Therapeutic Airwaves: August 2008

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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How to Participate

Autumn Schedule of 'Live' Broadcasts & Themes for Discussion

Tuesday, 5 August 2008

SCHEDULING CHANGES

Due to a last minute changes in my holiday plans, I had to reschedule some changes in the dates and order of the webcasts. Please click here or on the link above for the lastest updates.

The next webcast will be at Creative Frequency - In Conversation on the 30th August 2008 at 0900 hrs BST. The theme of the discussion will be around "symbols" in creative arts therapy. I look forward to your company and having a conversation with you.

Saturday, 2 August 2008

Episode 6 - Online security

Show Guests:
Gill J

In episode 6, we reflected on online/internet security. We considered if our current ‘over emphasis’ for ‘online security’ may reflects in many ways our need for the psychological security not dissimilar to Maslow's safety needs when we, humans yearn for the familiar, predictable and a consistent world order. We may react and engage in behaviours that does not match the level of realistic risks in our attempt to ameliorate our anxiety of a relatively unfamiliar and new environment of cyberspace which challenges us more at an emotional than a practical or pragmatic level.

This is the first of the five webcast planned for the second series. Please refer to the new schedule of future webcasts and I do hope you can join us in our future discussions as well as looking forward to your suggestions of themes in online counselling and therapy that you would like to listen to in future broadcasts. 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/

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