The BC Colleges & Institutes Counsellors’ Association
(soon to be the British Columbia Post-Secondary
Counsellors’ Association) Newsletter
Spring into Summer!
2006
Produced by: The Counselling Department of Thompson Rivers University
BC COLLEGES & INSTITUTES COUNSELLORS’ ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER
“Spring into Summer”
Message from the President
Well, it’s summertime and I trust that many of you are anticipating, if not currently
experiencing, that needed and deserved recreation and relaxation time. It was a very busy
year, stressful as usual but often very positive – “dynamic” might be the glass-half-full adjective
that best describes it. Some highlights:
CICA/PSCA Identity Confusion: As you know, at our 2005 AGM, we voted to change our
name to the B.C. Post-Secondary Counsellors Association and to invite the participation of our
university counselling colleagues. What we didn’t realize at the time was that there were quite
a few bureaucratic hoops we needed to jump through in order to make our new identity official.
These involved, primarily, filing in Victoria a number of Constitution and Bylaw changes we’d
made over the years. So, we’ve been jumping! I’m pleased to report that the process is nearly
complete. Particular thanks to Mary Ann Mochizuki for all her help.
Regional Events Going Strong: This is our second year of organizing professional
development workshops, open to both members and non-members, in different regions of the
province. I was very pleased to be able to attend the two workshops offered at VCC in May
(Energy tools for Counsellors, Self Relations Therapy) and look forward to hearing from others
about the June 9 Island workshop (Somatic Experiencing) and the June 15 Okanagan
workshop (Sexual Orientation Issues in Counselling). Apart from their considerable
professional value, these events are really helping to put CICA/PSCA “on the map” and to
attract new members. Our membership numbers are currently higher than ever before in the
history of the association. Thanks once again to all the workshop organizers – Linda Duarte
and Alan Clarkson (Lower Mainland), Michelle Daoust and Chris Balmer (Island), Glendon
Wiebe and Derrick Doige (Okanagan).
Northern Lights College: About six weeks ago, some shocking and disheartening news
emerged out of the north – the Administration and Board of NLC has decided to close down its
counselling department and has sent lay-off notices to all its counsellors. A letter from me on
behalf of our Board, expressing our deep concern over this short-sighted move, will be going
out to NLC shortly. Our hearts go out to our friends and colleagues at NLC as they deal with
the stress and uncertainty brought about by this decision, as well as to NLC students, who are
losing a professional service which supports their academic success and which is available to
the vast majority of public post-secondary students across North America. I don’t know
whether the NLC administrators will provide us with more information or a rationale, but I’ll
share anything else I may learn over Counsnet.
Conference ’06: As a member of the Conference Planning Committee, I’m excited to report
that organization is well underway for a wonderful Fall conference here in Vancouver. We will,
naturally, be sending out the major info/promo document in August/September. In the
meantime, book into your calendars a commitment to join us at the lovely Granville Island
Hotel, October 23-25. We’re looking at a fairly clinical focus for this year’s workshops – Anxiety
Disorders, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Early Psychosis Intervention. We’re also working on
a reception and tour at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, just down the road from the
hotel, and are starting to plan the entertainment/fun component, always important at our
conferences! Lots more detail to come, but reserve those dates. Your conference consortium
is made up of Judy Bushnell (BCIT), Ron Kee (VCC), Susan Morris and Tracey Sutton
(Kwantlen), Amy Kheong (Emily Carr) and Sue Wallster and myself (Capilano).
All the best for a wonderful and reinvigorating summer!
Daniel Frankel
Greetings from TRU – Thompson Rivers University – Canada’s newest University.
Wow! We are experiencing lots of changes happening both at the institution level and in this
department. As you know, we became a “free-standing” university and have “absorbed” Open
University. The staff from Open University’s Burnaby site are beginning to move to Kamloops
and the full operation under the name TRU-ON-LINE (TRU-OU Division) will take place when
the new building is completed (probably April ’07). Unfortunately OU did not have counsellors,
so we will not be getting any additional support to bolster our ranks. Our new Faculty
Association contract has been settled with a radical change to ‘the university model’ of rank,
tenure and promotion, service and scholarship. This has implications for us counsellors as we
are Instructional Support faculty.
Within the department, there has been significant change to our counselling team. Val McHarg
and Jim Collingridge (a charter member of CICA) have retired and Sharon Munk and Cliff
Robinson have been hired as fulltime ongoing members of the department who, in additional to
our on-going support to students, will focus particular attention on our Aboriginal and residence
students, respectively. In addition, I have retired as Chair of the department (and been
accepted to undertake doctoral studies) and Doug Knowles is now the Department Chair.
Because he is a teaching faculty member of the Counselling Department, some significant
adjustments will need to be made. If that is not enough, our division is being re-aligned and we
expect to have a new reporting structure in place by September, 2006. This fall, we also
expect that our new residence, a 580 bed seven story ‘skyscraper’, with the best view in
Kamloops will be operational and, no doubt, this will have its own set of challenges as well as
opportunities for our department.
Best wishes for a restful & rejuvenating summer to all,
David Lidster
Greetings from CAPILANO COLLEGE
Well, I know it’s summer when I’m going through a novel a week, without guilt or
stress, like I used to do all the time back before I became (over)invested in my
professional life.
I can’t say we’ve been developing a lot in the way of new initiatives and programs recently at
Cap. Individually and as a department, we wear many, many hats at the college and a lot of
our energy goes into maintaining and developing the roles that we as counsellors, or our
clients, or instructors, or the college see as priorities. It’s never really “business as usual”
because we’re constantly either shifting our energies to respond to the various emergent
needs or crises that crop up or we’re trying to “tweak” something we already do to increase its
effectiveness. As I suspect is true for most of you, we’re always trying to balance responding to
a wide variety of increasingly complex, sometimes acute, student mental health issues with
maintaining our visibility and connection with the entire college community. So we continue to
teach, in conjunction with our Learning Specialist, a full-semester College Success Strategies
course, continue to offer a variety of noon- hour workshops for students, continue to get
ourselves invited to as many divisional meetings and program orientation sessions as possible.
For the past couple of years, we’ve also set up a “Help Desk” in the cafeteria during the first
three days of the term to welcome students in an informal, no-pressure environment and to
answer many small, practical questions. Helpful for students, and it never hurts to have
instructors and administrators passing by and noticing we’re out there.
Susan Mitchell has been on an Educational Leave since January, completing an intense,
challenging and exciting training program on caring for the dying and the bereaved. The
program is offered through the Naropa Institute in Colorado. Susan will be experimenting with
some ways of integrating the perspective and skills she has gained when she returns next
term.
Some other shifts in our department include a change in Coordinators. Our huge thanks to Sue
Wallster, who has been our fearless leader for the last two years. Karen Peardon takes over
the reins in August and we look forward to working with her and showing her the ropes. Karen
will continue to function as International Student counsellor but will turn over coordination of
our Peer Support Centre, a task she has fulfilled for several years, to Keith Lam. Finally, we’ll
be happy to welcome back Sukhi Sohi, who has been on maternity leave for three years and
who returns part-time in September.
Our best wishes to all for a warm, relaxing, re-energizing summer.
Susan, Keith, Yvonne, Karen, Sue, Maggie and Daniel
Okanagan College, PSCA 2006 Summer Newsletter Submission
By Derrick Doige
I know summer is coming when I’m able to watch hockey almost
every night for two months and the only channel I have is CBC
(no cable).
Over the past year, Okanagan College has undergone a strategic planning process referred
to as “Designing our Future”. Recently, OC released a document (see
http://www.okanagan.bc.ca/Page12165.aspx) outlining our mission, vision values, and key
directions. Here’s a brief summary of our values and key directions.
Our Values: Student success (is our first priority), learning centred, ethical behaviour, respect
for each other, equity and accessibility, respect for Aboriginal culture, tradition and individuals,
access to education and responsibility and accountability.
Our Key Directions: Learning organization, student success, employee development, four
regions of equal value, quality in teaching and learning, promoting and recruiting, facilities,
aboriginal communities, and cultural and social diversity.
Still too early to tell how this exercise will translate into the real world of FTEs, professional
development funding and program initiatives, but I’m cautiously optimistic that our college is on
the right track.
Have a great summer and we’ll see you in October at the conference.
NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE FRASER VALLEY
Hi everyone,
I know summer is coming when I'm very very tired. Part of it is end of year
depletion, but part of it is staying up too late puttering in the garden
because it's so light.
It has been great not to have the added stress of being department head anymore. This is now
in the capable hands of Najmi, and I am grateful.
Even though we have been in somewhat of a holding pattern this year, it has been intense and
bookings have been heavy. Even this summer semester, our calendars are full. We are hiring
an auxiliary for next year to help with the load. I am so looking forward to summer vacation. I'm
going to hike, garden, visit, swim, and read (notice the descending order of activities).
Book Suggestion: A couple of years ago I read, and now lend out to students David Richo's
excellent short book called simply "How to be an Adult". People who are interested in
personal growth and boundary work will benefit from it. When I heard that he had a new book,
"How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving" by David Richo,
Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D. I bought it for the summer reading list. I'm looking forward to it. In
this book he shows how to use the practice of mindfulness in relationships. Richo suggests a
parallel between meditation and relationships and identifies five positive attributes to make
them work--attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing.
Elli
After reading Amy Kheong’s experience with using hypnosis with students at Emily Carr, I
decided to act on a long time interest of mine to learn how to use hypnosis with clients. So I
asked Amy where to get training. Thanks to her direction and encouragement, I recently
completed an Introductory Workshop which provided clinical training in both the theory and
application of hypnosis in the clinical practice of counselling and medicine. It was fantastic:
group instruction and lots of individual supervision. Like Amy, I have noticed that this technique
gives students ways to access parts of themselves which are different than when I use the
typical counselling techniques taught in graduate programs in Canadian universities. It gives
me more options to use when working with students. I plan to primarily use it with students
who are experiencing generalized anxiety, test anxiety, and recall of material they have
studied. We know that excessive anxiety lowers intellectual efficiency and may impair
performance. By teaching students how to do self-hypnosis, they receive a helpful selfmanagement tool. So far, students have responded very well to hypnosis and I’ m excited
about using this technique.
I took my training through the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (Alberta Division). The
goal of the workshop was to provide the training so attendees could begin to utilize hypnosis in
their clinical practice the day after the workshop. After completing the workshop, I was able to
do this. I highly recommend this training to any counsellor who would like to learn more about
hypnosis. It is offered every spring in Banff and in the fall. For more information you can do
a search with Google on Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis Alberta Division.
Eileen
Recently, I have been interested in finding career development strategies and tools for mature
career clients to assist them to cope successfully with midcareer transitions. Thus as part of
the requirements for a Masters in Continuing Education at the University of Calgary, I
conducted a literature search on career development theories for the new economy. A
valuable source that I came across was a book by D.T. Hall (1996) titled The career is deadlong live the career: A relational approach.
According to Hall the keys to midcareer success are identity and adaptability. If a person has
the ability to self-reflect, to continue assessing and learning about her-or himself, and to
change behaviour and attitudes, the chances are much greater of making a successful
midcareer transition. Adaptability means to develop new competencies as the business
environment changes, the ability to learn new skills quickly and to know what and when to
learn. Thus continuous learning that enhances “learn-how”, to learn how to learn will not simply
be needed for people to get ahead in their careers; it will be essential to having one.
According to Hall, the primary resources for career development are work challenges and
relationships with other people. Thus, in the new career, notions of caregiving, mentoring,
caring and respect, connection, and colearning (that is, learning through relationships with
others), especially colearning with others whom one regards as different, provide the clues to
growth and success.
I am planning to develop career development modules on self-assessment and identity
exploration, continuous and relational learning, and coping with change that can help clients to
adapt and thrive through midcareer transitions. If anyone is interested in this topic, I would
welcome sharing resources and engaging in more discussion.
Najmi
And that’s about it from UCFV,
All the best to you from all of us,
Elli Tamarin
Eileen Burkholder
Mark Hoffmann
Najmi Alibhai
SPRING INTO SUMMER
Vancouver Community College
The counseling and advising department at VCC has been renovated. We had a grand
opening of our new digs with the big wigs May 10, 2006 since we actually have been open for
business for a few months.
As you are aware VCC recently hosted the PSCA Regional Conference. The day was a
success in that it was well attended with close to 40 members and of course given that it was
Allan Clarkson and I organizing it…it went off without a hitch (except for the moments that the
room was too hot and then too cold or the clanging of Asian dishes).
We would do it all over again in a heartbeat but maybe not in the next little while.
The speakers are close and dear to my heart…I have learned a great deal and they were able
to share and create some experiential learning opportunities in the time frame that they had.
Don Ley did an energy workshop that provided grounding and separation techniques. Dr.
Harvey Plouffe shared Self-Relations theory and technique. He provided exercises as well as
a demonstration with a live client.
2006 Professional Development Updates
by Kate J. Gates
I was very fortunate to attend a conference at UCLA in March 2006 called The Embodied
Mind: Integration of the Body, Brain and Mind in Clinical Practice. It was a cutting edge
conference on the latest research in the mind - body connection as presented by tremendous
leading experts and researchers in the areas of trauma and attachment such as: Bessel Van
der Kolk, Daniel J. Siegel, Stephen Porges, Edward Tronick, Allan Schore, Ruth Lanius, Pat
Ogden, Robert Nerborsky, Onno Van der Hart, Diana Fosha, Alexandra Harrison and Marjorie
Rand.
I found the presentations illuminating in that the research clearly supports somatic therapies,
music therapy and other forms of expressive therapy (even yoga) as significantly helpful to the
clients healing process. Also, that body work can, in fact, deepen experience and access one’s
unavailable material that otherwise would not be worked with in the context of talk therapy
alone. Cognitive therapy may not be able to access the part of the brain in the client that holds
the trauma.
The most helpful part for me was to see videotape sessions by leading experts demonstrating
masterful work with clients in accessing the body to deepen the client’s emotional experience.
It brought home to me how essential it is for a therapist to have skills and sensitivity towards
work with the body (paying attention to body signals) and mind while in session with clients,
particularly in the case of trauma.
I have been practicing yoga and mindfulness for 6 years now and also assisting clients to work
with mindfulness. I found it really exciting that current neuroscientific research is supporting
that the brain actually changes and improves due to mindfulness and body work.
Couples Therapy with Heart & Mind March 24/2006: An overview of Emotionally Focused
Therapy & Gottman's work utilized together. I really enjoyed this day and the instructor gave us a
100 page couples tool kit full of exercises to use with clients. I find that Gottman & Emotionally
Focused Therapy together provide a very comprehensive and balanced approach to highly effective
couples work.
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy: One day course at Antioch University in Seattle. I
find MBCT very helpful for working with clients and I would like to continue to do more training
in this area. I really appreciate the way the therapy combines work on emotion, thoughts and
body together.
The client focuses on sensations and observations only, practicing living from moment to
moment without judgment and just noticing (become curious about) thoughts and emotions,
not attaching to them as facts. This keeps the client from distorting thoughts and decreases
ruminations. Research conducted by Teasdale (2004) shows a significant decrease in relapse
in clients with anxiety/depression who were utilizing MBCT as compared with usual treatment
method.
Sensorimotor training through Pat Ogden & Kekuni Minton
The Sensorimotor Institute offers training for levels one, two, and three each level takes a half
year to complete & tuition is approx. $3,000- per level. The Website is:
www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org
So far, I have taken 4 days of Sensorimotor Therapy level I with Kekuni Minton who is very
skilled at working with the body and trauma issues. I would highly recommend taking a course
or training through him as well as Pat Ogden. I will attend a couple more sessions of
Sensorimotor training with Pat Ogden in LA in July and Sept. of 2006.
Up coming workshops: (contact these counselors directly for more info):

Dan Zhang: Brain Development and Learning at UBC August 19-22nd and
Interweaving Science, Wisdom and Compassion the 4th International
Multidisciplinary Conference on Spirituality and Health through UBC
Interprofessional Continuing Education November 9-11th
I know summer’s coming when it feels that sun and beach are calling.
I know summer’s coming when it is too hot too cook
Hello from Malaspina.
A quieter month of May has allowed the group of Nanaimo counsellors to
get together and begin to plan for the future year. We will continue
with the Film and Forum and look forward to some other new
initiatives...still in the "thinking" stage. Once again we are seeking
external supervision and we are connecting with a Professor from UVIC
who will hopefully become an important addition to our department for
the next academic year. The common interest of the group, mindfulness
approaches and paradigms that move beyond Western-Eurocentric
approaches, led us to seek someone with expertise in Transpersonal
approaches.
On a personal note, I enjoyed a four day intense training workshop on
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, the first of four, four-day long study
periods I will be attending in Vancouver over the next year. The
training is based on the work of Pat Ogden, Peter Levine, Kekuni Minton,
Ron Kurtz as well as many others. If you would like more information
for your personal interest, check out the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Institute website. http://sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/index.html
<http://sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/index.html>
Michelle Daoust
"I know summer's coming when I pull out the kayak charts and plan a
Long
sunny getaway".
Happy summer to all, Michelle from the College of New Caledonia, Prince George
Campus
As spring green paints the way for the changes that herald summer, the Counselling and
Advising Department of CNC is also engaged in a transformation of sorts. There is a move
afoot to reorganize CNC’s Student Services in order to facilitate “one stop shopping” for
students accessing services.
Part of the change we anticipate by the start of the Fall 2006 term is the Student Employment
Centre moving back into the Counselling and Advising area. Student Employment Services
provides important links to prospective employers as well as providing assistance with
resumes, job applications and information regarding jobs that are available in the community.
Gathering together Counselling and Advising, Financial Aid, Student Employment Services
and Disability Support Services in the same area should make it easier for students to take
better advantage of the services that are available to them.
We are also in the process of hiring an Academic Advisor whose primary responsibility will be
advising the first and second year nursing students who are enrolled in the Northern
Collaborative Baccalaureate Nursing Program. This is a collaborative program with UNBC and
until April 2006, UNBC was responsible for advising all the nursing students, regardless of
which year the student was in, and for admission to the program. Since April 2006, the
Counselling and Advising Department has taken over the advising function for the students in
year one and two and for the Fall 2007 intake CNC will actually take over admitting the nursing
students as well.
While the spring/summer transformation is much farther advanced for those of you
who not in the “Awe-Inspiring” North of BC, we thought we should share how those
of us who are hardy and resilient Northerners mark the changing of the seasons.
We know summer’s coming when:
 Mosquitoes are the size of small animals.
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Brave souls tube down the North Nechako River.
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The dandelion crops are ready for harvest.
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The size of the unfilled pot holes is no longer a danger to children, small
animals and imported cars.
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The small lakes created by melting snow no longer need lifeguards.
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Your work day begins and ends in the daylight.
Michelle Worth, Tami O’Meara, Paul Barber and Bob Harris
CNC Counselling & Advising Department
Greetings to all our far-flung PSCA BC colleagues!
It’s been “Musical Chairs” in the counselling department at Selkirk College this spring. I
hear the music slowing down, but it hasn’t quite stopped yet. Here’s what’s happening:
Laurie has decided to curtail her involvement as Department Head for our wider group,
Student Access and Support. It’s a big job, providing support for about 15 people in various
roles and locations, and representing us on various college committees, etc., all with only 30%
release time. She’s done a wonderful job, but I think it was becoming a drag on her
relationship with her first love (professionally): Counselling!
I applied for a voluntary workload reduction to 80%, and am looking forward to three days a
week in at our Silver King Campus in Nelson (ABE and Trades), one day in Castlegar, and a
full year of three-day weekends.
Don will be working two days a week in Nelson, taking over the counselling function at our
Tenth Street Campus (Hospitality & Tourism and Digital Media & Music) which is just a few
blocks uphill from his home. I think he’s looking forward to a change of scene after many
years exclusively on the Castlegar Campus, and to avoiding the long commute a couple of
days per week.
And our friend Sally Glock, psychology instructor/counsellor, will be picking up my 20% by
providing service one day per week in Castlegar. It will be good to have her back working with
us.
The other theme that comes to mind as I think about the next few months is “Peace”. In the
fall, Selkirk College unveils two new Peace Studies courses and two new programs, an
Associate of Arts Degree and a Liberal Arts Diploma in Peace Studies. I’m registered to attend
the World Peace Forum in Vancouver at the end of the month. And in early July, the Brilliant
Cultural Centre in Castlegar will be the site of the somewhat controversial and potentially
fascinating “Our Way Home” gathering of Vietnam War resisters, dodgers, deserters and
veterans from both sides of the border featuring such guests as George McGovern and Tom
Hayden. (Check it out at www.ourwayhomereunion.com)
Finally, our front-office staff have been playing with the sentence-completion exercise this
afternoon, so I’ll share their contributions with all of you:
We know summer’s coming in the Kootenays when…
…our feet are webbed. (We’ve had lots of rain this spring!)
…the highways are lined with hitchhikers carrying “to Nelson” signs.
…the temperature in Kootenay Lake reaches slightly above freezing,
about as warm as it’s gonna get.
…the crop is in and up.
…between the big cars and Winnebagos with Alberta plates and the
temporary decks for al fresco dining in front of every restaurant, there’s
absolutely nowhere to park in downtown Nelson.
And
…the deer are happily munching in the flowerbeds.
Overall, it’s delightfully peaceful, as I hope it is wherever you are and
wherever you go this summer.
Cheers!
Judy Forsyth
for Laurie Read, Sally Glock and Don Parks, the Selkirk Team.
DOUGLAS COLLEGE
Greetings to you all!
Well it has shaped up to be a pretty busy Spring out here in New Westminster and Coquitlam.
We’ve been busy with our usual teaching, counselling, workshops, committee work and, more
recently, with initiatives to bring in more students to our college, which we’re sure is occupying
much of YOUR time as well.
In May, Douglas College hosted a Spring Orientation – called CONNECT - for new students
and their parents to come for an evening to learn about the college, meet key people and ask
all those burning questions! Departments set up tables in the concourse and we, the
counsellors, offered half hour workshops introducing students and parents to the career
planning process. Overall it was a success, and from that evening (through feedback
gathered from a survey) we have developed a two-part career planning workshop to be given
over two Saturdays in July. This workshop will offer prospective students the opportunity to
gain more clarity about their career direction through a range of vocational assessments as
well as looking at labour market trends etc. We’re excited that we’re able to offer something
that is outside of our usual 7 or 14 week course format and hopefully will reach more students
in this way.
We also have hopes to make more avenues into high schools in the not-so-distant future.
Janet has been liaising with a teacher at New Westminster Senior Secondary School to create
a career planning workshop for parents and high school students. We had hopes that it would
run in the Spring but it looks now like we’re looking ahead to the Fall.
This September should see the grand opening of our New Students’ Office which will be a
resource for students coming to Douglas for the first time. We are also hoping that the
services will extend to assist all students. Management is currently in the process of hiring an
officer for this office.
As we continue to grow and change in our department, so too is the college changing on a
larger scale. This Spring saw the official groundbreaking for construction on our David Lam
campus in Coquitlam. By Fall of 2007 we are hoping to move all our Health Sciences to the
Coquitlam campus. This will mean having more counsellors at our David Lam campus.
On the professional development front, we’ve been getting around! In January, Steve, Andria
and Sheila attended an Eating Disorders workshop at SFU while Sandi started off the new
year in LA at the NASPA conference looking at mental health on campuses. From this
conference came our Wellness Fair which we did in March. In May, the majority of us made
the trek across town and downtown to VCC to take in the Regional Workshop and learn about
and experience the benefits of grounding and centering our energy when working with
students as well as transforming core experiences through Self-Relations theory. In addition to
appreciating the newfound knowledge and tools we left with, we also enjoyed renewing
contacts and friendships and getting acquainted with the amazing VCC Pastry Shop during
one of the breaks. There’s nothing like chocolate to increase feelings of well-being! Thanks
and ‘well done’ to all the VCC organizers! As I write this, Steve and Janet are on their way to
the next PSCA event in Cowichan Bay and I’m sure will bring back many gems to share with
the rest of us. As well, Sandi continues to be involved with the Jungian society.
To balance out all our hard work, we also have been practicing leisure… Our wellness fair
must have inspired us as this Spring we’ve journeyed far and wide in search of adventure and
R&R – to Hawaii, Italy, the Dominican Republic and soon across Canada as well. It may take
us some time however to get really good at this and so we may need some more practice…
To keep our leisure muscles in good shape we also engage in a little ‘retail therapy’ together
here and there!
So that is it for us… Wishing you all a restful and rejuvenating summer!
From all the Douglas College counsellors: Sandi Strate, Michael Blefare, Sheila
Desmond, Andria Wrench, Steve Norris, Susan Meshwork and Janet Norris.
Notice
Is anyone reading this newsletter a retired member of CICA? Does anyone reading this
newsletter know a retired member of CICA?
David Greenall is now our Retired Member-at-Large and would like to contact retired members
to encourage them to continue to be active in the association and let them know about the
benefits that their contributions would bring to the association.
Please contact David at greenall_d@hotmail.com with the name/e-mail/telephone and address
of retired members and David would be very pleased to send further information.
The Psych Nurse/Psychiatrist’s 23rd Psalm…
The Lord is my external-internal integrative mechanism, I shall not be deprived of gratification for
my viscerogenic hungers or my need dispositions.
He motiviates me to orient myself toward a non-social object with affective significance.
He positions me in a non-decisional situation.
He maximizes my adjustment.
Although I entertain masochistic and self-destructive id impulses, I will maintain contact with
reality, for my superego is dominant.
His analysis and tranquilizers, they comfort me.
He assists in the resolution of my internal conflicts despite my Oedipal problem and psychopathic
compulsions.
He promotes my group identification.
My personality is totally integrated.
Surely my prestige and status shall be enhanced as a direct function of time.
And I shall remain sociologically, psychologically and economically secure forever.