L3CiCS Learning Log – 29th November 2019

Person Centred Counselling was developed by Carl Rogers in the 1950’s around the philosophy that people can change, and that they are not bound by personal events in their past, or their circumstances in the present. This change is achieved by the counsellor making use of the core conditions of the Person Centred approach, and these are: 1. Empathy –…
potential is only a possibility

Potential is only a Possibility

Come closer, let me tell you a story. It's about me and my potential. And how that potential lay dormant for twenty years. What is potential worth, do you think? It's worth nothing if you don't do anything with it. See, the problem is that potential does not directly translate to ability or power or talent or wealth or any…
L2CiCS: Learning Log – 31st January 2018

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 31st January 2018

This week, Sue did a presentation on Transactional Analysis; in particular Sue talked about the ego-states, what they are and how they represent us. Transactional Analysis was founded in the late 1950’s by Eric Berne, and is a therapy based on the theory that each person has three ego-states: Parent, Adult and Child. These are different from real parents, children…