Learn about Personal Construct Psychology (PCP)and how to use it in your work with Heather Moran, educational and clinical psychologist. Heather has worked with young people and professionals in a variety of roles over the past 40 years and has developed techniques for use in therapy, counselling and coaching sessions. She is trying to bring PCP to people who might not have come across it before, as well as to support the development of those who want to hone their skills with children, youn ...
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A group of streamers shoot the sh*t about video games, culture, movies and trying to make it as content creators. The stream is hosted by Malo (tbcmalo@twich), Jesus (shadowknight421_@twitch) and Lomma (Lommaern@twitch)
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Two college students navigating romance, Greek life, and social media.
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PCP is a podcast by homies Johnny and Ricky as they discuss culture, trends and news from the perspective of 2 twenty-something year old's.
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Welcome to my podcast adventure as the VOG (Voice Of God) PCpodcast point of view as I discuss different events from my perspective. Hopefully we can all learn something and laugh together in the process people. Please Donate to support the Journey. Send ya boy $1 if you appreciate the podcast. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pcpodcast-vogpodcast/support
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Just a few guys with too much free time on their hands and a genuine interest in all things pop culture. Check out our podcasts Mondays and Wednesdays for good times with good friends.
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"The most exciting new podcast in the healthcare startup world." - Nikhil Krishnan, Digital Health and Media Analyst, prev CB Insights. DocSpace Got PCP is a new podcast where we interview real patients, real medical students, and real doctors to figure out real solutions to help make primary care cool again. DocSpace Got PCP is hosted by Dr. Mario Amaro and Neel Bhula of DocSpace. Do you got PCP?
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To most folks, this may seem an odd title but it best describes the range of topics this podcast series delivers to practicing geologists, geoscientists, or anyone with an interest in Pennsylvania’s geological environment. Produced by the Pennsylvania Council of Professional Geologists (PCPG), the series includes practical and timely topics, technical and social matters, trends and tips for the office or the field, and interesting subjects and interviews that may remind you of why you chose ...
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Podcast dos Deputados do PCP no Parlamento Europeu
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BIG NEWS! We are currently working on transitioning all of our mini-series into their own dedicated podcasts! Check back for updates. nostalgia-> SonicEmbassy.com/pci food-> SonicEmbassy.com/ff astronomy-> SonicEmbassy.com/mwm real stories-> SonicEmbassy.com/ycurtb **Voted as a Top 5 Best Local Podcast 2021 & MUSE Creative Awards PLATINUM winner for audio** Podcasts Presented by Sonic Embassy™ Get ready for a high-quality, vivid podcast experience from the award-winning producers at Sonic Em ...
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Kelly's definition of hostility applied to an event in the recent news
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n this episode we will think about Kelly’s definition of hostility applied to an aspect of the recent race riots in the UK. On the whole, as we have experiences, we make adjustments to construing, based on fresh evidence. However, there will be times when, despite all the evidence, we hang on to our current construing. Kelly’s professional or trans…
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Dr. Dina Pekkala explains the importance of constructive alternativism. Ep.50
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This episode is a paper by Dr. Dina Pekkala, a clinical psychologist. She describes some of her work with adults referred for anger, reminding us that anger is a symptom of deeper troubles and how important it is not to deal with as an inappropriate behaviour. Dina worked with many angry adults and worked with Peter Cummins (see Ep. 40, Sept. 2023)…
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Drawing the Ideal Retired Person (to prepare for the future). Ep.49
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Have you considered what lies ahead when you retired from working? Whatever you do now, one day that will happen, so it is better to be prepared for it. This month’s episode is a new technique, Drawing the Ideal Retired Person. This is an exploration of the future, aiming to promote a smoother adjustment to that phase of your life. There will also …
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Pennsylvania State Parks: Moraine and McConnell’s Mill
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Western Pennsylvania is known for many interesting geologic features, including those of glacial origins. Let’s explore the unusual features of two of Pennsylvania’s beautiful parks. Though very close to each other, Moraine State Park and McConnell’s Mill offer related oddly contrasting geologic wonders.…
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PCP offers a framework for clinical psychology practice without psychiatric labels - Dr. Kev Harding’s paper Ep.48
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This month’s episode is a reading of Dr Kev Harding’s paper Clinical psychology practice without using psychiatric labels: an alternative approach using Personal Construct Psychology is an interesting read. It invites us to consider PCP as a useful alternative framework from which to practice so that we have a “therapeutic relationship of two equal…
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Relax: Fan Sounds (atmospheres to help you relax or sleep)
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No talk. Just fans. Just relax. Immerse yourself in an hour of carefully crafted real fan sounds designed to provide the perfect backdrop for relaxation, focus, or sleep. Our expertly mixed white and brown noise fan recordings create a calming soundscape that can help you unwind, drown out distractions, and find your peace. Relax after a long day, …
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Relax: Rain (atmospheres to help you relax or sleep)
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No talking. Just nature. Just rain. Just relax. A peaceful atmosphere for sleep, meditation, relaxation, or a moment of quiet contemplation. This episode offers a sonic sanctuary where the only agenda is to embrace the calming melody of rainfall. Slide into the tranquil embrace of a spring morning with "Morning Rain," an immersive hour-long experie…
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Construing my body - a new technique to understand the impact of physical health problems. Ep.47
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This episode introduces a new technique to explore the impact of physical health problems through the exploration of personal construing. Concerns about our bodies can be persistent and may be very distressing so understanding what lies behind the distress is important if we want to help someone. The steps of the process are described here but ther…
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This month’s episode will be focussed on time. I listened to a few things on the radio about time and read some articles which were all very interesting and sparked this episode. I summarise the information from them and think about what Dorothy Rowe had to say about it and a few ideas for exploring a person’s personal constructions. References All…
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Oh the Absurdity- Subway Shooting & War maks #FAUCIJUICE deaths
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How is the National Guard in the Subway and someone still manages to get shot in the head during rush hour?? Who are they protecting if you can see someone potentially die before you have dinner is kind of absurd isn't it, lmao?? Why do I feel like all this war is a distraction from the fact that the #FAUCIJUICE is killing people. They're getting t…
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2024- What a time to be alive- Are we Getting Nuked??
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Welcome to VOG/PCPodcast or welcome back and thank you for listening. This is my 2024 rant about the state of the world as we know it. I didn't even get to touch on half of the stuff I wanted to, which means another episode might be coming soon people. Salute to the lil bro, and please share the podcast. All I can say is that I hope I'm wrong. --- …
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Explore how fiction has influenced your construing. Ep.45
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I thought it was time to invite you to have a go at something you could easily use with people you are working with. This involves eliciting constructs, identifying the more important ones and then pyramiding those constructs. You will use fantasy characters or stories that had an impact on you when you were growing up and it does not matter what s…
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Miller Mair’s The Community of Self: a creative way to explore the self. Ep.44
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This episode has an idea you can experiment with as an exploration of yourself. Miller Mair’s Community of Self is an interesting and rather playful way to take a look at yourself as a number of characters engaged in ‘producing’ you. I have taken some excepts from a paper by Mair and if you are interested, it would be worth reading the whole paper …
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Short History of the Geology of Pennsylvania
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Anyone who has done geologic work in the Keystone State might wonder how things got so complicated. Pennsylvania’s geologic history is long and complex. Join us to explore how that complexity came about.By Pennsylvania Council of Professional Geologists
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The influence of teachers’ constructions on a sense of self Ep. 43
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Happy New Year! This month I have been thinking about the way we might experience being construed by teachers. This is meaningful throughout our lives and can affect the way we construe ourselves. It was sparked by listening to the BBC Radio 4 Life Changing programme which reminded me how important that is:. The episode was from May 2023: Overheard…
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Why don’t they ever learn? Butt and Burr’s PCP explanation. Ep.42
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For this month’s episode, I am reading a chapter from a lovely book by Trevor Butt and Vivien Burr, Invitation to Personal Construct Psychology (2004). This is about the fact that we might all do things that make us unhappy, unhealthy or unfulfilled. They explain why we need to understand construing when we wonder why people continue with behaviour…
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How could choosing to serve a longer prison sentence ever make sense? Ep. 41
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This month’s episode will consider how validation is a more useful construct than reinforcement when we wonder why someone made a challenging choice. It also summarises a paper about the impact of wrongful imprisonment on a person. The paper is freely available - details below. A dilemma faced by one such prisoner is used as an example. I have been…
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Understanding anger. Peter Cummins’ PCP approach. Ep.40
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Quite a number of us will be working with adults or children and young people who are referred because they have difficulty containing their angry feelings. A PCP approach has an emphasis on understanding the person’s construing so I am using a chapter by Peter Cummins to provide a concise explanation of a PCP approach to working with anger. It is …
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Dr. Emily Strong: Using PCP to explore the Speaking and Non-Speaking Self. Ep.39
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You may be thinking about how you might use PCP in research. This episode features an interview with Dr. Emily Strong, Educational Psychologist, whose research has focussed on children who speak selectively. This is one of the tricky issues to get around, especially when we need to explore a child or young person’s views. The interview with Emily y…
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Have you wondered about whether there is a PCP construction of addiction? Butt and Burr have a useful chapter which I will read for this podcast. People are complex beings, with a tendency to make connections between experiences, and then to develop rituals and routines so they can anticipate them more efficiently. In terms of PCP, the issue is des…
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From the Earth's Core to her Magnetosphere
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We don’t normally think about the relationship between the core of the Earth and the ability of the planet to support life. But it turns out that complex life on Earth would be impossible without a spinning iron-rich core producing the magnetosphere that shields us from the deadly solar wind. Let’s take a look upward and downward and examine the ce…
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What is a construct? Butler’s neat explanation. Ep.37
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Often it can be helpful to go back to the basics of PCP theory and get a clearer understanding than you had first time around. I found a really nice explanation of a construct in Richard Butler’s book. I think he provides a good summary and I wanted to share it with you. If you already feel secure in your understanding, you might like to hear the w…
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Our mini-series Food Faves is getting its own dedicated podcast. Coming later this year. Follow it now everywhere you listen, so you're ready when we launch. Search Food Faves (FF) from Sonic Embassy. www.SonicEmbassy.com/ff --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sonicembassy/support…
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Why is it Orange outside as if an EMP went off or something. Seeing as they never really tell us the truth about anything, the whole " It came From Canada" Bullshit doesn't even sound plausible from my perspective. It's the equivalent of A Dam being blown up in Ukraine and America telling the world that they don't know who did it, while Russia and …
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The client's expectations of counselling. Ep. 36
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This episode is about exploring what the client expects from their counselling sessions. Fay Fransella and Peggy Dalton remind us how important it is to do this early in the counselling relationship and they provide a description of a first session in PCP counselling. I hope you find it useful. Reference Fransella, F., and Dalton, P. (1990). Person…
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A PCP model of post-traumatic stress. Ep.35
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Watching the news has been pretty miserable over the last year or so with so many people trying to flee awful situations. I have been thinking a lot about the people who are traumatised by experiences, and about the people who seem to recover well from similar experiences. This is unrelated to an objective assessment of the experience’s awfulness a…
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We Need More Humility- I'm scared for my life
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Send me some money people!! Welcome back and thanks for putting up with my sporadic Podcast Experiment, you are truly appreciated. On this episode of PCP/VOGpodcast, I talk about American arrogance, and how we all need a reality check so we can be more humble. We all have an inflated self-esteem and ego in this age of the internet, and that might b…
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Hoping for a peaceful China Takeover- Keep it in your pants youngin
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Send me some money!! Welcome back people, welcome back. I'm trying to be more consistent with this here podcast so you can listen to my sexy voice more often. I really do appreciate you for listening. I know what the show title says, and I'm pretty sure the subjects are in reverse order, but thats pretty much what this episode is about. I'm trying …
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It's escalating quickly so Enjoy it while you got it
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I know this show has a lot of uploads for one day, but in the life of a pothead, other things take priority because this show doesn't make me enough money yet, lol. In this episode of VOG/PCPodcast, I really don't remember wtf I was talking about due to my delayed uploading. All I know is that it seems like we're getting closer to nuclear war every…
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My putting the pieces together ramble session
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Welcome to VOGpodcast/PCPodcast, where if you are new to the show you are in for a confusing time. The problem with me getting stoned before shows, is that sometimes I ramble and jump all over the place, but theres a message/point in the show somewhere, you just have to listen closely. I swear theres something you can learn from each episode, even …
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Its all part of the plan- It's unfolding fast
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Welcome people, welcome. All I can hope is that I'm uploading these shows in the right order, but at the end of the day I really don't give a shit. This episode of PCPodcast/VOGpodcast highlights what everyone is focused on, but highlights what the bigger issue happening is while your attention is elsewhere. The Level of diabolical genius at hand h…
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If you have been a loyal listener, I truly appreciate you and your patience with me on this Podcast Journey. The problem with me doing shows and not uploading them immediately is that sometimes I forget what the hell i was even talking about on the show. If I had to take a guess, I'm giving my perspective on the state of world affairs, but honing i…
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Prostitutes and Passport Bros- Snap Back to reality
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welcome back world, welcome back. In this episode of PCPodcast/VOGpodcast, I give my perspective on the hot button topic of Passport bros, which are men who travel the world for women and sex. There's nothing new under the sun people, and sex tourism is something that has existed before we were here, and will be here after we are gone. The shit is …
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Big NEWS! Update: New Home for Pop Culture Icons!
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Aw yeah! Will be available everywhere you listen and here: bio.link/SonicEmbassy --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sonicembassy/support
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Construing your admin tasks: why are some more difficult for you? Ep. 34
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This episode explores the difficulty of getting some tasks done and refers to an exercise you can download from my website - drawingtheidealself.co.uk. The exercise follows a process for exploring your personal construing of the admin tasks you have to do. It is not specific to an age for use (even children have their tasks at school and home), nor…
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2 Banks collapsed- The math is not mathing
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Good Evening people. This world we currently live in, truth is most certainly stranger than fiction at this point. So, two banks collapsed over the weekend, but somehow the Government has enough money to make sure that money is there, but not enough to cut the American people another stimulus check huh? Somehow we have billions of dollars for Ukrai…
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Lebron or Jordan. Nukes or Artificial Intelligence
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Good Evening, Good Evening. Here's the problem with me doing these Podcasts and not uploading them immediately, I never quite remember what I said during the Podcast. This episode highlights how an Artificial Intelligence Takeover and Nuclear war are approaching, but somehow the negroes are focused on Lebron and Michael Jordan. They just nuked a to…
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Good Evening, Good Evening. Here's the problem with me doing these Podcasts and not uploading them immediately, I never quite remember what I said during the Podcast. I'm pretty sure this one highlights the BullShit story about a Pro-Ukranian group blowing up the Nordstream pipeline in an effort to hide the fact that America was probably behind it …
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This is a recurring series that takes a fun look at everyone's real first true love: FOOD! Each episode will examine a different popular culinary favorite from around the world. In this episode: Pasta. With early roots in Asia, its popularity flourished in Italy by the 14th century wait do you even care about any of that? Probably not-you just wann…
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Life - What you can’t change and what you can. Dorothy Rowe’s version of personal construing. Ep.33
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Dorothy Rowe is famous for her popular best seller on depression, Depression: The way out of your Prison. You may not know that she was fan of Personal Construct Psychology because she does not highlight this in her books. I thought I would read a chapter from her Guide to Life, a short, very readable book which is a great introduction for people w…
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Glaciers have been one of the most significant forces that have sculpted Pennsylvania in the last 50,000 years. Without the Pleistocene glaciations, the world would look very different and be a very different place to live. Let’s explore what glaciers are, how they form and why they are so important.…
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30K dead in Turkey, Is RiRi preggus though?
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I'm getting back in the groove of recording, and hopefully another pandemic won't happen to slow up the progress. Welcome to VOG/PCPodcast which exists because I want it to and because my voice sounds sexy, I appreciate you listening. This episode discusses the fact that 30K people are dead because of a "Earthquake" in a country that is standing up…
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WW3 is happening, but Lebron Fu**ing James man
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I haven't given up on you people yet, but damn it's getting close, lmao. With all the things going on in the world, and somehow the big news here in America is a basketball player braking a scoring record?? Are you Dumb? The world is this close to Nuclear Weapons being used, but somehow putting a ball in a hole is more relevant huh? This human expe…
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Welcome Back Mother Fu**er, and send me some money. Thank you for listening and finding my rants entertaining, this is my therapy. In this episode, I break down how your electronic devices, artificial intelligence and the Algorithm are your boo. At this point we are so addicted to technology that when AI takes over, we probably won't even notice it…
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Season 3 premiere! Welcome to a new mini-series. This new series is all about that time, that moment, when we heard something, saw something, or learned something, that totally changed the way we viewed it, from that day onward. Maybe you’re glad your eyes were opened. Maybe you wish you never knew, and now it’s ruined for you. In this episode: Whi…
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Welcome back Mother Fu**er, how the hell you been. Pardon me for my sporadic recording habits, but I'm trying to be someones father over here and I have things to do. Send me some money and you'll get the podcast more often. In this episode, I go over a couple of things and ponder how a majority of the population does not realize they are getting f…
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Why am I still trying this, lmao. Thank you for giving the podcast a listen and welcome back to my old listeners. Life gets in the way of things sometimes, but I recorded this show after getting sick and thinking I was gonna die. In this episode I reflect on how the Government is trying to kill us all with whatever they want to call this new shit t…
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Laddering: a really useful PCP technique. Ep.32
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This month the episode is about laddering, which came as a request from a listener. A great request because it is an extremely powerful technique so should be used with great care and full attention being paid to the person you are working with. Laddering can very quickly get to aspects of a person’s construing they may not have expressed in words,…
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Where to find further training in PCP Ep.31
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If you are enjoying learning about Personal Construct Psychology, you may be interested to take it further. This episode has information about some of the possibilities available, some paid and some for free. References Foundation courses Coventry Constructivist Centre Cathy Sparkes and Adele Pile Claire Morris Masters course Padua masters course (…
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I thought it might be useful to see how a PCP approach might be useful in exploring the menopause. I found a paper by Foster and Viney describing a group approach. They developed a model of menopause based on a personal construct account of change and informed by women’s meanings and then a brief intervention aimed at tackling the psychological imp…
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