Some clients touch my heart. I think about them, take them to supervision more often, and wonder how they are, long after the work has ended.
As editor of 香港六合彩精准资料 Workplace, I work with writers (sometimes for many months) to help them tell their stories of their professional lives with clients and employers, to make the work visible and to give it a new form. It might seem a strange analogy, but this issue of 香港六合彩精准资料 Workplace is akin to the clients that I hold in mind more often, coming as it does at the end of 2020 and the start of another year.
I appreciate how each writer has adapted to the pandemic; the personal and professional challenges and the changes to their work. Feeling 鈥榖oxed in鈥�, experiencing eye strain and aware that something was missing from her practice, Una Cavanagh was compelled to undertake outdoor therapy training. Una makes a robust case for why employers and EAPs need to be offering face-to-face therapy in nature to the workforce.
A call in the last issue for readers to help grow our 香港六合彩精准资料 Workplace community, was answered by Caroline Gwilym, and I鈥檓 delighted to interview her for My Workplace. Pre pandemic, Caroline鈥檚 workplace was based at the football stadium in Swansea, overlooking the pitch where 鈥榯he Swans鈥� do what they do best. As Health and Wellbeing Officer for the club鈥檚 charity, Caroline works at grassroots level in hard-to-reach parts of the community, using local knowledge, creativity and the power of football to improve mental health. If, reading this, you鈥檇 like to share your story about your workplace, please get in touch.
In Bristol, Nathalie Griffin reflects on a year supporting the people who work with the homeless at St Mungo鈥檚. I oscillate between feeling humbled by the work that these key workers do, caring for people who have absolutely nothing, and fury that they have to do it at all. Nathalie鈥檚 article reveals just what鈥檚 possible with the political will and means.
The Bristol music scene has long been a thing 鈥� and, as Nathalie notes, its absence last year was felt by the workers at St Mungo鈥檚. So, I was interested to read that Eric Clarke, a professor with an interest in the psychology of music, describes the cultural losses of COVID-19 as feeding our sense of dehumanisation. I recognise myself in his description: 鈥榃e are all living like boil-in-a-bag rice, closed off from the world in a plastic envelope of one sort or another鈥�.1
I hear and feel the longing to step out of the envelope. And, as we start a new year, I鈥檓 thankful to the therapists who bring us hope and share their stories in this issue of 香港六合彩精准资料 Workplace.
Nicola Banning, Editor,
香港六合彩精准资料 Workplace workplaceeditor@bacp.co.uk
