I’m sorry but the type of certifications done by an organization like Circling Europe is insufficient. I’m not sure if circling is intrinsically even a good idea given that it necessarily involves participation of multiple other non-professionals. But even setting that aside, I would assume a level of training and oversight comparable to the psychotherapy field would be necessary before I’d feel comfortable with this at all.
I don’t think there’s good evidence that the field of psychotherapy knows how to teach skills effectively in a superior way. Neither academic literature nor personal experience with people trained in that form suggest that it’s particularly effective.
As far as the research goes alliance and empathy seem to matter much more then the kinds of things that are taught in psychotherapy training.
On the other hand, I do think that the training that Circling Europe does succeeds at building some empathy with their training.
I see that lack of an ethical codex / oversight is an actual problem. I’m not sure how effective psychiatric oversight happens to be in practice. The group setting does have advantages over 1-on-1 setting as far as having people check the work of other people.
I’m sorry but the type of certifications done by an organization like Circling Europe is insufficient. I’m not sure if circling is intrinsically even a good idea given that it necessarily involves participation of multiple other non-professionals. But even setting that aside, I would assume a level of training and oversight comparable to the psychotherapy field would be necessary before I’d feel comfortable with this at all.
I don’t think there’s good evidence that the field of psychotherapy knows how to teach skills effectively in a superior way. Neither academic literature nor personal experience with people trained in that form suggest that it’s particularly effective.
As far as the research goes alliance and empathy seem to matter much more then the kinds of things that are taught in psychotherapy training.
On the other hand, I do think that the training that Circling Europe does succeeds at building some empathy with their training.
I see that lack of an ethical codex / oversight is an actual problem. I’m not sure how effective psychiatric oversight happens to be in practice. The group setting does have advantages over 1-on-1 setting as far as having people check the work of other people.