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    Night Shift Agendas
    Night Shift Agendas
    Night Shift Agendas
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    Night Shift Agendas

    By Ros Holland

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    As a narrative therapist, Ros uses wordplay, poetry, drama, drawing, storytelling, and playwriting as techniques to help unravel inner worlds. People feel less threatened by using these techniques rather than questions and digging in the psyche.

    Peoples stories provide rich material of which they are often unaware. This then becomes the therapy agenda. It renders evidence-based therapy techniques such as cognitive behaviour therapy more effective and is less threatening than direct questioning and drawing outalthough these too have their place in all therapy.

    They may or may not be aware of the problems their inner story has caused them, is causing them, as their story/ies remain buried deep. Playing with Words or Wordplay helps their story to emerge and live.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateSep 16, 2013
    ISBN9781491876107
    Night Shift Agendas
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    Ros Holland

    Ros Holland had a career in education, including working as a special needs teacher, before becoming a lecturer and researcher in education and health education at Southampton University. She was the UK coordinator for the Europe Against Cancer Programme while at Southampton University. Ros, retired, now runs her own counselling and psychotherapy practice in Salisbury; writing, though, is her life (visit www.focuswriting.co.uk ). Poetry has long been a hobby for her, which Ros refers to as “playing with words” or “wordplay.” Ros uses narrative therapy with children and adults in her work with clients. Narrative Therapy (Martin Payne and colleagues, 2006), and others, encourages people—those who seek help—to explore through language, writing, drama, and the arts in general their inner narratives and inner world. It encourages therapists to use this material to help them heal, grow, and achieve, as well as integrate the past with the present, encouraging personal growth and success (a technique also use in personal-professional coaching as well as sports coaching). Ros uses and explores this writing technique in her personal memoir, The Black Pencil Woman: A Portrait of My Mother, Ros Holland (Book Guild, 2012). Her first poetry workshop, on National Poetry Day, will be held at Newcastle City Library and is entitled “Playing with Words.” As Philip Larkin said, “Prose is about other people; poetry about the self.” Ros was the UK coordinator for the Europe Against Cancer Programme while at Southampton University as a lecturer and researcher. She had two international research scholarships to Holland and Australia, developing research techniques for evidence-based health interventions.

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      Night Shift Agendas - Ros Holland

      © 2013 by Ros Holland. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 09/12/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-7609-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-7610-7 (e)

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgements and Dedication

      A Woman at a Window 1959

      Buying a Pipe

      Metamorphosis

      New Life: memories on the birth of a grandson

      Bai des Trépasses

      Blackpool Tower Circus: 1957

      Breakfast in Hamburg

      Old farmhouse in Lanviscar

      Renne McIntosh Butterfly

      The Sun Going Down on Highway 1: Northern Territory: Australia

      Emily’s Books

      Sea Food

      My Voice

      Mud Sticks: A Cavalry Horse and Groom in Flanders: 1915

      Flirting in Cyber-Space

      Seconds in Time: in New York

      Chapter House Entrance: Winchester Cathedral: 2002

      The Other Woman (2001)

      Watching in Wooton Bassett (2010)

      A Man and his Lass

      Free Cosmic Breakfast Flight:

      Mushroom Woman Scavenging to Live: Hamburg

      Pyromania

      Flirting

      Reminders of Lake Garda

      Soul Food

      All Hallows Eve in Plouhinec: Brittany: France

      Sailing on Wansee Lake: Germany

      Photograph

      On the Race Course

      Whisky Bottle

      Guessing Game

      Envy

      Third Wife

      Owl-like Professor

      The Card Game

      Truly Freedom

      Completeness

      King of the Castle:

      Perception

      If Only

      Depths of loneliness in widow-hood

      Explanation!

      Military Hospital for Invalided Soldiers

      Today

      Misunderstanding

      Watergate Bay

      Insensitivity

      The day you thought I’d gone too

      Reptilian Deceit

      Can you not see her?

      Acknowledgements and Dedication

      Dedication:

      This book is dedicated to poet and tutor Carrie Etter: Bath Spa University: with thanks for her encouragement, tough tutoring and patience over the years.

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