Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (second post): client processes and therapist-client conflict
27th November 2011
So yesterday was a day seminar on Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) with Robert Elliott. I wrote yesterday about my excitement over starting this sequence of monthly workshops - there are another five due over January to May next year. Well how did the day go? There were twenty two participants (including …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (first post): excitement and why am I doing this?
26th November 2011
I woke gently bubbling with excitement. I'm off in a couple of hours or so to Glasgow to join a course entitled "Emotion-focused psychotherapy: Level 2 workshop series". Sadly I missed the first day of this seven seminar sequence - I was at the October Scottish Mixed Group peer residential. …
Learning MBSR: eighth evening of the course - how did it go & where from here?
25th November 2011
So yesterday was the final evening of the eight session Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course. Most of us will go on to complete a full day's practice later as well. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the sixth session in "MBSR ... making time for reflection, and the overlap …
Is interpersonal group work better than sitting meditation for training mindfulness?
18th November 2011
I'm missing the seventh session of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course that I've been attending because I've come down to our annual four day UK Men's Group in Cumbria. I've written about these peer groups many times on this blog - for example, last year's Men's Group and the year …
"Sleep well and live better: overcoming insomnia using CBT"- a workshop with Colin Espie (first post)
12th November 2011
Yesterday I went to a one-day workshop with Professor Colin Espie on sleep disorders and CBT organized by the Scottish Branch of the BABCP. Bike to the station, then a train from Edinburgh to Dundee. Lovely, early morning light up the Fife coast. Then a taxi to the conference venue …
Learning MBSR: sixth evening of the course - making time for reflection, and the overlap between mindfulness & conscientiousness
11th November 2011
There was no MBSR class last week as our trainer was unavailable, but I wrote a fortnight ago on "Learning MBSR: fifth evening of the course - the value of 'difficult' practice sessions & of 'concentration'". This evening we were down to six out of the nine of us who …
Mindfulness: the missing facet 'describe', and meeting at relational depth with self & others - practice
8th November 2011
I wrote yesterday on "Mindfulness: the missing facet 'describe', and meeting at relational depth with self & others - theory" . Today I'd like to take this into a practical example. On Sunday evening seven of us met in what we call "The enquiry group". I've described these get-togethers before …
Mindfulness: the missing facet 'describe', and meeting at relational depth with self & others - theory
7th November 2011
God guard me from those thoughts men think in the mind alone; he that sings a lasting song thinks in a marrow bone. William Butler Yeats There are good reasons for viewing "mindfulness" as made up of five facets - see, for example, the post "A better way to measure …
Orlinsky & Ronnestad's "How psychotherapists develop": three key recommendations for maintaining effectiveness
5th November 2011
I have already written a couple of times on Orlinsky & Ronnestad's book "How psychotherapists develop: a study of therapeutic work and professional growth" which reports on their 15 year study of nearly 5,000 psychotherapists in a dozen countries. The first of these two posts looked generally at the book, …
Recent research: articles from October journals
3rd November 2011
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 16,800 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …