Dilemma’s: on writing our first downloadable course

May Blog by Gill Jones

 

 

 

Have you tried being two people at once? I’ve just finished being two clients and two counsellors – all of them different people and I find I’m drained of thought and feeling as I think about writing this blog.

Why have I been channeling my energies into this task? Well I’ve been writing some material for a downloadable course and in it I’ve used two fictitious clients and two different counsellors to demonstrate how and how not to go about being an online counsellor. The difficulty lies in getting inside the minds of all four. Two clients with realistic issues are working with two counsellors over a course of emails and changing my ‘hat’ to become each one feels like spinning plates in several directions at once.

However, the writing part is nearly finished and the next stage is to get it into a downloadable format – thankfully that’s someone else’s task, not mine.

Watch our website if you want to try out the new downloadable email counselling skills course! I’m back to supervising the online diploma students <audible sigh of relief>

Gill Jones

We will let you know on the blog when this course [and others] will become available.

 

 

Psychotherapy 2.0: Where psychotherapy and technology meet conference

The interest in online counselling is growing! And that is good to see.

On Saturday June 21st UKCP will host a day long conference on online counselling. This conference will take place in London. Yet as it is about online counselling they are offering a livestream as well. If you can’t come to London, you can follow the conference from your own home.

From the UKCP website:

The Psychotherapy 2.0 conference is a must attend event for all therapists, regardless of much they are currently involved in working online. Our overarching intention through UKCP’s New Media in Psychotherapy Special Interest Group and this conference is to create a community of practice and learning. The conference themes include:

• The development of the psychotherapeutic relationship in an online setting
• What the founding fathers and mothers of psychotherapy have to contribute to this psychotherapeutic setting
• The role transference has within the online relationship
• How this might shift the power in the consulting room
• What works best online and for whom
• The opening of access and opportunities for all generations online
• The training we need
• How social media is affecting all our lives whether in cyberspace or in SW11

 

For more information on the conference and how to attend please have a look at the event website

Some of the OCTIA tutors will be at the venue in London and will help with the running of the livestream.

experience online counselling for free!

Maybe you have thought about online counselling, but  you are not sure if it would work for you. Or you are a counsellor who would like to try out online counselling to see if it would work for you.

Online Training for Counsellors Ltd. need volunteer online clients to work with our diploma students (these are already qualified and experienced counsellors who are adding online skills to their practice).  We are currently running our 2014 Diploma and I will be allocating clients to our students from now until the end of the Course in December.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer please follow this link for more information. This offer is only up a few weeks per year, so if you are interested in this free offer, please get in touch with us quickly.