Introduction

This workshop will provide a brief guided tour of the terrain of Meaning-centred Counselling (MCC). For more information on MCC, please read Wong (1997, 1998, 1999).

When a client walks into your office, what do you see in your client? What would you focus on? If you are a cognitive therapist, you will focus on her irrational or dysfunctional thoughts, but she is much more than her thoughts. If you are a behavioural therapist, you will focus on her self-handicapping behaviours, but she is more than her behaviour. So, the situation is very similar to the story of several blind persons trying to describe an elephant according to the parts of elephant they happen to touch.