Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Daily Theme: Wednesday Modalities

Welcome to the start of “Connecting to Others: The Role of Mental Health Professionals in the Stuttering Community” in the on-line conference at the International Stuttering Awareness Day On-line Conference this October 2014.

We are a group of People who Stutter and are also Mental Health Clinicians, Therapists, Professors, Social Workers, Community Organizers, and Supervisors who have been a part of the Stuttering Community. Together we are coming together to explore what connects us from both the lens of stuttering,

Each day one of our members will post a topic that spans the following themes:

• Monday’s Modalities: discussion of therapeutic modalities we use, are interested in, wonder about, and work with. Tie in with the experience being a therapist with a stutter, and the merge of SLP and Mental Health therapies.
• Tuesday Transformations: Words, essays, poems, videos, and photos of expression of our personal/professional transformations as a stutterer, mental health professional, and the merge of the two.
• Wednesday Words: Working with the words of therapy around self-worth, self-esteem, traumatic experiences, depressive thinking, daily struggles, life transitions, career development, stuck patterns, and negative/positive thought cycles.
• Throwback Thursdays: Photos, essays, poems, videos and words of memories from our stuttering past.
• Family & Friends Fridays:  Views of the integration of family and/or friends into our stuttering and therapist lives.
• Weekend Wrap-ups: Bringing together all of our thoughts into how we view ourselves as therapists, our contributions to the professional mental health and speech language world.

Today’s theme is “Wednesday Words” – so my words for you today are: “Enjoy, expand, explore, and thank you all for being a part of this experience.”

See you all tomorrow. Until then I am including a cartoon by Charles Barsotti. It makes me chuckle every day. Enjoy.

Elizabeth