Surprise workshop

This is a standard co-counselling sorkshop format ie each person taking turns within the group: say there are 8 group members, then the time, say, two and a half hours, is split equally, 15 minutes each, with time for opening and closing circles and 'slop time (going for a pee etc)'. Emotive topics are written onto small pieces of paper, one issue per piece of paper. (See below for a list.) The pieces are foded and putin a hat. The hat is passed round. Each person picks a piece. If the issue you have picked does not work for you you can swap with someone or pick another one from the hat (ask yourself first whether you are avoiding something). Then, off we go!

Emotive topics for start of sessions

· Failure
· A significant event in my life
· Relationships
· Infancy
· Sexuality
· My family
· Nudity
· Parents
· Death and loss
· Food
· Work
· School days
· Pets and animals
· Teenage years
· Friends
· Authority figures
· Disappointments
· My journey here
· My future
· Who do I miss
· My physical self
· A childhood memory
· My home
· A problem I have now
· A secret
· Something trivial, something triumphant and something tragic
Something which is both new and good