Thoughts of a minibus traveller

  (This list was first created by a group of people facilitated by Carinya Sharples, the late Keshav Joshi and Vidyaratha Kissoon. The list is made available for information purposes only. Some details might have changed. We do not have all persons who practice counselling here in Guyana.   Check Guyana Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training Resources hosted by Williams James College. Update 21 May, 2022. We only list persons who provide counselling or pscyhotherapy services. Persons who would like to see psychiatrists can get referrals from their health centres, hospitals or other health professionals. The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation has a Psychiatric Clinic which operates on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Referrals can be had from Kitty Health Centre, Campbelville Health Centre, Diamond Diagnostic Centre and Enmore Health Centre. Please share widely) Counselling & therapeutic resources (Name, address, contact of individuals and organisations wh...

 The monkey pot   "I have a surprise for you.." Cosmata told me as we were getting ready for the Groundings . She took the small light mud coloured object from her bag of books and put it in my hand.  I had not expected to hold one again. The "monkey pot"  or the shell of the fruit came from somewhere on the Berbice River. The story goes that monkeys reach their hands inside for the seeds of the fruit and their hands are stuck. There is some tale about a wise monkey saying that you have to take one seed at a time. The first time I held one of these was in a creative writing workshop. I had gone to the workshop to learn to write better creative non-fiction rather than fiction. We had to exchange random objects and then write stories around the objects. Cosmata had brought a monkey pot. I wrote a clumsy short story then around the monkey pot. There was a critique. The lecturer did not understand the story, the timeline was mixed up. Some people liked the story....