ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author investigates how teachers manage children’s stress and this led to a focus upon the importance of taking care of the whole person, the students and the teachers. Her professional narrative counselling story has been configured by, a personal element and the whole person-oriented MindBody perspective. However, incorporating MindBody concepts and skills into her narrative practice was immediately challenging. At one MindBody conference she encountered the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) which involves tapping certain parts of the body. EFT arose from meridian energy and thought field therapies, combined with ancient Eastern wisdoms, which consider that disease or illness occurs whenever there is a blockage or reversal of meridian energy within the body. Focusing developed within the humanistic school of therapies in the 1950s, specifically from the work of Eugene Gendlin and Carl Rogers. Guidance counselling in schools is a “one-stop shop” for young people who, mostly, have not as yet developed relationships with helping agencies.
