I use this blog as a way to express my thinking that’s going on inside me and a way to document changes that have been occurring in my life, 2013 was a great year of change in terms of my career life, the year was started by gaining a counselling placement at a women’s based service in SE London, my role would be the volunteer counsellor and I would be working with women exiting street prostitution, I was offered a 3hr a week space at the service and started my year working with 3 women every week, the placement work was incredible and I was so pleased to work with such incredible women with story's of strength and courage but also sadness and pain. I volunteered for 8 months before decided to end my time here and that came about due to an incident with another worker where I was horrified by her behaviour towards me and her unprofessionalism.
Sadly the incident I encountered with the women is one that I have encountered many times with other women, going back to my school years to obviously present day. It really set me off on a spiral of trying to understand the behaviours of women, something I have being doing anyway over the past four years when looking at my own life journey with myself and how I have acted and behaved. My journey of my own understanding started when I moved to London and met beard, he has strengthened me in ways I can’t even describe but not only that he has made me unearth a part of me I wasn't even aware of that part of me that believes in things at a deeper level and not just on a surface level, the biggest of that is how important I am as a women in today’s world – my feminist beliefs have really grew in me and made me open my eyes to the way women are treated in society and the objectification of the female form.
With this I decided to apply for a course with an amazing organisation called Women and Girls network http://www.wgn.org.uk/about-us who are a women based service who believe in women healing women they work with women and girls who have been affected by all gender forms of violence and offer a range of therapeutic services from counselling to body work. The course I completed with them was Counselling and Therapeutic Interventions for working with women affected by gender based violence. Like my Counselling the course has given me greater insight into the impact women face in society and has definitely been of great learning curve for me as a professional. Today I finished writing my essay around feminist theory and empowerment models and similar to how I work already the main focus of the work is to empower the client to see the strength they have in themselves. When writing my essay today some of the key messages in feminist theory is around the women understanding the wider context in which they live and not holding the problem as an individual problem but a wider societal one. The three main components are around the women developing these beliefs in her as they have made taken away from her by her abuser and society. Whilst writing and studying the same message kept coming across that society and media impact on how women are treated and it just makes me frustrated that in 2014 were still fighting for gender based violence to be taken seriously and recognise its not the women’s fault but the male who is carrying out the violence.
The empowerment model of therapy used is a beautiful model it just saddens me we need specific empowerment models when really why don’t humans empower each other, wouldn’t the world be a nicer place to live?
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Sadly the incident I encountered with the women is one that I have encountered many times with other women, going back to my school years to obviously present day. It really set me off on a spiral of trying to understand the behaviours of women, something I have being doing anyway over the past four years when looking at my own life journey with myself and how I have acted and behaved. My journey of my own understanding started when I moved to London and met beard, he has strengthened me in ways I can’t even describe but not only that he has made me unearth a part of me I wasn't even aware of that part of me that believes in things at a deeper level and not just on a surface level, the biggest of that is how important I am as a women in today’s world – my feminist beliefs have really grew in me and made me open my eyes to the way women are treated in society and the objectification of the female form.
With this I decided to apply for a course with an amazing organisation called Women and Girls network http://www.wgn.org.uk/about-us who are a women based service who believe in women healing women they work with women and girls who have been affected by all gender forms of violence and offer a range of therapeutic services from counselling to body work. The course I completed with them was Counselling and Therapeutic Interventions for working with women affected by gender based violence. Like my Counselling the course has given me greater insight into the impact women face in society and has definitely been of great learning curve for me as a professional. Today I finished writing my essay around feminist theory and empowerment models and similar to how I work already the main focus of the work is to empower the client to see the strength they have in themselves. When writing my essay today some of the key messages in feminist theory is around the women understanding the wider context in which they live and not holding the problem as an individual problem but a wider societal one. The three main components are around the women developing these beliefs in her as they have made taken away from her by her abuser and society. Whilst writing and studying the same message kept coming across that society and media impact on how women are treated and it just makes me frustrated that in 2014 were still fighting for gender based violence to be taken seriously and recognise its not the women’s fault but the male who is carrying out the violence.
The empowerment model of therapy used is a beautiful model it just saddens me we need specific empowerment models when really why don’t humans empower each other, wouldn’t the world be a nicer place to live?
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