More than fifteen years ago, Kate Anthony and I wrote about cyberspace not simply as a communication tool, but as a culture unto itself- Cyberspace as Culture. At the time, many helping professionals still viewed online interaction as somehow “less real” than face-to-face connection. Relationships formed online were often dismissed as superficial, artificial, or psychologically… [Read More]
Online Coaching and Therapy: Giving Rise to Numinous Moments
When participants in an online session connect—whether through video, voice, or even text—they encounter something quietly profound: presence. This isn’t just metaphorical—it’s a measurable, felt sense of being-with that digital theorists have long explored. Lombard and Ditton (2006), whose work informed much of the early thinking around presence in virtual spaces, help us understand this… [Read More]
