Praise!

Admittedly, I am a movie nerd... to tell the truth, I am a book nerd too.  I like to watch a movie and then watch it again with the director's notes.  Then I look at the deleted scenes and watch the movie a third consecutive time with gained insight.  With books, I like to read the acknowledgements, author's notes and anything else the publishers feel like putting in the book.  And before even reading a book I always take a look at what others have to say about them in the "praise" section on the back of the book.

I'd like to take a moment to reach deep into my imaginal realm and pretend that I am world renowned, and share with my readership (wherever you may be in the stratosphere) a little bit of real life "praise", for my work; not from the New York Times or San Fransisco Chronicle, but from a small group of Master's students from Dr. Chibarro's Play Therapy class at the University of West GA:

"What a wonderful presentation! I learned how to apply drama therapy in use with adult clients, which I had never contemplated.  I particularly appreciated the experiential approach that was used with your visit.  Allowing the class to participate in work of this nature made it far more practical and plausible.  Had I not participated in this type of therapy, I would not have believed in the validity of its effectiveness".

"I loved your calm easy-going and fun personality.  I think this is a gift you have and only adds to your ability to help clients with drama therapy.  I had fun doing all the hands on activities - especially the name introduction.  I even tried to use it in my class and the students loved it!"

"You did a great job when you came to our class.  I've been in school for what seems like forever and I had never done any of the activities you had us do!"

"The activities that we did were amazing! It can even make a shy, reserved person open up while being in therapy...it was a different and exciting way to show others' points of views...Karimah had a great personality! She definitely seems like she is great at what she does! Thank you for the experience!"

"I talked more during our Drama class than any other.  Getting up and acting silly with everyone helped me with letting my guard down.  I can definitely see how a client could have a similar reaction. The living statue at the end was very meaningful and moving.  I greatly enjoyed the techniques and the opportunity to play".

"The experience and activities you shared were so helpful! I hope to be as passionate for my future career as you are for yours.  I will surely use the ideas you shared and what I learned about myself to help become a better counselor".