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
CONFER - Trauma Skills Summer School July 5th - 9th, London
I will be offering an afternoon session at this Trauma School organised by CONFER, on Tuesday, July 6th, 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.
Working with Trauma
November 23rd 2010: One-day workshop at Oxford Cooperative Training Scheme
This one day workshop focuses on trauma in the body and it will address 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 practice: basic principles of a body-based approach
This workshop is designed as a combination of teaching and experiential work.
Venue: Cherwell Conference Centre
Date: Tuesday, November 23rd 2010
For further details, see the OCTS website.
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).
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.
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.