{"id":2641,"date":"2012-12-06T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T10:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2013-01-08T17:56:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T17:56:25","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/2641\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my blog!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been writing a <a title=\"To the German blog of Stefan Hammel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stefanhammel.de\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">blog in German<\/a> since a few years. Doing this in English is new territory for me. Inevitably, I will make some mistakes&#8230; Never mind! This is a blog about therapeutic storytelling and other means that can make therapy and any kind of counseling and self-counseling quick, effective, and fun! I am convinced that therapy should be quick, and that it should be fun, both for the therapist and for the client. There should be a lot of things to laugh about and to find interesting. I am aware that life is not always fun and that most of my clients are more in the mood for crying than for laughing when we meet. I remember a 30 year old woman in the hospital who, according to the doctors, was going to die very soon. When she heard that I was a chaplain (whatever she imagined a chaplain to be like) she told me that she didn&#8217;t wish to be supported. I told her that I would love to invite her for a dance tonight, but that this didn&#8217;t seem possible in the state she was in at the moment. In hospital I don&#8217;t believe in making a solemn face and carrying the patient&#8217;s depression from one room to the next like a multi-resistant germ, and in my therapist&#8217;s office I wish to enjoy my work, and I hope that my clients enjoy our talk as well. As for the woman in hospital, we had a lot of fun together.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention that therapy and consultation are at their best if they are not <strong>only<\/strong> fun but also highly effective. I would like to share my stories about how to effectively reduce suffering and increase happiness. I would like to share them not only with my clients or patients or with those specialists who attend my training seminars but with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my blog! I&#8217;ve been writing a blog in German since a few years. Doing this in English is new territory for me. Inevitably, I will make some mistakes&#8230; Never mind! This is a blog about therapeutic storytelling and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/2641\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}