Monthly Archives: November 2010
The Lunchtime Debating Club
I spoke to W*** on the phone last week. He used to work at CPCAB Towers on a part-time basis and I haven’t seen him for several years now. The Miner Bird office is as far away from the main door as it’s possible to be but I always knew when he’d arrived because of [...]
Role-play reactions
Well, well, well, I am all singing, all dancing once more - a great weekend with good friends and a wee tipple may have helped … I’m only human! Anyway, anyway, anyway, back to the task in hand!! We started with a check in this week. I thought really hard about what I’d share with the [...]
It’s all treacle…
Well here I am at last, in the last year of my Diploma. I have spent the last three years getting to this point and yet it doesn’t feel like I thought it would. I was so driven through the Introduction, skills and study courses, so absorbed in everything I was learning, and I remember the anticipation [...]
A wee phone call
At CPCAB Towers we get a lot of phone calls from prospective counsellors who are confused about how to get started. We do our best to be as helpful as we can, even when we’re on our ninth call in a row, have a set of exam papers to type and are in desperate need [...]
Looking through the ‘Johari Window’.
Who has heard of the “Johari Window”?? I hadn’t until last week. Our tutor began by showing us a picture of said window and explaining what the theory behind it is all about. So what is it? It’s a simple and useful tool for establishing and improving self-awareness. It’s a great way to give and [...]
So, so tired …
CPCAB Towers was unnaturally subdued at the beginning of the week. One of the team got back from two weeks in China the day before; coincidentally, another came back from two weeks in the States the same day. A third had just come back from a visit to her mother in this country, so no [...]
A death in the family
Great sadness in the Miner Bird household last night – Fiona was desperately sick and I feared the worst. True enough, when I checked her this morning she was stiff and cold. I hope the ground isn’t frozen too hard for a little ceremony this evening. Fiona is one of our flock of geriatric chickens. They’re [...]
All in all an “Egg”cellent week’s work!
During the first class this week we began with another “warming up” session. We were asked to throw a ball to someone and whoever received it was asked to talk about something significant that had happened in their week. I loathe ball games. This stems from a time at school where my P.E. teacher had thrown three [...]
I’d love to know what you feed your pony
One of the joys of living in the heart of Somerset is that the hold-ups on the journey to work are so delightfully varied. On Tuesdays I usually get stuck behind a large shiny white milk tanker on its way to the local dairy farms. Only on Tuesdays, for some reason; maybe the cows get [...]
The nerves are starting to tingle!
I have to admit that, whilst I’m sitting here, pondering over what to include in my first blog, the nerves are starting to tingle! “And how does that make you feel?”, I hear you cry!! Sorry, couldn’t resist that one! Ahem. I promise not to use that joke too frequently! I’m hoping my nerves won’t [...]