Graham Westwell

they/them/their | person-centred experiential supervisor, therapist, educator | interests: articulating pce practice; heuristic inquiry; spiritual courage 💛

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Ten preliminary principles for PCE therapists (Westwell, 2018). Please feel free to get in touch if you want more info.

Principle one (see thread for all ten).

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PCE folks may be interested in this sessional post at Metanoia:

https://t.co/38ObQN6Z5P

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@Ajl1990_ Glad to hear that, Adam 💛

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Check out my blog post https://t.co/rp7m5hd2ho
#newblogpost

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@AlexHindley13 @LynneHutto17130 I even wore it today when teaching - working with Y2 students, exploring the quality of tenderness, the practice of 'soften often' whilst looking at Shlien's 'Declaration of Principles' 🙏

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@FrancesMcDonn12 You’re very welcome 🙏

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@LynneHutto17130 Thanks, Lynne! Glad you have found this helpful. I got my badge from @AlexHindley13 💛

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@aclientfirst Must be the new ‘resilience’ 🙄

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First stanza of ‘Knots’ by R.D. Laing:

"They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game."

Seems relevant to post on WMHD ✌️

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This cannot be learnt from any textbook; this presence has to be a heartfelt commitment of goodwill from one human in service towards the emotional suffering of another.” (Westwell, 2015: 67).​ (2/2)

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“When clients say that they feel really got, we can know that they have felt deeply understood and psychologically held within their own vulnerability. As such, experiential therapy demands the vital presence of the therapist (Greenberg & Geller, 2012). (1/2)

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https://t.co/RSZ7oIOi3k

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a tune i've not heard for a while breezed my way today ... a simple and challenging message 💛✌🙏

" Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea
Everybody is a part of everything anyway
You can have everything if you let yourself be ... "

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from Tillich (1955) 'The shaking of the foundations' 🙏

I wonder what this might say to you, your practice, and your own way of being?

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My PhD is titled:

'Grace: A Remembering of Being'

... it's a heuristic exploration of what it means to be a Person Centred Experiential practitioner ... and simply, what it means to remember who we really are, as the noise quietens ...  this quote by Tillich is very moving:

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"Grace is the reunion of life with life, the reconciliation of the self with itself. Grace is the acceptance of that which is rejected. Grace transforms fate into a meaningful destiny; it changes guilt into confidence and courage."

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@lisamajoruk Thanks, Lisa! I plan to share my findings as much as possible 🙏

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Over the last 14 years, I’ve been involved in the development of the Person Centred Experiential Psycotherapy Scale (PCEPS), and at our first ever conference (PCE 2010, Rome, Italy), it was absolutely crucial for me to articulate the following:

The PCEPS was intended to:

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You can find the PCEPS-10 here:

https://t.co/b7RHqZ1szW

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I’m writing up my PhD thesis at present and I feel it’s time for me to begin to unpack all these points in more detail and say more about what these principles mean for me and my practice.