Trainee diary: Counselling Diploma
The agony and the ecstasy!
Well firstly let me apologise for not having written for nearly a month, there has just been so much going on what with all these holidays and course work that time has slipped away. I thought about what to write this time and firstly I would like to share with you all that I passed [...]
A vocation for transcendence
Unfortunately the above title isn’t uniquely mine - I took it from the book ‘Dark nights of the soul’ (Thomas Moore). I haven’t been able to write my blog for a while, for two reasons. The first was purely practical: with the workload the diploma is generating at the moment I simply haven’t had the time. Secondly, I [...]
Roundabouts and Merry-go-rounds
I feel a little displaced at the moment, as the blog title hints at: it’s like being on a fairground ride for me right now. My studies can rapidly go from being a feeling of pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction to, ‘I wanna get off I feel sick’. Everything is going round and round, and I am feeling [...]
The journey home
It’s been a difficult fortnight for me as I have been under a lot of pressure, whilst also having a lot of processing to do. I had the first part of my external assessment last week, the recording of a counselling session with one of my peers. I had opted to go first which had [...]
Clay time!
So the Christmas holiday came and went… all too quickly for me. I was unwell for a lot of it so the well earned rest I had anticipated didn’t go quite as planned! I am fully recovered now though and have had my first week back at college. It was a struggle to get myself [...]
Mocks!
Well, I said on my last blog that I had my mock exam approaching and that I would tell you all about it. As it turned out it turned out to be quite a comical event, for me anyway! A few weeks before the written paper we all went off in pairs to record a half [...]
Understanding relationship … and snow!
I was dreading doing my 2nd year case presentation, mostly because my inner critic has a drive to always push me to do things perfectly so there is no room for any kind of inadequacy (my default mode is the academic), so putting myself in a situation where my work is going to be put on [...]
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 [...]