Networking event for Practical psychology - the Melting pot

The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System by Nick Duffell

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:41:53 +0000

Article will follow shortly....

David W. Powell and his Book My Tour in Hell

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:01:33 +0000

David W. Powell enlisted in the U.S. Marines in 1966 and spent 13 months in Vietnam. "It was 100 percent, ...

November 2006 Melting pot on Goals and Self-actualisation

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:13:13 +0000
Henry Whitfield is the host of the Melting pot. Henry spoke Goal setting and Self-actualisation.
he started the talk with 3 quotes by the renowned psychologists/therapists Maslow and Rowan:

Self-actualised people
Maslow (1987): " ...A superior awareness of their own desires" - Maslow, henry explained has 16 points to characterise the sel-actalized person.
"They ususally have some mission in life".

Rowan (2005): "I create my world, ... it makes sense to take responsibility to the limit."
"No gap between intentions and actions" ( responsibility as the opposite of blame).

This Presentations is directly relatiod to the Schema coaching. Schema is a combination of various techniques to facilitate a person towards self-actualisation. It is designed to inspire and motivate the person for action in real life.

The main tool is drawing a schema of all domains of responsibility. In his presentation Henry asked the audience to pick a real person and asked the audience to build his schema for him. It was decided on Paul McCartney.

The idea of Schema is to picture in great detail all elements of our physical-material world and non-physical - mental, spiritual world on 6 levels or shperes of influence, responsibility in which we interact with the world: Self, Intimates, Groups, Humankind, All life and the Infinite.

Self level of responsibility

Intimate level of responsibility - relationships with closest individuals - family, partner, children, subllings, sometimes even a pet etc.

Groups level of responsibility - relationships with work colleagues, membership clubs, sport teams etc.

Humankind level of responsibility - All human beings.

All life level of responsibility - nature, pets

Infinite level of responsibility - universe, planets or religion, spiritual believes.

The Second stage of the Schema work is to build a specific (work, relationship, project, finance etc.) or general (on life) schema.That involves working out the current situation and the ideal situation - where, what or how the person is now and where, what or how the personwants to be. After that the facilitator would ask for the Goals and Subgoals, about the Products they will have to acquire or produce, the policies and Modus operandi and finally about the porgrammes - the To-Do-List.

And interesting insight came after Henry was explaining about the shpheres of influence = the levels of responsibility where the self is the nucleus.

October 2006 Meltin pot - The Benefit of Using Hypnosis as adjunct to TIR

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:37:46 +0000
The presentation was fascinating because of the interesting conjuction of approaches Nicola Martin uses - TIR and Hypnosis. Nicola has made the effort to provide us with several useful references and interesting arguments. You can read the presentation summary - more detailed article will follow in one of the next posts.

September 2006 - A talk on Happiness by Marian Volkaman

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:44:36 +0100
Yesterday on the 13th September we had yet another splendid evening. This time our guest speaker was our very own Marian Volkman.

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Mindful definition of TIR and Life Stress Reduction (LSR)

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:45:48 +0100
Mindfulness, TIR and Life Stress Reduction (LSR)
in the United Kingdom

What is Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR)?
Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), in its basic form, is a mindfulness-based exposure method for enabling clients to assimilate and accommodate their past traumatic experiences. This is learnt through the practice of repetitive exercises that train the client to better focus his/her attention on mental pictures and other mental phenomena.

The broader subject of TIR-LSR (Life Stress Reduction) can be described as a systematic approach for enabling detached, non-judgmental (mindful) observation of almost any inner or outer world event, whether cognitive, emotive, physiological, behavioural or other. Tools are highly varied and adjustable in order to: maintain congruence with the client’s own experience, to maximise client engagement with the therapeutic process, and to be appropriate to the client’s mental resources. The approach also consists of various effective strategies for unblocking barriers to awareness the client was previously unable to access.

These tools are all applied within a methodology for enhancing the client's mental (or attentional) focus with in a one-to-one counselling setting. This attentional training enables the client to achieve greater equanimity* with respect to his/her mental environment.

Controlled comparative studies with other methods for resolving PTSD have demonstrated TIR and its related techniques to be consistently effective at resolving PTSD symptomatology and other effects of traumatic stress.

TIR UK is the UK's foremost training organisation for Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) and Life Stress Reduction (TIR-LSR) counselling training, running regular workshops and supervision groups for all levels of TIR training. TIR UK also provides counselling organisations with in-house training, consulting and supervision for setting up TIR counselling projects or incorporating TIR/TIR-LSR into existing counselling projects. Such counselling projects are often (but not limited to) PTSD/Trauma counselling projects.

* Equanimity is the ability to remain unperturbed by an event experienced within the framework of one's body and thoughts as a result of objective observation. This implies that unless one is aware of an actual (internal) experience, one cannot be equnimouns towards it. This defined, equanimity relies on awareness on one's thoughts and body sensations (Cayoun, 2003)

What is Soul Retrieval by Johnathan 'Spirit Bear' Brooks

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:30:00 +0100

What is Soul Retrieval?
Everything is energy, including us.
We are born with enough energy to last us through life. ...

The Way of Hypnosis: Hypnotism as a Philosophical Therapy

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:56:24 +0100
May Melting Pot
Donald Robertson is a Senior Clinician Hypnotherapist (NCH), Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP) and the Training Director of The ...

Stoicism as Philosophical Psychotherapy by Donald Robertson

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:04:07 +0100

Stoicism as Philosophical Psychotherapy

© The material in this article is copyrighted by the author, Donald Robertson.

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The Melting Pot - History

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0100
Just a year ago we launched the Melting Pot. The first monthly networking Practical Psychology event was hosted by Henry Whitfield - TIR Coordinator for UK and Advanced TIR Trainer.

Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) as a Mindfulness-based therapy

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:43:55 +0100
Equanimity is the ability to remain unperturbed by an event experienced within the framework of one’s body and thoughts as a result of objective observation. This implies that unless one is aware of an actual (internal) experience, one cannot be equanimous towards it. Thus defined, equanimity relies on awareness of one’s thoughts and body sensations (Cayoun, 2003).

Thought Field Therapy

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:30:00 +0000
February Melting Pot speaker:
Charles Stone TFTdx was our special guest speaker.
Charles Stone TFTdx is a Thought Field Therapy ...

Critical issues in understanding and Overcoming Trauma.

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:45:51 +0000
December Melting Pot speaker:
Henry Whitfield, MSc and Accredited Advanced TIR Trainer talked about critical issues in understanding and overcoming ...

Critical Incident Intervention by John Durkin

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:30:39 +0000
November Melting Pot: Our special guest was John Durkin. He is a former fire fighter and now a trauma counsellor, a Research Psychologist and a Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Trainer. John spoke about Psychological Stress and Trauma Resolution for Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services and his related research project. You can find out more about his work at: www.firestress.co.uk

BARRY FAIRBURN Adv. Fac. Metapsychology Consultant - Profile by London Leadership Centre

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:30:25 +0100
October 2005 Melting Pot: The very Special guest speaker was Barry Fairburn. Barry trained and worked at the Institute for Research in Metapsychology in California, helping to develop Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) itself. To find out more about Barry please go to: www.londonleadershipcentre.com/barry.html Presentation was on "Self Inc. - motivation and realisation of Goals". This talk was relevant to our Schema training.

Alternatives to Self Injury by Sally Ingram

Henry Whitfield & Kate Belcheva — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:31:16 +0100
Guest Speaker Sally Ingram - Presentation on Self-harm and Alternatives to self-injury. Here you can read an article on the subject by its Author Sally Ingram. They have reated an amazing video on the subject which you can order through Kate Belcheva (she will contact Sally Ingram with your request).