Posts tagged with 'psychotherapy'
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, …
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 …
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 …
"One in five Britons has consulted a counsellor or psychotherapist"
19th September 2010
I was fascinated by this "One in five Britons ..." article in last month's Observer newspaper. I'm "in the business" and I was still surprised by the findings. Apparently the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) commissioned an independent polling organization to survey 1,400 British adults. The headline findings …
Our life stories: needs, beliefs & behaviours - part four, "relationships"
14th September 2010
This is the last in a sequence of four blog posts on a "Needs, beliefs, behaviours" model that I often use to help guide psychotherapy work on longer term "personality" patterns. I've previously written about "Needs", "Beliefs" and "Behaviours". This post looks at the model's application to understanding our relationships. …
Our life stories: needs, beliefs & behaviours - part three, "behaviours"
13th September 2010
I have already written about the "Needs" and "Beliefs" sections of the "Needs, beliefs & behaviours" diagram. Today's post is about the "Behaviours" section. A fuller post from earlier this year - "Our life stories: needs, beliefs & behavours" - gives further insight into this territory. So the model is …
Our life stories: needs, beliefs & behaviours - part two, "beliefs"
12th September 2010
I posted yesterday on the first, "Needs" section of the "Needs, beliefs, behaviours" diagram (below). Today I want to say a little about the second section of the diagram - "Beliefs". This diagram is downloadable both as a Powerpoint slide and as a PDF file. As I said in the …