Zennis Book

I read this book a few years ago, whilst in my final year of a counselling diploma. The main reason for coming to this book was that I was researching the area of counselling and spirituality. For this, it was invaluable. But, it was also very important to how I perceived the counselling relationship. Be assured, even if you are not a Buddhist, if you are training or working as a counsellor, you would do well to read this book.

Something which has stayed with me after all those years was the simple idea of a counsellor having to give themselves enough time between clients, especially in regards to time to change focus from the client that you have just seen and the client who is to come. Brazier makes use of an image of someone pouring a drink into a glass. If you keep on pouring, the drink will just overflow, everything becoming mixed up together. But if you give yourself time to stop pouring and drink this in, then you are able to refill the glass later.

ZEN THERAPY will always remain on my bookshelf. It is something which I will return to time and time again - I have even left the original markers from when I first read it in place, so that I can go back to it later and reconsider the points I deemed to be important.