Posts also tagged with ‘trainee’
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 [...]
Cherished memories and lessons learnt
Having been asked to bring in five items from home, I was really looking forward to this week’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 [...]
Unconditional positive regard
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 [...]
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 [...]
How many trainee counsellors does it take to change a light bulb?
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’d had frequently as a child. It’s not a particularly pleasant dream and after I’d written it I wondered if I was a bit loopy! [...]
Reading between the lines……
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 [...]
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 [...]