Category Archives: Communication
Learning Some Tricks of the Trade
Have you ever wanted to learn some tricks of the counselling trade? I find myself often intrigued by the numbers of people who want to ‘GET OVER IT’ as quickly as possible. And fair enough! Why would you want to spend months walking down a certain path when there is a quicker way to reach …
The Importance of Eyebrow Position
April / May is usually the time Aucklanders enjoy the Comedy Festival. Warming up to a performance she wants me to go to with her, my daughter showed me the following video clip! Have Fun! http://www.youtube.com/v/O6KBPGQPswQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b
Identifying Personal Responses to Conflict Situations
When it comes to dealing effectively with conflict situations, knowing about your own conflict style will come as a great help. Everybody reacts differently to conflict. Basically, how we react to conflict, what triggers conflict, and what constitutes vulnerable areas to could lead to conflict depends very much on a person’s history and his/her formative …
What Is Passive Aggressive Behaviour
Conflict situations with an angry person are characterised by noticeable contact in the form of friction or even collision. The angry person’s point of view and wants are generally obvious whether they are unrealistic or not. This is very different when dealing with passive aggressive behaviours. Like pathological anger, passive aggressiveness is caused by a …
What Is A Pathologically Angry Person?
How will you know whether you or a person close to you is a pathologically angry person? A sure sign is when you notice a pervasive behavioural pattern that can range from being negative, irritable, bitter, resentful, or having temper tantrums on one side to being hostile, aggressive, self-destructive, furious, or having regular rage attacks …
Is Your Anger Appropriate or Inappropriate?
What is appropriate anger – and is there such a thing as inappropriate anger? Anger is one of the eight basic emotions (they are joy, acceptance, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation) we observe universally in people all over the world. Anger is a valid, necessary, and appropriate human emotion. I consider anger, like …
Sexual Abuse Survivors: Parenting Model
The theme of the November Edition of the Blog Carnival "Recovery From Sexual Abuse" has the theme PARENTING. Parenting brings up a whole lot of issues caused by people's perception of having been not good enough in parenting their children. This may have been due to struggling with the legacies of sexual abuse to such …
How To Build Trust
How can you go about building trust? When you don’t trust anybody at all, it might seem like an unachievable task. I want to look at building trust from a practical, pragmatic point in the hope that it might give you some hands-one ideas how to go about it. Trust will develop in any group …
Friends Inside & Out
How about you get together with a friend – either from the inside or from the people around you and have some fun time … or cuddly time? I found these two Teddies and thought, how much fun must it be to snuggle up with a cute blanket. How about you come up with some …
Improving Internal Communication: The 6 Thinking Hats
Today I am going be a bit technical. I would like to suggest a technique developed by Edward De Bono in the 1980’s for communication with your system as you go about negotiating decisions or look for solutions to problems. De Bono thought of six metaphorical hats a person can put on or take off, …
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