Monthly Archives: June 2015

Alice Goffman: How we’re priming some kids for college — and others for prison

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

U.S. focused, and the phenomenon is a more extreme one there – but nonetheless, many of the points Alice makes apply here too, increasingly. In the UK, we imprison around 150 of our citizens for each 100,000, the vast majority … Continue reading →

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Jason Hine on feeling the pain of the world

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.facebook.com/groups/30282864810/permalink/10153124827924811/ A post of Jason’s to the Facebook page for The Work That Reconnects (Joanna Macy). The writer feels a personal resonance with this, and it is also a theme that comes up in therapy sessions/other contexts. As Rogers identified … Continue reading →

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Helen Haig-Brown interviewed by Muskrat Magazine

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://muskratmagazine.com/my-legacy-interview-with-courageous-filmmaker-helen-haig-brown/ Moving, fascinating interview with gifted film-maker Helen. MUSKRAT – as its Twitter account puts it – is an on-line indigenous arts and culture magazine that disseminates traditional knowledge in ways that inspire their reclamation. Thanks to Lori Coulson on … Continue reading →

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Peter Goblen ‘Now’

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘NOW It is only this, no draft not final manuscript survives with which to speculate, for I have burned them. No edition has a date, I distinguish no printings, number and sign no copies so what you hold, collector, Will … Continue reading →

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James Bugental on the unique, changing nature of therapeutic relationship

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘The ideal therapeutic relationship is continually evolving and changing. It is not a way of being together, which is established early in the participants’ relation and remains unchanged; instead it is constantly changing as the work progresses and as the … Continue reading →

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How to Find Your Bliss: Joseph Campbell on What It Takes to Have a Fulfilling Life by Maria Popova

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/09/find-your-bliss-joseph-campbell-power-of-myth/ Fascinating piece from Maria about Joseph Campbell, and ‘follow your bliss’:- ‘I came to this idea of bliss because in Sanskrit, which is the great spiritual language of the world, there are three terms that represent the brink, the … Continue reading →

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Thomas Merton on the Dawn Chorus

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the “point vierge”, the virgin point between darkness and light, between non-being and being. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But … Continue reading →

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Alan Watts – ‘Music and Life’

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

As You Tube tells us, a short animated clip made by Trey Parker & Matt Stone featuring a small segment of an Alan Watts lecture. This is really lovely. Thanks to Yaacov Darling Khan on Facebook for drawing our attention … Continue reading →

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James Garbarino on the connection between adult violence & childhood trauma

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Here’s a brief excerpt to give you the flavour. James Garbarino is a psychologist, a writer, and a professor at Loyola University in Chicago, who has spent years working with men convicted of violent crimes. His (experiential and evidenced) perspective … Continue reading →

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Carl Rogers on tendencies he notices in people’s movement in therapy

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘Another tendency of this sort seems evident in the client’s moving away from the compelling image of what he “ought to be”. Some individuals have absorbed so deeply from their parents the concept “I ought to be good, “or “I … Continue reading →

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