Workshops

Introduction to Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIRW)

Henry Whitfield
Overcome the presence of the past.
TBA
£360
Mindfulness Training Offices, Parkway, London

Henry Whitfield

Basic Traumatic Incident Reduction
This part covers:
A contextualization of Trauma and TIR
Mindfulness for two - enabling mindful observation within a one-to-one counselling environment
How to perceive if the client is engaged in processing unassimilated material
Optimising the client's ability to make progress
Each attendee will both give and receive real TIR sessions after supervised practice of a range of skills
Recognizing shifts in 'meta-awareness' and other optimum points for ending the session
Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) is a non-evaluative, client-titrated, mindfulness-oriented procedure that enables the client to undo repression and increase awareness of past events that still effect his present. The basic TIR procedure also responds to how traumatic experiences 'network' and identifies other less obviously related incidents that can be complicit in the maintenance of symptoms. The broader subject of TIR consists of a range of theoretically consistent counselling tools, designed to respond to many different needs and situations.

TBA

Mindfulness Training Offices, Parkway, London

Discount for UKAHPP members

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Intermediate Level Skills Training

4 day course run over 2 weekends

David Gillanders, (D.Clin.Psychol.) ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT trainer, Henry Whitfield MSc, MBACP,

This Intermediate Skills Training workshop, with David, Henry and Tobias is designed for those who have completed our 4 day experiential Introduction and Skills training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), but is also open to those who have done comparable training elsewhere. Experience of ACT clinical skills training is expected in all students accepted on this workshop.

10-11th Mar + 24-25th Mar 2012

Kings Cross, London

Discount for UKAHPP members

Reflect, Recharge, Explore, Create

Led by Karin Creasy

As therapists we spend a lot of time working on our theoretical skills and knowledge in support of our work. In this workshop I will be offering time for us to look creatively within ourselves, something we may not have spent much time on since accreditation or training days. The day will bring opportunity to reflect upon and explore our 'therapist selves', the sub personalities that we bring with us into the therapy room and to our practice, amongst other themes. Allowing the unconscious to work for us we will work intuitively together and drawing on psychodrama techniques, using creative materials, relaxation and guided meditation, poetry and action, I aim to offer a gently creative, humanistic, supportive environment for exploration. The day will also provide opportunity to recharge the batteries and spend time sharing the personal experience of doing the job that we do and being the human beings that we are.

Saturday 24th March 2012 10.00am - 4.30pm

Kettering, Northamptonshire

Discount for UKAHPP members

INTEGRAL PSYCHOTHERAPY

A full day workshop on the AQAL approach

John Rowan

We shall look at the four quadrants and some of the levels, and cover theory and experiential practice. John Rowan introduced AQAL to England in 2004 and has been leading workshops on it in various countries ever since.

31st March 2012 10am to 5pm.

The Philadelphia Association, 4 Marty's Yard, 17 Hampstead High Street, London NW3 1PX.

Discount for UKAHPP members

Anger, All Angles

Guy Gladstone

This workshop is designed to do justice to the complexity of anger. It is packed with tried and tested procedures. A guiding assumption is that we need to take responsibility for our anger and be able to choose how we communicate it.To do this requires firsthand bodily knowledge of its workings and this workshop, now on its 23rd repeat, provides exactly that.
There will be opportunities to practice the expression of anger in an assertive mode as an alternative to exploding in a damaging hurtful way or imploding into passive aggression. Cultivating a variety of expressive capacities will be balanced by a focus on anger management, both of your own and other's anger. You will be spared four common and erroneous (but seductive)takes on anger,- naive catharsis, New Age by-pass, corporate positivism, and psychodynamic hubris.
Experiential learning will be reinforced by copious handouts for your ongoing use.

Sunday 4 March 2012 10am-6.30pm

The Open Centre 188 Old Street London EC1V 9FR

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ACT - Experiential Introduction Workshop

Martin Wilks MSc, C.Psychol & Henry Whitfield MSc.

How does the very nature of human language lead to suffering? How can a person commit to living a vital and more meaningful life right now, in spite of emotional or physical pain barriers? Developed within a coherent theoretical and philosophical framework, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behaviour change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility means contacting the present moment fully as a conscious human being, and based on what the situation affords, and changing or persisting in behaviour in the service of chosen values

21-22 April (Group Experiential) + 12-13 May (Skills Training) 2012 4 day course run over 2 weekends Fee: £525

2mins from Kings Cross Station, London WC1.

Discount for UKAHPP members

Bioenergetics Day

Guy Gladstone

Bioenergetics, a body-oriented therapy that emphasises the energetic processes of breathing, movement,feeeling,sexuality and self-expression, addresses interruptions of these life functions.

How does your body respond to stress? How does your body help or hinder your self-assertion? Bioenergetics is about your available energy and your capacity for pleasure. We need to move downwards in ourselves to connect with involuntary core impulses of good feeling and to discover where and how these have been interrupted by physical tension and emotional blocks.

Energising exercises, work with posture and body language,and movement-based expressive loosening-up will be used in pairs, small groups and the whole group working together. Member's needs and their interactions will determine the specific emphases. An overall aim for this Bodyspace weekend is embodiment of balanced functioning between head, heart and gut.

Saturday 9th June 10am-6pm

The Open Centre, 188 Old Street, London EC1V 9FR

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Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy: Experiential Introduction

Patrizia Collard PhD

This four day course teaches you mindfulness interventions (meditations, every-day mindfulness and mindful movement) and will introduce you to ways of identifying and dealing with difficult physical sensations, feelings and moods commonly associated with stress, anxiety, pain and depression. The experience of working in a group can enhance one's own learning as we observe how fellow human beings grow and change.

This course is also appropriate for those who just want to experience MBCT for their own wellbeing.

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy has been developed with the aim of reducing relapse and recurrence for those who are vulnerable to episodes of depression. This empowering way of working has also gained empirical validation. It is needed because the risk of relapse and recurrence in those who have been depressed is very high, and the amount of triggering required for each subsequent episode becomes lower each time depression recurs.

Jon-Kabat-Zinn's book, Full Catastrophe Living (1990; New York: Delacorte) describes many of the methods used in the MBCT programme and is an excellent introduction to clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training, also applicable to chronic pain, anxiety, and stress-related physical illness.

15-16 Sept + 13-14 Oct 2012 4 day course

Location: 11 mins from London Bridge by train. Accommodation available at the same venue for £30/night (Only 2 rooms)

Discount for UKAHPP members

Exploring Erotic Charge in the Therapeutic Relationship

Allison Priestman & Welland Valley CPD

Strong feelings of love or attraction in the therapy room are often experienced as scary or disruptive. In training and supervision erotic feelings are sometimes not explored enough, or else the emphasis is on supressing them. Yet they are a frequent part of therapy and an inevitable effect of the intimacy and intensity of the relationship and can be used as a powerful tool for change.

Allison Priestman will work with here and now excercises, with client material,group discussion, offering supervision and bringing in theory. Themes for exploration include self disclosure, power dynamics, same sex attraction, working with our embodied responses, touch and the erotic, re-enactment, boundaries and boundlessness and anything that you wish to bring for exploration yourself. Allison will create a safe and stimulating training environment and to assist this the group number is restricted to 12. Please book early to avoid disappointment.

Saturday 11 February 2012

Kettering, Northants

Discount for UKAHPP members

Self Harm, Self Care and the Way Between

Led by Dr. Maggie Turp Author of Hidden Self Harm - Narratives from Psychotherapy

This day will cover: An Introduction to the concept of self Harm. Self-harm and suicidality. The subjective experience of the individual who self-harms. Aetiology and function of self-harming behaviour. Self-harm as a multifaceted phenomenon. Continuum of self-harming behaviours. Developmental aspects of self-harming behaviour. Infant experience and psychic skin functioning. Dependency issues in self-harm and self-care. Neurobiology and affect regulation. Self-harm and therapeutic practice. Small group discussion of clinical vignettes. Participants’ clinical dilemmas.
Therapeutic strategies summarised

12th May 2012 10.00-4.00pm

Kettering . Northamptonshire

Discount for UKAHPP members

Courses

One year Foundation Diploma in Integrative Mindfulness Therapy

Integrated Mindfulness Therapy(IMT) Foundation Diploma: Including preparation for Advanced TIRA Accreditation 2009

Henry J. Whitfield

A 10-month Integrated Mindfulness Therapies (IMT) Programme that includes TIR Accreditation. This programme is an essential part of learning to work with Mindfulness as your core theoretical model.
This 60 hour course consists of a mixture of individual supervision, detailed case formulation, review of more challenging techniques, and supervised co-facilitation (exchanging real sessions), followed by written and practical test at the end of the course
During the course, trainees will have the opportunity to focus on their individual training needs, and address the areas of their practice they most need to improve.
Recorded tapes of consenting external clients will be regularly presented to group supervision

Online Tuition

LONDON NW1

Discount for UKAHPP members

Executive Coaching Diploma

Diploma in Executive Coaching and Organisational Development: The Evolution of Leadership, Impact Premium Consulting Services, Greece

Course Directors: Vassilis Antonas, Bernd Leygraf Tutors: Brian Morton, Magda Hatzidimitri

In April 2008, Impact ran the first ever complete training in Executive Coaching and OD Consulting in Greece. Our successful program is being repeated at the moment and will start again in April 2010.
For the third time in Greece, our international team of established experts will provide the next generation of professional coaches and organisational consultants, with the necessary skills to support executives, organisations and themselves in the process of transformation and the evolution of leadership. Impact is an organisational member of the Association for Coaching, which recognises our course.
Our program has already hosted distinguished executives from companies and organizations such as ALBA, AstraZeneca, Eletson, Microsoft, Pharmathen, Rigips, Star Channel, Vestas, Wyeth etc
We look forward to welcoming you on this journey to The Evolution of Leadership.

Email for dates and other details

Athens, Greece

Certificate and Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Counselling

Judi Keshet-Orr & Anita Sullivan (Course Directors) Assisted by Bernd Leygraf, Josie Lipsith, David Hampson & Mark Leach

An integrative practitioner training for those who are working in the field of relationships and sexuality and who wish to undertake a training in this dedicated area of work

Fri/Sat/Sun, every 6 weeks. 10.00-16.00 each day.

Regents College, Inner Circle, Regents Park, London

Pakistan Therapist Training - Core Facilitator required

The first counselling training from a Humanistic/Integrative perspective has been set up in Pakistan and we are looking for an experienced counsellor/psychotherapist professional to be based there to lead the training programme at both Certificate and Diploma levels. The core teaching will be humanistic but there is also a requirement for an understanding of psychodynamic process.

Applicants should have teaching experience at the required levels and also a thorough understanding of working with varied client groups. The work in Pakistan is both innovative and challenging and the goal over the next few years is to introduce this work with a view to therapy in Pakistan being facilitated, practised, taught and supervised internally. At this time overseas professionals are required to launch this initiative The post is based in Karachi but will also entail travelling to Lahore and Islamabad where Certificate courses are being established.

We are primarily looking for people who are willing to commit for six month periods with one months paid leave in the U.K. between each six month stay.

There is also an opportunity for practitioners who can only make an initial three month commitment.

First class accommodation and all practical facilities (cook, driver etc) are provided plus all air fares to and from Pakistan. There is also a provision for partners who may want to accompany the post holder.

Applicants should send a CV and telephone numbers by email to Clare Soloway or call her leaving a land line telephone number on 07939 060108. Email: claresoloway@waitrose.com

Diploma in Executive Coaching and Organisation Development

now in its 13th year ! Accredited by Association for Coaching

Prof Ernesto Spinelli, Prof Andrew Samuels, Dr Anne Litwin, Dr Ilona Eros, Bernd Leygraf, Jaap Westerbos, Dr Hadyn Williams

taught by an international faculty representing psychology, management and organisational development. 20 days over one year. Includes placements with organisations. Ideal for therapists as a conversion course

February to December 2012, 10 weekends, each day 10-17 hrs.

London

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Diploma in Clinical Supervision and Consultancy

in its 16th year !

Prof Andrew Samuels, Prof Ernesto Spinelli, Anita Sullivan, Amanda Larcombe, Dr Nisha Shah, Jaap Westerbos, Bernd C. Leygraf, Ulrike Encke

an Integrative training in individual and group supervision. Offered as weekly evening module or monthly weekends. 16 days in total.

March to September 2012

London

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Diploma in Executive Coaching and Organisational Development - IMPACT PCS 2012-2013

Vassilis Antonas and Bernd Leygraf

In April 2008, Impact instigated the first ever training in Executive Coaching and OD Consulting in Greece, drawing together two distinct disciplines that serve in promoting individual and organisational change. In April 2012, we proudly celebrate our 5th consecutive intake. The Diploma is also run in the UK by NAOS institute and will also soon begin in Spain.

April 2012

Athens, Greece

Diploma in Group Facilitation, Conflict Resolution and Counselling Skills

run in conjunction with the Forgiveness Project

Bernd C. Leygraf, Jaap Westerbos, Marina Cantacuzino,Prof Renos Papadopoulos & more

no formal entry requirements; preparing trainees for AHPP accreditation as group facilitators. One Friday per month plus three 3-day Intensives (Fri-Sunday).

from October 2012, 12 Fridays, 3 three-day Intensives (Fri-Sun), 10-17.00 hrs each day

London

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On-going Groups

Playback Performance

An evening of improvised theatre playing back your stories.
It is entertaining, magical and can be profound and healing.

Meets every 1st Wednesday of the month; 8pm to 9.30pm.

Candid Cafe, Islington ( behind Angel tube)

Mixed Psychotherapy Group

Tone Horwood

The group is offered to men and women who would like to take the opportunity to explore themselves and their relating to others in a group setting. It will have a maximum membership of ten and a minimum of six. The working style will reflect Tone Horwood's joint practice as a Psychotherapist & Dramatherapist but more importantly than that is work towards establishing a safe enough working environment suitable for those who may not have had previous experience of groupwork.

Thursday evenings, 7.15 - 9.15.

Cotham, Bristol

Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Aisha Ali

The group focuses on understanding the impact of abuse in childhood and adulthood.
Although no one can change events that have occurred, you will be encouraged to explore your relationship to experiences and change the way you relate to them in the present.
This work can help you live in the present with more congruence becoming free to relate to others in an authentic way.
This group will offer participants an arena for personal development in a safe environment where individuals can work on their healing in the context of their relationships with themselves and others.

Tuesdays 1.30pm - 3.00pm

West Hampstead Womens Centre, London

Gestalt Therapy On-going Group

AWARENESS & EXPRESSION

Tuesday evenings in Central London


Next entry date: 10 January 2012

Maurice Veale

Weekly Ongoing Gestalt Therapy group.

This experiential therapy group provides an opportunity for you to explore yourself and your relationships. Over time, it can become a "mirror" to your life, enabling you to see more clearly your personal themes, needs, dreams and any habitual ways of satisfying or frustrating yourself.
The group can be a real support and stimulus to your personal development. You can experiment with: new ways of relating in the present, extending your range of behaviour and with ways of dealing with the "past", releasing yourself to present living with more interest and energy.
The group meets weekly for 40 weeks in the year(approx). Enquire at any time for the next entry date.

Facilitator: Maurice Veale a Gestalt Therapist with over 20 years experience of Individual & Group therapy work (accredited as a Gestalt Therapist & Group Therapist with UKAHPP).

www.gestaltbodymind.co.uk

10 Jan-27 March & 24 April-24 July 2012, Tuesdays 7.30pm-10pm,

The Open Centre, 188 Old Street, London EC1, UK.

Gestalt Therapy Group - Monthly

Embracing Life's Transitions

Claire Asherson Bartram

This group has been ongoing for over five years. It runs for a day roughly every four weeks. There is a maximum of 8 participants - at present we have 7.

The group has developed over the years to become a community that supports exploration, self-discovery and contact. We have engaged with many issues, including seuxality, life change, relationships, depression, excitement and anxiety.

Saturdays 10am - 5.30pm

Hampstead Heath Therapy Rooms, Croftdown Road, London NW5

Ongoing Personal Development Group

Professor Helen Payne, PhD, ADMP Fellow/snr reg. DMPp; UKAHP accredited & UKCP registered psychotherapist and group analyst, will be conducting another small, on-going group for those wishing to engage in personal development in a safe, supportive group setting. Using humanistic and group analytic principles it will be both verbal and non-verbal in interaction and expression.

ongoing

Rushden, nr Baldock, Herts

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on-going psychotherapy group

Professor Helen Payne

A small, on-going closed group for those wishing to engage in personal development in a safe, supportive group setting. using humanistic and group analytic principles it will be both verbal and non-verbal in interaction and expression.

starting September 2011

The Empty Space Studio, Redhill, Rushden, Herts SG9 0TH 35 mins by train from central Bondon to Baldock 45 mins by car

Discount for UKAHPP members

Ongoing Bioenergetic Therapy Groups

Group Analytical Body Psychotherapy

Guy Gladstone

Over the weeks an ongoing group deepens contact with yourself and others and enables changes to be recognised and capacity for relationship to develop. I work with embodied attitudes and beliefs as these emerge,from movement interactions, dialoguing, enactment,recent dreams and the story of your week. Groups commence with a quarter hour of bioenergetic voicing, breathing and moving, structures being drawn from a very wide and continuously varied repertoire.

Wednesdays 6-8pm, Thursdays 8-10.30pm, Fridays 5.20-7.20pm Mens Group 10am-12.30pm Fridays

The Open Centre 188 Old Street London EC1V 9FR Mens group at The British School of Shiatsu-Do N7

Lectures/Talks

Internet Porn & Sex Addiction

A Saturday morning lecture with Q & A , networking buffet lunch and meet the trainer.
4.5 hours CPD

Led by Jacob Jacobson

In this Saturday morning lecture, Jacob Jacobson aims to introduce and increase our understanding of sexual addiction and the compulsive use of internet pornography. Special attention will be given to internet porn and its impact on individuals and couples. Case studies will be explored to assist our understanding of the dynamics of hypersexual behaviour and there will be plenty of time for questions, answers and discussion with Jacob afterwards in the lecture room and during lunch. The lecture group size will be approx. 40-45 delegates.

Saturday 19th May 2012 10.00am -2.30pm

Satra House, Satra Innovation Park, Rockingham Road, Kettering, Northants. NN16 9JH Free parking on site.

Other

Consulting room - free use for UKAHPP members

The Empty Space Studio is in the beautiful countryside of north Herts, 10 mins from Baldock, 40 mins from central London

Suitable for short courses/group work/individual work etc.

any time by pre-arrangement

Rushden, near Baldock, Herts SG9 0TH