Groups – Pluralistic Practice

Creativity Gathering 27th March 2021: Storytelling

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…

Pluralistic Practitioners Network: Creativity and Challenge

February 5, 2021 Arts therapies Groups Information and Updates Practice 4 Comments

Marianne Reilly Following on from Roddie McKenzie’s blog post 18/1/2021, this is an open invitation to all who might be interested in something old, or new, to do in 2021. Would you like to join our Creative Gatherings, hosted on Zoom, on the last Saturday of each month at 10:00am…

Pluralistic Practitioners Network: Creativity and Storytelling Gathering

January 18, 2021 Arts therapies Groups Information and Updates Practice 5 Comments

Roddie McKenzie PhD, PG Dip. Counselling Our October 2020 gathering was the second Zoom meeting of this group and the first to have an agreed theme: creative writing. At that meeting we decided to adopt the term ‘gathering’ rather than ‘meeting’: partly to indicate that we aim to have an…

Personal and Professional Development Groups in Counselling and Psychotherapy Training: A Pluralistic Perspective

November 23, 2020 Groups Personal Training 1 Comment

Julia McLeod, Marie-Clare Murphie, Kate Smith, Christine Kupfer and Mhairi Thurston (University of Abertay), Hanne Oddli (University of Oslo), Lynne Gabriel (York St John University), Mick Cooper (University of Roehampton) What do personal and professional development (PPD) groups, on counselling and psychotherapy training courses, look like from a pluralistic perspective?…