CPD Courses available in 2020
Join our students, these CPD courses are available.
- Psychosynthesis & Therapeutic Relationship
- Gestalt
- Eco-Therapy Taster Day
- Basic Competencies for working with Children and Young Adults
Psychosynthesis & Therapeutic Relationship (1 day course)
Details
Time and Date: Saturday 14th March : 10am-5pm
Cost: £80
Tutor: Judith Griffin
Major Concepts
- The Balancing and Synthesis of Opposites
- Two Dimensions of Growth
- Self-Identification and Disidentification
- The Will
- Essential Interconnectedness
Techniques
- Analytical Inquiry
- Subpersonality Work
- Disidentification and Self Identification
- Purpose and the Creative Will
- Imagery and Visualisation
- The Ideal Model
Gestalt (2 day course)
Details
Time & Date: 11th April & 16th May : 10am-5pm
Cost: £150
Tutor Judith Griffin
Concepts
- Recognise the patterns
- The 4 questions
- Looking at the Circle – Defences
- The Prophet on Marriage (or any relationship)
Techniques
- The focus is on Here and Now.
- Chair-work
- Body-work
- Dialogue with symptom
- Circle of Experience
Eco-Therapy Taster Day (1 day course)
Details:
Time & Date: Saturday 13th June : 10am – 5pm
Cost: £80
With tutor Jane Sanders
Course Program
- Intro to Eco-psychology – different strands within a wide reaching emerging field of work
- Coming to our senses – intro to mindfulness of senses
- ‘Practicing as counsellors at a time of climate disruption/changing times?
- Legalities, practicalities of working outdoors
- Ecocentric assessment
- Out door skills practice
- Benefits of nature connection
Basic Competencies for working with Children and Young Adults (3 Days)
Saturday 11th July, 12th September, 10th October
10am-6pm : £255
With Nerissa Shaw
The time will cover Stage 1 of the Young Persons Training Curriculum. It will enable student counsellors to work in agencies on placement with children and young people provided their training provider is happy with this.
It will also act as an introduction to working in counselling and psychotherapy with children and young people for those who wish to begin working towards this.
The content will mostly be focussed on those between 11-18. It will cover the following areas:
- Ethical and professional practice
- Child protection and safeguarding
- Child and adolescent development and transitions
- Communication with young people
- Beginnings and endings with young people
- Risk assessments
- Mental health and young people
- Working within the context of the counselling setting
Some of the areas we will cover include:-
Collaborative assessments
The differences between adults and CYP work
Therapeutic relationships with young people
Specific tools to work with CYP
Mental health and young people
Working with young people’s emotions
Working with cultural diversity
Engagement with young people, parents and carers
Working within and across agencies
Working in a school setting
Working in a voluntary/community sector setting
To apply for any of these courses, please use the application form below
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