ABSTRACT
As a counselling trainer I am much exercised and fascinated by the issues and concerns of this chapter. Acknowledgement, denial and ownership of power and flexibility of trainer style are of pressing personal and professional interest to me. I am also a woman, doing what has traditionally been seen as ‘women’s work’. The overt aim of the original study on which this chapter is based (Speedy 1993) was to explore the experience and perceptions of ‘power’ in a group of women, including myself, working as humanistic/person-centred counselling and counselling skills trainers in the UK in the 1990s. A further aim, which emerged in the process, was to find my own place, age and stage within that network of women and to reach a greater understanding of myself as a woman and a trainer.
