Previous workshops have included:
Lifting the Lid on Hidden Shame
With Lesley Brown
Shame stretches along a continuum from existential through to toxic and dysfunctional shame. This course offers steps for identifying and constructively using the sensitive and vulnerable feelings of shame. It will also provide the space to look at the 'role' of the therapists shame in his/her clinical practice.
Assessment
With Mark Van Gogh
In the course we will explore counselling and psychotherapy assessments; what they are, why we do them, and how we do them. The day will cover assessments in private practice as well as within a variety of organisational settings, looking at good clinical practice in assessing for a range of factors including risk, mental health issues, and 'psychological mindedness'. We will consider what it might mean to include a transpersonal perspective in assessment. The day will include teaching, group discussion and role-play.
Mark Van Gogh is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor. He works in private practice and for a number of organisations, including Kensington and Chelsea College, Westminster Mind, Re•Vision and City Lit, where he teaches a number of short courses including Assessment in Counselling.
Demeter and Persephone; Emotional Cycles - Seasons Cycles
With Sarah Van Gogh
"Although the question of how to live does not arise for other animals, the problem for human beings is very real, as we have transcended the limitations of our instinctual programming..."
David Edwards, 'Free to be Human'.
Sheltered as many of us are in the West, by a constant supply of light, water, food, heat, entertainment, and opportunities for communication, we are still fundamentally animals that are linked viscerally to the sounds, smells, temperatures and quality of light in our environments.
Using the ancient myth of the Goddess Demeter's outrage and grief at her daughter's rape and disappearance, and the resulting failure of the human harvest, this day will focus on how we, as practitioners, might see the difficulties that clients bring to sessions as part of the deep natural cycles and patterns at play around us.
Sarah Van Gogh is a BACP accredited counsellor and tutor at Re•Vision. She is a published poet, and has worked in the fields of theatre, community health and nursery education.
Suffering In Extremis
With Ewa Robertson
Transpersonal Psychotherapy has traditionally concerned itself with the interface between psychology and spirituality. Integrative Psychosynthesis regards that interface from the perspective of embodied soul. With a rapidly changing world, what does Integrative Psychosynthesis offer those suffering in extremis, by they victims of torture, war, asylum seekers, victims of domestic violence, terrorism, or natural disasters? What is the place of soul when urgent assistance is needed today to help clients to manage extreme levels of stress and trauma?
This workshop will be in two parts over two evenings:
1. Theory of Trauma
Understanding trauma, its physical and psychological impact drawing selectively on methods of healing from contemporary psychotherapy based on neuroscience, relational and body therapies within an Integrative Psychosynthesis framework.
2. Clinical Practice
Application of clinical skills for working with the traumatised client from a soulful and intersubjective perspective with case examples.
Ewa Robertson is a co-founder of Re.Vision. She has a background in mental health social work, qualified as a psychosynthesis psychotherapist in 1984 and holds an MSc in The Psychodynamics of Human Development. She works as a supervisor, trainer and registered psychotherapist.