059 – When Your Personal Beliefs Differ from the Client's – Eugene Gendlin's Focusing
Counselling Tutor podcast
Kenneth Kelly
4.8 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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In episode 59 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken and Rory discuss how to offer unconditional positive regard (UPR) when your client has very different personal beliefs from your own. 'Theory with Rory' looks at the work of Eugene Gendlin, who developed the approach of focusing. Finally, the presenters offer encouragement on meeting the criteria of awarding bodies for counselling qualifications.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Counseling Tutor Podcast, the must listen to podcast for students of counseling and psychotherapy. |
| 0:10.6 | Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks, and Ken Kelly. |
| 0:15.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 59 of the Counseling Tudor podcast with me, Rory Lee's Oaks. And with me as ever, my colleague on the journey of all things counselling, Mr Ken. Ken, Kelly, how are you, Ken? I am well. What a journey it is, the journey of counselling. From learning right through to being a practising counsellor, wow, what a privilege it is. And today we have a great episode. I believe it's going to be a good one. And I've |
| 0:38.8 | used the word believe there in inverted commas because we're kicking off our first topic is about |
| 0:44.5 | our beliefs. And we're going to be debating without our own personal beliefs, our frame of reference, |
| 0:49.6 | can somehow impair the counselling process or clash with the customer's frame of reference or I guess |
| 0:56.0 | the client not really customer customers now Rory then we're going to be going on to theory with Rory |
| 1:03.5 | an interesting one we're going to be looking at Eugene Gendling focusing on focusing and this is an |
| 1:09.6 | interesting one because it kind of parallels a person-centered theory. |
| 1:12.9 | Tell us a little bit more. |
| 1:14.9 | Yes. |
| 1:15.3 | Well, Eugene Gendling worked with Rogers at Wisconsin, which was Rogers' final university, really, |
| 1:22.1 | before he kind of lost interest in therapy and went off to La Jollaire to kind of explore other areas of interest. |
| 1:29.4 | But Eugene Gendling developed a spin-off of person-sensitive therapy called Focusing. |
| 1:35.2 | And I'm going to be talking a little bit about Eugene Gendling, a little bit about focusing. |
| 1:40.0 | I've got super-duper handout, as always, for people who might be studying focusing just some |
| 1:46.9 | overview of Gendling's work and unusually for a theorist he's still alive or the day this was |
| 1:52.8 | recorded he's still alive we usually talk about people who are not with us anymore but Eugene |
| 1:57.9 | Gendling is still he's still practicing away I'm looking forward to this one Rory |
| 2:02.5 | and and I think it's a useful topic because often we're called in the assignments to |
| 2:07.1 | speak about the modern developments of maybe a modality like person-centered and this is |
| 2:12.4 | definitely a contemporary development in person-centered theory so well well worth getting that handout. And of course, |
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