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they/them/their | person-centred experiential supervisor, therapist, educator | interests: articulating pce practice; heuristic inquiry; spiritual courage 💛

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Ten preliminary principles for PCE therapists (Westwell, 2018). Please feel free to get in touch if you want more info. Principle one (see thread for all ten).
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PCE folks may be interested in this sessional post at Metanoia: metanoia.ac.uk/about/careers…
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Soften Often: Graham Westwell Therapy in Whitestake, Preston, UK

What does ‘soften often’ mean? Over the last few years, I’ve been encouraging the counselling students I’ve worked closely with, to ‘soften often’ in their own practice. I’ve also encouraged clients...

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First stanza of ‘Knots’ by R.D. Laing: "They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game." Seems relevant to post on WMHD ✌️
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“When clients say that they feel really got, we can know that they have felt deeply understood and psychologically held within their own vulnerability. As such, experiential therapy demands the vital presence of the therapist (Greenberg & Geller, 2012). (1/2)
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This cannot be learnt from any textbook; this presence has to be a heartfelt commitment of goodwill from one human in service towards the emotional suffering of another.” (Westwell, 2015: 67).​ (2/2)
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a tune i've not heard for a while breezed my way today ... a simple and challenging message 💛✌🙏 " Happiness runs in a circular motion Thought is like a little boat upon the sea Everybody is a part of everything anyway You can have everything if you let yourself be ... "
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Happiness Runs - Donovan

"happiness runs in a circular motion"(first heard this from a fru...

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My PhD is titled:   'Grace: A Remembering of Being'   ... it's a heuristic exploration of what it means to be a Person Centred Experiential practitioner ... and simply, what it means to remember who we really are, as the noise quietens ...  this quote by Tillich is very moving:
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"Grace is the reunion of life with life, the reconciliation of the self with itself. Grace is the acceptance of that which is rejected. Grace transforms fate into a meaningful destiny; it changes guilt into confidence and courage."
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from Tillich (1955) 'The shaking of the foundations' 🙏   I wonder what this might say to you, your practice, and your own way of being?
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Over the last 14 years, I’ve been involved in the development of the Person Centred Experiential Psycotherapy Scale (PCEPS), and at our first ever conference (PCE 2010, Rome, Italy), it was absolutely crucial for me to articulate the following: The PCEPS was intended to:
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I’m writing up my PhD thesis at present and I feel it’s time for me to begin to unpack all these points in more detail and say more about what these principles mean for me and my practice.
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You can find the PCEPS-10 here: grahamwestwell.com/resources

Resources | Graham Westwell Therapy

Explore resources on person centred experiential therapy. Discover how person centred experiential therapy can benefit you today.

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Today is a PhD writing day and I’m enjoying finding my voice - in the prologue … “I will not be hiding behind the language of a distant researcher, in an attempt to claim some sort of scientific moral superiority …
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… but rather will deliberately allow my process to be seen – as I advocate the principles of the ‘courageous heart of the person centred approach.’’’
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