Yesterday I wrote a post "Meeting at relational depth: what intrigued me most".  I described how, in this one day workshop, I paired up with someone I'd never met before and acted as client in a 20 minute role-played counselling session.  Every minute we independently estimated how deeply we felt connected (on a 0-10 scale).  When we looked at our estimates at the end of the session, they almost exactly matched.  I felt as connected to my "counsellor" as she did to me, even though she had said only a few words.  What's going on?

This post describes the "Needs, beliefs & behaviours" diagrams, best viewable on screen in PDF format (slides 1 & 2 and slides 3 & 4), but also downloadable in Powerpoint format (slides 1 & 2 and slides 3 & 4).  The post below is downloadable as a Word format handout. 

I wrote yesterday about a horrid feeling of my heart "drying out" and closing.  Although it seemed hard to do without possibly upsetting other people badly, I was very clear that I would share what was going on in me.  These kinds of groups need honesty to flourish - otherwise we'd be squeezed out of the group room by all the elephants of unspoken feeling that would accumulate in the corners!  When it came to the start of the full morning group at 10.30am I was already feeling lighter and freer, my heart more liquid again.  Plunging under and then climbing the mill stream waterfall, greeting, speaking, having breakfast.  Meeting in the small foursome morning support group we've set up for the start of each day.  All this had led me to feel easier and also gave me the opportunity to share that I was distressed and wanted time to work on it.

This is the 7^th blog post in a series reviewing the recent Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network's (SIGN) draft guideline for "Non-pharmacological management of depression&quot