Hi I'm Winnie2609

[winnie2609]

Hi there

I'm from Porirua, New Zealand. I stumbled onto this website in the middle of last night by following a Google inspired invitation. I was awake in the middle of the night because repeated brain storms were preventing my getting to sleep at all. These brain storms seemed to be being generated by the recent encounter with string theory and my wondering if it might make available a new way of understanding Narative Therapy and deciding there were some powerful signs that it might turn out to be very useful indeed.

Narative Therapy is something I am studying so that I can gain a MCOUNS from Waikato University. The brain storms may also have been supported by my anxiety to understand it enough so I could remember it the next morning as I liked the insights I was experiencing and I could imagine myself experiencing big disappointment if they disappeared.

I'm not sure how unique my perspective is but I thought by checking out this website I might begin to discover that.

To finish my degree I have to write a paper outlining the influences that ground my practice of counselling. This is informing my attempts to understand some aspects of string theory and relate it to both the "client directed- outlook informed or CDOI" approaches to counselling and to "new paradigms emerging in the philosophies of science as suggested by embodied cognition"

The two papers that were major influences on my wondering about the interconnectivity of these ideas were
1)A. C. (TINA) BESLEY
Foucault and the turn to narrative therapy.
British Journal of Guidance & Counselling,
Vol. 30, No. 2, 2002
Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QH, UK

and 2) Nick DRURY
The delicate scientist practitioner.
Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 27, 177-186 ISSN0814723X

I am hoping to explore the ideas of Vygotsky, L 1986 Thought and Language. I am wondering about the role of expectation in understanding early childhood learning but the book I requested hasn't turned up from the library. In particular I am interested in re-reading the ideas of Michale White and his wonderings about the many ways people may find themselves "stuck" and be interested in the experience of consulting a therapist under these circumstances. I am interested in how expectations may contribute to understandings about therapeutic change.

I am also hoping to satisfy some curiosity about the role of natural selection in creating sustainability in human populations and wondering if those ideas might resonate in a string theory sort of way. I am interested in how these ideas may contribute to possible understandings about strengthening the durability of therapeutic change.

I am wondering about a blog or a website but I think that might be a bit premature as of yet

I have deliberately kept this as short as possible for now to see if this length of introduction is sufficient. Of course it may be way too much and if that is the case I am sorry.

[Mohan.C]

It's not very long Winnie,

Infact, it is in the proper format to introduce yourself.

Welcome to ToeQuest, I'm sure you'll have an enjoyable and enthusiastic response to all your posts.

-Mohan

[Mikal]

Hi Winnie...welcome to the TOE. Your interest in Narrative Therapy is a good sign that psychology and the field of counselling is taking a favorable evolutionary turn into a more therapuetic wholistic psychology.
I am always impressed with this statement about Narrative therapy...

"Narrative therapy seeks to be a respectful, non-blaming approach to counselling and community work, which centres people as the experts in their own lives. It views problems as separate from people and assumes people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives."

I believe this statement is impressive because the past story and history of psycholgy never considered people as experts in their own lives....it rather expressed that it had everybody's answer so therapy never truly advanced to individual and personal problem solving and the right to define those latent capabilities present in everyone...

I wish you all the best in your studies and as a certified counsellor myself I will look forward to maybe some interesting discussions.....


Mikal

[winnie2609]

Thanks Mikal I appreciate your welcoming response to my introduction of myself.

[winnie2609]

I'm not sure how all this interconectivity works so can I just add a quick thankyou to Mohan for the feedback of reassurance that my introduction met the format requirements. And to add my future appreciation now to all the other welcoming responses that might be thought or written in reply too Winnie