At the weekend I attended a free two day course in London on life coaching which was run by the Coaching Academy. I have always been curious about the synergy between coaching and counselling/psychotherapy and, therefore, decided to explore what coaching was all about. The course promised that I would learn some coaching fundamentals over […]
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Have you ever wondered how long it would take to see your new year resolution to truly take hold in new behaviour? Habits are formed through a process called ‘context-dependent repetition’. Some say it takes 21 days for new behaviour to be formed. However, I have also heard that 66 days is more realistic. So,which
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Holiday time finds me reading books which I had failed to read throughout the year, such as I’m OK you’re OK as well as books which I want to read out of pure interest. I also find myself reflecting on the last two years as I pass the mid point in my training. I recall
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The OCD Action National Conference recently took place in London. Leading OCD charity, OCD Action, organises the annual OCD Action National Conference to help people with OCD develop their own support network and to give them the chance to hear from leading experts. The World Health Organisation has listed OCD in their top ten
I attended a fourth year student project at the weekend and the theme of the event was about contacting your inner wisdom using mindfulness techniques. Students at the CCPE are required to complete a fourth year project to meet the requirements of their transpersonal psychotherapy diploma training. You can attend one of these by paying a nominal fee
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I attended an amazing course today on how to work with Trauma, which was run by Mark Brayne. Mark is a psychotherapist, journalist, and author. After a first career as a foreign correspondent, when he worked as a BBC and Reuters foreign correspondent and editor, he qualified in psychotherapy and since 2002 has specialised in
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Co-dependence is: ‘A painful internal state of low-grade chronic depression which is literally precipitated by intense and chronic mourning for our authentic selves’ John Bradshaw A LIFE OF OTHER-ATION This week’s lecture (and the final one of this term) was on codependence. The lecture series has been an interesting one this term given the focus on addictions
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I have uploaded another link to an interview with Dr Michael Katz, speaker at the Gateways to the Mind conference on lucid dreams in London at the weekend. In this interview I chat with Dr Michael Katz psychologist, former Yantra Yoga instructor, author, photographer, and long time student of contemporary masters of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon. He is best
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I am going to a conference at the weekend in London on lucid dreaming at which I will be interviewing the key speakers. The organisers promise that Gateways Of The Mind will demonstrate how we can all benefit from the non-physical realities. There are 5 speakers scheduled and have between them thousands of first hand accounts of
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We had a fascinating lecture on couples therapy this week. This followed our weekend on sexual abuse. The lecture addressed the issues involved when the day of reckoning came for all relationships. The reckoning day is when the honeymoon period ends (and this can vary as a time-span from couple to couple) and when the
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