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Hello Folks on the Frontier!

It's October, the month of World Mental Health Day (yes, and Oktoberfest).

A big warm welcome to new people who have just joined us. I provide regular blogs on the topic of individualised professional development. Feel free chime in with your comments in the blog and to connect on our closed facebook group as well. And on a monthly basic, I send out a newsletter, which is full of recommended readings, resources, and updates.

Feedback Informed Treatment Advanced Intensive 3-Day Workshop (Melbourne 8-10 Oct18)
Together with Scott Miller, we had a great time spent in Melbourne with Aussies from all over, (8-10th of Oct). This is the very first time we brought the FIT Advanced Intensive to Australia. Super inspired by the level of questions and reflections from the group! We hope that we'd come back to run the other modules in 2019.

Three other cool things that happened on this trip:

1. My wife and two kids came along to Melbourne to celebrate the big 40! (I hear that's the new 23?),
2. I got to meet folks from the Reigniting Clinical Supervision online course, and participants that I've known from the Excellence in Private Practice workshops we ran in the first half of this year (Big wave to Raelynn, Susan, Lisa, Sika, Anna, Claire, and others!), and
3. Bubble Tea for Scott and I at every lunch break!

Group Consults from All Over the World

Are you interested to be part of an ongoing group consult, with practitioners all over the world, who share similar values about feedback informed practices and personalised learning and development?

If so, drop me an email. This is an entirely NEW INITIATIVE. Several practitioners indicated interests in coming together not only to support each other, but to reenergise and help each other in the path of their development.

Especially for clinicians who are solo practitioners, the idea is to end therapy as an individual sport, and start to evolve our field more like a team sport.

Closing Date: 30th of Oct, 2018.

Worldwide Group Consults? I'M IN.

"We find only the worlds we look for."

~ Henry David Thoreau

Topic: A System of Practice: Creating a Framework To Make Deliberate Practice Happen

This was a keynote presentation at the Achieving Clinical Excellence Conference in Østersund, Sweden, 2018.

To access the entire conference, Click here (Watch the brilliant talks by Birgit Villa, Scott Miller, Susanne Bargmann with Ulrik Elholm… and more!)

Highlights from A System of Practice Talk

Here are some highlights from the video above (yep, you can click on each of the links to jump straight to each topic):

1. The Differences Between Performance vs Learning

2. On Clinical Practice

3. On Clinical Supervision

4. On Training

5. 3 Roles in Order to Develop a System of Practice: Practitioner, Manager, and Visionary

6. The 4 Pillars of Deliberate Practice

7. Blackbox Thinking for Psychotherapists

8. Coaching for Performance vs Coaching for Development

9. The Taxonomy of Deliberate Practice Activities (TDPA)

10. Develop First Principles Before Methods

FROM MY DESK:

Recent Blog Posts:

From my other Blog, Full Circles: Reflections on Living:

Here's an exclusive peek into 6 chapters from the book, The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy (available now in Amazon and other stores)

Intake Second (Not First)

The following chapters are NOT available in the Kindle preview:
The Perils of an Intake Model
The 4P’s versus The 1P
Avoid TBU (“True But Useless”) Information
Follow The Pain
Follow the Spark

RECOMMENDATIONS

Tools and resources that you can use.

Every month, I'd provide you with five tools/resources that I've used and found it to be helpful in my learning process, productivity, or just plain useful.

For this issue, I'd share with you 5 recent books that I'm reading that has shaped and influenced me:

1. Remember It! by Nelson Dellis
Over the last couple of months, I've been thinking alot about what aspects I can improve on, so that it will have leverage on my clinical and teaching work. One of the areas I've narrowed down is my memory ability.
Like details from a session, names of participants, etc.
This book came recommended by someone I really respect, Barbara Oakley (her new book for teens, Learning How to Learn, is a great resource!). I'm in the midst of reading Remember It, and I hope to at least up the ante not so much as to superhuman ability, but by at least 10-15%.

2. Visual Intelligence by Amy Hiemann.
I first head about Amy in a podcast interview. I shelved the book aside for some time, until Scott Miller reminded me about this.
There are huge implications on how we see and experience our world. We are hoping to weave some of these ideas into our upcoming new book!

3. Words by Christoph Niemann
This is a book not to read, but to be experienced.
One word per page, with an accompanying drawing.

4. The Art of Business Communication by Graham Shaw
I had this kindle book for a long time, and only recently revisited it. It's less about business and more about drawing your ideas.
As you can tell, I'm trying to improve my memory, storytelling, and drawing ability (quick sketching). I'm finding that drawing as a way to think clearly to be a helpful process. Check out Graham Shaw's drawing lectures on youtube too!

5. The Way of Chuang Tze by Thomas Merton
I keep this in my bag. Merton's writings have been a true companion for me in my adult life. I turn to this pithy and short poems from time to time. This is where I got the woodcarver poem cited in the blogpost, The Work Before the Work

Let me know if you found this useful or not. I'm thinking of compiling lists of Top 10 books on various topics. If this is something that interests you, let me know. I've become some sort of a librarian!

Recent Publications

Peer review publication is such a long-drawn, and frankly, painful process. My colleagues and I are so pleased to have both these papers accepted:

Miller, S. D., Hubble, M., & Chow, D. (2018). The question of expertise in psychotherapy. Journal of Expertise, 1(2). Click HERE to download article

Miller, S. D., Chow, D., Hubble, M., Wampold, B., Maeschalck, C., & Bargmann, S. (in press). To be or not to be (an expert)? Revisiting the role of deliberate practice in improving performance. High Ability Studies. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13598139.2018.1519410

Big thanks to the reviewers and editors.

Til then, please stay in touch. Love to hear back from you, if you have any questions or comments.

Reach me at daryl@darylchow.com

p/s: Please excuse the typos.

Blessings,

Daryl

Daryl Chow, MA. Ph.D. (Psych)
Senior Associate & Trainer, International Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE);
Endorsed Counselling Psychologist & Board Approved Supervisor (Aus),
Henry Street Centre, Fremantle, W Australia.
Senior Psychologist (on locum),
Institute of Mental Health, Singapore.

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