.