Meeting at relational depth: outline of a 'research' workshop
23rd October 2010
I'm booked in for a course today with Professor Mick Cooper of the University of Strathclyde entitled "Meeting at relational depth: a research workshop". The publicity blurb reads "This experiential workshop, which Mick Cooper has been running nationally and internationally since the publication of 'Working at relational depth in counselling …
Opening up group, eighth session
22nd October 2010
We had the final meeting of this eight session "Opening up" group last night. I wrote last week about the seventh session. This last meeting ran a day later than usual because of a clash with a family birthday. Yesterday evening I wasn't feeling as buoyant as I usually do. …
"Be the change you want to see in the world"
17th October 2010
"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." John Donne In a yesterday's blog post "Cooperative behaviour cascades in social networks", I wrote about how generous and selfish acts can spread through a social network. In today's …
"Cooperative behaviour cascades in social networks"
16th October 2010
"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." Aesop "Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will." Einstein Our kindness (and unkindness) ripples outwards. A group of people - or a broader society - survives because its members manage to …
Opening up group, seventh session
14th October 2010
So this was the seventh - and penultimate - meeting of this "Opening up" group. I wrote about the sixth session last week. Sadly, because of family crises, a couple of people hadn't been able to get to this evening's meeting. In fact, of the five of us at this …
2 years of blogging: 5,009 website visits last month
9th October 2010
I was quietly chuffed this morning to go into Google Analytics and find that, for the first time, there had been over 5,000 visits to this website in the previous month. Very small beer compared with commercial sites, but still encouraging numbers. It's a nice coincidence that the blog went …
Opening up group, sixth session
7th October 2010
Yesterday evening was the sixth session of the "Opening up" group. It had been a longer gap than usual - ten days since our full day meeting at the fifth session. As we often do, we began with a round of "checking in"; an opportunity for all of us to …
Recent research: articles from September journals
5th October 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 15,100 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
A quiet rant to group facilitators & would-be group facilitators
3rd October 2010
Should group facilitators & would-be group facilitators have personal experience of the skills they're teaching? Should swimming or driving instructors be able to swim or drive themselves? I'm sure it's possible to help someone learn to swim without being a swimmer oneself, but if you're an instructor you're likely to …
Recent research: mindfulness (mechanisms & practice), prevalence (abuse & suicidality), health anxiety imagery & CBT for kids
29th September 2010
Here are half a dozen recent research studies - two on aspects of mindfulness, two on sobering prevalence rates, one on imagery in health anxiety, and one on CBT with children. Fuller details, links and abstracts for all studies are listed further down this page. Willem Kuyken and colleagues looked …