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I offer a variety of workshops and CPD training events for individual practitioners as well as for counselling and therapy organisations and services.
My approach to CPD 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.
Forthcoming workshops and training events for practitioners
CONFER - Trauma Skills Jan. 18 - Mar. 28, London
I will be offering a Wednesday evening session at this Trauma School organised by CONFER, on Wed. Jan. 25th, entitled:
Relational Body Psychotherapy - An Integrative Approach to Trauma Work
Offering interactive regulation to engage with and complement the patient's disturbed auto-regulation, the therapist becomes a container for the trauma. As most of the psycho-biological stress of the trauma is communicated non-verbally, via right-brain to right-brain atonement, this process relies on the therapist's own sense of embodiment and internal body-mind regulation. In this presentation, based on case material, we will explore how body psychotherapy offers treatment options and techniques that are capable of reaching down into the roots of trauma in somatic experience. We will look at how therapists can develop the internal resources and capacities needed to regulate the body-mind impact of traumatic relational dynamics.‘Character structure theory’ is a comprehensive method of diagnosing and working with habitual patterns, as manifested in the body.
For further details, see the CONFER website.
Trauma Symposium Stroud
18 & 19 November 2011
Who is it for?
This event is designed for therapists and professionals working with trauma, and for people interested in research and shared learning in this field. It will address these four basic questions:
• How do we recognise trauma?
• How do we think about it: neurologically, emotionally, physically, socially?
• How do we work with trauma, in different modalities and areas of application?
• How can we usefully engage together in learning, collaborating and sharing best practice?
Presenters: There is a wide range of presenters with experience and expertise in different modalities and applications.
Modalities represented include CBT, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Mindfulness, EMDR, Integrative Body Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Advanced IntegrativeTherapy, Process Work, Embodied-Relational Therapy, Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy, Narrative Therapy.
Areas of application and experience include chronic and acute trauma, PTSD, abuse, combat stress, vicarious trauma in the therapeutic relationship, trauma and vulnerable adults in care, asylum and refugee experiences, traumatic experiences of surgery, diverse cultural perspectives on trauma, effects of medicalised birth procedures, trauma and environmental awareness, spiritual crises, bereavement by suicide, and post-war reconciliation.
Format:
There will be large and small groups, speakers and presentations, discussions and facilitated group process. Some small group options will involve experiential and multi-media learning and feedback. These include film + discussion, and artspace.
Website: http://www.ionara.org.uk/
Contact: iona@ionara.org.uk/
Center for Science and Art, Lansdown, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 1BB
Working with trauma in the body
I offer occasional one-day workshops 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 can later on be followed up by a second module, which focuses on 'Working with complex trauma'.
These days are designed as a combination of teaching and experiential work.
‘CHARACTER STRUCTURES’
An integrative bodymind approach to developmental theory
Five-day Intensive - February 20th - 24th - Tel Aviv, Israel
A practical & experiential CPD course for counsellors, psychotherapists, helping professionals & complementary therapists
About the Course:
Our clients bring to us limiting, self –defeating and destructive patterns which keep repeating themselves. They ask for our help in overcoming these patterns. In order to help them we rely on theories of childhood development. The central assumption of this approach is: adult patterns of being and relating to oneself and others are rooted in childhood development. A child’s experience of its early environment becomes a blueprint for relating and managing himself and the world. These patterns manifest in the way we think, feel and behave; they also manifest in our body, its shape and structure, from our physiology through our muscular system to brain anatomy. The body is a frozen map of our emotional histories, reflecting our major wounds as well as our creative adaptations to environmental disappointments and challenges. ‘Character structure theory’ - as developed by Wilhelm Reich and others - is a comprehensive method of diagnosing and working with those habitual patterns. It offers insight into clients’ issues that arise from different stages of psychic development. It outlines the therapeutic tasks and challenges that can be anticipated in working with each type and structure, as well as providing the therapeutic tools and techniques for productively addressing the client’s specific wounds.
In this course you will learn about:
- integration of various developmental theories, including Reichian and object relations perspectives
- the common ground of the various psychodynamic theories
- the basic steps of character formation
- the major developmental phases
- the varieties of emotional wounding arising in each of these phases
- the ‘character structures’ pertaining to each of these phases
- defensive and self-protective aspects of the various ‘character structures’
- the therapeutic tasks and challenges presented by each ‘character structure’
- what constitutes ‘working-through’ of the emotional wounding ?
Learning style and methods:
The learning on the course will build on participants’ previous experience. It will be both practical-experiential as well as theoretical, and supported by references.
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 regarding upcoming workshops, view or download the leaflet (pdf).
For all enquiries regarding booking and workshop details, please email me.
Past workshops and training events for practitioners
For past events, including resources and hand-outs, click here.