CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 2009/10This page informs you about Chiron's advanced training and professional development courses for practising counsellors and psychotherapists during the academic year 2009/2010. You can download the programme booklet in printable pdf-format by clicking here | |
| Introduction | Quick Links: |
| How has Body Psychotherapy developed and what does it offer now ? | Calendar of Events |
| The new view of the body-mind relationship | Diary & Course Guidance |
| Current Body Psychotherapy and how it differs from traditional Body Psychotherapy | Somatic Trauma Therapy |
| Body Psychotherapy's shadow aspects and inherited wounds | Embodied transference and countertransference |
| Chiron Body Psychotherapy: a relational model of the body/mind both intra-psychically and intersubjectively | Working with Illness |
| Exploring the Mind in the Body | |
In this programme we are offering practitioners from other therapeutic schools and orientations the opportunity to acquire - in condensed and concentrated form - the most promising and essential concepts, skills, qualities and techniques which comprise Chiron work.
All of the courses in this programme are based on the assumption that your practice will be deepened, enriched, and intensified through an attention to yours and your client's whole body/mind. And we would expect this to apply across various client populations, not just those with immediate psychosomatic complaints or physical presenting problems.
This assumption is rooted in a relational framework which attends to the parallel processes occurring across the body/mind spectrum in client, practitioner, and in the therapeutic relationship.
Rather than merely complementing your current style and approach, or seeking to replace it with another set of concepts and tools, it is our aim to enhance your work by extending it into a body/mind framework.
Rather than simply help you glimpse the insights and paradigm shifts of modern neuroscience, many of our courses are designed to be specifically translated into your psychotherapeutic paradigm, and thus applied to your everyday practice.
In recent years, approaches such as traumawork, EMDR and cognitive-behavioural therapy have increasingly taken on board body-oriented techniques. However, the application of these techniques requires embodied timing and attunement - so, in addition to these techniques, we teach the corresponding body-based skills of perception, a holistic framework and, most importantly, awareness of the therapist's own body.
We are offering this advanced programme in our belief that :
Some specific learning objectives for counsellors and psychotherapists are:
We have designed this programme of Continuing Professional Development events and courses in recognition of three changes in the field over recent years:
1. Modern neuroscience has de-constructed the still prevalent 19th century mind-over-body bias inherent in most counselling and psychotherapy: our profession is based on assumptions regarding the mind, the body and their relationship which are recognised as out-dated, misleading and insufficient. We will detail some of the key points below.
2. Like the rest of the field, the Body Psychotherapy tradition has 'grown up' from its heydays in the 1970's and 80's. However, a widespread confusion between bodywork and Body Psychotherapy has left many assumptions and prejudices, which are also out-dated and no longer apply to current Body Psychotherapy theory and practice.
Chiron has been at the forefront of these changes within the Body Psychotherapy tradition, bringing a more integrative and relational perspective. In comparison to other therapeutic approaches these developments are much less widely known, as they have not been written up and documented. We will summarise some of the key developments below.
3. We are receiving an increasing number of requests from practitioners trained in other approaches for input regarding the body, its relational and unconscious significance, subliminal and non-verbal communication, and the psychosomatic connection. These requests are not usually for a whole second training, but for body-oriented input relevant to their main approach which enhances and deepens the work within their own modality by expanding awareness - in regard to both client and therapist - of the full body/mind spectrum.
Recent developments in neuroscience, psychoanalysis, consciousness studies, genetics, traumawork and other interdisciplinary sciences (e.g. complexity theory), have led to a paradigm shift regarding our understanding of the body-mind relationship. Psychotherapy of the 21st century, in whatever shape or form, cannot afford to ignore the emerging paradigm which has transformed our hierarchical conception of mind-over-body into a more mutual and co-created notion of the relationship between mind and body. The brain as the central computer, managing the organism in top-down fashion, has been deconstructed as a hopelessly inadequate and misleading metaphor. Yet most psychotherapy theory, practice and meta-psychology is still pervaded by it. The field of counselling and psychotherapy needs to take on board these challenges to its underlying paradigm.
Insight, understanding, reflection, words and language (the left-brain) can no longer be seen as the only or even the dominant factors for change in the therapeutic relationship. We now recognise that the previously taken-for-granted bias towards the mind has pervaded our perception of reality and led to misapprehensions in every field and respect, including counselling and psychotherapy.
As elsewhere, we are only now beginning to work towards a more balanced view of cognition and affect, the brain's cortex and the limbic system, the central nervous system and the autonomous nervous system, the electrical brain and the biochemical brain (which is not at all restricted to the head only, but operates throughout the body). In the past only the first item of each of these pairs has been valued, recognised, researched, thus restricting our appreciation of holistic functioning and self-organisation of the body/mind as a system.
Parallels between the client-therapist relationship and the infant-mother dyad are being recognised, in that emotionally-attuned interaction affects physiology and anatomy and vice versa. Our embeddedness in a social, relational context does not mainly rely on speech and cognition, but is rooted all the way down in biology. The human body/mind is a complex, multi-dimensional system of reciprocal feedback loops and parallel processes, which we can never do justice to with a simple, linear, mind-over-body meta-psychology.
With practitioners having taken an increasing interest in neuroscience and attachment theory, one question has remained largely unaddressed: how to apply this knowledge to counselling and psychotherapy - on our own terms? Or more specifically: how to translate these insights into practice, without submitting to the un-psychological scientific tendencies they come packaged with ? How to include these insights without losing our therapeutic and relational 'homeground' ?
There is one therapeutic approach where the otherwise neglected and repressed body has been championed: the Body Psychotherapy tradition. Since the 1930's, Wilhelm Reich and his followers have developed a set of perceptive, theoretical and practical tools which attend to the body, emphasise its role in therapy and work with it. A sophisticated developmental theory and typology has been complemented by powerful techniques, based on radical assumptions about the body/mind, many of which are now being confirmed by neuroscience. However, the Body Psychotherapy tradition has paid a high price for developing its specialist expertise - like every other approach it has its wounds and gifts. There are shadow aspects, areas of undifferentiated perception and one-sided and biased habits and assumptions. These shadow aspects have not passed unnoticed, and have led to criticisms and also prejudices against Body Psychotherapy. But in the same way in which other approaches have moved on since the 60's (e.g. Gestalt, TA, psychoanalysis), Body Psychotherapy has done so, too.
At Chiron we have struggled with these inherited wounds for the last 20 years. We have listened and learnt from other theories and approaches, and tried to integrate these into a more comprehensive, relational and integrative formulation of Body Psychotherapy. We would like to make available to you the 'best' that Body Psychotherapy now has to offer, with a minimum of its traditional baggage.
Here we give a brief summary of the main themes and issues we have struggled with (for a more detailed discussion, please visit our website: www.chiron.org).
Out of an underlying idealisation of the body, which tries to reverse the cultural dominance of the mind over body, Body Psychotherapists have tended to use the body in an un-relational, un-psychological way. Body Psychotherapy, for all its championing of the body, has had an inherent tendency to objectify the body, to break through the armour, to undercut the defences or to access primary impulses. This has generated both an emphasis on catharsis on the one hand, and an emphasis on gratification on the other, leading to a lack of containment and boundaries, and dangers of regression and re-traumatisation.
The more Body Psychotherapy was confused with and reduced to pure bodywork, the more it was seen to be treating the body rather than also relating to, and from, within it. As a consequence not much attention has been given to the transference, let alone the countertransference, prompting the prejudice that Body Psychotherapy boils down to a set of body-oriented, often provocative techniques. The relational dimension had got increasingly lost, or reduced to a caring, reparative therapeutic position, without much understanding that client and therapist co-construct the therapeutic space. Body Psychotherapy was pervaded by a simplistic identification of the unconscious with the body, and did not actually do justice to the whole body/mind although that was its professed aim.
In the past, Body Psychotherapist were in the habit of seeing the mind as 'the problem' and the body as 'the solution'. At Chiron we recognise this as one possibility, but rather than simply reversing the cultural dominance of the mind over the body (as Body Psychotherapy has tended to attempt historically) we now do see body and mind as mutually and reciprocally related.
In relation to all of these themes and issues we have tried, both personally and as an organisation, to embrace our own motives for being attracted to Body Psychotherapy, and to work these through emotionally as well as theoretically.
Originally, Body Psychotherapy had to take a polarised position in the field, reversing the dominant mind-over-body paradigm and postulating a body-over-mind priority, illustrated by Fritz Perls' statement: "lose your head and come to your senses". But rather than simply counteracting or complementing the inherited bias within our tradition, for example by balancing catharsis with containment, we have tried to address the polarities underlying our inherited bias. This, we feel, allows us now to do justice to the physical-energetic, the emotional and imaginal-symbolic as well as the relational aspects, each equally on their own terms and together as facets of the whole that is the therapeutic relationship.
In terms of the body-mind polarity (and other polarities inherent in the therapeutic endeavour), we are moving towards a paradoxical position which can embrace both ends of the spectrum. We thus hold onto the original impulses of Body Psychotherapy, but without the biased and polarising dogma which necessarily characterises the origins of any approach.
Chiron, since its beginning in the early 1980's, has always been inspired by the image of the 'wounded healer', but now - with the notion of 'embodied countertransference' - this has become a central pillar of the work moment-to-moment. Although we are drawing eclectically from a wide variety of humanistic and psychoanalytic theories and techniques beyond traditional Body Psychotherapy, we think of our work now as integrative, in the sense that we are not just integrating contradictory theories, but working with the forces of integration and dis-integration in the therapeutic relationship, as paralleled on all levels of the body/mind in client and therapist.
In recognising the subjective reality of an 'inner world', including conscious and unconscious processes, we share a modern psychoanalytic perspective of the self, as - for example - expressed by Mitchell ("Can Love Last", p. 44): "Psychologists and philosophers have traditionally portrayed the self as a very knowable indeed: the self is built of stable and predictable structures; carries a continuous core self; at the heart of the self is a singular kernel that, if safety is presumed, seeks validation. But there are newer theoretical currents that portray the self as much more inaccessible, decentered, fluid, and discontinuous."
Our body/mind perspective confirms and enhances Mitchell's view of the contextual, shifting, open-ended process qualities of the self. In recognising how this subjectivity interweaves and communicates with others, we work relationally, intersubjectively. But in addition, we pay attention to how both intrapsychic and interpersonal realities organise themselves across the whole body/mind spectrum as a particular and individual matrix between the poles of wholeness and fragmentation, and all the dynamic shades in between. What we call 'potential wholeness' may be elusive, but it is not merely wishful thinking or an ideological programme - it is an experiential reality. Winnicott referred to the possibility of the "psyche indwelling in the soma" and its vulnerability to being aborted through developmental injury. We want to be equally sensitive and available to the inexorable potential wholeness as well as the existing pain, damage, injury and fragmentation.
A holistic perspectives does not see body and mind as two separate and opposed entities, but as interdependent and 'one'. However, this precious theoretical perspective often blinds holistic theorists and practitioners: in idealising unity of body and mind and working against what they correctly call a 'body/mind split', they can neglect or override the actual 'felt sense' of an 'inner war' between 'mind' and 'body'. At Chiron we are interested both in the split or the disconnection between mind and body and their potential integration and wholeness. We are not habitually biased for or against duality or unity of body and mind, but work with the tension between the two, attending first and foremost to 'what is'.
Common sense awareness can readily identify an inner duality between physical and mental processes, and this is inextricably linked to the psychological suffering which people bring to therapy. Clients report body/mind fragments which constitute their 'inner' experience: wounds and disturbances of the self, buried trauma, defences and internal objects enter the room as sensations, movements, symptoms, feelings, images and thoughts and transmit their subjective reality to the therapist via these communicative channels.
Whether satisfying or frustrating, creative or dysfunctional, the client's characteristic patterns of relating, both to themselves and to others, are tied into body/mind patterns of sensing, feeling, acting and thinking. The multitude of processes across the spectrum from physiological to emotional to imaginal to mental constitutes the client's sense of self - as conflicted and pressurised or fragmented and broken or as robust and whole. A significant feature of that potential wholeness is the way the reflective, symbolising mind relates to spontaneous events throughout the body/mind and vice versa.
Rather than idealising the body and 'treating' it as if it had 'the answer', we now ask: how does the mind relate to the body ? how does the body relate to the mind ? what is the existing relationship between body and mind which constitutes the systemic-holistic context for the psychological problem? And what other (past and current) relationships does this resemble, repeat or re-enact?
This emphasis on the relational aspects of therapy has been a growing trend in the field. For us this means paying attention to the vicissitudes of transference, countertransference as both subtle and intense body/mind processes (including biopsychological interactions such as internalisation, merging, evacuation and projective identification).
Grasping the biological as emotional, psychological and mental has long been a feature of Body Psychotherapy, but we have now refined this into a model which is both learnable, applicable and accessible whilst doing justice to the inherent body/mind complexity of the therapeutic relationship. Our model builds on the essentially relational nature of psychotherapy, but goes beyond rather vague notions (like the 'quality of relationship') and formulates a holistic phenomenology of relating which puts the idea of parallel process and re-enactment at the heart of a holistic-relational perspective.
We see these ideas as having a bearing on all the psychological problems that clients commonly bring to psychotherapy and as forming a significant and easily-accessible feature of the pain and suffering we are called to be involved with. Most of these ideas can be applied and integrated across the range of therapeutic approaches, maybe in modified form. We are confident they will have an enriching and clarifying effect on your therapeutic thinking and will help to deepen and intensify your practice.
We are obviously continuing to develop and learn and whilst we are excited about sharing this 'work-in-progress' with you through the courses offered in this programme, we also invite you to participate in this collective process and contribute to it.
Tel.: 0208 997 5219
E-mail: chiron@chiron.org
Besides advanced training courses in Body Psychotherapy, Chiron offers an Open Programme with experiential courses. We also run a clinic and have a referral service offering one to one psychotherapy, Biodynamic Massage, Psychotherapy groups and supervision. Please ask for details.
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Building Bridges between Trauma and Personality ‘Motoric Haiku’ - Resource-oriented skill training in trauma work 3 weekend workshops with Merete Holm Brantbjerg Merete will teach a comprehensive range of resources, and coping strategies, to support both client and therapist in coping with states of high anxiety and arousal, which can be utilised as interventions in any therapeutic process. Merete’s approach centers on ‘specific psyche’, ‘soma functions’ and practical skills to manage the impact of trauma, invaluable for therapists who work relationally. Therapists, working with trauma and shock, are often impacted by client’s trauma states, by their own trauma history, and by the transference relationship. Please note that this is an external course not held at Chiron. All enquiries to CABP, c/o Dianne Chipperfield, 32A Coppetts Road, London N101JY, dianne.c@zen.co.uk Trauma, safety and boundaries Dates: 19/20 September 2009 Times: 9.30am - 5.30pm Venue: External Fee: £220 This workshop will focus on training the skills that support and re-establish presence, safety and a contained personality state in the here and now. Basic skills, such as the ability to center, ground, and establish boundaries are always impacted in traumatic situations. Our personal boundaries and integrity are set aside or “blown apart” when survival is the primary focus. In the relationship between the therapist and the client, the knowledge of basic skills, to manage and regulate both hyper- and hypo- arousal and the shifts between them, becomes crucial. The ability to find and optimize safety is a major factor in handling current, as well as past experiences of trauma and high stress. We cannot “land” from high arousal until safety is established bodily, emotionally and territorially. For both therapist and client, focusing on body sensing and on sensing boundaries as a physical and energetic reality, helps this process. Remaining centered and grounded when facing and meeting challenge, optimizes our “landing platform”. The fee for this course is £220. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £73 by 28/8/2009. The remaining fee of £147 is payable by 11/9/2009. Authority and trauma Dates: 6/7 March 2010 Times: 9.30am - 5.30pm Venue: External Fee: £220 This workshop offers training to support both therapist and client. Authority issues often get triggered in trauma, leaving us with unresolved patterns in relation to outer authorities and our own inner authority. These issues can be re-enacted in the transferential relationship between therapist and client i.e. locked into roles like victim, persecutor and rescuer. The memory of an unreleased trauma stays in us - often in a defended dissociated form. The trauma memory can become an inner authority, related to in different ways as compliant or defiant or one-up or one-down. Healing trauma is about owning and releasing the energy of these locked authority positions, through the interrelation of the client and therapist. These interactions are challenging. As therapists we need skills and awareness to support us in staying present, capable of containing all the powerful inner states that circulate consciously and unconsciously in the relational field. The fee for this course is £220. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £73 by 12/2/2010. The remaining fee of £147 is payable by 26/2/2010. Identity and trauma Dates: 18/19 September 2010 Times: 9.30am - 5.30pm Venue: External Fee: £220 Integrating our experience of a traumatic event, challenges both the psychological self and the bodily self. For both therapist and client, relating to trauma demands the expansion of: our capacity for understanding, our value system, our perception of reality and our identity. Healing and integrating trauma often involves an identity crisis. The focus of this workshop is to understand the changes our identity goes through after traumatic situations. Merete will be teaching the training skills, that support this transformational process. Typical phases in the identity process will also be presented. The fee for this course is £220. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £73 by 27/8/2010. The remaining fee of £147 is payable by 10/9/2010. | |
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To be or not to be a mother An integrative and exploratory approach with Sheila O’Sullivan and Caroline Duggan Dates: 24/25 October 2009 Times: 10am - 5pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £200 Many women expect that they will be mothers at some point in their lives but statistics show that an increasing number of people from their late 30s onwards are without children. Some women consciously choose a childfree life while others struggle with the pain and bewilderment of medically unexplained infertility. A growing number of women undergo the medical intervention of reproductive technology, with its emotional and physical consequences. Mothers too can be ambivalent about their role and their children. Our experience and research shows that women feel isolated with these feelings which remain taboo in our society. These can be amongst the existential issues that propel clients into therapy. They will necessarily impact on us too as therapists as we meet these stories from the perspective of our own relationship with generativity. This will have been constellated through our experience as children in the mother/ baby dyad, through which we will as adults, have an internalised relationship to a real or imagined child. As body psychotherapists we are interested in how these issues manifest somatically both in the client and the therapist and how this impacts upon the relationship. Using concepts from the work of object relations, relational psychoanalysis as well as Jungian archetypes we would like to inquire how these theories can inform our work. There will be an experiential component in which we will use our own clinical material to gain a bodily understanding of how these issues impact on our work. We will use guided visualisation, body awareness exercises, role play and discussion of theory and practice to deepen our understanding of these issues. The fee for this course is £200. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £70 by 2/10/2009. The remaining fee of £130 is payable by 16/10/2009. | |
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Head and Belly with Jochen Lude Date: Sun. 8 November 2009 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 In our culture, including the culture of counselling and psychotherapy, we are accustomed to use our heads to learn, our minds to understand. We tend to think that we know if we can ‘get our head around it’. But such left-brain knowledge, acquired through the mind only, is one-dimensional and therefore only partially true knowledge. We are not encouraged to use our knowing from within, our gut feeling, instinct, intuition, our belly sense. We need to re-educate ourselves to trust this other dimension of knowing as well and to connect the mind (head) with the gut (belly) to gain a kind of two-dimensional knowledge. How do we use our head, how do we use our belly when we are with our clients? Do we feel the gap or can we sense the connection? Does our head rule the belly or the belly the head? We will discuss and explore these questions, hopefully with both our heads and bellies. This workshop is suitable for therapists who are not used to working directly with their client’s body and who are open to experiential learning. Please note that this is the last time Jochen will give this workshop before his retirement. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 17/10/2009. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 31/10/2009. | |
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Missed Messages - Public and Media Understanding of Psychotherapy with Fergus Cairns Date: Sun. 15 November 2009 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 What are our core beliefs, experience and knowledge about psychotherapy and how it helps? Can we find our own succinct and powerful ways to put them across, without jargon or mystique? Does our own discipline of body psychotherapy have a suspicion of the verbal or have concepts especially difficult to convey in everyday language? With statutory regulation of psychotherapy looming, it has become more important than ever to convey the value of psychotherapy to a society that is more comfortable with scientific concepts of cure than with process and subjective change. This workshop will explore our personal beliefs about psychotherapy but then also look at how efficacy data can be used to underline them. We will look at how these can be condensed into core messages and also look at analogy and narrative as ways to bring them to life. We will then use dialogue roleplay sessions to test their robustness in interview. This workshop is designed to benefit therapists who need to explain psychotherapeutic concepts to the media, to funders and commissioners, to interested friends and potential clients. It should also help writing skills needed for case studies, dissertations and articles. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 24/10/2009. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 7/11/2009. | |
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Working with Illness in Counselling and Psychotherapy with Michael Soth The introductory evening and more so the two workshops are designed to provide you with theoretical and practical tools which you can integrate into your work, whatever your experience or orientation. The workshops will include a mixture of activities, including experiential work, roleplays and skills practice, building on participants’ learning needs and resources.The theoretical input will be supported by handouts, papers and references. Who lives in the symptom? Who wants to get rid of it? Dates: Fri. 20 November 2009 Times: 6.30pm - 9.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £50 This evening is designed as a brief, but fairly comprehensive overview of the many ways in which we can approach physical and psychosomatic symptoms psychologically, as they present themselves in counselling and psychotherapy practice. As officially they do not fall within our ‘job description’, the client’s physical problems and illnesses pose some tricky questions for us: - is there ‘meaning’ in illness ? - does the client want to know about it ? - and if so, how can we find out about it ? - and if we do, will it make a difference to the symptoms ? The field - including the complementary therapies - consists of a plethora of approaches and paradigms in pursuit of ‘health’, and all deserve to have some input into our therapeutic response to somatised and somatic symptoms. Based on the notion that “nobody can be wrong all the time” (Ken Wilber), we will find that they potentially complement each other and there is some purpose and meaning in each of them. As an introduction to approaching the symptom relationally and holistically, I will suggest a simple categorisation of the many relevant approaches, in an attempt to expand Freud’s ‘talking cure’ into a 21st century body/mind ‘relating cure’. I will distinguish eight ways of relating to the symptom, drawing on a wide variety of often contradictory therapeutic concepts and techniques. This evening will help you orient yourself in how to bring a bodymind perspective to your clients’ symptoms without stretching beyond the psychological foundation of your therapeutic approach and work. The fee for this course is £50. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £20 by 29/10/2009. The remaining fee of £30 is payable by 12/11/2009. Workshop 1: Bringing holistic-relational understanding to psychosomatic symptoms Dates: Sat. 21 November 2009 Times: 10am - 5pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 Clients bring psycho-physical states (addictions, intense feelings, panic attacks, tensions etc) as well as their psychosomatic symptoms and illnesses to us, in the hope that counselling and psychotherapy can somehow deal with them, alleviate them, respond to them. How can we do this within the framework of what for most practitioners is largely a verbal interaction ? We need some kind of model that helps us bridge body and mind and gives us an avenue into the links between them. This workshop is designed to lay the perceptive and theoretical foundations for working with the client’s whole body/mind in engaging with somatised and somatic symptoms. Using roleplay with one particular client, we will explore step-by-step to identify some ways in which you can build up some working hypotheses about the emotional function and ‘meaning’ of your client’s symptom or illness. The aim is to develop some principles which you then can apply to other situations arising in your practice. For a more detailed outline of some learning objectives for the day and the topics we will attempt to cover, visit www.soth.co.uk Unless you are familiar with the material, it is advisable to attend the seminar “Who lives in the symptom ? Who wants to get rid of it ?”, taking place the previous Friday evening. This will prepare the day and help you get the most out of the workshop. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 30/10/2009. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 13/11/2009. Workshop 2: Working with the transformative potential of the symptom Dates: Sun. 22 November 2009 Times: 10am - 5pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 This workshop builds on the models introduced on the previous day, and extends and translates them into techniques and interventions. Without acquiring skills in a whole other field (like bodywork, massage or some other complementary therapy), what avenues can counsellors and psychotherapists pursue to access and work with the roots of somatic and psychosomatic symptoms ? Through our sensitivity to the quality of relationship and our experience in working with it, we can bring attention to the relational dynamics inherent within the symptom. This is a neglected aspect of health care which can have profound and unexpected impact. Body awareness and attention to spontaneous processes arising in relation to the symptom allow us to formulate psychotherapeutic interventions that are consistent with your established way of working. Whatever your approach, the workshop is designed to help you develop your own creativity and spontaneity as a practitioner as well as accessing the client’s. For a more detailed outline of some learning objectives for the day and the topics we will attempt to cover, visit www.soth.co.uk Unless you are familiar with the material, it is advisable to attend both previous events. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 31/10/2009. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 14/11/2009. |
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Exploring the Mind in the Body with Roz Carroll We are living in exciting times. Radical breakthroughs in grasping the complex physiological basis of mind are emerging. For this seminar, Roz has drawn on body psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, holistic theories and recent neuroscientific research. You will explore both ‘hard’ facts and ‘soft’ processes to deepen our understanding of the body. Each evening will focus on the psychological function of a different body system through experiential exercises, theoretical input and discussion generated by the different perspectives of the participants. There will be a syllabus, reading list and handouts given to those who enrol. The Working Relationship between Brain and body Date: Fri. 27 November 2009 Times: 6.30pm - 9.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £50 This is a new introductory lecture to the seminar series. The body is neither the origin, nor the end point of self-knowledge - it is part of a continual feedback loop, that connects us to ourselves, and our social and physical environment. The more we learn about the organization of the brain, the more we can appreciate how we think through the body: the systems of self-regulation, of automatic subliminal resonance with and reading of others’ bodies, and the way this information overlaps with the multiple, fluid composite maps of our own states. Advanced research on different functions of brain regions can give us a new perspective on the dynamics of subjectivity and intersubjectivity. The fee for this course is £50. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £20 by 5/11/2009. The remaining fee of £30 is payable by 19/11/2009. Seminar 1: Development Date: Fri. 15 January 2010 Times: 6.30pm - 9.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £50 Neuroscience, psychoanalysis and body psychotherapy all agree that patterns laid down in utero, infancy and childhood carry on into adulthood in the form of personality and its embodiment in physiological structure. This seminar provides an overview and introduction to the major themes of the course. The fee for this course is £50. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £20 by 24/12/2009. The remaining fee of £30 is payable by 7/1/2010. Seminar 2: Bones Date: Fri. 12 February 2010 Times: 6.30pm - 9.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £50 The skeleton is our framework. It mediates our relationship to gravity, a constant force affecting our lives. It effects and is a reflection of our capacity to co-ordinate, balance, and articulate in spatial, perceptual and conceptual fields. It contributes to the organisation of our thinking. The fee for this course is £50. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £20 by 21/1/2010. The remaining fee of £30 is payable by 4/2/2010. Seminar 3: Muscle Date: Fri. 12 March 2010 Times: 6.30pm - 9.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £50 Muscle enables us to act and react, to reveal or inhibit. Muscle is the convergence zone for habits, skills, and emotional learning, in other words, conscious and unconscious intention. Patterns and textures in muscle tone embody conflicts and resources which tell the unique story of an individual. The fee for this course is £50. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £20 by 18/2/2010. The remaining fee of £30 is payable by 4/3/2010. Seminar 4: Fluids Date: Fri. 16 April 2010 Times: 6.30pm - 9.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £50 Blood, lymph, and cellular fluid are the stream which carries our feelings through the body. The quality and intensity of our feelings depends both on the biochemical content of fluids (hormones, peptides, antibodies) and how connective tissue encysts, contains or disperses the fluids. The fee for this course is £50. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £20 by 25/3/2010. The remaining fee of £30 is payable by 8/4/2010. Seminar 5: The Senses and the Skin Date: Fri. 14 May 2010 Times: 6.30pm - 9.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £50 Via the senses and the skin we have contact with the world around us. How we transform, are nourished by, block or distort the world is intimately related to how we use our senses and our skin. The senses are dynamic and the interplay between them can create or reduce our sense of ‘depth of field’ in life. The fee for this course is £50. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £20 by 22/4/2010. The remaining fee of £30 is payable by 6/5/2010. Seminar 6: The Nervous System Date: Fri. 18 June 2010 Times: 6.30pm - 9.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £50 The autonomic nervous system, a key link between the internal organs and the brain, determines changes in arousal/relaxation and where energy is directed in the body. It articulates patterns relating to survival in both the short-term (flight, denial, aggression etc) and the long-term (processing, absorption, releasing). The fee for this course is £50. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £20 by 27/5/2010. The remaining fee of £30 is payable by 10/6/2010. |
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Bodywork in Psychotherapy: A Lost and Forgotten Trade? with Claudius Kokott Dates: 28/29 November 2009 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £200 There was a strong movement towards the body in the 1970s, and then it moved away. We can see this development in Freud’s life: he started by working with his clients’ bodies, because he recognised the embodied nature of soul, but the longer he worked, the more he became aware of the difficulties that came with touch, and eventually gave up. Many body psychotherapists make similar experiences and end up questioning the therapeutic value of bodywork. Unfortunately the potential particularly for touch to contact a deeper truth that resides in the body then gets lost as well. We risk limiting the information that we can obtain about the client’s process through touch, and also our ability to catalyse the healing aspect of body psychotherapy. This seems a pity in a society where touch deprivation as well as invasion are rife. This two-day workshop attempts to show how we could engage with the difficulties inherent in bodywork without giving up on it. I particularly want to emphasise that some therapeutic tasks are simplified by bodywork (for example, work with boundaries, resistance, contact and meeting the client) at the same time that some are complicated by it. I would hope that participants will reconnect with their own enthusiasm for bodywork. The fee for this course is £200. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £70 by 6/11/2009. The remaining fee of £130 is payable by 20/11/2009. | |
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Embodied transference and countertransference (1) A series of workshops with Michael Soth This series of events (three days and one weekend) is designed to make the bodymind complexities of the therapeutic relationship more accessible to you. Whether you are familiar with psychoanalytic theory or not, attention to the client’s and your own bodymind processes will help you deepen your understanding of the relational dynamic between the two of you. This will enhance your work, whatever your therapeutic approach or orientation. ‘Bodymind’ refers to the whole spectrum from the physiological, hormonal, neurological through the kinaesthetic, gestural and postural to emotional, imaginal and mental processes which constitute our being-in-the-world and our sense of self. Sharpening our perception of the myriad of subtle cues and non-verbal messages which are part of every interaction helps us get into closer contact with the client’s inner world and their emotional process moment-to-moment. This perspective incorporates the insights of modern neuroscience, but only in terms of their relevance and practical application to our work. Throughout the series, we will slowly build the perceptive and reflective tools to access the insights of the ‘countertransference revolution’, i.e. the idea that the therapist’s subjective experience contains elements which give us information about the client’s inner world. We will use a simple and practical distinction - between habitual and situational countertransference - to unpack the complex intermingling of the client’s and the therapist’s wounds and realities. Participants will be invited to use examples from their own practice in roleplays which will give us live material for attending to relational dynamics. Your own therapeutic modality sensitises you to particular aspects of these dynamics and will help you observe and bring out some of the patterns and significant features of the interaction. Practitioners from other approaches may be able to highlight other aspects, helping us to build up an integrative-relational model. There will be space to apply the learning to your own practice. For a more detailed outline of some learning objectives for the course and the topics we will attempt to cover, visit www.soth.co.uk. It is advisable to take these four workshops in sequence. Please note that the 4th workshop ‘Embodied Transference’, will not be held this year, but will take place again next year. A body/mind perspective on transference Dates: Sat. 5 Dec. 2009 or Sat. 23 Jan. 2010 Times: 10am - 5pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 The territory of transference in the therapeutic relationship can be approached through questions such as: - what is your experience of the working alliance with the client ? - in what situations does the working alliance seem superficial, ambiguous or threatened ? - how can we understand the dynamic between client and therapist in these moments ? - how, for example, do you understand and respond to the client’s accusations that therapy is not working, or makes things worse ? - how does the client’s ‘wound’ enter the room ? - is there any way in which the client seems to be resisting or avoiding the therapeutic process (in your perception)? - what past experiences, attitudes and assumptions is the client transferring to you or to therapy generally ? - in what way may the client’s expectations from you and their assumptions about therapy be part of their problem ? Using roleplay, we will start by attending to each participant’s own perception of the patterns, pathologies and dysfunctions of a particular client. In exploring the bodymind detail of the client’s reality, their wound and its history, we will also attend to its here-and-now manifestation in relation to the practitioner. Together we will try to establish a developmental holistic-relational of the client’s wound. The day will enable you to translate a working understanding of transference as bodymind process to other clients. Please note that this workshop is offered twice, on 5/12/2009 and 23/1/2010. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 13/11/2009. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 27/11/2009. A body/mind perspective on ‘habitual countertransference’ Dates: Sun. 24 Jan. 2010 or Sat. 22 May 2010 Times: 10am - 5pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 This day is concerned with our own assumptions regarding the therapist’s role, task and responsibilities and the nature of therapeutic change. However, we will not attempt to discuss the philosophical or theoretical ‘truth’ of these beliefs and assumptions. Rather, our task for the day will be to pay attention to each practitioner’s construction of their therapeutic stance and then explore the actual bodymind experience of being in that stance. The assumption is that this is likely to contain aspects of a ‘habitual position’ for each of us which we take regardless of the client in front of us, hence ‘habitual countertransference’. I am assuming that this ‘habitual position’ is partly inherited from our personal and partly from our therapeutic ancestors, and that its implicit stance is more influential on our work than our beliefs about therapy. There will be no intention at all to change that position - only an invitation to deepen our awareness of its bodymind reality and its impact on others. What can often be found within our habitual position is our own wound as well as the wisdom and the healing potential of that wound. This will involve asking questions, such as: - how do I habitually protect myself as a therapist ? - how does that affect the therapeutic space I offer ? - what models and therapeutic beliefs constitute my identity ? - what realities do they sensitise me to ? - what difficulties do they help me avoid ? - what other models do I polarise against or miss out on ? - how do I cope with the pressures of the therapeutic position? - how do I process the effects which the client’s transference is having on me ? This exploration may shed some light on repetitive issues in your practice, like therapeutic impasses with certain client groups, clients leaving after a certain time, money and payment etc. This day also prepares the ground for the following workshops, in terms of clarifying the particular lens and stance through which you process the client’s conflicts and how they impinge on you. Please note that this workshop is offered twice, on 5/12/2009 and 23/1/2010. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 2/1/2010. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 16/1/2010. A body/mind perspective on ‘situational countertransference’ Date: Sat. 19 June 2010 Times: 10am - 5pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 In our cultural context, the propositions of the ‘countertransference revolution’ are still largely unknown and radical: the client’s inner world can manifest in the therapist’s countertransference experience. One person’s unconscious can communicate itself to another and appear in their subjective stream-of-consciousness reality. This day will allow you to establish your own experiential bodymind foundation for this proposition. Traditionally, countertransference has been approached in terms of either the client’s or the therapist’s ‘stuff’, and how they may trigger each other’s wounds. The notion of ‘enactment’ can take us beyond this idea of a meeting between two ‘one-person-psychologies’, especially if we attend to it as a bodymind process. - what is your experience of the ebbs and tides of the working alliance ? - how do you deal with difficult countertransference responses (dislike, impatience, attraction, helplessness, etc) ? - what can these tell you about the client and their wound and their experience of the therapeutic relationship ? - how may your perceptions of the client be coloured by enactment ? - how may your reflections on the client be part and parcel of the dynamic ? - how may your interventions exacerbate (or be experienced as exacerbating) the client’s wound ? This day will introduce an extended notion of ‘parallel process’ (see Soth, M. (2005) ‘Embodied Countertransference’ in: Totton, N. “New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy”: OUP), both theoretically and experientially. Applying this integrative concept to the rest of your practice will enable you to investigate situational countertransference in your work. Please note that this workshop is offered only once this year. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 28/5/2010. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 11/6/2010. | |
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Introduction to Time-limited Work with Michaela Boening Date: Sun. 6 December 2009 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 There has been a growing demand for time-limited work in recent years. Many voluntary organisations are offering placements to starting counsellors and psychotherapists but also to a practitioner in private practice clients are sometimes referred for time-limited work. Time-limited work requires the use of specific skills, such as an emphasis on contracting and focus; and an interactive and flexible style of the practitioner. This one day workshop will give you the opportunity to explore the difference between time-limited work and open-ended work, your feelings, fears and anxieties, about time-limited work; and how to adapt to a time-limited frame. We will look at various issues such as contract, skills, tasks, focus, ambivalence, expectations, ending. Although the training in long-term psychotherapy will have addressed those skills, their application in a time-limited context often needs a conscious change of attitude in the psychotherapist. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 14/11/2009. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 28/11/2009. | |
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Working with Borderline and Narcissistic Tendencies with Alun Reynolds Dates: Sat. 9 Jan. 2010 and Sat. 30 Jan. 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £200 Therapeutic relationships expose borderline and narcissistic tendencies both in our clients and in ourselves. This may confront us with our biggest headaches, heartaches and bellyaches from which we may learn and grow if we are willing. This workshop will focus on: 1. getting a clear roadmap of the psychodynamics of both the borderline and narcissistic structures, based on the work of James Masterson and Donald Fairbairn. 2. integrating this with body psychotherapy perspectives such as the character structures of Alexander Lowen. 3. demonstrating how to work with borderline and narcissistic tendencies including embodied approaches, and identifying the main principles and pitfalls in effective treatment. 4. discussing cases and examples. 5. practising skills. The workshop will consist of two days. The second day will be two weeks after the first day to allow time to try things out and come back to reflect on what happened. The fee for this course is £200. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £70 by 18/12/2009. The remaining fee of £130 is payable by 1/1/2010. | |
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My Desire - My Shame with Jochen Lude Date: Sun. 10 January 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 Jochen says: My desire is to live a fulfilled life. I want to still my hunger and thirst. I want to reach out for contact and gratify my curiosity. I yearn to love and be loved. I want to embrace the world with all of who I am. I want to satisfy my sexual desire. My desire originates from within the deepest layer of my Self. Thus the phenomenon of desire has an innate organic movement towards its object. What happened originally to me and my desire when we were met in relationship with others? From the very beginning of my existence I am exposed and confronted by a world I so much want to be part of. It has its own agenda and guides and judges me accordingly. It has taught me the standards of what is right and wrong. By using guilt and shame, it helped me to behave and act ‘appropriately’, according to its moral code. Thus I developed my conscience (positive) and my judge (negative). Unfortunately, this process suppressed my spontaneity, aliveness and instinctual power in order to make me socialised and acceptable. My shame originates from my judge and I want to withdraw, hide, cover my face and avoid contact. All this is in stark contrast to my desire to live a fulfilled life. In this workshop I want to explore experientially in more depth the correlation between desire and shame . I will use body awareness and guided imagery. In addition to the experiential work with yourself, there will be also space for clinical discussion, to which you are invited to contribute. Please note that this is the last time Jochen will give this workshop before his retirement. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 19/12/2009. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 2/1/2010. | |
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Getting out from Under the Superego: Freedom to be who we are... with Anne Melvin Date: Sat. 16 January 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 We know from developmental theory and character structures that we emerge from the first five years of our lives with a self-image and way of being in the world that becomes our identity. We develop an inflexible sense of who we are, how others are and how the world is. Our rigid sense of identity is maintained by the structure of the Superego. This ego structure is a coercive agency which maintains the standards, values and beliefs of our parents and other voices of authority from the past. It does this in various ways. It may serve as an inner critic who is constantly criticising our every move. The Superego keeps us in line, living on the surface of ourselves and cut off from our deeper potential, with our life-force dampened down. Every time we take a step towards freedom and challenge the rigid boundaries of our personality, the Superego will attack, because its function is to protect and maintain the status quo of our conditioned sense of identity. Its function is oppose change and transformation because it perceives these as a threat to our survival. The day will be a mix of experiential work, enquiry and theory. Intended outcomes of the day: o Understanding of the origin, purpose, structure and functioning of the Superego o Insight into your relationship with your Superego o Capacity to begin to recognise the voice of your Superego and to see its influence on your body and mind o Understanding how to integrate working with the Superego into client practice The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 25/12/2009. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 8/1/2010. | |
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Ways of Working with the Body An opportunity to integrate Body Psychotherapy with other approaches with Bernd Eiden Dates: 6/7 February 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £200 We will learn to use some techniques of ‘vegetotherapy’ to access spontaneous, unconscious material held in the body. It is a fundamental principle in Body Psychotherapy that neurotic symptoms and defences have a psycho-physical correlation. Involuntary movements from within the body and emotional and vegetative discharge are considered vital for the completion and healing of a suppressed psychic complex. The basic concept of ‘vegetotherapy’, as developed by W. Reich and refined by other schools, will be introduced to you. By exploring sensations and feelings in different parts of the body - using the understanding of segmental theory - it will be illustrated how unconscious material can be evoked when focusing on a particular body gesture, a special breathing pattern or through movement. Tuning in to inner sensations and feelings enables a deepening of contact to oneself and to others. This weekend course is designed to help you acquaint yourself with these ideas in an experiential way. We expect you to be willing to work as client as well as therapist. Please note that this may be the last time Bernd gives this workshop because of a longer, open-ended sabbatical. The fee for this course is £200. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £70 by 14/1/2010. The remaining fee of £130 is payable by 28/1/2010. | |
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Antidepressants - If psychotherapy was available for everybody, would the NHS still need them? with Sue Jenkins Date: Sat. 13 February 2010 Times: 10.30am - 1.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £50 We shall begin by looking at the diagnosis of “clinical depression”,the classification of antidepressants and how the main classes of antidepressant are believed to work. I shall briefly describe some clinical cases, and participants will be invited to bring their own clinical examples. This will be followed by a discussion, during which participants will be invited to reflect on their experiences during their psychiatric placements and in their client work. I would like to discuss some or all of the following, depending on the interests of the group: - the questionable effectiveness of antidepressants, particularly SSRIs - drug company propaganda - the placebo effect, including significance of doctor/patient relationship - how is psychotherapy affected, when clients are taking antidepressants? - what might antidepressants offer that talking doesn’t? - are the most important effects of antidepressants physical, eg. improvement in sleep, appetite, constipation, energy levels? - if so, could these be achieved by other means, eg. massage or other forms of body work This workshop is aimed at trainees and qualified therapists, who have either completed or who are currently completing their psychiatric attachments. It is open to counsellors and therapists using different approaches as well as body psychotherapists. The fee for this course is £50. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £20 by 22/1/2010. The remaining fee of £30 is payable by 5/2/2010. | |
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The Continuum from Deprivation to Contact to Invasion with Claudius Kokott Date: Sat. 20 February 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 In psychotherapeutic work, we often struggle with the question of how to make ‘healthy’ contact with our clients: contact that supports their expansion and wellbeing and not their neurotic habits. This tends to be particularly delicate with clients who have either been neglected or abused in early childhood. Both deprived and abused clients generally don’t recognise healthy contact and may need to learn to overcome the obstacles (fears) on their path to health through human contact. In this one-day workshop, we will do a mixture of exploring client material in theoretical discourse, role-play or live supervision, and hands-on bodywork involving touch. The workshop could be of particular interest or therapists who work with abused and / or deprived clients. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 29/1/2010. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 12/2/2010. | |
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Ethical MOT the CABP Ethics and Equal Opportunity Committee with Chair of Ethics Committee: Doron Levene Date: Sun. 21 February 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 The CABP Ethics and Equal Opportunity Committee would like to invite you to a join them in a day of contemplating and reflecting on some of the ethical issues we may face in our clinical practice. The list below is by no means comprehensive and the day will be open to dilemmas and conflicts brought by participants from their own practices. The day will be led by members of the Committee and will explore both the practical as well as the clinical relational implications of such issues as well as legal aspects where relevant. Contracting and Ethical dilemmas around contracting o To give or not give a contract and if to give what do I say, does it have to be written or can it be verbal? o How much to charge and how can I make distinctions in fees? o What about cancellation 24, 48 hours or even a week’s notice, what is fair and should I negotiate? o Keeping written records what am I required to keep and who can read them? o A client refers a friend - should I agree and what to consider? o A client comes with an addiction problem and the last 5 clients I have worked with, on addiction issues, have not made much progress ...what to do? o How much holiday do my clients get, if at all, how many session should I insist a client attend? Taking care of the dimensions of your practice and self-care. o Who do I turn to when I need clinical help? o What if my supervisor isn’t very helpful with certain clients? o How can I get involved with self-study groups? o How many clients should I see a week? What is too much? o My client invites me to their wedding/gig/theatre performance, what to consider? o My client wants to bring their husband to see me and they both agree, what happens next? o My client owes me fees and now has lost their job, I can’t afford to take them as low cost, how do I handle this situation? Complaints procedure o Where do I find the Complaints Procedure? o Am I obliged to inform my client about the Procedure? o What do I do if a client complains against me? o What can I do if I reach a dead end, an impasse with a client and they are threatening to leave? The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 30/1/2010. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 13/2/2010. | |
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The Intersubjective Body with Tom Warnecke Date: Sat. 13 March 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 Whenever two people meet, a continuous exchange of signals takes place which influence and modulate the bodily and psychic states of both participants. Two sensory-motor systems and two autonomic nervous systems become aware of each other and begin to respond, interact and relate in some way or form. The open loop physiology of our limbic and motor systems is designed to compare our own emotional state with that of another which enables us to resonate, regulate, predict and respond. We activate our own limbic, somatosensory, and motor representations while perceiving the intentions, actions or emotional states of others. A functional self-other distinction is crucial to understand and relate to what we perceive in others. In the therapeutic alliance, we can explore our bodily and psychic sense of self as an emergent phenomenon of intersubjective relatedness. We can watch and listen to the symphonies of mutual exchange and observe the internal adaptations, psychic and bodily, in ourselves and in the other. We can be curious about each others styles and patterns of relatedness, their embodied rhythms and intricacies, and how we impact each others psyche and soma. We can explore excess or lack of muscular armoring as disruptions of relational vitality within a two person system. We can rely on our psyche and soma to invite the other’s body and psyche into relatedness, both with each other and in our relationship. The workshop offers an opportunity to explore embodied intersubjectity and the psyche-soma intricacies of self-other relations through movement and experiential group work. This event is also suitable for therapists who are not used to working directly with their client’s body and who are open to experiential learning. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 19/2/2010. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 5/3/2010. | |
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Working with Breathing with Jochen Lude Date: Sat. 20 March 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 Breathing plays a fundamental part in Body Psychotherapy and is seen as the bridge between the voluntary and involuntary system of the organism. Sometimes we are mindful of our breathing and we can influence it voluntarily: we can stop breathing for a while and we can make ourselves in- and exhale at a given pace. But most of the time we are not aware of our breathing and it ‘just happens’ involuntarily; we also breathe involuntarily when we are asleep or after running a certain distance when we can’t help breathing very fast. Paying attention to a person’s breathing and having a sense of its quality and rhythm, it minute changes and nuances can lead us into their subjective world of feeling. It can help us in attending to subtle messages from the unconscious. The breathing rhythm resembles the rhythm of the sea. Inspiration is the building up of the wave and expiration is the falling of the wave. Inspiration is expansion, expiration is contraction and this rhythm is movement, is pulsation. Every living organism pulsates. Generally speaking, the more freely it can pulsate, the higher the living quality. In this workshop you have to opportunity to become familiar with a range of exercises and intervention skills for working with breathing patterns which we have developed. This workshop is suitable for therapists who are not used to working directly with their client’s body and who are open to experiential learning. Please note that this is the last time Jochen will give this workshop before his retirement. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 26/2/2010. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 12/3/2010. | |
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Psychophysical Integration: Working with the Chakras as a Developmental Map of the Psyche with Glen Park Date: Sun. 21 March 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 Psychophysical Integration comes from both Eastern spiritual traditions and Western developmental and relational research. In this workshop participants will be introduced to a way of understanding the chakras as a developmental map of the psyche. We will learn through experiential exercises and relational healing touch, thus experiencing this gentle bodywork on an intra-psychic level as well as relationally. This subtle energy work develops conscious awareness and psychophysical balance in self and other. We will look at how and when to use this touch technique in a therapeutic and sensitive way when working with clients. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 27/2/2010. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 13/3/2010. | |
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At the Cliff Edge: Working with Suicidal Patients with Sue Jenkins Date: Sat. 17 April 2010 Times: 10.30am - 1.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £50 We shall talk about the assessment of clients for whom suicide appears to be a significant risk and then look at some of the issues arising in ongoing work with such clients. I shall bring some brief clinical examples of successful and unsuccessful work in this area. Participants will then be invited to bring their own clinical experiences to discuss, and this discussion may include some or all of the following issues, depending on the interests of the group: -the level of containment needed to work with such patients - what additional containment a GP or psychiatrist might realistically be expected to provide - what part psychiatric medication might play - how much anxiety a therapist should be prepared to tolerate This workshop is aimed at trainee and qualified body psychotherapists, together with counsellors and therapists using different approaches. The fee for this course is £50. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £20 by 26/3/2010. The remaining fee of £30 is payable by 9/4/2010. | |
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Working on the Mattress with Michael Soth Dates: 22 April, 29 April, 6 May, 13 May, 20 May, 27 May, 10 June, 17 June, 24 June, 1 July, 8 July and 15 July 2010 Times: 5.45pm - 8.45pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £600 Working on the mattress is one of the essential pillars of traditional Body Psychotherapy. A wide variety of styles and approaches to this way of working have developed over the decades: with and without touch, with and without focus on the breath, with various stances from allowing (biodynamic ‘impinging from within’) to challenge (bioenergetic or vegetotherapy). In this territory, Body Psychotherapy also overlaps with other approaches like rebirthing and holotropic breathing. Traditionally, the profound potential of this way of working in terms of spontaneous and regressive experience was - generally speaking – achieved by focussing on the client’s intra-psychic and bodymind dynamic. This focus on the client’s internal experience can move into the foreground at the expense of attention to the relational dynamic between client and therapist. In this course, we will draw on all the various techniques and approaches to working on the mattress and find ways of becoming more familiar withthem. However, the main aim - beyond technique - will be to integrate the depth of the intra-personal with that of the inter-personal charge. We will attend to the avoidant and defensive functions of either of these two polarities, as well as their transformative potential within an overall framework that I now describe as integral-relational, bringing together relational and embodied ways of working. Following in Reich’s footsteps, we can consider transference and countertransference not just as having somatic aspects or being reflected in right-brain-to-right-brain interactions, but engage in them as intersubjective bodymind processes. In this perspective, psychology and biology become inseparable polarities - differentiated, but mutually related: body, emotion,psyche and mind as fractal parts of a dynamic, integral whole in relationship. We will work in such a way that these abstract notions remain alive and experience-near, through attending to the detail of the charged body-mind dynamics occurring in the therapeutic relationship and how these are reflected holographically between the various sub-systems, levels, parts and the whole via parallel process. In the highly charged, potentially regressive context of lying down, spontaneous and reflective, somatic and mental, habitual and emergent processes become tangibly constellated, and open into a way of working that can range across all the bodymind levels of subjective experience. This places high demands on the therapist’s own capacity to be present between such intimate and existential extremes as wholeness and fragmentation, integration and conflict, authority and woundedness and a unified sense of self versus multiplicity. This course aims to deepen, widen and enhance therapists’ perception, understanding and creativity in these areas of intersubjective intensity and vicissitudes. As a closed group for the duration of the term, we will together build the relational container necessary for such work to become possible authentically. This course will be offered only once and will not be repeated in this form in the future. It provides an unusual context for intensive work over the period of three months, with participants working in live sessions with each other as well as occasionally in the middle of the group. This course is open to all Chiron-trained therapists. It may be suitable for other experienced practitioners whose training, work and personal experience includes a strong body-oriented aspect. A meeting with Michael is essential to discuss and establish this, both for your own sake, as well as for the interests of the group. Please contact Michael at michael@soth.co.uk to arrange such a meeting. The fee for this course is £600. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £100 by 31/3/2010. The remaining fee of £500 is payable by 14/4/2010. | |
| Back to Calendar | The Borderline Dynamic and the Body with Tom Warnecke Dates: Sat. 24 April 2010 and Sat. 3 July 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £200 Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is an elusive and puzzling phenomenon. Borderline patterns of organisation are active across the continuum of intrapsychic and interpersonal fields and borderline relationships appear equally challenging for clients and therapists alike. Both may feel attacked, invaded, helpless, misunderstood or unappreciated by the other. But the borderline dynamic is also particularly apparent as a bodily experience for both client and therapist. Hyper arousal and catastrophic anxieties, both cardinal features of BPD, suggest disturbances of very basic functions and indicate that the organism is in a state of somatic disorganisation. Chronic dis-regulation of the autonomic nervous system, a lack of muscular ego and inadequate surface boundaries reflect deficiencies in psycho affective maturation and failures to develop a differentiated psyche-soma relationship. In the therapeutic relationship, body and psyche of the therapist are impacted by and respond to such disorganized or dissociated psyche and body states. This seminar explores clinical perspectives to psychological and somatic phenomena and disturbances commonly experienced by borderline individuals and their therapists from a relational perspective. Participants are invited to contribute clinical case material for exploration. The second day of the two day workshop will be several weeks after the first to allow time for participants to integrate theory and skills into practice and reflect on the clinical experience. The fee for this course is £200. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £70 by 2/4/2010. The remaining fee of £130 is payable by 16/4/2010. |
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| Back to Calendar | Finding the Words for It: From I to We - The Innate Dance of Dialogue with Sue Law Date: Sun. 25 April 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 In this workshop, we shall look at the primacy of dialogue as the vehicle for, and in the formation of, attachment. Through gentle movement to music, we will begin by awakening and re-membering the parts of our body, then focus experientially on the mouth and throat, to explore our function as sound-making instruments, orchestrators and communicators. In considering both the innateness and significance of attunement and dialogue, as well as ways it may be inhibited or frozen in the body, we will refer to Colwyn Trewarthen’s work with new-borns and to Reichian and post-Reichian theories of body-armouring and character style. The day will aim to allow space both for some personal exploration of these themes as well as reflection and exploration of their clinical relevance. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 3/4/2010. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 17/4/2010. |
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| Back to Calendar | Making trauma therapy safer: the psychophysiology of trauma and ptsd with Babette Rothschild Dates: 22/23 May 2010 Times: 9.30am - 5.30pm Venue: Central London Fee: £210 PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) is an indicator that the body and mind have not yet recognised that a traumatic incident is over. As a result, the body’s nervous system responds by continuously mobilising the muscles and other body systems for defence (fight/flight) and/or numbing (freeze). Those with PTSD become overly attentive to interoceptive reminders of the past danger, whilst losing their connection to extroceptive cues (the five ‘senses’) that appraise the present environment. Known risks with traumatised clients - dissociation, flashbacks, abreaction and retraumatisation - are, in part, the result of hyper-arousal in the autonomic nervous system (ANS). This course will equip participants with psychophysical theory, principles and tools for reducing, containing and halting traumatic hyper-arousal. It is consistent with and a useful adjunct to all methods of psychotherapy and specialised trauma therapies (e.g. analytical, dynamic and somatic approaches, cognitive-behavioural and EMDR). Participants will learn through lectures, written materials, experiential exercises and videotapes of clinical sessions. A more detailed flyer about this event can be sent to you on request. Please note that for this course we have chosen a more central venue and not Chiron. To book a place on the course, please complete and return the booking form in this programme, enclosing the full fee. The fee for this course is £210. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £0 by 30/4/2010. The remaining fee of £210 is payable by 14/5/2010. |
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| Back to Calendar | Flight into the Body or Escape into the Head: Which is our Favourite Defence? with Claudius Kokott Date: Sat. 5 June 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £100 Somatising and psychologising are two special defences: somatising is ‘acting out’ and pychologising is ‘acting in’. The human being who somsatises shows physical symptoms (tension, aches and pains) in order to get attention. The emotional meaning of the physical symptoms is often not acknowledged. On the other hand, a human being who psychologises presents thoughts, ideas, dreams, memories or images in explanatory language in order to get attention. The awareness of the emotions and their physical expression is then missing. In this one-day workshop we will explore both our own tendencies to somatise and/or psychologise and also that of our clients. The focus will be on self-exploration and on practical learning in the context of ongoing client work. The fee for this course is £100. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £40 by 14/5/2010. The remaining fee of £60 is payable by 28/5/2010. |
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Relational Body Psychotherapy in Practice with Shoshi Asheri Dates: 10/11 July 2010 Times: 10am - 5.30pm Venue: Eaton Rise Fee: £200 A common claim by psychotherapists trained to include the body in their work is that, as they become more aware of the complexity and subtlety of the relational dynamic, they find themselves using less and less ‘physical body interventions’. Is this an appropriate development of the more experienced body therapist or is it a question of developing interventions which will take into account and correspond to the complexity and the subtlety of the relational dynamic? Our theoretical understanding of body psychotherapy has been expanded and refined significantly in recent years. We are now challenged to update and refine our clinical interventions in the light of our more integrated understanding. o What does it mean to work relationally as a body psychotherapist? o How do we use our skills as body psychotherapists to hold the paradoxical tension between intrapsychic reality and intersubjective engagement? o How can the fact that we are trained as body psychotherapists help promote the ‘felt experience’ of a meeting between two subjects? This weekend of advanced training is aimed at trained body psychotherapists who are interested in engaging with relational dilemmas through the practice of body psychotherapy. The fee for this course is £200. Please register in writing (using the booking form in this brochure), enclosing a non-refundable deposit of £70 by 18/6/2010. The remaining fee of £130 is payable by 2/7/2010. | |
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The last 12-day in-depth training with Babette will take place during 2009/2010:Somatic Trauma Therapy with Post-Traumatic StressA 12-day indepth course with Babette RothschildWorkshop 1: Thurs./Sun. 28/31 May 2009 Workshop 2: Thurs./Sun. 29 Oct./ 1 Nov. 2009 Workshop 3: Thurs./Sun. 27 - 30 May 2010Venue: Eaton RiseThe three four-day workshops are presented as a series. Participants must commit to attend all workshops and fees need to be paid in full even if unforeseen circumstances prevent you from attending. Tuition fee for the series is £1,200. To enrol, a deposit of £150 is required. The remaining £1,050 could be paid in two ways: either in three payments of £350 each due a month before commencement of each workshop. Or, by setting up a standing order for the period April '07 - March '08, during which you will pay 12 monthly instalments of £87.50 each. Standing order forms can be obtained from the office. The course will be held at Chiron, 26 Eaton Rise, London W5.Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS) can develop after exposure to traumatic experience(s) and results from imbalance between the parasympathetic and sympathetic branches of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). The ANS prepares to meet a threat, but after the threat is passed or survived, the ANS never returns to its normal, balanced state. Extreme disturbance may lead to symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (see: DSM IV '94). Effective somatic trauma therapy with PTS involves both cognitive and body work. It helps the client not only to remember and psychologically resolve the traumatic situation, but also to restore lost physical reflexes and balance to the ANS. This is done by first, reviewing the events surrounding the trauma (both before and after its occurrence) - never "re-living" it - and through work with the body that focuses on (re)-developing body awareness, body acceptance and body integrity. Central to somatic trauma therapy are the psychological and physical resources that are developed, as well as the importance of the therapeutic relationship. Eventually the traumatic event itself can be confronted, after most of its effect has been dissipated and balance in the ANS has been restored. Duration of a somatic trauma therapy can range from a few sessions to several years, depending on: the nature of the trauma(s); the age of the client at the time of the trauma(s); if the trauma(s) is isolated, intertwined with other trauma(s) or continuous; and the client's current resources and strengths. Workshop 1Dates: Thurs./Sun. 28/31 May 2009 Times: 9.30am - 6pmThis four day workshop is open to all medical and helping professionals and students and is conducted through lecture, discussion, exercises and demonstrations. There will be review of both traditional and alternative theories of PTSD including (but not limited to) those developed by: Bessel van der Kolk, Judith Herman, M.D. at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; the Bodynamic Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Peter Levine, Ph.D., Ergos Institute, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Theory topics include: causes of trauma, psychology of stress and trauma - including the role of dissociation, physiology of stress and trauma - including the role of the ANS, identification and diagnosis (including acute, delayed onset, simple and complex forms of PTS and PTSD), preparing clients for therapy - including building safety in the therapeutic space. Exercises will teach development of building body awareness, signs of ANS reactions in the body, how to build the sense of boundary and bodily integrity and the establishment of safety in the client's life and in the therapeutic space. There will be an emphasis throughout this workshop on making trauma therapy - no matter which technique(s) is being used - safer by learning to slow down and reduce hyperarousal in the ANS. This workshop is a compatible and useful adjunct to all existing theories and techniques of trauma therapy. Workshop 2Dates: Thurs./Sun. 29 Oct./ 1 Nov. 2009 Times: 9.30am - 6pmTheory and technique of therapeutic treatment will be the focus of this workshop. Issues, including transference and countertransference, will be explored. Participants will begin practising Peter Irvine's system of tracking and association (SIBAM) with each other, and will also begin to apply theory to the development of their own techniques. There will be continued practice with body awareness, boundary, and safety skills. Workshop 3Dates: Thurs./Sun. 27 - 30 May 2010 Times: 9.30am - 6pmThe BODYnamic 'running technique' and the appropriate use of the 'safe place' and 'helpers' will be introduced and practised. Participants will be supervised in choosing techniques, both with fellow participants, and with their own clients. Ample time will be allotted to the practising, deepening, integrating and clarifying of skills and theoretical knowledge gained throughout the series. There will also be discussion of how to know a traumatic event is worked through, how to end a somatic trauma therapy, and how to integrate work with trauma into a long-term course of therapy. |
About the TutorsShoshi Asheri MA, UKCP Training director and supervisor at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy; trainer at the Minster Centre and a visiting tutor in other psychotherapeutic organisations in the UK and Israel. She is a relational body psychotherapist and has 20 years of clinical experience working with individuals and couples in her private practice in London. She has a particular interest in the mutual contribution relational psychoanalysis and body psychotherapy can offer each other. She is a member of the steering committee for the UK grouping of the International Association For Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Michaela Boening, UKCP reg. Psychotherapist (H.I.P. Section, CCBP) is an experienced counsellor, psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. Roz Carroll is a UKCP registered body psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer at the Chiron Centre and the Minster Centre and a popular speaker for Confer.She has specialised in exploring the relevance of neuroscience to contemporary psychotherapy practice and has given talks, workshops and seminars exploring this theme in a wide range of contexts including hospitals, counselling, psychotherapy, and psychoanalytic training groups. She has published chapters in Body Psychotherapy (ed Staunton, 2002), Revolutionary Connections (ed Corrigall, 2003) How Does Psychotherapy Work? (ed Ryan, 2005), New Horizons in Body Psychotherapy (ed Totton, 2005) and About a Body (ed Corrigall, 2006). Articles, lectures and details of other workshops are available on her website www.thinkbody.co.uk Bernd Eiden, MA, UKCP, has a longstanding background in the field of humanistic and transpersonal psychotherapy and 25 years of clinical experience. In 1983 he co-founded the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy and since then has been working there as a trainer, supervisor and manager. In his work he is firmly rooted in the Body Psychotherapy approach and has developed an integrative practice which puts more emphasis on using the theory and technique of body psychotherapy in the context of the therapeutic relationship. Sue Jenkins began her career as a doctor, specialising in psychiatry and then in psychodynamic psychotherapy. For the past fourteen years, she has worked in an NHS outpatient psychotherapy service, which provides psychodynamic psychotherapy for patients diagnosed with mental illnesses or personality disorders. Having recently completed the Chiron Certificate training in body psychotherapy, she is currently interested in the interfaces between body psychotherapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy and the medical model, and the possibilities for integrating these very different treatment approaches. Clare Jones is a experienced professional CIM qualified marketer with 15 years expertise of marketing and business development theory and its real world application. Clare has seen and heard hundreds of sales and marketing “pitches” and has a good idea about what makes the difference between what really works and what doesn’t. She has also had broad experience of the world of therapy, coaching and training and has developed a clear understanding of what makes a compelling proposition for clients who are seeking these services. Susan Law has many years of experience as a UKCP registered integrative body psychotherapist in private practice, and as a trainer, supervisor and training director at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy in Ealing. She also currently runs a body psychotherapy group for psychotherapists in Croatia. Her on-going creative practice with 5Rhythms dance intensives, voice-work with healing tone and imagery, painting and sculpture all feed into and amplify her work and were the main focus of a recent year’s sabbatical. Doron Levene (UKCP) is a Relational Body psychotherapist working in private practice in London. As well as maintaining a general practice working with individuals and couples he has been co facilitating a group at the Minster Centre as part of the ARICAS project helping Men cease their violent behaviour towards their female partners. He spent an earlier part of his life running a successful photography business. He can be contacted on: doron.levene@zen.co.uk Jochen Lude originally came from Germany to study, work and practise Body Psychotherapy in England, where he has maintained a private practice for over 20 years. He also trained in Transpersonal Psychology and the spiritual dimension is essential in his work. He is a co-founder of Chiron and continues to work there as trainer and supervisor, as well as teaching body psychotherapy in other training settings. In his work he is especially interested in how therapists can use their own bodies as a sounding board and be guided by them in the interaction with their clients. He is one of the most experienced body psychotherapists in this country. Alun Reynolds is an experienced UKCP Psychotherapist, trainer and workshop leader. He has taught the second year Gestalt Body Psychotherapy course at Chiron for many years, as well as being a Chiron supervisor. He has developed a particular interest in work with borderline and narcissistic structures, as well as in the family constellation work of Bert Hellinger. He runs a private practice in Cambridge and regularly runs Family Constellation workshops in London and Edinburgh. His website address is www.constellationsolutions.co.uk Babette Rothschild is the author of three books, all published by WW Norton: Michael Soth is an Integral-Relational Body Psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor (UKCP reg.), living in Oxford, UK. He is Training Director at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy in London and over the last 20 years has been teaching on a variety of counselling and therapy training courses, including London City University and Oxford University. In his work and teaching, he brings together a variety of analytic and humanistic approaches. Other areas of work include organisational consultancy, group facilitation, work with men as well as a project applying Body Psychotherapy to illness, chronic symptoms and psychosomatic disease. For his writing, see www.soth.co.uk. Francie van Hout is an integrative body psychotherapist (trained at Chiron) and is on the teaching team of the Postgraduate Counselling Programme, London Metropolitan University, where her subject areas include: addiction, trauma, body therapy and shame. She is also a Clinical Group Supervisor on that programme, and at PACE (Project, Advice, Counselling & Education), Antidote (Hungerford Drug Project) and at City & Hackney Carers’ Centre. She also designs and facilitates Creative Art Groups for women exploring sexualities and addiction issues in these organisations. Tom Warnecke (UKCP, ECP, EABP) is a relational body psychotherapist, supervisor and international trainer based in London. He has a particular interest in exploring Winnicott’s psyche - soma paradigm through posture and movement work. Tom worked previously in mental health services and is the author of several papers and contributed to the Chiron book ‘Contemporary Body Psychotherapy: The Chiron Approach’ (Ed. Hartley). 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Originally created as advanced training programme for Chiron qualified Body Psychotherapists, we have over recent years attempted to make these courses more accessible to psychotherapists and counsellors from other approaches who want to gain a deeper understanding of Body Psychotherapy. The intention is to create a space, support and cross-fertilisation amongst therapists from different schools. The courses are designed to help acquaint yourself with some fundamental ides of body psychotherapy in an experiential way, e.g. the recognition that early developmental wounds manifest in certain physical (physiological, muscular, respiratory), emotional and mental patterns ('character armour'). The significance of non-verbal communication, the issue of touch in the therapeutic relationship, energetic resonance and interaction feature strongly in the practice of body psychotherapy. The therapist's self awareness as a complex body-mind organism is crucial to the quality of the therapeutic relationship.
We attempt to include the client's and the therapist's body in our reflection on the unconscious processes of transference and countertransference.
Each individual course description aims to clarify for whom this course is suitable. If in doubt, please consult Bernd Eiden, one of our training directors. A certificate of attendance will be issued on request and can count for Continues Professional Development (CPD). Courses are listed in date order, giving the title and a brief description of the content and structure of each course, along with details about dates, times, fees and venue. To book a place on a course, you will generally need to send in a third of the total fee at least three weeks before the course is due to take place. As there are some exceptions to this guideline, the booking arrangements are mentioned at the end of each course description. Please use one of the booking forms to reserve your place. If you are a non-Chiron therapist, please give details of your qualification(s) and describe briefly your level of experience. To book a place, you could also send an informal letter or e-mail to: The Chiron Centre, 26 Eaton Rise, LONDON W5 2ER