Peer groups: Ravenstor autumn group 2 - warming up
13th November 2010
It's the second morning. I wrote yesterday about our arrival at this group. Didn't get to bed till later last night and slept in for longer. The conversations are beginning to "ignite". As we spend more time here, get into it, hear how deeply & openly others are prepared to …
Peer groups: Ravenstor autumn group 1 - arriving
12th November 2010
It's the first morning of this four day, peer-run Men's group. We've been meeting like this every autumn since 1993 - a collection of friends & friends of friends & friends of friends of friends! I've written extensively about these peer groups on this blog. For example, five posts on …
Recent research: 2 on frequency of psychological disorder, and 5 on using books, phones & computers to deliver CBT
10th November 2010
Here are seven recent articles that caught my interest (abstracts & links are given further down the page). The first two revisit the "How common is troublesome psychological distress?" question. The title of Moffitt et al's paper is self-explanatory - "How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence …
Recent research: articles from October journals
3rd November 2010
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 15,200 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
30th wedding anniversary ceilidh: celebration, social networks & gratitude
31st October 2010
Yesterday, Catero and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary with a ceilidh. This is Auld Lang Syne at the end of the party. I'm the loudmouth (on one glass of wine), with dear Catero on my left (to the right in the picture). Laura, precious stepdaughter, is three places to …
Meeting at relational depth: a model
28th October 2010
I went to a workshop on Saturday about "Relational depth". As is usually the case, chewing over the material afterwards, thinking about how it's relevant for myself & my work, following up some leads - these seem crucial activities to promote "digestion" rather than a quick learning meal that goes …
Meeting at relational depth: what gets in the way?
27th October 2010
This is the fifth in a series of six blog posts triggered by going to a workshop "Meeting at relational depth" taken by Mick Cooper in Glasgow. I've already written about two exercises we explored during the morning session - "Meeting at relational depth: what does it involve?" and "Meeting …
Meeting at relational depth: links to attachment
26th October 2010
Yesterday I wrote a post "Meeting at relational depth: what intrigued me most". I described how, in this one day workshop, I paired up with someone I'd never met before and acted as client in a 20 minute role-played counselling session. Every minute we independently estimated how deeply we felt …
Meeting at relational depth: what intrigued me most
25th October 2010
I've already written a couple of blog posts about the workshop I went to on Saturday - "Meeting at relational depth: outline of a 'research' workshop" and "Meeting at relational depth: what does it involve?". However it was the second exercise we were asked to try out that I found …
Meeting at relational depth: what does it involve?
24th October 2010
"A consultation is when the room disappears." David Reilly (physician) On Saturday I went to a course called "Meeting at relational depth: a research workshop". I have already written a first post outlining the day. After staying overnight in Glasgow with a friend who was also coming to the course, …