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Posts tagged with 'emotion-focused'

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. …

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 …

Our life stories: needs, beliefs & behaviours

14th February 2010

This post describes the "Needs, beliefs & behaviours" diagrams, best viewable on screen in PDF format (slides 1 & 2 and slides 3 & 4), but also downloadable in Powerpoint format (slides 1 & 2 and slides 3 & 4). The post below is downloadable as a Word format handout. …

Peer groups: Cumbria spring group – cathartic work from the inside

10th May 2009

I wrote yesterday about a horrid feeling of my heart "drying out" and closing. Although it seemed hard to do without possibly upsetting other people badly, I was very clear that I would share what was going on in me. These kinds of groups need honesty to flourish - otherwise …

Draft SIGN non-pharmacological depression treatments guideline, 7th post: effectiveness of psychological therapies 2

24th September 2008

This is the 7th blog post in a series reviewing the recent Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network's (SIGN) draft guideline for "Non-pharmacological management of depression". I gave more background details in the first post of the series. This post covers the third session of the guideline presentation seminar. The session was …