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In the Bedroom

This is a strongly recommended film and it's being shown on BBC1 tomorrow (Tuesday 31st August) evening at 11.05. Rather than me trying to sum up what it's all about here's a link to the International Movie Database - itself something well...

Posted to Welcome to the Counselling Blog! by Mike Simmons on 08-30-2010

Mindfulness Cafe 2

With Jeremy Woodcock and David Russell on 1st October. You'll find more info on the attached flyer.

Posted to Welcome to the Counselling Blog! by Mike Simmons on 08-26-2010

Job Vacany

You'll find all the details by following the link but there's a vacancy in the staff counselling service of the Aneurin Bevan Health Board - could be worth following up. Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Job Reference: 040-PT75APR10...

Posted to Welcome to the Counselling Blog! by Mike Simmons on 08-25-2010

Placement Opportunity at Sesame

There's a placement opportunity at the Sesame Counselling Service that you might well find worth exploring. Sesame is a charitable donation based counselling service that serves the Newport community. It operates on a Tuesday evening only between...

Posted to Welcome to the Counselling Blog! by Mike Simmons on 08-24-2010

Setting Directory Permissions in VB.NET

My blog has been quiet for a very long time - I thought I'd pick it up again, and use it to share some more techie stuff. This one is about setting Windows directory permissions in VB.NET, as there are lots of questions on forums about it, but not...

Posted to Michael Webb's Blog by Michael Webb on 08-11-2010

Workshop - Essential Law for Counsellors and Psychotherapists

Counsellors and Psychotherapists cannot work ethically without an awareness of the laws that impact upon their profession, so this workshop, which takes place in Cardiff on Tuesday 21st September, may well be useful. It runs from 9.30am - 4pm at the Future...

Posted to Welcome to the Counselling Blog! by Mike Simmons on 07-01-2010

Workshop - A Mindful Approach to Stress

A workshop on how to develop the skills to better manage stress in your life. Chapter Arts Centre, Canton, Cardiff Saturday 17 July, 9.30-1.30pm £40, £30 in advance, 20% reduction for existing/previous Mindful Space students Places limited...

Posted to Welcome to the Counselling Blog! by Mike Simmons on 07-01-2010

Chance to win a £100 Amazon Voucher

Liverpool John Moores University are currently running an online survey investigating the relationship between meditation/mindfulness, eating attitudes, emotions and how we think, and are looking for peole to take part. As a thank you for your time, we...

Posted to Welcome to the Counselling Blog! by Mike Simmons on 06-29-2010

TELLS Team conference 2010 - dates proposal

Newport University's Technology Enhanced Learning and Learning Support (TELLS) team is aiming to hold it's first annual E-learning conference in 2011. The proposed title is " Techie Trekking: Using Technology to support and enhance teaching...

Posted to School of Health and Social Sciences by csyke01 on 06-28-2010

New link to TELLS website now available

Please note that the following address is now available to link to the SHSS TELLS website. http://www.newport.ac.uk/tells

Posted to School of Health and Social Sciences by csyke01 on 06-28-2010

Nexus 2010 Conference live on HSS Second Life Island

W e are very pleased to be able to announce that this year, for the first time ever, Newport University's Nexus Conference will be streaming live into Second Life as well as onto this web page. This means on Monday 14th June from 8:40 (Uk time) onwards...

Posted to School of Health and Social Sciences by csyke01 on 06-11-2010

Filed under: Second Life

Andy Thomas and Paul Andrews study published in Link25

Senior Lecturer Andy Thomas and Academic Leader Paul Andrews have had an article entitled 'Using Moodle to meet the Challenges of Assessment and Feedback for 1st Year Undergraduate Students' published in Link 25, the HEA publication. Further details...

Posted to School of Health and Social Sciences by csyke01 on 06-08-2010

What can we learn from Virtual Worlds?

What can we really learn from virtual worlds? After all, they are not, by definition, real. Virtual worlds are expressed only by a relatively limited set of rules and procedures expressed in the underlying code. While they may be, like the rules of chess...

Posted to Cupboard Notes by David J Longman on 06-06-2010

Filed under: Digital Enlightenment, Virtual Worlds, Knowledge

Child Protection Issues Workshop

C4YP Invites you to attend a 2 day workshop on Child Protection Issues in Working with Young People including suicidal and sexual issues Trainer: Isobel James Isobel is a qualified, accredited counsellor, supervisor and trainer. Among other posts she...

Posted to Welcome to the Counselling Blog! by Mike Simmons on 06-01-2010

Mindfulness Cafe Evening Series

Advance notice of an evening on Mindfulness Approaches in Therapy on July 8th. This is going to be the first in a series of evening events which will be held in an informal atmosphere where practiciotiones can gather to share their interest in mindfulness...

Posted to Welcome to the Counselling Blog! by Mike Simmons on 06-01-2010

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