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Home Page of Phil Morris
Contact Information: My name is Phil Morris and I am the Director of Counseling and Career Services at Midlands Technical College. I believe that education is about preparing people for life and that life is about serving your fellow humanity. One of the keys to happiness is an outward focus rather than a self-gratifying inward focus. We have a choice about where we focus our attentions - either inwardly on ourselves or outwardly on others. Counseling, for me, is about helping people to discover the answers to their problems within themselves and helping them make good choices based on what they discover. My preferred theoretical approach to counseling is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) which is a cognitive-behavioral approach formulated by Dr. Albert Ellis. REBT is based on the philosophy of Epictetus that, "People are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them." We upset ourselves based on what we think about what happens to us. We can change our feelings and attitudes by changing what we believe about what happens to us. I am very interested in equality and social justice and my office is a Safe Zone for All. A Safe Zone for All is a space that "...is declared safe regardless of any human condition, characteristic, or circumstance. You will be celebrated as a human being. Discrimination of any kind will not be accepted." You can come to my office and expect to be accepted for who you are. Education Ph.D - University of South Carolina - Higher Education Administration My doctoral research was on community college counseling in the Carolinas. Favorite Quotes "We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way." -Dr. Viktor E. Frankl "Equality is the iron-clad logic of social living." -Alfred Adler, MD "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me." -Martin Niemoller, German Protestant minister and concentration camp survivor. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi "Always treat others as you would like them to treat you: that is the law and the prophets." -Jesus, Matthew 7:12 (The Revised English Bible) Hobbies Learning, woodcarving (especially walking canes), and gardening. Some Favorite Links |