Ariadnes Thread counselling

What about this creative process? On Ariadne’s Thread Website there is a lot I write about being a creative process and I have been asked recently what this is. Gestalt therapy/ counselling has always been very much based in the present moment.   Fritz Pearls, who was the founder, was very influenced by existentialism on the one hand and phenomenology on the other. Both are pointing to what is happening Now! Here in this moment.   What is important in this meeting, this act of two people being in the same space together. Both bring something of themselves. All the experience and expertise about themselves. All that has happened and all that may happen.   It is an encounter and at its best creates a situation of equality. Gestalt as with many of the foundational therapies were children of psychodynamic therapy (Think Sigmund Freud). At the time this was a very medical model of therapy. A person sat or lay on a couch and the analyst (the expert) sat behind them, perhaps umm...

From  - Monday musing – thinking about thinking (meta Cognition)  What you may not know is that (well given that catering was really my fist training – but that aside) my first academic work was in social science, psychology and child development.  Now I think back it was great training used practically in the time I was a social worker, but also leaving me both understanding social inequality and a sense of social injustice.  I grew up in the inner city of Birmingham, then much as now a multi-cultural centre.  I returned there to do my ministerial training. You may know that one of the things that happened whilst I was young was that my father took me to a traveller camp in Aston (part of the city centre), there I saw a young girl, about the same age as me (9 or 10 years) dressed in a threadbare dress playing by a brazier on what was by then a largely cleared site.  I remember quite clearly realising that it was only a quirk of fate that I had been born to...

 Hi  This is a new blog for Ariadne's Thread Counseling and you are very welcome to this introductory page.  Hopefully it will grow ! Thanks  Chris Rowberry  https://www.facebook.com/ariadesthread chris@ariadnesthread.uk ariadnesthread.uk