Therapeutic Airwaves: Episode 4 - Telepresence A Core Condition For Therapy?

Making Waves for Online Couselling and Therapy Around The Globe

Therapeutic Airwaves is a regular fortnightly ‘live’ internet video and audio broadcast show where listeners can choose to participate either through text exchanges in a chat room or be invited to join the audio Skype group conference. This synchronous streamed videocast and podcast discussion centres on Online Counselling and Therapy. Participating audience may include interested online and face-to-face practitioners, trainers, supervisors, researchers as well as fans of psychology and therapy across the globe.
The fortnightly episode contains a discussion theme around online counselling and therapy. Participants are invited into the Skype audio discussion when they feel they would like to make a vocal contribution to the discussion. Each fortnightly broadcast will be recorded and make available as a videocast and podcast. You have a choice of just being the listening audience to the 'live' proceedings or interact with other listeners and the audio discussion panel in a chat room whilst the show is being streamed ‘live’. You too can elect to engage in an
audio discussion with the host and other participants. These levels of choice are interchangeable. You are also welcome to download the mp3 file should you wish to listen to the previous shows or go the site to view and listen to the previous videocasts.

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Autumn Schedule of 'Live' Broadcasts & Themes for Discussion

Monday, 4 February 2008

Episode 4 - Telepresence A Core Condition For Therapy?

Show Guests: Chris, John, Petrus,

In episode 4, the critical questions and challenges were being explored and discussed with regards to telepresence. Is the digital creation and duplication of stimuli by technology to engaged our five senses the only or desired extension and development of an online counselling and therapy encounter? Is this an attempt to recreate a 'face-to-face' encounter digitally? Or could we be missing the point of what actually constitute a transformative encounter in terms of current thinking and conceptions of time and space?, Is it an encounter with the 'Other' or is it an encounter with the 'Self' or are both experience the one and same thing thing? Should the virtual space be the medium which allows silence to speak and resonate? Is healing an immersion in the total awareness of the present moment rather than about presence? etc. etc, questions which we hope we may continue to explore and discuss in future broadcast.

Maybe you can join us in our discussion as I would love to hear your views and opinions. All feedback, comments, suggestions of future themes for discussion are very welcome. You can contact me at chewalex@hotmail.com or leave your comments here. You can contact ACTO, the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online at http://www.acto-uk.org/

REMEMBER
Our next live broadcast Express Yourself – Exhibitionist or Artists? - Creative Arts Therapies Online, Therapy Or Aesthetics?
is on Sunday 2^nd March 2008 at 0900 hours GMT.

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