Tag: counselling
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The impact we make on the work, and the impact the work makes on us.
I have a favourite ‘teacher’ from my counselling training days. I say teacher as I feel he would have felt uncomfortable with the term ‘lecturer’. He talked a lot about dismantling uneven power dynamics. He taught two of my favourite papers, Narrative Therapy and Existentialism. He was also supposed to teach the supervision course I…
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How did that make you feel?
As I have been writing reflections and curating content for my website, I have naturally been thinking about, “How would this land for someone like me?” Someone weary of buzzwords, sales pitches, flashy marketing, and the inauthentic use of inclusive language. Someone who thinks they are pretty good at noticing misalignment between words and action.…
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ADHD and Narrative Therapy: How to Train Your Dragon
I remember in my counselling training doing a class on group work. We were tasked with each running a group with our classmates. One of my classmates ran a group meditation session, and we imagined ourselves as animals and explored what the image meant to us. I was a dragon. This image of myself continued…
