ÁGNES KÓNYA & ZOLTÁN KÓNYA
AGAPE LIFE CARE FOUNDATION
Cluj, Romania www.terapeuta.ro
Training Therapists for New and Changing Realities Trainees’ metaphors about the experience of their training
A mother embracing her child
Strangely, the image of a mother embracing her child comes to my mind, the latter feeling very much loved and freely exploring her environment.
A successful operation of cataract
I had experienced a growing discomfort about certain limiting opaqueness in the ways I “saw” or approached a professional intervention.
Ideas in the group as balloons filled with helium I remembered our group and I imagined that each of you [trainers] and each of us let one or more heliumfilled balloons go, the balloons go up to the ceiling and whenever someone needs an idea can draw it down from there… though sometimes it is difficult to remember what ideas are in those balloons.
A bouquet of flowers of different colours
You look at the bouquet, look at each colour, approach each flower, discover their scent, stay curious about each flower and slowly you discover the role of each.
A tool bag
Being offered a tool bag. I cannot yet use the tools competently. Sometimes I forget about having the tool in my bag, in other cases I need to consult the instruction manual before being able to use them. I feel I miss the “stealing of the profession” part, in addition to the learning bit. I sincerely hope that years 3 and 4 will offer me this missing part.
A puzzle with lots of pieces
Each article, each book, each discussion during the training process: a piece in the puzzle. The more pieces I gathered, the clearer it became what I had to do as a family therapist.
A school of mountaineering
I think this school is not an option but rather an obligation. It is not about getting from point A to point B, but about finding solutions when you get off the trail.
Portfólió The viewing of a piece of art during an art exhibition
If you stay close to the object, you see the concrete elements (colours, the material used). Making a step behind you obtain additional information, the configuration of the elements. Distancing yourself even more you can situate the object in a certain system, observing its connections with other objects in the same room. This latter perspective is the one family therapy offered to me.
Dwarfs digging for diamonds in the mine
Tidying up a drawer
My professional journey was not a classic one as far as psychotherapy is concerned and a lot of my knowledge accumulated through personal study. I had had a feeling that I possessed a drawer where different objects were thrown in a disorderly way. My two years’ training in family therapy helped me to organize information, understand connections and to be more confident, knowing what I have in the drawer and where to find them.
Kónya Eszter grafikus
2019