Tag: Prosody
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The Voice in the Room
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Prosody, therapeutic presence and the fieldcraft of counselling Counsellors spend years learning what to say. We learn how to ask questions, offer reflections, sit with silence and occasionally challenge what is happening in the room. Far less attention is given to the voice carrying those words. Yet a perfectly reasonable…
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Listening Between the Words – Prosody and Therapeutic Curiosity
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Sometimes the words tell only part of the story. A person may say they are fine, but their voice becomes quieter. They may talk quickly through one part of the story, then slow down when they reach another. There may be a pause where there wasn’t one before. A laugh…