Category: Integrative and Eclectic Practices

Interview with Artificial Intelligence Bot ‘ChatGPT’ about Pluralistic Therapy… and It Writes Us a Poem, Too

December 14, 2022 Information and Updates Integrative and Eclectic Practices 3 Comments
Nicola Blunden, Metanoia Institute. Some of you may have seen the incredible new Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, released recently for free use. I asked it to describe itself for this blog, and it replied: I am a large language model trained by OpenAI. I am designed to generate human-like text…

Collaboration, Metacommunication, and Pluralistic Therapy

May 28, 2022 Critiques Integrative and Eclectic Practices Measures Metatherapeutic communication Policy Preferences Shared decision making 4 Comments
Jay Beichman, Counsellor/Psychotherapist in Private Practice The following thoughts about collaboration, metacommunication, and pluralistic therapy are drawn from my thesis How Counsellors and Psychotherapists Make Sense of Pluralistic Approaches to Therapy (2018). I write this in anticipation of this year’s Pluralistic Therapy Conference. In my view, pluralism is better thought…

The Metatherapeutic Current in Pluralism

March 31, 2022 Arts therapies Co-production Critiques Integrative and Eclectic Practices Metatherapeutic communication Person-centred Preferences Therapeutic approaches Training 5 Comments
Nicola Blunden, BSc Person-Centred Pluralistic Counselling, Metanoia Institute, London Terry Eagleton, one of my favourite philosophers, has written that, ‘For much of the time, our intellectual and other activities bowl along fairly serenely, and in this situation no great expenditure of theoretical energy is usually necessary. But there may come…

The Creativity Gathering: Multilingualism and Creativity in Pluralistic Practice (May 29, 2021)

July 14, 2021 Arts therapies Groups Information and Updates Integrative and Eclectic Practices Networking Practice No Comments
Tatiana Stoyko, pluralistically-minded integrative counsellor, MBACP, www.counsellingnest.com Hello and welcome to the Creativity Gathering! I am writing this with an incredible sense of belonging to the community of people passionate about creative approaches to therapy. The group draws together therapists from different theoretical orientations and promotes openness and curiosity to…