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CIS’ters CIS Training Course: 3 Linked Workshops

 

Session 1 - Thursday 11 March 2010, 9.30 am - 4.00 pm

 

  • What is sexual abuse
  • Prevalence
  • Myths and stereotypes
  • Abuser theories
  • Prevention and detection

 

Session 2 - Thursday 25 March 2010, 9.30 am - 4.00 pm

 

  • Survival skills (including self-harm)
  • Counting the losses
  • Crime and memory

 

Session 3 - Thursday 22 April 2010, 9.30 am - 4.00 pm

 

  • Managing disclosures (adult survivors)
  • Retraumatisation / revictimisation
  • Unresolved issues
  • The reality of letting go

 

Venue: Eastleigh, Hampshire

 

For more information, click here for flyer and booking information

 

 

ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) Bi-Annual Conference

 

Main Conference Objectives:

 

  • to bring together professionals and practitioners to stimulate awareness of Trauma and Dissociation and to share knowledge;
  • to showcase the latest strategic, research and practice developments from around the world that relate to Trauma and Dissociation.

 

What's on offer?

 

A unique conference experience involving:

 

  • world renowned keynote speakers with critically important strategic vision;
  • over 40 interactive workshop sessions involving researchers, practitioners and professionals;
  • latest research findings that will inspire you, increase your understanding and impact upon your day to day practice;
  • examples of how Trauma and Dissociation are dealt with in Northern Ireland following the end of the conflict.

 

Why attend?

 

The conference is designed to empower people working in the areas of Trauma and Dissociation.  It will provide you with direct training, valuable underpinning knowledge and can contribute to personal and professional growth.

 

The plenary session speakers have been chosen because of their strategic importance in key areas. This will be an holistic conference, designed to appeal to many audiences. Key themes and topics will include

 

  • working with adults, adolescents and children
  • behavioural issues
  • latest research findings
  • family support
  • early interventions
  • training techniques

 

In addition the conference will deliver interactive workshop sessions that will enable delegates to share best practice, exchange ideas, empower each other and discuss the latest research findings.

 

The conference will provide delegates with many valuable benefits:

 

  • Rare opportunity to hear directly from key leading US and European researchers/practitioners including Sandra Bloom; Bruce Perry; David Howe and Suzette Boon
  • Learn what is happening in key areas of clinical research and practice across the UK, Ireland and Europe
  • Network with key practitioners and professionals from around the world
  • Exchange ideas, share best practice approaches and develop your personal techniques
  • Interact with presenters at over 40 workshop sessions
  • Find out how people across Europe are raising the profile of Trauma and Dissocaition and learn what others are doing to lobby politicians and policy makers

 

 

8-10 April 2010

Queen’s University, Belfast

 

For more information please go to www.estd2010.org

 

 

Working with the Inner Child: Deep Release

Trainer: Julie Timm

Suitable for Counsellors and Clients

 

Many of us  have a ‘lost child’ within us. This moving and inspiring workshop  shows how we can find them and discover our true self, and so live a more integrated and whole life.  Includes TA principles, Life Stages, working with the Safe Place, symbols, art work and other creative tools.

 

Saturday 10 April 2010 - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

Shipham Village Hall, Shipham, Somerset BS25

 

For more details and to book, email timmjulie@yahoo.co.uk or phone 01934 844721

 

 

Structures and Disorders of the Self

CONFER SEMINAR PROGRAMME

 

A seminar series for psychotherapists: 9 seminars of 2 hours each

 

The concept of the self is a subject of extensive theoretical debate, perhaps because of the great challenge of describing its characteristics and formation. Interestingly, within Western paradigms, the self is often understood through a relationship with its opposite: I and thou, self and society, true and false, inner and outer. And traditionally psychotherapy aims to strengthen these distinctions between self and other in the project of developing individuation and resilience.

 

In the plethora of theories certain ideas have been highly influential: Jung's theory of the self as an autonomous, integrated whole that unifies the individual; an object relational perspective illuminating the relationship between the perceived subject and object; Kohut's understanding of the self as arising from a tension between conflicting needs. Attachment/developmental theory elaborates how relational trauma contributes to a fragile or fragmenting self that struggles to exist, while a linguistic approach would understand the self as occurring in language. Post-neuroscience theories illustrate how it arises from a multiplicity of affective reactions to the environment, an 'immunological' barrier that identifies inner from outer, while post-modern perspectives explore the self as the product of relational interplay and propose a fluidity of identity. Yet, regardless of theoretical positioning, all constructs seem to reach towards an understanding of the individual person - one who embodies a unique history, identity, cognitive mind, and affective repertoire, and for whom things can go wrong.

 

This seminar series will explore theories of the self, and how we can select from these to work most effectively with a particular patient/client. We will consider how we recognise and assess problems the development or experience of the self. Above all, we will talk about what therapeutic interventions are most likely to alleviate that person's suffering.

 

14 April - Dr Amanda Jones: “The impact on a baby’s emerging sense of self when a parent suffers an emotional breakdown”

21 April - Nick Midgley: “The development of the self and the capacity for mentalization”

5 May - Dr Susie Orbach: “Towards a theory of body development”

19 May - Dr Phil Mollon: “Finding freedom within the false-self prison”

2 June - Keith Silvester: “Sub-personalities and the post-modern experience of the self”

16 June - Ruthie Smith: “Symbiotic states of self as an expression of attachment disorders: working with the client who merges with others”

30 June - Remy Aquarone: “Structural dissociation and preservation of the self”

7 July - Ann Shearer: “Dreaming the self: intimations from the unconscious and transformations of the ego”

14 July - Dr Jean Knox: “Mirror neurons and embodied stimulation in the development of self-agency”

 

Wednesday 14 April 2010 - 14 July 2010, 7.00 pm to 9.30 pm

Complete programme: £240.00

Individual seminars: £35.00

Venue: Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London, NW3 5Ba

 

For more details and to book, click here to go to website or email info@confer.uk.com

 

 

Mental Health Issues in Counselling - Deep Release

Trainer: Dr Maureen Wilkinson & Pauline Andrew

Suitable for Counsellors

 

An excellent day giving easily understandable information regarding mental health disorders, the use of medication and the effectiveness (or otherwise) of different counselling approaches.

 

Includes depression, schizophrenia and psychosis.  

 

Saturday 17 April 2010 - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

J10 Counselling Service, Walsall, West Midlands, WS1

 

For more details and to book, email paul_niven@sky.com, go to www.j10counselling.org.uk or telephone Chris Niven on 01543 377508

 

 

Parks Inner Child Therapy (PICT) Workshop

Discovering and Changing Limiting Beliefs

Trainer: Lindsay Schofield

 

Being able to identify and remove limiting beliefs is of prime importance to anyone wishing to facilitate change. To change limiting thought patterns, uncomfortable feelings, unwanted behaviours, take responsibility for one’s health, reduce stress responses, etc. will require belief work, because what we believe creates the reality we experience. This intensive workshop covers detailed information about discovering beliefs and how to use the Mistaken Belief Visualisation (MBV), to rapidly change them.

 

This one-day workshop is formatted as information, demonstration and practise. It is a workshop where qualified counsellors have the opportunity to learn one of five specialist therapeutic techniques extracted from the Parks Inner Child Therapy (PICT) Childhood Abuse Training course.

 

Lindsay Schofield is a Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist with a private practice near Croydon, South East London. She has specialised for work with trauma and children. Lindsay presents the PICT course and workshops, counselling training and skills, and her own workshops on counselling children. Lindsay is a licentiate member of the NCP, and a member of the ACC, BACP and BABCP; Lindsay is married with two teenage sons and a menagerie of animals.

 

Saturday 17 April 2010, 9.30 am - 5.30 pm

Cost: £85.00

Venue: Harvest Church, 72 Chelsham Road, South Croydon, CR2 6HY

 

For further information please email lindsay@citherapy.co.uk or telephone 020 8668 7527.  For further information on PICT please go to www.ppfoundation.org.

 

 

 

Early Trauma, Abuse and Neglect - Deep Release

Trainer: Pauline Andrew

Suitable for Counsellors and Clients

 

This workshop addresses the effect of early abuse and neglect which can affect body, soul and spirit.  The latest findings of neuroscience are simply explained, with teaching on trauma bonds, disorganised attachment, learned helplessness and how to work effectively to bring healing and hope.

 

Monday 19 April 2010 - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex  CM15 9BX

 

£69.00 including lunch.

Save over 10% if all 3 days 19-21 April are booked together.

 

Go to www.deeprelease.org.uk for more details and to book

 

 

Toxic Churches and Spiritual Abuse - Deep Release

Trainer: Pauline Andrew

Suitable for Counsellors and Clients

 

Church should be a safe place, but sadly many have been deeply wounded there, leaving them ‘spiritually dislocated’.  This day takes a very honest look at spiritual abuse and its far-reaching effects.   A moving and powerful day where the aim Is also to bring reassurance and hope, whatever your situation.

 

Tuesday 20 April 2010 - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex  CM15 9BX

 

£69.00 including lunch.

Save over 10% if all 3 days 19-21 April are booked together.

 

Go to www.deeprelease.org.uk for more details and to book

 

 

Extreme Reactions: Self-Harm, Suicide and Anorexia Nervosa - Deep Release

Trainer: Pauline Andrew

Suitable for Counsellors and Clients

 

These difficult topics can cause strong feelings in clients, families and counsellors and this day is an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of these very distressing reactions to pain.  Includes personal stories and practical ways of working. (NB: some material may be triggering)

 

Wednesday 21 April 2010 - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex  CM15 9BX

 

£69.00 including lunch.

Save over 10% if all 3 days 19-21 April are booked together.

 

Go to www.deeprelease.org.uk for more details and to book

 

 

Understanding Attachment - Deep Release

Trainers: Deep Release Team

Suitable for Counsellors and Clients

 

Why do we often feel confused about our feelings, both wanting help and pushing others away? This day will explain how understanding Attachment makes sense of this.  As infants we need to attach to a safe person in order to grow and develop well.  What happens if our key carer is not safe?   Anxious attachment can lead us to develop a ‘false self’ and to build defences to keep out shame and pain.  What are the implications for us as counsellors?  This workshop is an absolute ’must’!

 

Tuesday 27 April 2010 - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex  CM15 9BX

 

£69.00 including lunch.

 

Go to www.deeprelease.org.uk for more details and to book

 

 

DID: Who are the Perpetrators? - Deep Release

Trainer: Adah Sachs

 

This ground-breaking workshop looks at the perpetrators of extreme abuse, which we normally know about only through the accounts of our DID clients.  Who are these people?  What are they really like?  How did they get to behave in such ways?  Have we unknowingly met them in our counselling rooms?  How do we feel about working with a perpetrator of these crimes, and what relevance do these questions have to the work we are doing with survivors of extreme abuse?  This workshop will focus on these thorny issues, with the view that they are crucial for our efforts to bring healing and resolution.

 

Friday 30 April 2010 - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex  CM15 9BX

 

£75.00 including lunch.

 

Go to www.deeprelease.org.uk for more details and to book

 

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