Frontiers Friday #11: Five Tips for Your Development
Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development
Frontiers Friday #11 Dispatch
From the Frontier's Archives: The Music of Psychotherapy: Learning in a Wicked Environment
Web-Read: The Lesson to Unlearn
I've been obsessed about the way we learn (thus a course called Deep Learner).
This essay by Paul Graham, cofounder of a seed capital firm Y Combinator, really struck a chord, especially growing up in a country like Singapore that highly emphasises performance.
"The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn't something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades."
Interview: The Good Ancestor with Roman Krznaric, Kate Raworth, and Brian Eno.
Three of my favorite people from diverse fields (I had no idea that Krznaric and Raworth were partners).
I loved Krznaric previous book Empathy, Raworth's TED talk and book on the Donut Economics, and Eno's music and writings. So, I'm really pleased to stumble upon this interview.
Because of this, I'm now reading the book, The Good Ancestor by Roman Krznaric. I will be pointing to this book in future Frontiers Friday.
The implications about how we help people: How do we think beyond what Eno calls the "short now" and into the "long now"? How do we step out of chronological time and into deep time and in turn, help clients see that too?
Therapy Videos: The Next Generation of Three Approaches to Psychotherapy
Last week, I mentioned about the background story to the Gloria Tapes.
Most practitioners don't know that there's actually a modern version of The Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, featuring Les Greenberg (Emotion-Focused Therapy), Nancy McWilliams (Psychodynamic) and Judith Beck (CBT) working with a male and female client.
The videos are pricey though... If you are affiliated to a university, check the library for copies of this or get them to order it!
What was really striking watch these videos was that you don't see much difference in the in-session work between Greenberg and McWilliams, even though the post-mortem was languaged with different lens. If you watch the videos, tell me what you think of Judith Beck's way of working.
Words Worth Wondering:
"Presence is about being neither invasive or evasive."
~ Parker Palmer.
Footnotes:
[1] I spent the last 5 days in Denmark—virtually that is. The first 4 was training clinical supervisors, and today, a workshop about using deliberate practice.
The last few days have been deeply moving as I hear clinicians/supervisors give voice to the unspokens, combined with their deep willingness to grow.
I'm edified by our conversations. I stand in awe and admiration.
I wanna thank Bruno Vinther for setting this up, co-facilitating and bouncing ideas on the fly.
[2] At risk of more typos than usual in this issue. Please excuse the blunders.