Canvassing for PCA holidaymakers

BAPCA is delighted to announce its
FIRST TENTED COMMUNITY GATHERING
at Green And Away in Gloucestershire

THUR 3RD AUGUST - SUN 6TH AUGUST 2006

Prices:
£105 per person (Early bird £90 if paid in full before end of April 2006)
Non-refundable deposit £25 per person
Children:
0-2 years free (provided no more than ten 0-2s on site)
2-12 years £65 (Early bird - £55)
13-16 years £85 (Early bird - £75)
N.B. Children are the responsibility of guardians, at all times, when on site.
Parking places per vehicle: £10
ALL CHEQUES PAYABLE TO 'BAPCA'

For those without their own tent, there are a limited number of G & A 'berths' in tents or yurts, at £5 per night in a tent, and £10 per person in a yurt, extra to basic price. G & A website at www.greenaway.org

NB: If you are willing to help the volunteers who run the Green & Away site as part of your experience, there are 4 free places available. Please contact Bernard (details below) as soon as possible.

Booking forms from Bernard Mooney. Via email at b.mooney1@ntlworld.com or by post at 47 Palmerston Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, IG9 5PA.

Depressing News

NATIONAL DEPRESSION WEEK
This week is National Depression Week (17 - 23rd April 2006) and is set to promote awareness about depression, a chronic and debilitating condition.

Depression Alliance http://www.depressionalliance.org quote that depression is widespread, affecting at least 1 in 5 of us at some point in our lives; tragically for some depression can lead to death.

It may be news to you that BACP commissioned a Depression Poll in March 2006 to Mintel and YouGov plc http://www.yougov.com/

Although it's not clear at this stage what sums of money exchanged hands for this quality research, the results indicate that 66 percent of British adults now experience depression. A second investigation was then carried out among a quarter of the sample group to establish if they have a condition severe enough to see their GP or a therapist.
http://www.politics.co.uk/press-releases/bacp-two-thirds-british-adults-now-experience-depression-$17096230.htm

SOURCE http://www.counselling.ltd.uk

Meetings [updated 23 January 2010]

It's been a while - much too long - since we met up. A few new 'members' got in touch in 2009 and won't know how good it used to be!

Anyway - enough of history.

I would like to offer to organise and host a meeting in Bradford City Centre - sometime in February 2010. I'd like to know:

1. Would you be interested in attending?
2. Good/bad days/dates/times?
3. Any other thoughts about meetings - frequency, format - whatever?

My personal vision is of a 3-4 hour sessions, no less frequently than bi-monthly - the first being split equally between reviewing the group/network and what we want from/can give to it, planning for the year ahead and sustainability; and time for a specific area of focus.

Since 'PCA in education settings' has been by far the most frequently mentioned topic of interest in the last year's correspondence, I'd suggest that for our first session.

If enough people attend it will undoubtedly be possible for the group to split at 'focus time' into themed and open groups, depending on levels of interest in each session's theme.

I don't want to say much more than that really. It's hard enough to get people to read and respond to the simplest of requests sometimes, so i don't want to splurge all my ideas on you in one go. Meeting up is the point of this: I hope you will share my view that it will be worth the effort.

I look forward to hearing from you.

All best wishes

Paul Colley
pcayorks@yahoo.co.uk

PCA Papers Nos.5-6

Patterson is not the only one to have had a crack at the old transference thing. Although, at the time of writing, no-one has downloaded Paper No.4, when you eventually do you will find that these two papers complement that one and expand further on this particular theme:

http://rapidshare.de/files/16817959/Brodley_-_Concerning_transference.doc
http://rapidshare.de/files/16818009/Shlien_-_A_counter-theory_of_transference.doc

To download: click on the link/s above - each should take you to the Rapidshare download page. Scroll down and select the 'Free' download option and then a page will open with the link to the actual document. Clicking on this will give you the option of either opening the document or saving it to a location of your choosing. Any problems email pcayorks@yahoo.co.uk

[PC]

PCA Papers No.4

This paper by C H (Pat) Patterson considers the issues of transference and counter-transference (not something we necessarily 'believe' in), promoting a clearer understanding of what others mean and how it all fits in with the PCA:

http://rapidshare.de/files/16734515/Patterson_-_Transference_and_countertransference.pdf

To read/view this file you will need Adobe Acrobat reader. If you do not have Acrobat Reader Download it now!

[PC]

PCA Workshops in Brighton

Saturday 20 May 2006
One-day Workshop facilitated by Colin Lago - "Peace or War? Healing or Discrimination? Forgiveness or Aggression? The Challenges of the Contemporary World to Being a Therapist"
Cost £35

Thursday 20 July 2006
One-day International Workshop facilitated by Goff Barrett-Lennard (Perth, Australia) - "Uncovering the process spectrum and a potential healing continuum"
Cost £40

Saturday 30 September 2006
One-day International Workshop facilitated by Kathy Moon (Chicago, USA) - Provisional Title: 'Congruence and the Spontaneous Response'
Cost £40

Saturday 25 November 2006
One-day Workshop facilitated by Sue Wilders - Provisional Title: 'Working with Drug and Alcohol Users in a (purely) Person-Centred Way'.
Cost £35

For further details of all above workshops, please see the new website:
http://www.brightonbapca.co.uk/index.html

To book a workshop please contact:
Peter Hunt T: 01273 732606 / phunt64@tiscali.co.uk

Full payment is required at the time of booking to secure a place for any workshop. All cheques should be made out to "Person-Centred Community". Please write on the back of the cheque which workshop(s) your payment is for and post it to: Peter Hunt, 80 Cowper Street, Hove, BN3 5BN.

[PC]

Children-related stuff

Suicidal children
More than 1,000 suicidal children rang Child Line for help last year. The figure was 14 per cent up on 2003-2004. Most were teenage girls and some had already tried to kill themselves. ChildLine is now so worried at the rising numbers it is urging the Health Department to carry out a study of suicide in the young. It also wants every school to have a staff member responsible for pupils` mental welfare.
http://digbig.com/4gydt

School calls in Samaritans
Pupils at one of Scotland's leading private schools have set up their own branch of the Samaritans to help youngsters who suffer at the hands of bullies. More than a dozen sixth formers at George Watson`s College have received counselling training from the charity, which is more commonly known for its telephone advice to adults considering suicide. Pupils at the 7,500-a-year Edinburgh school will now work with 12 to 17-year-olds whose problems may be as diverse as getting abusive text messages, being intimidated or excluded from a group, to experiencing physical violence. The counsellors will also deal with other emotional traumas, such as family bereavement.
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=433262006

From Counselling Newsletter March 2006 http://www.counselling.ltd.uk

Leeds Children & Families Resource Directory
Online (presumably up-to-date): http://www.leedschildren.info/main.html
PDF (August 2004 edition): http://digbig.com/4gxar

[PC]

PCA Papers No.3

Now I can tell that some of you are actually downloading these papers, I may respond in the form of a little flurry of stuff. Here's another one from Jerold Bozarth which deals a serious theoretical body blow to those who may have strayed from the classical PCA:

http://rapidshare.de/files/15666179/Bozarth_-_Non-directiveness_in_CCT_-_a_vexed_concept.doc

To download: click on the link above - this should take you to the Rapidshare download page. Scroll down and select the 'Free' download option and then a page will open with the link to actual document. Clicking on this will give you the option of either opening the document or saving it to a location of your choosing.
Any problems email pcayorks@yahoo.co.uk

[PC]

PCA Papers No.2

Following on from Paper No. 1, this one has a go at busting a few more major misconceptions.

http://rapidshare.de/files/15594876/Bozarth_-_The_Specificity_Myth_-_the_fallacious_premise_of_mental_health_treatment.doc

To download: click on the link above - this should take you to the Rapidshare download page. Scroll down and select the 'Free' download option and then a page will open with the link to actual document. Clicking on this will give you the option of either opening the document or saving it to a location of your choosing.
Any problems email pcayorks@yahoo.co.uk

PC

PCA Papers No.1

We promised to start posting up PCA papers and here's the first of what promises to be a highly irregular series. Keep checking the blog for new additions. If you have anything in digital format, or links to ones you think are worth letting others know about, don't be shy. Why not publish your own work too - not just stuff by the 'big guns' (how'd you think they started!?).

Anyhow, here is one of my personal favourites:

http://rapidshare.de/files/15103451/Barrett-Lennard_-_A_reply_to_questions_and_misconceptions.doc

Happy reading. Comments on the paper are welcome too, if you feel suitably inspired.

To download: click on the link above - this should take you to the Rapidshare download page. Scroll down and select the 'Free' download option and then a page will open with the link to actual document. Clicking on this will give you the option of either opening the document or saving it to a location of your choosing.
Any problems email pcayorks@yahoo.co.uk

PC