Cultural resources – Pluralistic Practice

International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Prize Winners

We are delighted to announce our conference prize winners from the last two years. You can find more information on each of the projects and links to watch the presentations below. You can watch all of the recordings from the conference here. Congratulations to all of our prize winners! Senior…

Pluralistic Therapy Meets Global Mental Health

June 17, 2022 Cultural resources Information and Updates Networking Politics Strengths and Resources No Comments

Lynne Gabriel, Christine Kupfer, John McLeod, Kate Smith and Mhairi Thurston A group of members of the pluralistic network recently participated in a two-day on-line conference on Pluralizing Global Mental Health Care: crisis, and critique, hosted by the University of Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology. We presented two papers –…

Pluralism: Beyond Therapeutic Integration?

May 23, 2022 Critiques Cultural resources Epistemology Integrative and Eclectic Practices 1 Comment

Helen Smith, John McLeod, Brian Rodgers The following email dialogue, from the pluralistic practice network, explores some key questions about the nature of pluralism in therapy and its relationships to integrative and other practices. It begins with a question from a trainee: Helen Smith (18/5/2022) There was discussion about pluralism…

Pluralism as Diversity in Practice: But What about Indigenous and Transpersonal Approaches?

December 9, 2021 Critiques Cultural diversity Cultural resources Person-centred Personal Philosophy Politics Spirituality No Comments

Joe Bartholomew, trainee psychotherapist, Brighton Therapy Centre; radicalcultureint@gmail.com; www.radicalculture.co.uk On my journey as a trainee therapist I’ve previously worked as a trainee NHS psychological wellbeing practitioner (PWP) within an IAPT service. This involved using a CBT model, as well as CBT based interventions when working with clients. More recently in…

Creativity Gathering on 30th October 2021 – Self Portrait

December 3, 2021 Arts therapies Cultural resources No Comments

By Mo Szulejewska: Pluralistic Counsellorand Jennifer Ramsay: Art therapist, Gestalt therapist, Storyteller, Perhaps one of the most exciting things about these gatherings is that there is no way to knowwhat direction the discussion and contributions will head off into and this proved nodifferent. The chosen topic for the day was…

Pluralistic Practitioners Network Creativity Group: Creative Writing in Therapy. Gathering Report from 31st July 2021

September 7, 2021 Arts therapies Cultural resources No Comments

Roddie McKenzie PhD, PG Dip. Counselling (Senior Counsellor with Insight Counselling, Dundee). The PPN Creativity Group on Zoom continues to attract participants from across the UK and Europe. Fourteen attended the July monthly gathering of the group, which focussed on creative writing as a therapeutic tool. We are a mixed…

Creativity Gathering 27th March 2021: Storytelling

April 9, 2021 Arts therapies Cultural resources Groups Online 1 Comment

Jennifer Ramsay: Storyteller, art therapist, Gestalt therapist. www.storyarte.com This was my first visit to the Creativity Gathering and I received a warm welcome. I was particularly interested in the topic of storytelling as I am a professional storyteller and facilitate Story Medicine workshops. What would your answer be to this…

The Strength that We Find in Our New Everyday

January 5, 2021 Cultural resources Leadership Personal Policy Politics Strengths and Resources 4 Comments

Kate Smith PhD, Abertay University At the start of 2021 we entered another lockdown, another phase of potential isolation, changes to our usual habits and preferences and, for many, the removal of essential cultural resources and supports. I have been dwelling on how pluralism responds to difficulties such as these…

Pluralistic Therapy Cards: Playing with Potential

November 26, 2020 Arts therapies Cultural resources Personal 6 Comments

Shirley Brennan, MSc Pluralistic Counselling When I embarked on my pluralistic counselling training journey, I was not familiar with the word ‘pluralism’ and only a vague idea what it might mean in practice. The course was offering a unique and open approach to counselling with a progressive philosophy. I was…

Metamodernism and Pluralism

October 9, 2020 Cultural resources Philosophy 1 Comment

Marie-Clare Murphie, 2nd Year PhD student at Abertay University, Dundee, researching the processes and outcomes of pluralistic therapy (1206416@uad.ac.uk) How do you define the undefinable? I have been mulling this question over for the past year, as I try to develop an adherence scale for pluralistic therapy as part of…

A Pluralistic Approach in the Diverse Counselling Classroom – A Students Perspective

August 24, 2020 Cultural diversity Cultural resources Training No Comments

Adeola Russell is a Director of Black Therapy Matters CIC, a community interest group currently focused on increasing the number of qualified BAME counsellors and psychotherapists practising in the UK. One of the ways in which their current project seeks to achieve this is by actively recruiting BAME students to…

The Art of Room Travel as a Cultural Resource

March 26, 2020 Cultural resources Personal 2 Comments

Fiona Stirling, Abertay University In 1790 a Frenchman named Xavier de Maistre took part in an illegal duel. His survival was promptly rewarded by the courts with 6 weeks of house arrest. Confined suddenly to his home, as many of us now find ourselves amidst the COVID-19 pandemic a full…