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Mapping the new normal

Aug 17, 2020
1 min

Mapping the new normal

The coronavirus pandemic has had a sudden and powerful impact on our patterns of relating at work. I have been offereing interactive...

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Helpless is not useless

Jul 27, 2020
2 min

Helpless is not useless

I first worked with this idea of feeling helpless not being useless when working with teams who felt a pressure to fix things and...

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Hold those stories open!

Jun 7, 2020
2 min

Hold those stories open!

In my new book Therapy with a Map (2020) I have a chapter on Narrative Mapping and explore the way in which we tell stories of our lives...

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My story

I am Steve Potter, a UKCP registered psychotherapist, based in London teaching and supervising work with individuals, teams and organisations. I have worked in many settings with different groups of people and each time the same lesson has been uppermost in my mind which is how do we recognise and respond to the mix of relationships with ourselves, with each other and the world around us that are unique to that moment. What I have learnt is headlined as Relational Awareness and how I have learnt it using the tools and ideas of Cognitive Analytic Therapy and other approaches comes down to mapping side by side together the patterns of interaction in the stories we tell of the lives we are living. It is all described in my book.

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