Yesterday was our teaching team’s annual “away day”. Impacted by the retirement of one of our senior faculty and the changes in the curriculum this would be necessitated, this year’s theme was coming back to the philosophical underpinnings of our psychodynamic and humanistic courses. I was delighted to have this opportunity to discuss the very …
Settling into my new environment, post retreat, entering the mandala…each pointing to something starting afresh, a toward becoming. The demands of spring dissolve into expectations and hopes for the summer ahead. Hence why on Wednesday this week I took myself “out on a date”, a mini writing retreat over in my old town of Eastbourne. …
This post was to share my most recent “blog to book” intention, having used this model of developing content successfully last time around. And I still do want to (and will) share some of my plans ahead for book 2 on humanistic psychotherapy. I want to share how last week, the day I spent reacquainting …
As I sit and start writing this first blog for a while, I connect with the memory of how I started my blogging career “like this” – a savoured moment sat in the corner of a cafe. Twenty years ago, I was writing about cycling and coaching. The coffee companion remains, this Helen still cycles, …
In the last post, I shared some of my experience of the training route to becoming a psychotherapist. This week, some more reflections from a less theoretical perspective… One main difference between a formative counselling training and a progression into psychotherapy training is that in the latter, one is now qualified and spending more time …
Last week, I started to share some of the thoughts I have been brewing concerning my own journey of being and becoming a psychotherapist. This writing prompt has been in service not only of my current book project, but also as I gather momentum on a research paper I hope to submit this spring: one …
Although I haven’t posted any further book updates in a month or so, I have been making some good progress – afforded by a quiet festive break, and now, an inter-semester break and time away from my teaching role at the University. The transition into the new year was also a transition into Part 2 …
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A self-confessed enneatype Six, those of you familiar with the teachings of enneagram will appreciate how at the forefront of my lived-experience this couplet will be! Writing this draft a few weeks back – as I kicked off the third term of my enneagram professional development group – I was increasingly appreciative for what the …
When I first moved to Eastbourne as a student, I made the visit (like thousands of sightseers do) to the beauty spot of Beachy Head. I remember walking the clifftop and experiencing something I can only describe as vertigo: well, what it actually felt like was a pull over to the edge. Morbid curiosity? (After …
Perhaps the use of George Michael’s guitar as the featured image for this blog post points to my somewhat buoyant mood…I have just finished penning the final couplet of this 14 piece series! Today, I release the fifth – a short and sweet…. Bad Faith and congruence I might equally have titled this couplet “inauthenticity …