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		<title>The imagination</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2012/02/29/the-imagination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roldfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wise words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelley]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Setting aside the sexist language of the era concerned &#8230;. “A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.” Percy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research that therapists feel aligned to, or research that influences  policy?</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2012/02/22/research-that-therapists-feel-aligned-to-or-research-that-influences-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2012/02/22/research-that-therapists-feel-aligned-to-or-research-that-influences-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roldfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counselling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prof. Mick Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the BACP journal &#8220;Therapy Today&#8221; there is an article focused on the question: &#8220;How can we bridge the chasm between the kind of research that most  therapists feel aligned to, and the kind of research that influences  policy?&#8221; The article is called &#8220;In conversation with &#8230; Colin Feltham in conversation with Mick Cooper&#8221;. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cherokee legend</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2012/01/17/cherokee-legend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2012/01/17/cherokee-legend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roldfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wise words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cherokee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wise words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wolf]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. &#8220;A fight is going on inside me,&#8221; he said to the boy. &#8220;It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil &#8211; he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.&#8221; He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to the contemporary research that informs the CPCAB model of practitioner development and proficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2012/01/12/introduction-to-the-contemporary-research-that-informs-the-cpcab-model-of-practitioner-development-and-proficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2012/01/12/introduction-to-the-contemporary-research-that-informs-the-cpcab-model-of-practitioner-development-and-proficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Crouch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counselling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPCAB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[training]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=388</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract The paper begins by examining the question &#8220;which research for what purpose?&#8221; and suggests that, although the diversity of research methods is useful to the field, research resources focussed on policy questions have often been wasted in that they have led to little useful policy or clinical outcomes. The paper continues with an examination of the question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One earth &#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/05/12/one-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/05/12/one-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 09:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wise words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astronaut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=382</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth.&#8221; Sultan Bin Sulman al-Saud, astronaut]]></description>
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		<title>Deepak Chopra &#8230; the most creative act</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/05/12/deepak-chopra-the-most-creative-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/05/12/deepak-chopra-the-most-creative-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 09:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wise words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.&#8221; Deepak Chopra]]></description>
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		<title>The agony and the ecstasy!</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/05/04/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/05/04/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 13:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Leigh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trainee diary: Counselling Diploma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[counselling diploma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[end of course]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exam results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[external assessment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[training]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A vocation for transcendence</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/03/30/a-vocation-for-transcendence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/03/30/a-vocation-for-transcendence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Leigh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trainee diary: Counselling Diploma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vocation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=345</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately the above title isn&#8217;t uniquely mine - I took it from the book &#8216;Dark nights of the soul&#8217; (Thomas Moore). I haven&#8217;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&#8217;t had the time. Secondly, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roundabouts and Merry-go-rounds</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/28/roundabouts-and-merry-go-rounds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/28/roundabouts-and-merry-go-rounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Leigh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trainee diary: Counselling Diploma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[counselling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counselling diploma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[endings]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=315</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel a little displaced at the moment, as the blog title hints at: it&#8217;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, &#8216;I wanna get off I feel sick&#8217;. Everything is going round and round, and I am feeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring that which makes life worthwhile &#8211; Robert F. Kennedy address</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/28/redefining-the-gnp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/28/redefining-the-gnp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wise words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPCAB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GNP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grosss national product]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quotations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wellbeing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product &#8230; if we should judge America by that &#8211; counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cherished memories and lessons learnt</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/01/cherished-memories-and-lessons-learnt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/01/cherished-memories-and-lessons-learnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elvie Renier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trainee diary: Counselling Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[certificate counselling skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cherished memories]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having been asked to bring in five items from home, I was really looking forward to this week&#8217;s class. I was intrigued and thought it would be a way of sharing a bit more about ourselves through our objects. We were separated into groups of four and asked to set our objects out on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unconditional positive regard</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/01/27/unconditional-positive-regard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/01/27/unconditional-positive-regard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elvie Renier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trainee diary: Counselling Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carl rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[certificate counselling skills]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We were set a task this week where we were asked to research someone who had been in the news recently due to her controversially based therapy work. She is a Christian counsellor and she believes homosexuality is a sin and a mental illness. She believes she can reverse sexual orientation. This belief has raised a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The journey home</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/01/25/the-journey-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/01/25/the-journey-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Leigh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trainee diary: Counselling Diploma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[counselling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counselling diploma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[external assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journey home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trainee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[training]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How many trainee counsellors does it take to change a light bulb?</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/01/20/how-many-trainee-counsellors-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/01/20/how-many-trainee-counsellors-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elvie Renier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trainee diary: Counselling Skills]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[certificate counselling skills]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We were asked this week to jot down either a recent dream or a dream that we could recall easily. I wrote mine down quickly as it was a dream I&#8217;d had frequently as a child. It&#8217;s not a particularly pleasant dream and after I&#8217;d written it I wondered if I was a bit loopy! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading between the lines&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/01/12/reading-between-the-lines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/01/12/reading-between-the-lines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elvie Renier</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a check in we were split up into groups of four. Within the groups there would be a helper, helpee and two observers. The helper and helpee were then asked to leave the room. Myself and my remaining group member were then told that we would be observing, with a twist. I was asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using films in counselling/training: Bagdad Café</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/01/12/using-films-in-counsellingtraining-bagdad-cafe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/01/12/using-films-in-counsellingtraining-bagdad-cafe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Crouch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Film Title:Bagdad Café Therapeutic theme: Change through relationship Rating: 5* Length: 95 minutes Date: 1987 Genre: Comedy drama Availability: DVD Film Summary: This film is about the transformative power of genuine, empathic, caring relationship. Jasmin, a stout mid-life German housewife has a fight with her husband who leaves her in the middle of the Mojave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clay time!</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/01/10/clay-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2011/01/10/clay-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Leigh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trainee diary: Counselling Diploma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artistoc expression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the Christmas holiday came and went&#8230; all too quickly for me. I was unwell for a lot of it so the well earned rest I had anticipated didn&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas is a comin&#8217; &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/24/christmas-is-a%e2%80%99comin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/24/christmas-is-a%e2%80%99comin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miner Bird</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tales from the qual face]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s nearly here and the atmosphere at CPCAB Towers is becoming more electrified by the minute.  As well as the usual frantic round of preparations the weather has been testing our mettle somewhat (although compared to other parts of the country, of course, we&#8217;ve escaped very lightly) and the phones have helpfully become exceptionally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mocks!</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/22/mocks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/22/mocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Leigh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Gathering</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/20/data-gathering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/20/data-gathering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elvie Renier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trainee diary: Counselling Skills]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess sometimes we can be overloaded with information. Say, for instance, you&#8217;re having a conversation with a friend who tells you that her sister&#8217;s, best friend&#8217;s, cousin&#8217;s, auntie&#8217;s, brother&#8217;s uncle was a farmer. That his grandfather was a farmer and that his nephew was thinking of becoming a farmer. How would you remember where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotions and Being Understood</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/07/emotions-and-being-understood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/07/emotions-and-being-understood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elvie Renier</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Being Understood]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I felt very ill and very emotional during class this week. Ill because, unbeknown to me, I had Bronchitis. (That&#8217;s dedication!) Emotional because it&#8217;s an odd time of year for me, coupled with being ill. I don&#8217;t do &#8220;ill&#8221; well. I always want my Mummy! (I&#8217;m 37, does this matter?) I become bored and frustrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video review: Person to Person &#8211; COSCA&#8217;s video guide to counselling</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/03/video-review-person-to-person-cosca/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/03/video-review-person-to-person-cosca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacinta Powell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You can watch &#8216;Person to Person&#8217;, COSCA&#8217;s video guide to counselling, on their website at: http://www.cosca.org.uk/ Introduction My name is Jacinta and I&#8217;m 26. I studied digital film and video production at University and have helped film various counselling training videos, some of which I also acted in. I have also experienced two years of counselling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Example referral to Service Level C (with revised commentary):</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/03/example-referral-to-service-level-c-with-revised-commentary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/03/example-referral-to-service-level-c-with-revised-commentary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Crouch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Counsellor: Sanjay, we&#8217;re coming to the end of our assessment session. At the start of our meeting today I explained that I&#8217;m trained to work with people who need help and support in relation to both the challenges they&#8217;re facing in their life and the short-term psychological difficulties that they may also be facing within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding relationship &#8230; and snow!</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/03/understanding-relationship-and-snow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/03/understanding-relationship-and-snow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Leigh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trainee diary: Counselling Diploma]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squeals and Strudel</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/01/squeals-and-strudel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/01/squeals-and-strudel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elvie Renier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trainee diary: Counselling Skills]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We carried out a fun experiment toward the end of our lesson this week. We were divided into two groups and we were put into separate rooms. My group was then asked to invent a new language. We were also asked to include signs/actions as well. At first we all sort of stood around making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lunchtime Debating Club</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/26/the-lunchtime-debating-club/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/26/the-lunchtime-debating-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miner Bird</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spoke to W*** on the phone last week.  He used to work at CPCAB Towers on a part-time basis and I haven&#8217;t seen him for several years now.  The Miner Bird office is as far away from the main door as it&#8217;s possible to be but I always knew when he&#8217;d arrived because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Role-play reactions</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/24/role-play-reactions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/24/role-play-reactions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elvie Renier</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, well, well, I am all singing, all dancing once more - a great weekend with good friends and a wee tipple may have helped &#8230; I&#8217;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&#8217;d share with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all treacle&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/19/its-all-treacle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/19/its-all-treacle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Leigh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A wee phone call</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/19/a-wee-phone-call/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/19/a-wee-phone-call/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miner Bird</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;re on our ninth call in a row, have a set of exam papers to type and are in desperate need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking through the &#8216;Johari Window&#8217;.</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/17/looking-through-the-johari-window/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/17/looking-through-the-johari-window/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elvie Renier</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who has heard of the &#8220;Johari Window&#8221;?? I hadn&#8217;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&#8217;s a simple and useful tool for establishing and improving self-awareness. It&#8217;s a great way to give and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, so tired &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/16/so-so-tired-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/16/so-so-tired-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miner Bird</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A death in the family</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/11/death-in-the-family/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/11/death-in-the-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miner Bird</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tales from the qual face]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Great sadness in the Miner Bird household last night &#8211; 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&#8217;t frozen too hard for a little ceremony this evening. Fiona is one of our flock of geriatric chickens.  They&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All in all an &#8220;Egg&#8221;cellent week&#8217;s work!</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/10/all-in-all-an-eggcellent-weeks-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/10/all-in-all-an-eggcellent-weeks-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elvie Renier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the first class this week we began with another &#8220;warming up&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;d love to know what you feed your pony</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/05/pony-feed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miner Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The nerves are starting to tingle!</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/04/the-nerves-are-starting-to-tingle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elvie Renier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that, whilst I&#8217;m sitting here, pondering over what to include in my first blog, the nerves are starting to tingle! &#8220;And how does that make you feel?&#8221;, I hear you cry!! Sorry, couldn&#8217;t resist that one! Ahem. I promise not to use that joke too frequently! I&#8217;m hoping my nerves won&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birds of a feather</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/10/28/birds-of-a-feather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miner Bird</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tales from the qual face]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great excitement at the CPCAB offices this morning. I could hear the rumpus even before I switched off my engine.  It was one of those mornings where the cloud cover somehow turns the great outdoors into a sort of invisible cathedral and the noise was echoing round.  It seemed to come from the back garden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hold-ups in Qualsborough</title>
		<link>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/10/20/hold-ups-in-qualsborough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cpcab.co.uk/blogs/2010/10/20/hold-ups-in-qualsborough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miner Bird</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tales from the qual face]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s about 9 miles from my house to the CPCAB offices in Qualsborough, along roads of varying widths but almost every inch of them edged with green. All very blissful and bucolic, you&#8217;d think, except that the local powers-that-be seem to have a liking for blocking off tiny sections of it on a regular basis. [...]]]></description>
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