Continuing Education Forum
cum
2012 Annual General Meeting
24th March 2012 (Saturday) 2:00p.m.-5:30p.m
Venue: Room LG106, KK Leung Building, The University of Hong Kong.
2:00 p.m. Registration
2:30 p.m. Forum on “THE WOUNDED HEALER – COUNTER-TRANSFERENCE: FRIEND OR FOE?”
In 1951, Carl Jung first used the term “wounded healer”, believing that the suffering of the soul offers one best possible form of training for a healer. Victor Frankl considers suffering as a fundamental human experience, giving meaning to life. The phenomenon of Counter-transference provides the opportunity to examine if personal wounds can be facilitative or impeding in counselling.
In counsellor training, it is often that the learning of skills and techniques is emphasized, forgetting perhaps the very fundamental condition of the use of self in therapy. Does who I am as a person affect who I am as a counsellor? The concept of “wounded healer” brings forth the vital need to attend to the counsellor as a person.
In this forum, graduates from the MSS Counselling programme will speak to their own counter-transference with clients. As Jung said, the therapist is “as much in the analysis as the patient”. Such candid self reflection will bring in a refreshing scene to counsellor training, and hopefully the awareness that the failure to manage counter-transference probably results in the counsellor retreating into the technicalities of the counselling act to cope with anxieties so aroused by the client.
4:30 p.m. Light Refreshment
5:00 p.m. 2012 Annual General Meeting for Alumni Association (AA) members
Target: Graduates & students of MSS counselling programme; related professionals
Enrollment: On-line via our AA email address (hkucounsellingalumni@yahoo.com.hk)
Free of charge for AA members/students. Please email your name, contact phone no. and year of graduation/current year of study for registration.
HK$250 for related professionals/graduates being non-AA members to attend the Forum. Please make your payment to the bank account of H.K.U. Master of Social Sciences (Counselling) Alumni Association [Hang Seng Bank A/C Number 234-157089-001] and then send your name, contact phone no., your profession and organization name together with the bank-in payment slip to our email address for registration. Cash paid on-site is also acceptable.
Language: Cantonese, supplemented by English
Enquiry: Mr. Stephen Tsang at 63369099 or via AA email address
* For graduates who are not yet AA members, please go to AA website http://counselling.sw.hku.hk/alumni.htm to access information for membership application.