Training with the SCC

Continuing Professional Development Programme 2012 

 

Mindfulness - Miranda Bevis

28^th January 2012

10.00 – 4.00pm

Cost: £55

(Maximum 8 places)

By learning to increase our awareness of moment by moment experience, we can develop a different relationship with what distresses us.  This can significantly reduce stress and promote mental and physical wellbeing.  In this workshop, we will explore what is meant by mindfulness both in discussion and in experiential work.  We will think about how it can enhance our own lives, as well as being incorporated into client work.

Miranda Bevis is a BACP accredited counsellor and an accredited EDMR practitioner.  She works at the Somerset Counselling Centre as well as in private practice.  She has completed a course run by Bangor University in teaching Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.  Miranda incorporates teaching Mindfulness skills into her work with counselling clients.

 

Couple Counselling - Assessment and Intervention - Barbara Bloomfield

4th February 2012

10 – 4.30pm

Cost: £55

(Maximum 12 places)

Following the couple counselling day last autumn, Barbara Bloomfield is returning to look at how we assess couples for counselling work.  Are there contra-indications to couple work?  How do we judge whether couples can make use of what we have to offer.  The day will include working with couple issues and looking at the role and positioning of the counsellor.  We shall try out some interventions in a safe place which encourages experimentation.

Barbara Bloomfield has worked for Relate since 1994 and is currently Counselling supervisor for Relate Avon and Exeter and district.  She is the author of several books, including “The Enemy Within,” “The Dating Game” and the “Relate Guide to Finding Love.”

 

The Art of Psychodynamic Therapy seminars – Noelle Adler

8 seminars held on alternate Fridays 2.30 – 5.30pm

2nd; 16^th & 30^th March; 27^th April; 11^th & 25^th May; 22^nd June & 6^th July 2012

Course fee: £200

(Maximum 10 places)

This course is open to students and therapists who would like to learn more about the Psychodynamic theory and practice.  The course will be a combination of theory and experiential and aims to offer insight into how the model works.   This course would also be suitable to counsellors already trained in the psychodynamic model who would like to have an opportunity to explore this way of working further.

Noelle Adler is an Accredited Counsellor and supervisor working with individuals and couples both within the NHS and privately.  Noelle currently teaches on the Certificate, Diploma and Postgraduate courses in Psychodynamic counselling in Totnes.

 

Reflective Writing: Myself and Others on the Page – Chris Banks

21st April 2012

10.00 – 4.00pm

Cost £55

(Maximum 12 places)

Back by popular demand! Another chance to use writing for personal and professional development. Writing can show us what we didn’t know we knew and illuminate, for instance

• the nature of our personal and working relationships
• our unconscious feelings, beliefs and motivations
• our values
• our significant life events and their emotional impact
• repeating themes and patterns
• personal strengths and limitations
• the way others view us and relate to us
• our habitual ways of responding to e.g. love, loss, academic work
• ways to resolve conflict
• feelings and behaviours that restrict effectiveness in our lives
• hopes and fears
• our relationship to the world

Counsellor and writer Chris Banks will take you through a number of writing exercises followed by pair and group discussions to take you deeper into your own experience. You do not need to be able to write ‘correctly’ or to have any experience of creative writing to take part.

Loss, Grief, and Change – Paul Hoggett

Saturday 13^th October 2012

10 – 4.00pm

(Maximum 25 places)

Cost: £70

Any kind of change involves loss, having to give up something. Paradoxically many people who seek help from counselling and psychotherapy come to us precisely because there is a powerful part of them that finds it hard to give up their unhappiness. Indeed to this part of the self the very idea that change is needed seems unjust. It is as if a powerful sense of grievance is clung on to and nursed.

In this workshop we will explore the dynamic relations between change, loss, grief and grievance and will consider how the inability to work though loss has important consequences for individuals, groups and societies. Clinical case studies will be combined with case studies of communities and societies in transition and opportunities will be provided for participants to apply learning to their own practice.

Paul Hoggett is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and member of the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy. He is also Professor of Social Policy at the University of the West of England and the author of several books, the most recent of which is Politics, Identity and Emotion (2009).

Understanding Attachment - Rainer Schiedel

Saturday - 24 November 2012

10.00 – 4.00pm

Cost: £55

(Maximum 12 places)

This workshop is aimed at counsellors and therapists, who want to explore the impact of attachment behaviour in the therapeutic relationship. Participants will explore the processes involved in human attachment and identify how, when and why secure attachment may become interrupted and undermined. Participants will have opportunity to explore different styles of insecure attachment behaviours and how this may be expressed in the therapeutic relationship. Participants will be invited to reflect on their own attachment experiences and how this may contribute to the relational encounter in counselling and therapy. There will be opportunity to explore creative ways of experiencing and working with insecure attachment behaviours in counselling and therapy.

Rainer Schiedel is a Psychodynamic Counsellor and Integrative Psychotherapist with 20 years’ experience of working therapeutically with adults, children and young people, couples and families. Before qualifying as a psychotherapist Rainer worked as a Social Worker, mainly with children, young people and families. Rainer currently works part-time as the Principal Therapist for an independent national fostering agency. In the remaining time, Rainer runs a private psychotherapy practice and works as a clinical supervisor for a couple of voluntary agencies, as well as supervising individual counsellors.

 

To book a place:

• Email: info@scctaunton.org.uk
• Confirmation of a place can only be made on receipt of full payment

(Early bird booking paid in full one month in advance of training day £5 reduction)

 

CPD certificates will be given to participants on the day

(Light refreshments will be provided.  Please bring own lunch, sandwiches can be bought locally.)

 

All workshops will be held at SCC, 38 Belvedere Road, Taunton except Paul Hoggett: “Loss, Grief and Change” (venue to be confirmed)

 

Please make cheques payable to Somerset Counselling Centre and send to:

 

Mervyn Roberts

Administration Manager

Somerset Counselling Centre

38 Belvedere Road

Taunton

TA1 1HD

Telephone 01823 337049 

Somerset Counselling Centre (SCC) provides an accessible counselling service in Taunton and the surrounding area.

We can help with issues such as relationship breakdown, depression, anxiety, bereavement, trauma, stress and workplace issues.

Taunton: Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm

Bridgwater and Ilminster: time by arrangement.

SCC has been working since 1990 and is accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). We abide by the BACP Code of Ethics and Practice and aim to achieve the highest standards of service.