Fiona Holiday
Grown-Ups Don’t Play: Three Things to Remember When You Join Children's Play
If you have ever tried to join a group of children at play and then watched as they gradually melt away and resume their game elsewhere,...
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Fiona Holiday
Apr 13, 20182 min read
Why I stopped talking about behaviour management
I used to talk about behaviour management all the time - how the adults manage the behaviour of children and use strategies to change...
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Fiona Holiday
Mar 18, 20182 min read
The Other Side: From Client to Therapist
We hold many identities in life. Some because of our relationships (like child or parent), some because of the roles we take on socially...
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Fiona Holiday
Feb 17, 20182 min read
Membranes (Not Barriers) for Therapists
The highly technical world of waterproof outdoor clothing baffles me. I want something that will keep the rain out, the warmth in and...
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Fiona Holiday
Feb 3, 20182 min read
Hide and Seek - The Games We Play
Do you enjoy playing hide and seek? It’s a favourite childhood game. The game can take many different forms- from objects hidden in the...
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Fiona Holiday
Jan 21, 20182 min read
No Time To Play?
What if I told you there was a way you could increase your optimism, find more gratitude, experience more joy and exuberance? Not to...
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Fiona Holiday
Jan 2, 20181 min read
Inspire
New Year: an opportunity to renew intentions, rekindle enthusiasm, refresh ideas, approaches, appearances. I have used some of my break...
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Fiona Holiday
Oct 20, 20172 min read
Falling Through Fingers - How Sand Tells Stories in Play Therapy
Do you remember the sensation of sand trickling through your fingers? The wonder of watching the grains fall like rain, disappear through...
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Fiona Holiday
Oct 12, 20172 min read
Play Therapy 101 (Part Two)
This second of three blog posts picks up the remaining four of Virginia Mae Axline's eight principles, which serve as guideposts to my...
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Fiona Holiday
Sep 30, 20173 min read
Play Therapy 101 (Part One)
I'm often asked what play therapy is, and my answer varies from a few to a few thousand words. To begin to answer this, I think it helps...
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Fiona Holiday
Jul 23, 20172 min read
Out of the Water
So the academic year is over and we pull our boats out of the sea for a few weeks for rest and repair. Often, the boats we sail in are...
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Fiona Holiday
Jun 25, 20172 min read
Trauma and Resilience
It feels as if trauma is all around us at the moment. Recent events have traumatised individuals, communities and the country as a whole....
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Fiona Holiday
May 21, 20172 min read
Have we lost our minds?
Do we even know what our minds are? We are used to thinking of our minds as located in our brain, separate to our bodies and separate to...
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Fiona Holiday
May 7, 20172 min read
A throw of the dice
We live in uncertain times. Certainty is an illusion - what happens to us from the moment we are conceived is dependent on such a complex...
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Fiona Holiday
Apr 2, 20172 min read
Holding On
We see them all over rocks around our sea shores, the limpet. Its name has become a metaphor - clinging on like a limpet. It suggests...
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Fiona Holiday
Mar 20, 20172 min read
The Problem is the Problem
It is the Spring Equinox today, which has prompted me to have a peek in the garden and see what is happening. A couple of years ago, I...
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Fiona Holiday
Mar 11, 20171 min read
Holding the Unknown
When was the last time you had to tolerate the discomfort of simply not knowing what was going to happen? So often, we seek certainty. We...
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Fiona Holiday
Feb 28, 20171 min read
So it begins...
Safely on board? The boat has left the harbour. This weekend, I have been learning more about being a play therapist. In an exhausting...
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Fiona Holiday
Feb 19, 20172 min read
New Horizons
As William Faulkner so wisely says, it's hard to work towards the future when you are still holding onto the past. This week, the shore...
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Fiona Holiday
Feb 11, 20172 min read
The Mouth of the Tunnel
Can you feel it? The curiosity, the anticipation, the fear? When we are on the brink of any new experience or venture, we often have a...
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