Low-cost Workshop Programme
September to December 2008

Cost: £65 per day
(UKAHPP Members £40)

These events, presented by UKAHPP members, are open to all

Enquiries to: lindsayfovargue@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 01508 579073

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Booking and other information

Saturday 13th September
in LONDON

Life-Coaching

Life coaching has been defined as a 'solution-focused, results-orientated process' for a range of life and work issues. But what does this mean and how does it differ from other forms of developmental work? It may seem an opportunity to broaden one's work but also a threat to humanistic values. This workshop will explore how a humanistic approach has a major part to play in coaching, what a humanistic coaching session might look like, areas where it might be useful, myths and realities of working as a coach, and offer some practice using a coaching methodology.

John Gloster-Smith, MAHPP, is an accredited member of the Association for Coaching and, along with group facilitation, delivers coaching in organisations and private practice.

Life Tasks: Career, Community and Intimacy

Each individual has to deal with, and somehow find a solution to, Adler's 'three major problems' - Career, Communal Life, and Sex, Love and Intimacy. This participative workshop offers a stimulating forum for exploring the issues of our own 'life tasks'. It will involve a contemporary perspective on the ideas of Alfred Adler, one of the three great founding fathers of modern psychology with Freud and Jung. His humanistic psychology is rooted in our feelings of belonging and this is an opportunity to experience how his ideas are as cogent today as they were then.

Tony Williams, MBACP Acc, was Lecture Chairman of the Adlerian Society for 11 years, and is a widely experienced workshop leader, as well as working in private practice in London for many years.

Experiencing Community

This workshop will start with a session of social dreaming, in which we share dreams and associations, to provide an inter-personal experience of community. We will go on to explore and experience Jung's concept of the mandala, as a means of reconciling internal conflicts, to provide an intra-psychic experience of community. Finally we will look at what is involved in moving between these complementary positions. The emphasis will be on participation, but no special expertise is required.

Guest presenter Laurie Slade has been involved in social dreaming and working with mandalas for many years, writing articles and hosting sessions internationally. He is a UKCP psychotherapist in private practice.

Psychophysical Integration

Psychophysical integration comes from both Eastern spiritual traditions and relational research. In this workshop participants will be introduced to chakra work through experiential exercises and relational touch, based on the idea of 'non doing' - thus experiencing this subtle bodywork on an intra-physic level as well as relationally. This subtle energy work develops conscious awareness and psychophysical balance in self and other. We will find out how and when to use this touch technique in a therapeutic and sensitive way when working with clients.

Brigitta Mowat is an integrative psychotherapist. Glen Park is a group facilitator, theatre director and author of The Art of Changing, currently working on her second book. Both presenters run a postgraduate programme in Psychophysical Integration for Alexander teachers.

Saturday 18th October
in SOUTHAMPTON

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Saturday 15th November
in LONDON

Anger: Friend or Foe

Anger is an emotion, like love, fear or sadness. It is a signal from the body that we wish to change our environment. The impulse that turns the emotion into action - its 'acting out' - may take many forms, including withdrawal, sarcasm, shouting or even violence. Suppressed, it may become depression. In this workshop we shall use the group to investigate our responses to our own anger, and to the anger of others; and explore creative ways of dealing with both.

Henry Fryer, MAHPP, is a counsellor in private practice in Hampshire and a university counsellor.

New Light on the Dialogical Self

This topical workshop is intended for pracitioners interested in the forefront of contemporary thinking in psychotherapy and will draw on the latest information and clinical practice implications arising from the 5th International Conference on the Dialogical Self happening this summer. It will include John Rowan's current work on personification in counselling, psychotherapy and coaching.

John Rowan, a UKAHPP Honorary Life Member, has now given up the notion of subpersonalities as too open to abuse, and has taken up instead the idea of I-positions. This is a great advance, and leads to some very exciting theory and practice which will be explored in this workshop.

Workshops are usually 10am – 5pm; if exact timings vary you will be informed when booking. These workshops do not necessarily represent the views of UKAHPP.

Letters of attendance will be provided.

Bookings to be received at least 1 week in advance of workshop with cheque payable to “UKAHPP” at Lindsay Fovargue, The Garden House, High Common, Swardeston, Norwich, NR14 8DL. Print Booking Form
An acknowledgement and other details will be sent.

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