213 – Using Role-Playing Games in Therapy

Counselling Tutor

Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes

Education, Courses

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Relational Depth in Counselling - Dealing with Failure In Episode 213 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Rory Lees-Oakes and Ken Kelly discuss this week's three new topics: In 'Counselling Foundations', Rory and Ken explore the relational depth. Then in 'Focus on Self', we think about failure. And finally in this week's 'Practice Matters', Rory speaks with Daniel Hand on introducing role-playing games (RPGs) in therapy. Relational Depth in Counselling [starts at 02:54 mins] Relational depth is connecting with each other in a meaningful way, not necessarily just in therapy. In this section, Rory and Ken look further into this idea of relational depth, and the key points include: It's a moment of deep relation and connection. It isn't a goal to strive towards; it's something you and your client may shift in and out of. Requires them to be the centre of your attention, fully tuning into them. Really seeing and trying to understand another human being. It can be hampered by agenda - trying to 'fix' the client and only focusing on exercising theory and skills will hinder this relational depth. Dealing with Failure [starts at 17:22 mins] Through sharing their personal experiences with the word failure, Rory and Ken discuss ways to overcome this mindset and reinforce the importance of not giving up. The key points mentioned in this section include: Thinking about your own relationship with the word failure and possibly changing what it means to you. Failure doesn't have to be viewed as something you've done wrong. Failure is simply the process of finding the right way - you will always learn from it. Don't give up, you never know how close you are to the end. Using Role-Playing Games in Therapy [starts at 28:54 mins] This week, Rory speaks with Daniel Hand about how he has introduced using role-playing games or RPGs to his counselling practice. The main points of this discussion include: Role-playing games provide an escape from the real world for the client. RPGs enable them to put things at arm's length. Allows the client to make mistakes without real-life consequences. Can help the client to practice decision making. The client can learn from their character. Utilises projection and empathy. Simply put - it's fun. Links and Resources Advanced Certificate in Counselling Supervision Basic Counselling Skills: A Student Guide Counsellor CPD Counselling Study Resource Counselling Theory in Practice: A Student Guide Counselling Tutor Shop Facebook group Website Online and Telephone Counselling: A Practitioner's Guide Online and Telephone Counselling Course

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Counseling Tutor podcast, the must listen to podcast for students of
0:07.6	counseling and psychotherapy. Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly.
0:15.6	Hi, I'm Rory, and with me as always is Ken. How are you doing, Ken?
0:20.1	I'm well, thank you, Rory. Thank you very much for
0:22.3	asking. And thank you for joining us on the counselling tutor podcast. This is episode 213, lucky for some.
0:32.5	And we're going to be covering three different topics today. And we're going to be starting off
0:36.7	with counselling foundations. And that's when we look and recognize that the foundations that we kind of build our
0:42.5	practice on are the strength of our practice. And today we're going to be speaking about relational
0:48.0	depth. So it doesn't matter what level you are, you can be in training or you can have been
0:53.5	qualified for 25 years. This is a topic
0:56.4	that will interest you. Then we're going to focus on self. That's our second area today. And in
1:02.5	focus on self, we look at you as being the heart of your practice. We as practitioners, we need to
1:08.9	look after ourselves to be able to be there for others.
1:11.6	And today we're going to be talking about failure.
1:13.4	And this can be failure as a student.
1:15.1	Maybe you have an assignment referred, but kind of what failure, even if you're a qualified
1:19.7	practitioner and you face some kind of failure in your life or feel a failure in your practice,
1:25.0	what does that look like?
1:25.9	How do we deal with that?
1:27.2	Because it does
1:27.7	come up. And then we go into practice matters where we dip our toe into the world of practice
1:32.2	and we look an element of practice or something we might see in our therapy room. And today,
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