Carl Jung – Iain Douglas Stewart

L3CiCS You as a Counsellor Assignment

By Iain 28 June 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

I am training to become a counsellor because I want to help people. Throughout my life I have struggled with a lot of various types of mental health problems, such as depression, addiction and severe anxiety. I was borderline narcissistic and I suffered from delusions of grandeur, as well as Golden-Child syndrome. I thought I deserved more, but I expected…

L3CiCS Learning Log – 10th April 2020

By Iain 10 April 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

The purpose of this piece of work is to examine what is meant by research and how it informs and supports counselling work. What is research? Research is a lot of different things depending on the context. Pure research is more like exploring and finding out more information about something. Applied research is directed by a hypothesis or the desire…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 18th January 2020

By Iain 18 January 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

On the first day of our weekend workshop, our tutor introduced us to Sandtray therapy. In front of us were trays filled about halfway with sand, and a large table full of objects. The idea was to choose some objects and then just see what happens when they are in the sand. I can see how using the objects as…

Masculinity

By Iain 2 December 2018Free-writingNo Comments

I'll be honest. I've been wrestling with this one in my head for a while, so this writing is only semi-free. That's one of the problems with having the titles of the exercises written down - I take a look to add to the list every now and again, and when I do, I cant help but form initial ideas.…

2013 in review

By Iain 3 September 2018Creativity, Reflections, Site Related, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

I'm just going back and porting my blog posts from 2013 over and man, this was a funny year. Existential panic had set in. I knew I wanted to do something with my life, but I was throwing darts into the mist trying to find what that something was. In the previous year, app development didn't stick, and drawing pictures…

Self-awareness is a bad thing?

By Iain 19 August 2018The MissionNo Comments

On my journey to becoming a counsellor I have developed a degree of self-awareness. With both the self-reflective exercises on the Level 2 counselling skills course and the Jungian shadow work I've done in my journals, I recognise the things I have discovered as nothing but positive. I've uncovered unconscious core beliefs that were blatantly untrue, which were formed as…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 18th April 2018

By Iain 18 April 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we looked at more aspects of personal development, such as personal growth and how we feel about our developing counselling skills, as well as how we feel about giving feedback. Personal Growth Looking back on at my own journey on the course since September I have definitely learned a great deal about counselling and the various skills used…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 28th February 2018

By Iain 28 February 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week Katherine did her presentation about Art Therapy. I thought it was very interesting and enlightening – while I did have some idea that painting and drawing were involved in Art Therapy, I had never considered that physical expression such as dancing or playing music could be classed as therapy. I agree that the colours people choose to use…

L2CiCS: Homework – October 11th 2017

By Iain 11 October 2017Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

We were given homework this week, which was to imagine our own ideal counselling room. Here is what I came up with. The building itself is old, with period features and a lot of character. It is in a centralised location, somewhere near Portsmouth and Southsea train station, maybe five or so minutes’ walk away. I say near a train…