Chris Valentino, sdb MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 9, 2008: Twenty Five young priests belonging to the Salesian provinces of Mumbai and Konkan successfully completed the Basic Intensive Week of Reality Therapy at Don Bosco Provincial House, Matunga, Mumbai. The workshop facilitated by Farida D’Silva Dias, a certified Reality Therapy Trainer from the William Glasser Institute, California, USA was efficiently coordinated by Godfrey D’Souza, Vice-Provincial of the Mumbai Province. Each of the participants found it a very rewarding week as they went through the motions of familiarizing themselves with a newer, rapidly emergent form of Counseling Therapy and Revalidation of their life-goals. Apart from learning the basics of Choice Theory that is offered as an alternative to External Control Psychology, the participants also learnt Reality Therapy which based on Choice Theory helps people make more effective choices thus enabling them to reconnect with themselves and others. The learning process included practical sessions, demos, video presentations and performance assessments which enabled each participant to reconnect with oneself as also focus specifically on the five basic human needs of survival, love / belonging, power, freedom and fun. The participants with their enthusiastic readiness and persistent determination worked hard from day one, eager to learn this newer therapeutic methodology. The facilitator’s affable and patient guidance at one-one and group counseling served as a morale booster for the energetic bunch of young pastors. The Basic Intensive Week came to a jovial end with the distribution of Certificates and exchange of pleasantries, with each one determined to practice Reality Therapy with immediate effect. “Yehi hai right choice baby…” was the unanimous echo of the young therapists, as they expressed their gratitude while bidding adieu to Farida.