May 13, 2012
Encounter Groups: A place to experience the magic? – Interview with Terry Daly
Terry is passionate about the need for difference to be spoken and heard in all walks of life and feels that even after more than 40 years of history the Encounter Group is still a relevant context to make contact with others while being authentically ourselves.
April 29, 2012
Counselling Suicidal Clients: Interview with Andrew Reeves
Andrew has written the book “Counselling Suicidal Clients” which addresses the important professional considerations when working with clients who are suicidal. The ‘bigger picture’, including legal and ethical considerations and organisational policy and procedures is explored, as is to how practitioners can work with the dynamics of suicide potential in the therapeutic process.
April 22, 2012
Fear and Love in Supervision – Interview with Robin Shohet
The relationship is very much at the core of Robin’s work as he focuses on what gets in the way of forming and maintaining therapeutic relationships that are helpful both as a therapist and as a counselling supervisor. Join us for the interview and experience Robin’s passion for open, dynamic and freeing relationships!
April 13, 2012
National TA Conference 2012 – Friday April 13th from 1pm GMT
We are working with the UK National TA Conference for the first time and will be live streaming the first day of the conference so you can participate from your computer. The video of the conference will be available to watch on our website along with a chatroom for communcating with other delegates and putting questions to the speakers.
April 1, 2012
‘MY SOUL NEEDS TO BE WASHED’: an exploration of the basic encounter group in Japan – Interview with Makiko Mikuni
As part of her journey into a professional life and network Makiko embarked on a research project to examine the history of the Person Centred Approach in Japan and it’s place in contemporary Japanese culture.
March 22, 2012
Person Centred Approach Network – Interview with Sara Callen & Bernard Mooney
We are looking forward to interviewing Sara Callen & Bernard Mooney about thier experience of The Person-Centred Approach Network (PCAN) which exists to provide opportunities for people to experience temporary Person-Centred Communities.
March 4, 2012
Managing Self Harming Behaviour – Interview with Maria Naranjo
In 2010 Maria Naranjo set up HarmLESS Psychotherapy as a Social Enterprise to raise awareness about the issues affecting people who self-harm and or may be at risk of suicide. HarmLESS Psychotherapy provides training and psychotherapy at reasonable rates which helps fund free training and free support to those in financial difficulty.
February 26, 2012
Shame, Guilt, & Empathy in Intimate Relationship Violence – Lecture & Interview with Dr. Jacqueline Simon Gunn
Jacquie has published her powerful and thought provoking dissertation “An Analysis of Shame, Guilt, & Empathy in Intimate Relationship Violence”. This is a critically sound but uncomfortable and often disquieting examination of the research and writing around intimate relationship violence. Jacquie looks at the difference between shame and guilt and how empathy relates to both of these experiences.
February 19, 2012
Encounter Groups: A Passionate Presence – Interview with Peggy Natiello
Peggy Natiello authored “The Person-Centered Approach: A passionate presence” as a challenge to those who practice the person-centered approach “to recognize and fully engage the philosophical belief system, the passionate style of living and the integrity that person-centeredness demands.” Her challenge extends to both therapists working one to one and those who would enter the encounter group experience.
February 12, 2012
Understanding Your Eating – Interview with Julia Buckroyd
Julia Buckroyd’s new book “Understanding Your Eating: How to eat and not worry about it” is currently Amazon’s no. 1 in Eating Disorders! This excellent book is designed to help those of us who struggle with our eating. Many of us are eating too little or too much and just don’t seem to be able to choose what we do with food. Julia’s book is written to help us understand what might lie beneath the way we eat and help make a permanent shift in our relationship with food.