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A Matter of Death and Life - with Irvin Yalom
Irvin Yalom joined us for this 90-minute interview which is an introduction to the new book titled "A Matter of Death and Life" (1.5 Hours CPD)
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Neuroscience for Effective Clinical Practice workshops with Maggi McAllister-MacGregor (20 Hours CPD)
Understanding what’s going on in our heads – how our brain’s work – can help us become better practitioners and help our clients make sense of their experiences in ways that reduce self-blame and self-criticism.
Although the human brain is probably one of the most complex structures around, some of the principles on which it works are easily explained. You don’t have to be a neuroscientist to get a better understanding of the brain and nervous system!
This workshop will provide you with ways to make sense of the responses of the nervous system to threat and safety and to explain them in ways that are easy to understand for both you and your clients.
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Training for Bereavement Counselling workshops with Dr. John Wilson
Training for Bereavement Counselling: A six weeks, online 18 contact hours course with reading assignments and personal development tasks.
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Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy workshop with Mick Cooper (4.5 Hours CPD)
What does it mean to connect to others in an in-depth way in therapy, and what is its impact?
Research shows that relational depth with clients is associated with improved therapeutic outcomes. At a time of social disconnection, fragmentation, and fear, those connections may be more important than ever.
This workshop will give participants an opportunity to explore their experiences of relational depth and how it feels to meet others at this level of intensity and intimacy: in both their therapeutic practice and everyday life. The workshop will look at the impact of, and psychological processes behind, relational disconnection, and the mechanisms by which relational depth can have a positive effect.
The second part of the workshop will focus on means by which we can deepen our relating with clients; and we will focus on both face-to-face work and online/telephone counselling. Recent research shows that relational depth can be reached in online therapy, and we will explore the factors that can facilitate, and inhibit, the experience of relational depth in this particular modality.
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Goals in Therapy: Actualising Our Deepest Directions workshop with Mick Cooper (4.5 HOURS CPD)
This interactive workshop provides participants with an opportunity to develop their understanding of goals in counselling and psychotherapy, and to deepen their skills and knowledge in this area.
The workshop is particularly oriented towards counsellors and psychotherapists from humanistic or integrative backgrounds: who are interested in understanding their clients as agentic and purpose-oriented beings, and wary of more mechanistic or ‘outcome-oriented’ goal-based approaches.
The workshop starts by introducing the philosophical concept of ‘directionality’—that human beings are always oriented towards future possibilities—and looks at how this can be applied to an understanding of self. The workshop then explores what has been learnt from the psychological research about the nature of goals and goal processes (for instance, distinguishing between 'approach' and 'avoidance' goals). It then goes on to a more practical exploration of working with goals, including skills practice and video demonstrations, to show when and how goal-oriented practices can be useful.
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The Tribes of Person-Centred Therapy: Celebration of Diversity & Difference workshop with Mick Cooper (4 HOURS CPD)
Person-centred therapy is a wonderfully rich set of therapeutic approaches. This workshop will introduce participants to this diverse and colourful field, from its roots in the non-directive counselling of Carl Rogers to its many different contemporary forms.
Our journey through the tribes of person-centred therapy will include the classical non-directive approach, focusing, emotion-focused therapy, creative person-centred practices, pre-therapy, person-centred experiential counselling for depression, motivational interviewing, relational approaches, and integrative/pluralistic perspective.
For each of these tribes, we will explore their development and core assumptions; and participants will have an opportunity to get a lived ‘feel’ of these approaches through videos of practice and/or experiential exercises.
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A Pluralistic Approach to Therapy workshop with Mick Cooper (4.5 Hours CPD)
This workshop will introduce, and look at the practical implications of a pluralistic approach to counselling, psychotherapy and psychological practice.
This framework was developed by John McLeod and Mick in the 2000s, and has since been adopted by a number of practitioners and training institutes across the UK and internationally. The pluralistic approach is a collaborative, integrative perspective, deeply rooted in humanistic and person-centred values.
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Supporting & Counselling People Bereaved During the Covid-19 Pandemic - Dr. John Wilson, PhD.
This online training is relevant for counsellors who include bereavement in their specialisms, counsellors and student counsellors with an interest in bereavement, volunteers working for bereavement charities, and any other health and social care professionals with an interest in managing Covid-19 grief.
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7 Keys for Working Successfully w/ Men in Therapy workshops with James Hawes
2 PART WORKSHOP More men than ever are attending therapy and asking for help with mental health problems and yet while therapy may offer a supportive environment many men are turned off by this ‘foreign’ environment. When men do attend, they can occasionally encounter a lack of understanding and empathy leaving them confused and unsure whether to return. (USE THE BUTTON TO FIND OUT MORE)
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UKRAINE FUNDRAISER: Emergency Summit Contributing to Global Peace & Justice
Our talks will cover both the practical things that therapists can do, for instance working with war traumatised clients; challenging racism and a Eurocentric view of the world; and more theoretical explorations of the links between therapeutic ideas and conflict resolution practices.
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Men, Intimacy, and Shame workshops with James Hawes
This workshop will create a space where as therapists we can begin to openly explore the connection between shame and intimacy and how to work with these powerful emotions with our clients.
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What Does it Mean to be Free? workshop with Emmy van Deurzen
In this workshop we shall consider the paradoxical experiences of freedom and responsibility, individuality and social connectivity. The objective will be to recover our own existential freedom, in a world full of limitations.
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Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Body Keeps The Score workshop with Juliet Grayson
Juliet will share a PBSP model: the 10 themes that commonly arise when working with people who were sexually abused as children. Juliet will be showing 4 short films, which are extracts of client sessions, to give a powerful illustration of how PBSP works with the body.
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Effective Anger Management Tools for Working with Men workshops with James Hawes
Developing a greater understanding of the full spectrum of anger expression | Exploring the psychology of anger and the 5 states of anger | Learning the key roots of anger and rage | Practical therapeutic tools in working effectively with men and the different states of anger
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Breathwork for Anxiety and Trauma Recovery Workshop with Kate Williams
In this popular workshop Kate will lead you on a discovery of the breath where you'll learn about the many unknown benefits that breathwork can bring.
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Understanding Mother-Daughter Attachment Workshop with Rosjke Hasseldine
In this workshop, Rosjke Hasseldine, a pioneer in understanding the mother-daughter relationship, will unpack the often-misunderstood dynamics between mothers and daughters, and show that the dynamics between mothers and daughters are not as complicated as is commonly believed.
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Introduction to Imago Relationship Therapy workshop with Dr. Kalanit Ben-Ari
Imago Relationship Theory helps us to understand why we pick the partners we do and why intimate relationships can be so challenging for so many of us. Imago Relationship Therapy gives clients the skills and understanding they need to turn their conflicts into opportunities for the repair of current and past relationship hurts.
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Learn how to Stop Nightmares Using The Dream Completion Technique Workshop with Justin Havens
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Learn how to use the Dream Completion Technique to stop all types of nightmares and sleep disturbance |
Teach this approach to clients, using appropriate examples, and utilise it within a therapy session
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One Day Workshop on Single-Session Therapy with Windy Dryden
The workshop will outline the basis of Single-Session Therapy and show, in particular, how it can provide help at the point of client need rather than at the point of service availability.
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Embodiment Practices for Anxiety and Trauma Recovery workshop with Kate Williams
This workshop will teach you:
What embodiment is and how trauma becomes its shadow |
How the nervous system adapts to trauma, taking us out of the flow of life |
How the 'bottom-up' somatic approach supports connection to the body promoting self-regulation, connection and a stronger sense of self and identity |
A range of simple exercises for hyperarousal and hypoarousal supporting clients to better inhabit their body
