Clients‟ experience of counselling within a narrative framework



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Beauty and the Beast ( PDFDrive )

presence of something - and if so what? 
I experienced the external pressure of creating this workshop, but I also felt the presence of my 
aloneness in this. No one else can help me, this is mine, alone. I both want to be individual 
enough, different enough to create this, but I also want what I create to be appreciated by others, 
by you. So in my desire for my own freedom to be this different, I find I am also confronted by 
my desire to be accepted, to belong. And here I note that there are two kinds, or two states of 
freedom: 
External Freedom and Internal Freedom 
External freedom can be seen as living out life as each of us chooses to do, with whatever social, 
political and religious freedoms we desire, and with a freedom from oppression. Therefore I 
create this workshop as I choose - but, I think there is a but for it needs to work for you, or it is 
useless as a workshop. 


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APPENDIX 11 
Whereas internal freedom is perhaps the freedom to think, dream, and desire all that our 
conscious and unconscious worlds wish to conjure up, again with a freedom from oppression. So 
I dream this workshop into being, but all the while I keep the pressure of the others that will be 
involved in it. Do I play safe or do I take risks - the choice is mine. But are either of these ideals 
really possible, and can internal and external freedom be separate, or are they in fact as difficult 
to separate as the colours in the rainbow?
Example 
If internally you long to achieve academically and attain a particular goal, then the appropriate 
external course and the right tutors may enable you to do this. But what if having arrived on the 
course there is an old internal voice within you that reawakens and persistently derides your 
efforts? Which voice will be the stronger, your desire to achieve, or past recriminations? In such 
a scenario the external freedom to attend the course may be ambushed by internal oppression. 
In groups 
Take a few moments to look at your own lives to see how freedom, and the lack of it have 
affected you. See if you can find instances in your life where external and internal freedom have 
worked either together or in opposition.
Now think about freedom as we did with containment, as a continuum, with freedom as liberty as 
one end, and freedom as anarchy at the other. What forms of freedom will there be along this 
continuum? What words fill this space? 
Look as last weeks words on the containment continuum. Discuss 
THE SPACE IN YOU 
Last week I gave you a sheet of questions about assumptions and containment. This week I have 
just a few questions with about freedom and containment. 
Today, as the individual, as the self you know and are conscious of, what sort of containment, 
and what sort of freedom have you experienced in your life?
What assumptions do you have and do they set you free or imprison you?
What does your assumptive world cause to happen when you are with your counsellor - does it 
affect your ability to be contained or to be set free?
Do you need containment or freedom to enable you to search in the dark?
Work on freedom continuum.


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APPENDIX 11 Conductive polarities 
3. CONDUCTIVE POLARITIES 
First of all I want us to kind of warm up. To move.
Circle game - changing places after initiating eye contact across the circle. 
Can you use eye contact as a form of “conduction” or “transmission” to get the person of your 
choice to move. 
Shut down by touch - hands behind backs as I touch. 
Discuss this experience. What was it like to start and what was it like to end? 
What was it like to make / confirm eye contact - to move? Did you want to be motivated by the 
other person? What happened when you were all making eye contact? 
CONDUCTIVE - is a way of transmitting - or having the quality or power of conducting. We 
have already glimpsed containment and freedom in the previous two sessions. I am suggesting 
that containment and freedom in the therapeutic relationship form a polarity, and that this 
polarity is conductive so ……..
WHAT IS A POLARITY? 
A polarity is the tendency to grow differently in different directions, along as axis as a tree 
towards base and apex, that is roots and branches. 
Tree - overhead
Nourishment from ground - nourishment from atmosphere, enabling growth in both directions, - 
both sunlight and the ground are essential for growth. So are containment and freedom both 
necessary for growth? With only one kind of food the tree will die. Also may die if growth is 
inhibited by severing one end of the tree from the other. But it will fight to live and it may 
succeed. Does this happen with us. If we lose our freedom do we use containment to get that 
freedom back? 
Also to grow in different directions at the same time suggests that there will be some conflict, or 
if you like a straining, or pulling like in a tug of war - there is a friction caused by the two poles 
of the polarity. But then at other times perhaps the different movements work together in order to 
achieve a particular aim - like the tree which has been felled - the stump works to start growing 
again and the roots feed it. Here it seems that the polarities can be both independent of, and 
dependent upon each other. 
Jung saw polarities as a necessary aspect of life and therapy - in that they engender movement in 
the individual towards resolution and momentary equilibrium. How many of you have said or 
thought at times that you want more balance in your life? What is this balance that we long for? 
If you watch the scales - it is quite obvious that when the scales are balanced that movement 


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stops. If movement is stopped completely nothing happens 
Either more or less weight - more or less containment and freedom must be added or taken away 
for movement to begin again. Like the tree, if one source of nourishment is lost it dies - there can 
be no more growth - no more movement. But as long as the pull of one polarity against the other 
remains in place, movement will continue. When talking about this, just in conversation, 
someone was quick to respond that a plane is balanced as it flies - and of course it is - but it only 
maintains that balance through movement.
Imagine here that all this containment has confined an individual to a compliant life, which is 
lived through and for others. What happens when this person discovers a new form of 
containment? A containment that encourages freedom. As this freedom is experienced the weight 
of containment begins to lift. Again there is conduction, a transmission between, across the two 
poles. Both are necessary - they interact. Freedom conducts containment, containment conducts 
freedom. 
Jung suggested that what we really long for are more instants of momentary equilibrium. We 
achieve these through opposition. For example if a desired goal cannot be achieved in one 
direction then it is more than likely that the individual will move in another direction. This 
removes the conflict- and - it also moves the person forward. Say for instance you don‟t manage 
to get onto the counselling course you want then if this really is still your desire, to be a 
counsellor you will find another course. Or you may do something completely different but 
either way there is progression. What was important to Jung was that movement to a new 
position had been made. Another way movement may occur is by the union of opposing forces. 
Two enemies may unite against a third who seeks to destroy them. To Jung opposition was 
good. Or to put it in more colloquial terms how often do we see two children arguing only to 
both turn together on the peacemaker who tries to interfere. 
So what do you do when you face opposition? 
How do you use containment and freedom to enable you to make progress? 
Discuss and share in groups. 
Put ideas on the board - containment - freedom continuum / polarity. 
Look at with the previous weeks continuums. 
THE RESEARCH 
So what I am looking to learn more about in this research is the movement between containment 
and freedom and if / how this movement effects growth in the client in therapy. 
Also, what polarities are there in this work, and are they part of the containment-freedom 
polarity? 
Lets look at some of these polarities first. 
separation - merged state 
beginnings - endings 
transference - counter-transference 
conscious - unconscious 
self - other 


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psychic - physical 
personal unconscious - collective unconscious 
positive transference - negative transference 
acting out - acting in 
The pilot study has given evidence that the containment - freedom polarity ( C-Fp) exists. 
Now more information is needed to broaden and define this concept. 
This will form the main study. 
So what if you decide to take part will I be asking you to do? 
Journals 
Explain - time - content - no right or wrong - no need to concentrate on containment and freedom 
in that it is there planted within you now and it will show itself almost organically just like a 
flower opening its petals. 
What will being part of this research give you? 
Further your learning about yourself 
Give you insights into your way of working 
You will be part of the progress in the counselling world 
It may give you the opportunity to discover your own rainbows 
It does not take huge amounts of time, but I will discuss this with you further if you are 
interested in taking part. 
As I said when I presented the first of these hours there is no expectation on you to take part.
I am looking for up to 15 individuals who are in therapy but if all of you wanted to take part 
then I would be delighted to have so many. 
How long - in length - in time? 
You can also start but pull out at any time.
Is there anything else that you would like to ask?
How do we proceed from here. Paper passed around for names, addresses and telephone numbers 
for those interested in taking part..


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APPENDIX 12 Table to show incidence of categories in main study journals 
Weeks /
journal entries 
Alice 
Who am I 
Turned On 
Wriggling 
Fish 
Little Girl 

Over
Desire
U-U 
U-U 
Desire 

Desire 
U-U 
Desire
U-U 
Fighting

U-U 
U-U 
Towards
U-U 
U-U 

Desire 
Desire 
Desire
Fighting
Over

Over 
Desire 
Desire
Desire
U-U 

Towards 
Towards
Towards
Desire
U-U 

Desire 
Towards
Towards
Towards
Over

Towards 
Desire
Towards
Desire
Desire

Desire 
Fighting
Towards
Desire
U-U 
10 
Towards 
Fighting
Towards
U-U 
Towards
11 
Fighting
Desire
U-U 
U-U 
12 
Over 
Desire
Over
Over 
U-U 
13 
U-U 
Desire
Desire
U-U 
Over
14 
Towards 
U-U 
U-U 
Desire 
U-U 
15 
U-U 
Over 
U-U 
Desire
Desire
16 
U-U 
Towards
Over
Desire
Desire 
17 
U-U 
Over
Desire
Towards
Towards
18 
Fighting 
Fighting
Fighting
Fighting
Fighting
19 
Fighting 
Towards
Desire
Fighting
Fighting
20 
Desire 
Towards
Towards
Fighting
Fighting
21 
U-U 
Towards
Towards
Over
Fighting
22 
U-U 
U-U 
Towards
Towards
Fighting
23 
Desire 
Towards
Fighting
Towards
Towards
24 
Desire
Fighting
Towards
Desiring
25 
Over
U-U 
26 
Fighting 
Towards
Towards
27 
Desire 
Towards
U-U 
28 
Desire 
Desire
Towards
29 
Desire 
Towards
Towards
Towards


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Alice 
Who Am I 
Turned On 
Wriggling 
Fish 
Little Girl 
30 
Towards
Towards
31 
Towards
32 
Towards
Desire
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Over
Towards
34 
Towards 
Towards
35 
Fighting
Towards
36 
Towards
Towards
37 
Fighting
38 
Fighting
39 
Desire
40 
Towards
41 
Over
42 
Towards
43 
Towards
44 
Towards
45 
46 
Desire
47 
48 
49 
Fighting
50 
51 
52 
Towards
53 
Towards
54 
55 
56 
57 
58 
Desire
Key:
U-U - uncontained-unfree Desire - desire for containment-freedom 
Towards - towards containment-freedom Over - over contained-overfree
Fighting - fighting containment-freedom Blank - no counselling and no entry


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APPENDIX 13 Example of a main study journal and analysis 
MAIN STUDY JOURNAL ANALYSIS 

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