arseholes

now i can't elaborate too much about the title of this posting - just in case someone actually decides to visit this site but there are a lot of arseholes in the counselling world. I suppose it's a bit of an occupational hazard being a lecturer in counselling but i just don't get it.

you know you read stuff about untrained people being to offer as an effective service as others who have received training and... well that's not really a surprise. Generally there seems to be something fundamental about being able to create a relationship with people and .... well ... be nice to others. I'm sure this is bound up in a load of cultural assumptions... and that probably i'm denying something or some other theotical stuff that i'm not paying enough attention but i struggle with it.

More specifically i struggle with ernestness and preciousness - sometimes masquerading as professionalism. Or power trips and self righteousness ... oh i'll stop ranting.

Things that have happened since i last posted. well i've got no idea when i last posted so i'm sure it's a lot. Mostly dominated by arthur geting bigger but with some counselling content. Plotted highlights include:

- getting a book deal and signing a contract with sage to put some words down on paper
- getting my feedback from the bps - this seemed incredibly inconsistent!!! and lacking in parity with my knowledge of other assessments - but who am i to question...
- presently i'm awaiting to hear about my challenges to the bps's feedback - singers crossed on that one
- i have looked into getting a placement again and had an interview with the student counselling service. this seemed to go pretty badly to me but it was fun to reflect on practice a little more - i felt that i kinda said 'well i'm only doing it because i have to and well i don't really feel that counselling is that useful after all'. Which is obviously true to some degree but not completely. I thik it would be interesting to get back into being a counsellor/therapist/counselling psychologist but it's a strange world!!! On the interview side of things i'll keep my fingers crossed too but again i feel it's a little unlikely really
- i begun writing up my phd a few weeks back too - this seems like the most positive happening really. i seem to have stopped for a while but after this hol (which i may not have mentionned i'm on) i'll get right back to it - honestly :)

back to singing nursery rhymes and banging things with bells in