pips seminars
London
Professional development workshops for Counsellors and Psychotherapists. PIPS
offers training workshops for Psychotherapists and Counsellors in the UK. The
workshops are experiential, interactive and aimed at personal and professional
growth. Places are limited. Please have a read... I love my garden it brings me
such a sense of peace. As I was tending a particularly troubled rose bush,
regularly troubled by black spot and aphids, I thought about how much I grow
with my garden and how much of me is in it. I enjoy a sense of my own agency as
I make things happen. This is not through controlling and forcing plants to be
what they are not but expecting to get a healthy return in our relationship
accepting limitations and sometimes choosing not to continue to grow something
where I get little return or don't like what is available. This reminds me of
how I have come to view relationship that if I expect to be loved and cared for
in general this happens and if it does not then this is not solely my doing. I
can choose to end relationships which are draining and unfruitful. The rose bush
reminds me of a family member who can often cause me concern and attack me. I am
now aware of how much I can safely give that relationship, without feeling
drained or prickled. I get some returns enough to keep the rose bush with its
limitations. I am able to keep myself open to more enriching relationship such
as the honeysuckle which bounds up and offers freely this helps me tolerate the
disappointments of the rose and the Lilly of the valley, which has never
survived despite my efforts.
