Subject: Re: letting the heart sing |
From: Denis Postle <denis@postle.net> |
Date: 14/03/2007 10:15 |
To: Anthony Crouch <anthonyc@cpcab.co.uk> |
Dear Denis
Please can you send both copies to the following address:
Orchard Neville House, Ham St, Baltonsborough, Somerset BA6 8QQ
I've been researching good "self-development" books (such as yours) but can only really find a handful - years ago we used to use your original Mind Gym as a "textbook" on our training programmes. The machinations of the counselling and psychotherapy profession are part of a stimulus for my growing interest in facilitating "self-development" in a broad fashion - within which counselling and psychotherapy play an important part, but only a part. I had a quick look at the summary of your forthcoming book: CPCAB staff (including myself) might well find it interesting. I have a book that I wrote 10 years ago - Inside Counselling - which you might, or might not, like.
A while ago Elmer (referred to me by David Wasdell) came to visit us here at Orchard Neville - I hope he's well and filming lots of interesting projects. Its taken us a while but our diversification plans (film-wise) are about to come to fruition. CPCAB is only one step towards the fulfillment of my "vision": to play what part I can in helping us become more psychologically aware, more psychologically literate. As Al Gore briefly points out in his recent dox: 21st century technology in the hands of people who haven't really "moved with the times" - yet he, and everyone else it seems, are still only looking for eco-technical solutions.
In fact I have just returned from an advanced directing workshop in London and really should be in bed - I only turned on the computer to back up a failing palm top computer.
With best wishes
Anthony
CPCAB Philosophy
- Recognising that we are different and diverse and that we have to work hard to truly listen and understand.
- Learning not to hide and pretend, but to become more open about our failings and our mistakes: so that we can genuinely learn and develop.
- Working together in partnership - embodying a model of authority that listens and challenges and empowers.
- Valuing the emotional and the spiritual sides of ourselves as highly as the rational.
- Accepting that the heart of our work is the hurt in our own hearts - the rage and disappointment and sadness and viciousness and, in working together, the potential to reawaken love, caring and a joie de vivre.
- Understanding that counselling and human relations work is founded in subjective, intimate relationship and that, in turn, counselling and human relations training is necessarily founded in subjective, intimate relationship.
- Staying in genuine touch with, remaining genuinely caring of and being genuinely committed to the people that we are working with.
- Recognising and bearing the heavy responsibility of our work - because we value it so highly.
- Learning, in moments of crisis, to reach out from the heart - offering and asking for help and support.
- Being ourselves, meaning what we say, saying what we mean, walking our talk.
On 9 Mar 2007, at 15:00, Denis Postle wrote:
Hello Anthony,
Yes I can let you have a Mac copy of Letting the Heart Sing - The Mind Gymnasium
Do you want me to send it to cpcab? i.e.
PO BOX 1768
Glastonbury
Somerset
BA6 8YP
United Kingdom
While the PC version is entirely problem free, due apparently to the many different states of the Mac operating system some people have had difficulties with the Mac version and we stopped distributing it. In principle it is OK in practice it might not run on your machine. So... it comes free in the first place, if it works alright then you can pay me for it, currently £20. And if not, if you have a current Mac it will probably read the PC disk anyway, I'll send copies of both.
Let me know how you want to proceed.
You (and CPCAB) might also be interested in my forthcoming book from PCCS books Regulating the Psychological Therapies - from taxonomy to taxidermy a collection of my writing about the professionalisation of counselling and psychotherapy over the last 16-17 years, available later this month.
Greetings
Denis
Anthony Crouch wrote:Dear Denis Postle
I am interested in purchasing a mac version of your CD (personal edition).
With best wishes
--
Greetings
Denis
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From: Denis Postle Hello Richard and Guy,
One of my correspondents sent me this agenda for a forthcoming
meeting of the London Society of the New Lacanian
School about SR, note para 2!
Love
Denis
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Dear Colleagues,
As previously announced, members of the London Society are invited to
discuss
the process of the implementation of the HPC order of 2001, setting out
the
conditions of practice for the 'psychological therapies'.
The meeting will commence at 2pm, in room 541 at Birkbeck.
- Attached are some documents that may assist you to prepare for the
discussion.
- Below is a draft of the points that the meeting will aim to touch on.
1 - A summary of the legislative framework so far.
a) HPO2001,
b) BACP/UKCP scoping project and ALP/LS's involvement,
and the Foster/Donaldson reports and ALP/LS's involvement.
c) SfH's standards consultancy,
The House of Lords debate.
2 - Positions of the main players:
Government and the NHS/NICE clinical guidelines
BPS, UKCP, BACP, IPA, IPN and Ipnosis web-site
3 - The White Paper
The interview with Andy Burnham. (Minister of State for Health.
The meeting of the reference group on March 29th.
Contact with Vincent Cable
4 - Regulation in the context of global discourses and agendas.
Towards the articulation of an on-going critique of regulation: it's
imperatives, assumptions, politics and processes.
Regards,
Penny Georgiou
Chair
London Society of the NLS
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Dear Denis
Please can you send both copies to the following address:
Orchard Neville House, Ham St, Baltonsborough, Somerset BA6 8QQ
I've been researching good "self-development" books (such as yours) but can only really find a handful - years ago we used to use your original Mind Gym as a "textbook" on our training programmes. The machinations of the counselling and psychotherapy profession are part of a stimulus for my growing interest in facilitating "self-development" in a broad fashion - within which counselling and psychotherapy play an important part, but only a part. I had a quick look at the summary of your forthcoming book: CPCAB staff (including myself) might well find it interesting. I have a book that I wrote 10 years ago - Inside Counselling - which you might, or might not, like.
A while ago Elmer (referred to me by David Wasdell) came to visit us here at Orchard Neville - I hope he's well and filming lots of interesting projects. Its taken us a while but our diversification plans (film-wise) are about to come to fruition. CPCAB is only one step towards the fulfillment of my "vision": to play what part I can in helping us become more psychologically aware, more psychologically literate. As Al Gore briefly points out in his recent dox: 21st century technology in the hands of people who haven't really "moved with the times" - yet he, and everyone else it seems, are still only looking for eco-technical solutions.
In fact I have just returned from an advanced directing workshop in London and really should be in bed - I only turned on the computer to back up a failing palm top computer.
With best wishes
Anthony
CPCAB Philosophy
- Recognising that we are different and diverse and that we have to work hard to truly listen and understand.
- Learning not to hide and pretend, but to become more open about our failings and our mistakes: so that we can genuinely learn and develop.
- Working together in partnership - embodying a model of authority that listens and challenges and empowers.
- Valuing the emotional and the spiritual sides of ourselves as highly as the rational.
- Accepting that the heart of our work is the hurt in our own hearts - the rage and disappointment and sadness and viciousness and, in working together, the potential to reawaken love, caring and a joie de vivre.
- Understanding that counselling and human relations work is founded in subjective, intimate relationship and that, in turn, counselling and human relations training is necessarily founded in subjective, intimate relationship.
- Staying in genuine touch with, remaining genuinely caring of and being genuinely committed to the people that we are working with.
- Recognising and bearing the heavy responsibility of our work - because we value it so highly.
- Learning, in moments of crisis, to reach out from the heart - offering and asking for help and support.
- Being ourselves, meaning what we say, saying what we mean, walking our talk.
On 9 Mar 2007, at 15:00, Denis Postle wrote:
Hello Anthony,
Yes I can let you have a Mac copy of Letting the Heart Sing - The Mind Gymnasium
Do you want me to send it to cpcab? i.e.
PO BOX 1768
Glastonbury
Somerset
BA6 8YP
United Kingdom
While the PC version is entirely problem free, due apparently to the many different states of the Mac operating system some people have had difficulties with the Mac version and we stopped distributing it. In principle it is OK in practice it might not run on your machine. So... it comes free in the first place, if it works alright then you can pay me for it, currently £20. And if not, if you have a current Mac it will probably read the PC disk anyway, I'll send copies of both.
Let me know how you want to proceed.
You (and CPCAB) might also be interested in my forthcoming book from PCCS books Regulating the Psychological Therapies - from taxonomy to taxidermy a collection of my writing about the professionalisation of counselling and psychotherapy over the last 16-17 years, available later this month.
Greetings
Denis
Anthony Crouch wrote:Dear Denis Postle
I am interested in purchasing a mac version of your CD (personal edition).
With best wishes
From - Wed Mar 14 15:47:35 2007 X-Mozilla-Status: 0018 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 FCC: mailbox://lpiper@pop3.demon.co.uk/Sent X-Identity-Key: id1 Message-ID: <45F81917.2020708@postle.net> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:47:35 +0000 From: Denis Postle
Dear Denis
Please can you send both copies to the following address:
Orchard Neville House, Ham St, Baltonsborough, Somerset BA6 8QQ
I've been researching good "self-development" books (such as yours) but can only really find a handful - years ago we used to use your original Mind Gym as a "textbook" on our training programmes. The machinations of the counselling and psychotherapy profession are part of a stimulus for my growing interest in facilitating "self-development" in a broad fashion - within which counselling and psychotherapy play an important part, but only a part. I had a quick look at the summary of your forthcoming book: CPCAB staff (including myself) might well find it interesting. I have a book that I wrote 10 years ago - Inside Counselling - which you might, or might not, like.
A while ago Elmer (referred to me by David Wasdell) came to visit us here at Orchard Neville - I hope he's well and filming lots of interesting projects. Its taken us a while but our diversification plans (film-wise) are about to come to fruition. CPCAB is only one step towards the fulfillment of my "vision": to play what part I can in helping us become more psychologically aware, more psychologically literate. As Al Gore briefly points out in his recent dox: 21st century technology in the hands of people who haven't really "moved with the times" - yet he, and everyone else it seems, are still only looking for eco-technical solutions.
In fact I have just returned from an advanced directing workshop in London and really should be in bed - I only turned on the computer to back up a failing palm top computer.
With best wishes
Anthony
CPCAB Philosophy
- Recognising that we are different and diverse and that we have to work hard to truly listen and understand.
- Learning not to hide and pretend, but to become more open about our failings and our mistakes: so that we can genuinely learn and develop.
- Working together in partnership - embodying a model of authority that listens and challenges and empowers.
- Valuing the emotional and the spiritual sides of ourselves as highly as the rational.
- Accepting that the heart of our work is the hurt in our own hearts - the rage and disappointment and sadness and viciousness and, in working together, the potential to reawaken love, caring and a joie de vivre.
- Understanding that counselling and human relations work is founded in subjective, intimate relationship and that, in turn, counselling and human relations training is necessarily founded in subjective, intimate relationship.
- Staying in genuine touch with, remaining genuinely caring of and being genuinely committed to the people that we are working with.
- Recognising and bearing the heavy responsibility of our work - because we value it so highly.
- Learning, in moments of crisis, to reach out from the heart - offering and asking for help and support.
- Being ourselves, meaning what we say, saying what we mean, walking our talk.
On 9 Mar 2007, at 15:00, Denis Postle wrote:
Hello Anthony,
Yes I can let you have a Mac copy of Letting the Heart Sing - The Mind Gymnasium
Do you want me to send it to cpcab? i.e.
PO BOX 1768
Glastonbury
Somerset
BA6 8YP
United Kingdom
While the PC version is entirely problem free, due apparently to the many different states of the Mac operating system some people have had difficulties with the Mac version and we stopped distributing it. In principle it is OK in practice it might not run on your machine. So... it comes free in the first place, if it works alright then you can pay me for it, currently £20. And if not, if you have a current Mac it will probably read the PC disk anyway, I'll send copies of both.
Let me know how you want to proceed.
You (and CPCAB) might also be interested in my forthcoming book from PCCS books Regulating the Psychological Therapies - from taxonomy to taxidermy a collection of my writing about the professionalisation of counselling and psychotherapy over the last 16-17 years, available later this month.
Greetings