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The Braking Point story mode in the F1 2023 videogame

By Iain June 15, 2024VideogamesNo Comments

I may be a year late with this, seeing as F1 24 has just come out, but the story mode in F1 23 is just awful. I think it fails in two key aspects. The first aspect is the characters. The story is based around a fictional Formula 1 team and some of their top personnel: the two drivers, the…

Minecraft: Real life vs simulations

By Iain December 14, 2020Creativity, Essays, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

This post started off as a piece on how Minecraft evokes primal instincts in a person, but the more I wrote, the more it evolved. Have a read. You'll see. Survive the night. Is there a more evocative phrase? When you start a new Minecraft world in survival mode, that is your mission statement, your purpose. Survive the night. Granted,…

L3CiCS Mental Health Assignment

By Iain June 30, 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

Identifying and describing a range of mental health problems As categorised by The National Institute for Health Care Excellence (NICE), the most common mental health problems are: Depression – The main symptom is a low feeling and a loss of pleasure in things that were once enjoyable. Other symptoms include feeling irritable all the time, having drastic changes in appetite,…

L3CiCS Comparing Counselling Theories Assignment

By Iain June 27, 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

The aim of this essay is to compare and contrast two counselling theories of my choice. I have chosen to compare Psychodynamic Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. The philosophy behind the Psychodynamic Counselling approach is that we all have an unconscious mind as well as a conscious one. It states that the unconscious mind can hold on to painful memories…

L3CiCS Learning Log – 10th April 2020

By Iain April 10, 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…

Space

By Iain October 21, 2018Free-writingNo Comments

This is the latest entry in my themed series of blog posts in which (as part of my ongoing quest for greater self awareness and my continued personal and professional development), I pick a key word and write about it for a set amount of time. Leave a comment on here with a new word for me to write about,…

By Iain October 7, 2018Free-writingNo Comments

This is entry four in my themed series of blog posts in which (as part of my ongoing quest for greater self awareness and my continued personal and professional development), I pick a key word and write about it for a set amount of time. It would be super cool if you left a comment on here with a new…