Workshops

LIVING FROM THE HEART Transformational workshops and retreats

Living from the Heart is based on a an integrative approach drawing on Humanistic, Developmental, Transpersonal, Gestalt, and behavioural and cognitive Psychotherapy. It uses energy-based transformational psychotherapy combining breath work, energy work, yoga, Body Work, Art therapy, Drama therapy & meditation.It has been developed by Aisha Ali.

Aisha Ali AHPP MBACP Reg UKCP She has a background in Dramatherapy, Counselling, Psychotherapy,and Psychosexual Therapy. She has been working in the field for over 15 years, she has studied Chi Kung,Pranic healing, meditation and Yoga since 1991, which fuels her interest in working with energy, creativity and life force (chi, prana). Transformation and healing through the creative process is a central theme of her work.She brings to her practice and approach an appreciation of the healing power of myth ritual and play.

Therapists can benefit from these workshops as part of ongoing personal growth and Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
It can assist qualified counsellors therapists, mental health practitoners and those who work in the caring professions such as social work and teaching to enhance their work with clients. Whilst attending to their own growth it is an inspiring and rejuvanating experience.

20th - 21st March 2010 Sexuality Workshop 20th - 27th May 2010 The Retreat in Italy - Awakening the Heart 10th - 11th July 2010 Relationships Skills Deepening Relationships and advancing Communication Skills 18th - 19th September 2010 The Art of Intimacy Exploring ways of relating 20th - 21st November 2010 Shadow Work Embracing the shadow in relationships

North London Dartmouth Park NW5 Italy, Chilterns, South East

Relational Living Body Psychotherapy

Workshop dates in Birmingham for 2010

Julianne Appel-Opper is UKCP reg. Integrative and Gestalt Psychotherapist, Psychol. Psychotherapist (German State Reg. Psychotherapist), Clinical Psychologist, Supervisor and Trainer with 20 years' clinical experience. In Germany she worked in psychosomatic clinics with a wide range of clients, individually and in groups. For twelve years she lived and worked in various countries (France, Israel, California and U.K.) She is now in private practice in Berlin, Germany. Julianne has developed her approach of the RLBP which she has taught internationally. RLBP has its roots in Gestalt Psychotherapy and draws on concepts from Dialogical Gestalt Psychotherapy and ideas from Relational Psychoanalysis. Therapist and client work within the co-created embodied field. The interventions and experiments are introduced in a mindful step-by-step process in which therapist and client bodily co-refer to each other. The broadcasted messages of the body of the client get acknowledged, validated and receive resonances and embodied messages by the therapist. The Relational Living Body to Living Body Communication reaches and accesses the implicit relational knowledge and makes healing and change possible.

Over the years Julianne has developed her approach of the 'Relational Living Body Psychotherapy' (RLBP). She is looking forward to sharing this fascinating way of working with you.
With this workshops you are invited on a journey into the wisdom of the Living Body. We will draw on exercises, experiential process, live supervision and live demonstrations. Key points are:
Experiencing yourself as a Living Body
The non-verbal language in which the Living Body communicates
The healing power of a 'Relational Living Body to Living Body Communication'
Psychosomatic symptoms and chronic pain as unheard stories in the Living Body

Saturday and Sunday 27 and 28 Feb 2010 Saturday and Sunday 5 and 6 June 2010

at Birmingham Counselling & Psychotherapy Centre Bearwood, Warley Woods, B689 HE

EXPLORING THE MIND IN THE BODY

under the auspices of The School of Psychology, University of Hertfordsire

Professor Helen Payne, UKCP accredited psychotherapist Helen is one of the leading international experts in the field of Body/Movement Psychotherapy. Her recent psychotherapy research in the field of medically unexplained bodily symptoms has shown significant outcomes.

This programme is open to those new to the discipline of working with the embodied mind, as well as those familiar with this way of working in counselling and psychotherapy. Professionals in mental health services together with those wishing to experience this way of working for their own personal development will also benefit from the course.
Applications are open to practitioners trained and qualified in the arts therapies or counselling/psychotherapy and those with substantial personal therapy experience. If your background is outside these areas please contact us to discuss the suitability of the programme for you. A commitment to attend all sessions is required.

Workshop 1: Friday 22 Jan 2010 - 2.15pm -6.15pm Saturday 23 Jan - 10.15am-5.15pm Sunday 24 Jan - 10.15am- 5.15pm Workshop 2: Friday 5 March 2010 - 2.15pm -6.15pm Saturday 6 March - 10.15am-5.15pm Sunday 7 March - 10.15am- 5.15pm Workshop 3: Friday 7 May 2010 - 2.15pm -6.15pm Saturday 8 May - 10.15am-5.15pm Sunday 9 May - 10.15am- 5.15pm

The Garden Room, Letchworth Centre for Healthy Living, Hitchin Road, Hitchin, Herts

Environmental Constellations

Workshop Dates 2010

Facilitated by Zita Cox

Environmental Constellations are a wonderfully versatile and creative tool. They allow us to explore our place in nature and our systemic relationship to other living beings. They assist us in new ways of thinking about and finding resolutions to stuck situations.
"A fascinating technique for slipping past the self-imposed limits of "logical" thinking; Cormac Cullinan author of Wild Law
"A year later, the feelings and experience of standing in the place of a Rainforest have stayed with me" Jane Reed - Institute of Education University of London

April 10th/11th May 8th/ 9th September 11th/12th

London Wales Bristol

Courses

Certificate and Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Counselling

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

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

Modular non residential training (Fri/Sat/Sun) Every 6 weeks. 10.00 -16.00 each day

Regents College, Inner Circle, Regents Park, London

Diploma in Clinical Supervision and Consultancy

For those already supervising or intending to start offering supervision

Course directors: Bernd Leygraf and Judi Keshet-Orr. Additional tutors include Professor Ernesto Spinelli, Professor Darian Leader, Richard Simpson, Anita Sullivan, Jinny Fisher

A 10-month, post-qualification part-time (weekend) structured training programme of 120 hours’ CPD, aimed at counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, nurse managers, occupational therapists, psychologists, therapeutic community managers and case workers in organisational settings.

The Diploma in Clinical Supervision and Consultancy offers counsellors and those in the helping professions the opportunity to develop therapeutic supervisory skills. This represents primary preparation for supervisor recognition as well as an opportunity for continuing professional development for practising supervisors. Course participants may already be supervising, be expected to supervise as part of their employment role or may be new to supervision.
The course was initially set up to meet the needs of supervisors who, in the absence of training courses in supervision and being experienced therapists, simply exercised supervision as an extension of their therapeutic skills. However, our view is that the supervisory relationship requires more than therapeutic skills – not every good therapist is necessarily a good supervisor!

The training focuses on core competencies for supervisors, which are different from therapeutic skills. The teaching also recognises the consultative and relationally-based aspects of supervision. The course content has evolved over recent years and many leading practitioners in the field have contributed to its current shape.

The teaching philosophy is integrative – practitioners representing a wide range of theoretical orientations are invited to apply. We aim to establish a multidisciplinary environment where theoretical differences and similarities are encouraged and where trainees can learn from each other as well as from the course tutors.

The course culture is explicitly “high support” and “high challenge”.

February 2009 - December 2009 The dates in 2009 are below, 10am - 5pm each day: Friday 6, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February Friday 6 and Saturday 7 March Friday 27 and Saturday 28 March Friday 29 and Saturday 30 May Friday 5 and Saturday 6 June Saturday 4 July Friday 25 and Saturday 26 September Friday 9 and Saturday 10 October Friday 20 and Saturday 21 November Friday 11 and Saturday 12 December

London, Regent's College

One year Foundation Diploma in Integrative Mindfulness Therapy (IMT): Including preparation for Advanced TIRA Accreditation 2009

Integrated Mindfulness Therapy(IMT) Foundation Diploma

Led by: Henry J. Whitfield MSc (CBT/REBT) Accredited Advanced TIR trainer and TIR practitioner (TIRA)

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 (includes written and practical test). Call 0800 849 6723 to discuss eligibility

Mindfulness Training Ltd, Studio One, Utopia Village, 7 Chalcot Road, Primrose Hill, LONDON - NW1 8LH

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

Counselling (Humanistic) Foundation Degree FdA

Richard Carroll and Maggie Lomax

Research into counselling outcomes has consistently demonstrated that it is the quality of the relationship between the client and counsellor that has the most profound effect. It is this quality of the relationship - based on a deep knowledge of the self and the other - that lies at the heart of this course. The theoretical framework is humanistic with the clinical focus on person-centred and Gestalt theory and practice. These schools of thought are best understood within an existential view of life and the individual, allied to notions of freedom of choice, self-responsibility and the search for meaning based on genuineness and self-realisation. Skills development includes working creatively in therapy and explores the theory and methods such as bodywork, imagery and dreams.

2 years full-time 1 day per week plus occasional weekend workshops or 9 weekends per year plus tutorial and workshops on weekend days.

Guildford College, Stoke Park Campus, Guildford, Surrey GU1 1EZ

Certificate in Psychosexual Health - a one year training. CPD: 150 hours

This unique, integrative one year training offers an opportunity for personal and professional development for practitioners wishing to enhance their work with clients' psychosexual health.

Cabby Laffy UKAHPP, UKCP

The course will cover physiology and anatomy of sexuality, sensuality and body awareness.We will explore sexual identity, relationship issues,sacred sexuality and desires for a sexual future, including social and cultural aspects of sexuality. Attendance is required for all dates plus six hours minimum reflective practice per month.

This course runs for 10 Friday evenings and Saturdays, once a month. October 2010 - July 2011

Spiral Centre, Islington London N7 6DL

Diploma in Integrative Psychosexual Therapy - a one year training for therapist. CPD 150 hours

The Diploma is for those who have successfully completed the Certificate in Psychosexual Health or equivalent,and wish to consolidate theory with clinical practice

Cabby Laffy

The Diploma will expand on information and the model of psychosexual health taught on the certificate. It will focus on client work, working with individuals, couples and groups.
Attendance is required for all dates

One Friday evening and Saturday a month, 10am - 5pm, plus a minimum of six hours per month homework. October 2010 - September 2011

Spiral Centre, Islington London N7 6DL www.spiralcentre.org

Body Image and Identity at Roehampton University

An exploration

Aisha Ali AHPP MBACP Reg UKCP

This workshop will explore working body image and identity. One characteristic people often hold in common who has eating disorders is a high level of body dissatisfaction or negative body image; they are deeply displeased and highly critical of their body. Displeasure is a more accurate
indication of how they feel on the inside than how they look on the outside.

Body image is a complex concept. It is of a mercurial nature, the self-image we have in our mind's eye. It is affected by all relationships with family peers media and all of life's experiences, and how people believe others perceive them.
A healthy body image includes having a realistic picture of our body, accepting this image without fear or shame, recognizing the wholeness and connectedness of our body, mind, and spirit, and allowing ourselves to experience our infinite capacity for pleasure.

Learning outcomes
. The workshop will provide and introduction to techniques to use with clients when working with body image.
. Understanding origins of body image. Storytelling, including the role of the mother and father's body in relationships with their daughter and or son.
. Learn to work with negative and positive core beliefs and how to
help clients transform these.
. Exploring body image and its impact on sexuality
. Working with Body image and eating disorders

This workshop-style event is suitable for anyone who is interested in body image and identity for themselves, or for practitioners who want to support their work with others. It is intended for practitioners from across the spectrum of talking treatments and psychological therapies, both experienced practitioners and those in training, which are interested in developing an understanding of working with body image and identity in their practice.

27/03/2010 - 10am to 5 pm

Whitelands College,Roehampton University

Impact Premium Consulting Services, Greece-Executive Coaching Diploma 2010-11

Diploma in Executive Coaching and Organisational Development: The Evolution of Leadership

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.

April 2010-February 2011, 10 weekends (one per month) 10.30 to 17.30

Athens, Greece

Working with Sexual issues and sexuality at Roehampton University

exploring sexuality in therapy

Aisha Ali

Concerns about sex and intimacy are common. This workshop will address working with sexual issues. Exploring the feelings that arise, including shame, the work can evoke in both our clients and us. Many of our experiences of love, intimacy and sexuality are linked unconsciously to
feelings of shame; guilt or fear and we do not always recognize that our thoughts about these topics prevent us from fully expressing and receiving love.

This workshop will introduce ways to help you and clients to develop a healthy sense of sexuality and desire and be able to integrate this into a developed practice.

Learning outcomes
. The workshop will provide and introduction to working with sexuality
and intimacy.
. Transform negative and positive core beliefs.
. The workshop will be skills based and will focus on: assessment, transferential issues and relationship dynamics, using directive and non-directive practice.
. Communication, sexual issues, psychosexual counselling and ethical complexity.

The workshop is suitable for anyone who is interested in these areas for themselves, or for practitioners and those in training who want to support their work with others who wish to expand their knowledge and skills in working with psychosexual issues. It has been designed to contribute to
the continuous professional development needs of qualified practitioners who work in the field of mental health

17/04/2010 Time 10am to 5 pm

whitelands College,Roehampton University

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

Facilitated by: Tone Horwood. Tone Horwood has been working with groups for 30 years in private practice and within the public sector and has taught Dramatherapy and groupwork skills. He is registered with the UKCP and the Association of Humanistic Pyschology Practitioners and with the Health Profession Council as a Dramatherapist.

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

Facilitator: 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.

Tuesday 1.30pm - 3.00pm

West Hampstead Womens Centre

Gestalt Therapy On-going Group

Tuesday Group in Central London

"AWARENESS & EXPRESSION"

Next entry date: September 1st

Maurice Veale

Weekly ongoing Gestalt Psychotherapy group.

An experiential therapy group meeting weekly for 40 weeks in the year(approx). This mixed group is suitable for those with and those without previous therapy experience. Enquire at any time for the next entry date.

Facilitator: Maurice Veale an experienced Gestalt Therapist (accredited with AHPP) and also UKCP registered Gestalt Psychotherapist.

www.gestaltbodymind.co.uk

Time: Tuesday evenings 7.30pm - 10.0pm. Dates: Sept 1st. to Dec 15th. Jan 5th to March 30th. April 27th to July 27th.

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

Therapy Group for Women

Central Brighton

In this group we will use a combination of structured exercises as well as free discussion time where individuals may bring issues that they wish to explore. The direction of the group will be influenced by what each person brings. This is an on-going group organised on a termly basis with a minimum commitment of one term. The group will be facilitated by Kate Perrins. Kate is a Full Member of the AHPP and a UKCP registerd Psychotherapist. If you have not worked with Kate before she would like to meet you before you join the group.

This is an ongoing Women's group in which participants have the opportunity to reflect on their relationship with themselves and others.

Our self-esteem needs regular maintenance. Being able to give and receive honestly, support and contact others nurtures self-esteem and growth.

Interpersonal work in a supportive environment can enhance self-esteem.

Monday evenings 6.30-9pm (September 8, 15, 22, 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17, December 1, 8) One Saturday (11 October)

The Centre For Mindfulness Based Education 28 New Road Brighton BN1 1UF

Art for the Heart

Art Therapy Workshops

Hephzibah Kaplan is a State Registered Art Therapist and Psychotherapy Supervisor and has been running independent art therapy workshops at CCPE for 10 years. Hephzibah is also art therapist at the Arbours Crisis Centre. She has a wide range of clinical experience with both adults and children.

Art for the Heart workshops have been part of the London scene for the past 10 years. Abundant art materials, a relaxed atmosphere and humorous provocation combine to create a high-energy workshop. This is an opportunity for you to express yourself in a way that is creative, free and authentic. It is also tremendous fun.

Each week you will meet to have some fun with paints, and to engage in provocative dialogue. You may find the process helpful in releasing stress, getting in touch with your inner artist, gaining confidence in freestyle painting and learning to be less judgmental of yourself and others. The workshops are especially beneficial to people who never have any time for themselves.

WHO IS IT FOR?
The workshops are designed for anyone willing to participate in a high-energy creative environment. It doesn’t matter if you think you can’t paint or draw. Previous participants have included accountants, city analysts, counsellors, graphic designers, mothers, musicians, psychotherapists and teachers, as well as artists.

Each week there is a different theme explored. Collectively the workshops are designed to explore and develop different aspects of your creative self.

You may book individual workshops selectively or you can book for the whole term. However to avoid disappointment (to yourself and others), you will need to pay in advance as places are allocated on a ‘first paid, first served’ basis.

Mondays 7.15-9.15pm

The Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, 2 Warwick Crescent, London W2

Mindfulness - Awareness - Presence

Using Mindfulness practice and the Gestalt Approach in a
therapeutic Group Setting

Amely Becker

This group offers you practice in mindfulness. It also uses group process and therapeutic interventions to facilitate personal growth. You are invited to participate in the supportive experience of learning how to develop mindfulness and discover your inner dimension where thoughts create our good and bad experiences in life.

Practicing mindfulness will enable you to become more aware of your thought process. You develop an awareness of your thoughts and in that awareness discover the simplicity of being present with that awareness rather than following and solidifying unhelpful thoughts. Being present is the key to grounding your attention in daily life and this attention helps to relax the identification with our thoughts, in particualr the thoughts that cause our negative emotional, physical and mental states.

Through interaction with group memebers you are supported to share your experiences and we will focut on our personal issues that might arise from your mindfulness work.

September: Sunday 27th October: Sunday 25th November: Sunday 29th, each day from 11.00am - 4.00pm

North London, To be announced upon making contact with Amely

Gestalt Therapy Group - Monthly

Embracing Life's Transitions

Facilitated by 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 10.00 - 5.30

Hampstead Heath Therapy Rooms, Croftdown Road, London NW5

A Men & Womens Group

Explore the Three Major Life Areas, Career, Friends & Community, and Intimate Relationships, with a view to setting new goals.

Thursday 25th March 2010

51 Bassett Road London W10 6JR

Other

Hampstead Heath Therapy Rooms

Therapy Rooms for individuals and groups

Lovely consulting rooms for therapists and counsellors in North London in a quiet location, with easy public transport links and a vibrant local community. Near Hampstead Heath and local shops and cafés

Weekdays for individuals and groups, weekends for groups only.

Dartmouth Park area

Exploring the Mind in the Body

Residential with
Professor Helen Payne 3-7 December 2009

Helen helped to pioneer the development of dance movement therapy in the UK and is a Fellow and Senior Reg. Member of ADMT.UK. She has been working as a psychotherapist using words and movement, (UKCP Reg.), a trainer and researcher for over two decades both in clinical and private practice. She has published widely in the field, in seven languages, was previously Head of Counselling and is now a Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK where she teaches and supervises counselling, PhD candidates and arts therapists. Her clinical experience with children with autism and emotional/learning difficulties together with her research projects has influenced her approach. She first discovered Authentic Movement in 1979, since then studied during intensives for seven years with Dr Janet Adler and has her permission to teach the discipline. She is trained in Person-Centred Counselling and Group Analysis. This together with experience of Laban Dance/Analysis, Buddhist meditation, Analytical Psychology, Process-work, and Shamanism helps her to provide a safe, creative and transformative environment.

This retreat is for practitioners trained and qualified in counselling/psychotherapy or the arts therapies with substantial personal therapy. If your background is outside these areas (such as dance artist or psychologist) please contact Helen to discuss the suitability of the course for you. No experience in dance is required. Others with suitable and relevant qualifications will be considered. You will need an aspiration to inhabit your body more fully and to re-discover your authentic nature through bridging psyche, soma and spirit. Some applicants participate regularly for on-going training, some for personal development, whilst some are new to the circle.

Start 4pm, Thurs 3 December 2009; Ends 11.30 am Monday 7 December 2009

We will gather in the beautiful Buckden Towers, a retreat centre in Cambridgeshire, UK. Easily reached by air (Stansted nearest airport), road, rail from London.www.centre.claret.org.uk

StepIn ASAP; Advancing Stepfamily Awareness through Psychotherapy

Presentation and Social Evening

Dr. Claire Asherson Bartram Sue Fox Debbie Friedman Angelika Wienrich

We are a group of psychotherapists who work together to research stepfamily situations and increase our understanding of the issues they raise. We all work with stepfamily members, and many of us have personal experience of stepfamily situations in our own families

If you are a counsellor or psychotherapist who shares an interest in stepfamilies come and join us. During the evening, you can get to know what we are doing and where we are going. There will be a presentation, time for discussion, and an opportunity to become involved in this growing organisation.

Friday March 19th 2010

London NW5 area.