Counselling and Creativity : An Approach to Individuation: Events and News 2010

Friday, January 08, 2010

Events and News 2010

POETRY, SPOKEN WORD, CREATIVE WRITING AND MUSIC EVENTS 2010

If creative writing or spoken word is something that interests you its one of my passions as well. These days its a modern art form that all ages are interested in and there are opportunties in and around London that anyone can get involved in. Its exciting, exhilarating and fun. You can find events and news of interest here. Some events are FREE, but check in advance for entry fees on favourite links below.

The Freeword
http://www.freewordonline.com/events/

The Poejazzi Tonic
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/the-poejazzi-tonic-50443

Jamoke Fashola
The Jazz Verse JukeBox
Dates: 17th January, 14th February and 14th March 2010 at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club, 47 Frith St, Soho, London, W1D 4HT
http://www.jumokefashola.com/Jumokefashola.com/Video.html

Louise Golbey
Shows
http://www.louisegolbey.com/

News: Poetry and Psychology

Poetry
Farrago London Poetry Slam
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article6957668.ece

Psychology
Adam Phillips - Psychotherapist and Essayist - Article in the Guardian
His ITV's South Bank Show appearance is on 27 February
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/feb/13/booksonhealth.lifeandhealth

The Guardian
Monthly poetry workshops
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/21/tony-williams-poetry-workshop

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Dear Readers,

You may be wondering when am I going to finish editing my book, I have been talking about. The thing is, it’s such a precious autobiography account of a story I want to share as interesting, educational and practical for lovers of poetry and psychology, it's been quite a special project of creating a kind of a fusion of the two disciplines in a creative way. I had parked the project temporarily to finish my Continuing Professional Development for 2010 and having achieved this, I will now resume my passion for writing. I hope now to be placing the manuscript safetly in the hands of someone who can tell me not just "it's a facinating read..." but will also direct me to a publisher, even though I have not ruled out self-publishing! I guess this takes us onto how my reading went on Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 1905? Fascinating to say the least and I dare say, postulations probably amounting to the impossible to those in the 18th Century who thought it preposterous that a child could ever have a sex life. It seems though,this was the very investigation that Freud started to uncover from both the light and dark side, which may have later influenced him to change some of his theories, maybe to avoid fierce debate and/or being unpopular, who really knows (Freud 1905). Nevertheless, his neurological and later psychotherapy approaches to discovery does seem to lend itself to a linear explanation to how innocent and precious child development is and how much it needs to be preserved for normal and social development. I guess when he talks of “repression”, that is, burying unwanted thoughts or feelings, he does have a point about humans doing this as a coping mechanism when confronted with unpleasant earlier memories.

Moving on to the next point, now will I get to read his full psychological works in 2011! That’s the challenge. However, I have set myself and even more challenging goal for 2011, that of reviewing at a more researched level, Carl G. Jung, probably Freud's earliest contemporary. I am excited already knowing that Carl saw the unconscious as a repository of unpleasantness too and also one for “positivity”. Maybe that’s how we know that all learnings are unconscious. Thank goodness we have the power to change or dispose of unpleasantness by responding differently to problems. A modern practical application, in this recession I would say, is it’s time to be resilient about our pasts and maintain this consistency for our futures, by empowering ourselves now to deal artfully with problems, because we know there will always be a new one, don’t we.

Ladies and gentlemen,

As you think about going into the New Year, you can let go of all the unpleasantness that you may be holding on to, because it’s not worth the energy is it. Yes, time is precious and so are you and you are so much more precious than problems aren’t you. So as you focus here on yourself and what you want to achieve in 2011, it feels good doesn’t it to know that you can fill your unconscious with “positivity”, good learnings, thoughts and feelings to take you through probably another tough year. And you will get through it won’t you, and you will remember that there will always be another problem that you can blow away. So now you will concentrate on becoming skillful, confident and ready to take the challenge to remain mentally strong for yourself and your loved ones for the next 365 days and beyond. Good. Now that you are ready, take a deep breath in and then out and and as you blow out, blow all those old problems out into the universe and enjoy your life. 123,WIDE AWAKE, WIDE AWAKE ... I do have a pet bird I need to chat to now, whilst all the fireworks are going off... (c) Jennifer Hooper 2010. 31.12.10 at midnight.

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