Professional Training Events (CPD)

 

I offer a variety of workshops and training events for individual practitioners as well as for counselling and therapy organisations and services.

 

My approach to learning

In order to do justice to the variety of learning styles which participants bring to the events, there is usually a mixture of theoretical, practical and experiential learning, involving everybody at the level and to the degree that they are expecting and willing to engage. As we are dealing with what happens between people, the group itself provides a learning situation, with people learning from and with each other. Each participant's experience is therefore understood as a resource. Depending on the theme and the configuration of the group, we can pay attention to the unfolding group dynamic (and how it supports or hinders participants) as an aspect of the learning. Balancing attention to each participant's psychological and learning process with the group process and the task and objectives of the course is an important element in how I teach.

 

Current workshops and training events for practitioners

 

Character Structures – A course of 6 Saturdays in 2008/2009

‘Character structure theory’ is a comprehensive method of diagnosing and working with habitual patterns, as manifested in the body.
For further details, download the leaflet.


Family Constellations Workshops

‘Family Constellations’ is a powerful approach, developed by Bert Hellinger, designed to bring awareness to and work with hidden dynamics and transgenerational family patterns in a group setting.
For further details, download the leaflet.


Working with trauma in the body

I offer a one day workshop for counselling and psychotherapy practitioners on 'Working with trauma in the body', in which I cover the following topics :

- What is trauma and PTSD ?
- Brain function during and after trauma
- Different types of trauma
- Disturbances to self regulation in trauma
- How re-traumatision occurs and what we can do about it
- Trauma in the therapy room: basic principles of a body-based approach

 

The first one-day module could later on be followed by a second module, which would focus on 'Working with complex trauma'.

These days are designed as a combination of teaching and experiential work.

 


For all enquiries regarding booking and workshop details, please email me.