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Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 3, 2022
Most of the time, we are solving for specifics. In the natural sciences, however, nature does not solve for specifics, but it solves for patterns. Paraphrasing Agriculturist Wendell Berry (1981), Janine Benus described the process...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Reimagining Education in Psychotherapy (REP)
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 4, 2022
Wired magazine has a video series where they get experts from various domains to explain complicated concepts—from blockchain to machine learning, music harmony to sleep—in 5 different levels: What’s really interesting is to listen...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 30, 2022
In this video, I will walk you through on a practical level, how to use a framework of clinical supervision to translate to actual improvement in outcome. We will take a step-by-step approach to...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 28, 2022 · Last modified November 3, 2024
There’s a big difference between what’s right and what’s right for you. This is why deliberate practice (DP) is not a cookie cutter approach, but it is highly individualised. Figuring out what’s right for...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 4, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
This is a keynote address given by Daryl Chow, Ph.D. for a virtual conference hosted by the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Cumulative evidence in psychotherapy suggests that we not only do not...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 10, 2021 · Last modified July 4, 2024
How is it possible that when we are not our best “therapeutic” self can lead to a good outcome? In the last post, Develop Good Taste, I talked about the benefits of listening to...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 3, 2021 · Last modified March 22, 2022
Before you can develop good abilities, you’ve got to develop good taste. If you want to develop as a musician, you’d want to develop an ear for music. You would then need to expose...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 22, 2021
We have an obsession with map finding. We think that if we search hard enough, we will correct the map that we have, and/or find the right map to rule them all. To see if this...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 7, 2021 · Last modified October 8, 2021
In this exclusive episode #10 on Frontiers Radio, we have a special guest, Dr. Scott Miller. We talked about several luminary figures who shaped and influenced his life, pivotal turning points, the writing process...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 13, 2021 · Last modified May 3, 2022
They is alot to learn from navigating in nature and the nature of navigation. Navigating in Nature I recently discovered the work of master outdoorsman, expert natural navigator, and global adventurer, Tristan Gooley.[1] Maybe...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 17, 2021
Perhaps there is no bigger feat than taking on Mount Everest. The early pioneers like Sir Edmund Hilary have been recognised–and knighted–for conquering the highest peak in the world. [1] Peak performance is greatly...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 2, 2021
About 2 decades ago, I watched a documentary on the making of the album The Unforgettable Fire by U2. At the helm of the mixing desk, producer Brian Eno uttered the following words to...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 22, 2021
Being consistent means keeping a promise to yourself. When we are not consistent, we are breaking promises. We lose the power of our handshake agreements to ourselves. We lose the commitment of our word....
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 27, 2020
When I look back over the last decade, there is one common theme: I have a huge tendency to overestimate what I can do in the short-term, and underestimate what I can achieve in...
One common advice that is often given to someone preparing for a speech is to rehearse in front of a mirror. This is one of those common wisdom that is not helpful. What happens...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Reimagining Education in Psychotherapy (REP)
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 21, 2020 · Last modified July 24, 2020
Recently, someone said something to me that cast doubt on my ability as a therapist. This person said, “It’s not that hard to help someone feel understood. With good eye contact, attentive listening sprinkled...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 1, 2020 · Last modified July 2, 2020
When I first heard about a “möbius strip” from writer Parker Palmer, I thought it was a name for a German freeway or something. The Smithsonian magazine explains that “a Möbius strip can be...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 27, 2020 · Last modified June 29, 2020
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/14947670/height/100/width//thumbnail/yes/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/tdest_id/1733435/custom-color/fd0e35″ height=”100″ width=”100%” scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] We pay tribute to K. Anders Ericsson in today’s episode. He is known by many to be “the expert on expertise.” His work,...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / First Sessions / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 25, 2020 · Last modified June 28, 2020
Date: 23rd June 2020. I started writing the first draft of this list of problems to solve in April 2019. There were like 15-17 problems at first… and that was more than a year...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 24, 2020 · Last modified April 25, 2020
Here is Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, on the importance of what’s not going to change: I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ And that is...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 14, 2020 · Last modified February 18, 2020
American Idol and the likes of other singing contests have created a false impression that what it takes to be a musical star is to sing really well. The aim of reality television singing...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / First Principles / Reimagining Education in Psychotherapy (REP)
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 30, 2019 · Last modified November 6, 2019
Turns out that there there is a key difference between teaching kids how to play with legos, versus telling them what to build.
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Research
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 19, 2019 · Last modified July 18, 2019
In this short post, I’ve pulled together six simple visuals that speaks to the evolution of our field in psychotherapy. Are You Experienced? Clinical experience matters in our common parlance. We say things like,...
Deliberate Practice / First Principles
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 12, 2019 · Last modified March 2, 2024
Pedal harder. Build you leg muscles and increase your stamina. Wrong. Watch cyclist Michael Guerra tap into the principles of aerodynamics in catching up on the race.
Deliberate Practice / First Principles / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 4, 2019 · Last modified May 2, 2022
Developing better psychotherapy methods and techniques to increase impact, is akin to building better wings and more feathers to fly. We have made an attribution error. Recall the history of mankind’s attempts to fly.[1]...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / First Principles / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 21, 2019 · Last modified February 24, 2019
It all begins with an investment of faith. Organisations, supervisees, and practitioners whom I consult with know that, for the most part, they wouldn’t see immediate results. It’s a calculated gamble. I recently began...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 9, 2018 · Last modified November 16, 2018
By now, many of you would have heard about the 10,000-hour rule, made popular by Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Outlier. This was largely based on K. Anders Ericsson and colleagues seminal work in 1993,...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / First Principles / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 13, 2018 · Last modified April 30, 2019
Join our in-depth, cutting-edge learning platform, Reigniting Clinical Supervision (RCS). Registration closes this Friday, 3rd of May 2019. We begin on Monday, 6th of May 2019. If you are a subscriber to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development,...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 15, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
How do you prepare yourself to enter into the space of therapy? How do you make room not just for your client, but for you, to facilitate the entrance of emotional safety, the safety...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published March 26, 2018 · Last modified February 10, 2020
With each plane crash, future flights become safer. With each therapy failure, we feel less safe with ourselves. We are cast into a sea of self-doubt. Our confidences plummet; our competence is called into...
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Daryl Chow, MA, Ph.D. (Psych) is a practicing psychologist and trainer. He is a senior associate of the International Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE). He devotes his time to workshops, consultations, and researches on the development of expertise and highly effective psychotherapists, helping practitioners to accelerate learning and improve client outcomes.
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