Anxiety

I have been involved today with the writing of some anxiety training we are offering to the volunteer counsellor at my place of work. We offer 4 trainings a year.

The whole day is going to be experiential, with creative tools and how they could be used with client that present with anxiety.

The day will involve me and the other facilitator to create some anxiety within the group on the day so that its live and real. I have learnt over the past years that some counsellors find it hard to use tools with clients, tools like stone work, play dough, drawing etc. So on the day of the training we will be using tools! I know the attendees and this will certainly tap into their anxiety. So looking forward to that. I like real live stuff!

The day will culminate with me offering a group supervision (1 and half hours) of the attendees to talk about the anxiety that came up and what it felt like to experience it, and offer them the chance to use tools within that supervision group to explore what it was like too. There may even be space for how a clients anxiety could impact on the supervisory relationship.

So many question so little time!

I found this its worth a read.

This is an interesting artical.

Are there women paedophiles?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8022861.stm

Let me know what you think.

Online Counselling Conference

For all you Counsellors out there interested in online Counselling you need to attend this!

You can watch this and get involved live in the conference from the comfort of your own home all you need is a Internet connection.

See who the Keynote speakers are, and the full programme.

This conference will be broadcast globally see how to attend online.

If you want to attend in person here's where to go.

You can even by tickets to the conference online

If you have any questions about OCTIA and the conference please contact John Wilson at john@wilsoncounselling.co.uk

Hope you can make it and I will see you online.

Counselling? processing?

Another thought....does the counsellor help the clients internal counsellor to do the counselling? as Counsellor I only spend 50 minutes with the client, they spend 6 days, 23hours and 10 minutes on their own.

So what do I do in that 50 minutes? help them to focus? get them to talk about their feeling out loud. Unpack their head. so they can repack or through away what they don't want to repack.

I'm a great believer that the client does most of their processing away from the counselling room.

Not really got my head in counselling mode at the moment as it is half term where I work, so I have only seen two clients over the past 2 weeks! They will be back in force next week.

No Counselling stuff on this post . Just wanted to add this to my blog as I have been to give blood this evening.

It was the first time I had ever done it, there are a few questions to answer and your done. Giving blood is easy, well a pint pored out of me 5 minutes and I was done.

If you have never done it give it ago.

http://www.blood.co.uk/

Standing Still to move

Do clients move on when staying still?

I was working with some one today and talking about movement of the client within counselling. As I believe that sometimes the client moves forward when they say still. Think I need to explain what I am on about. I will do my best here goes.

I guess I am thinking about focusing on feeling. To me focusing is about staying still (in that moment) with that feeling and in this moment of stillness the client learns about themselves which in turn moves them on in self.

Its been a long day...lol

Bullying

I have been looking at a couple of websites today and found this web site. http://www.bullying.co.uk/ Its worth a look.

It would be great to add it to you site so people can link to if they come across your site looking for help.

I didnt suffer at all from bulling as a kid or adult but it is not always kids that get bullied. I work as a counsellor with young adults that have suffered bulling in early life and it still happens to them in thier work place.

I am now going to make a comment which maybe a bit difficult to hear for someone who has been bullied and keeps getting bulliede in later life. " what part do they play in allowing themselves to be bullied?" I have used this with many clients and they get a chance to look at themselves rather than blaming the bully for the way they feel.