Up to this point, my sharing on this page of my website have been in the form of poems and these I will continue to write and share with you. However, in light of the New Year starting I thought I would also start writing a blog to share some of my insights and observations of the therapeutic process and in particular the counselling I offer, which is based on a Person-Centred approach. I shall also refer to Mindfulness and Focusing, which are also very much related to the counselling I offer.
Blog No. One – The Actualising Tendency
Person-Centred Counselling was developed in the 1950s by Carl Rogers under the Humanistic school of Psychology. When I studied psychology many years ago, the Humanistic school really resonated with me because of it’s underpinning philosophy in the innate potential in everyone (including me) to have the capacity to grow and aspire to their full potential. This innate potential, emanant writers of the day believed resided in all organisms. In this regard Rogers stated that if Potatoes were put in a dark cellar they would move towards the light. This, I’m sure you will have observed in nature in your everyday life. This is what is called the Actualising Tendency.
I wrote the following poem that says something about this for me:
Winter sky
Winter sky blue, draw me near.
Hold me in your loving arms,
so that I may know how to love.
And when that time comes let me be.
Your quiet, unspoken beauty,
where birds fly in timeless flight,
and the sun shines selflessly giving,
show me how to fully receive of myself.
In my next blog, I shall talk more about the Actualising Tendency in terms of what helps and hinders it……….
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