December 2008 - Posts
and that's about it from me for this year. Have a good Christmas and a happy new year and, if you're looking for an extra card, you might want to click
here.
Again, this is one of those recipes with rather more variables than you might like. The bottom line is that it's pretty tricky to create
anything with these ingredients that doesn't taste good, so just take the quantities here as just a guide
1lb Leeks
2 oz Butter
1 Tb Flour
1 pint of stock (maybe a little more)
4 oz Stilton
Wash and finely chop the leeks. Melt the butter in a heavy pan, add the leeks, put on the lid and sweat on a low heat for about ten minutes - until the leeks are soft. Stir in the flour, and then the stock. Simmer uncovered for about ten minutes. Grate or finely crumble the Stilton and add it to the soup. Let the cheese melt - but don't boil the soup - and serve. The more you simmer the soup before adding the cheese the more intense the flavour will be - it's really just a matter of personal taste.
Mark Rivett – Stories in Therapy
You are invited to the first event in NCCR’s visiting speaker programme for this year. Mark Rivett will be speaking on “Stories in Therapy”. The seminar will be an exploration of stories as a therapeutic technique. Mark will choose to tell a story as a therapeutic intervention - a story that centres on therapy with men – and the seminar will include an experiential element.
Mark is a family therapist, programme director of family therapy at Bristol University and editor of the Journal of Family Therapy. His publications include:
- Family Therapy in Focus,
- Working with Men in Health and Social Care,
- Family therapy: 100 key ideas and techniques.
Everyone is welcome, but please contact Carl Sykes (carl.sykes@newport.ac.uk) to let him know you are coming, so we can order refreshments.
Wednesday 14th January 5pm – 6.30pm
Allt yr yn Campus - Room D7
Second Life is an immersive virtual world, accessible via the internet. You can join this world for free (though it's more fun if you're prepared to spend a little money) and you can choose who you speak to there, what you do and where you go. You can choose what you look like too, and in my case that's currently a bit scary.
Within the limits of a life lived on a computer screen it feels pretty real, and I've noticed that I behave in much the same way there as I do in real life. Because of this I'm interested in the possibilities it might offer for counsellors and counselling students. What would it be like to "see" clients there? What would it be like for CBT counsellors to "accompany" their clients in second life while they undertook some sort of homework? How could it feature in an individuals personal journal? I don't know, but I'm interested in finding out. As a school we're certainly interested in exploring these issues, and I'd be pleased to hear from anybody who either has experience of Second Life or who's thinking of giving it a try. How do you join Second Life? Just click here.
Before you dismiss all this as the ramblings of somebody who enjoys technology just a little bit too much for his own good it's maybe worth pointing out that Second Life has already proved itself of value - or very real concern - to a number of clients. Here's an article in Therapy Today that you might find worth reading.