CPD

Continuing Professional Development

See below for details of our exciting programme of CPD events for counsellors, psychological therapists and supervisors at all stages of their professional development.

Saturday 24th Sept 2022 10am - 4.30pm Creating New Perspectives on Supervision

Saturday 4th March 2023 10am - 4.30pm Supervising work with Children & Adolescents

Saturday 10th June 2023 10am - 4.30pm Shining a Light on Shame in Supervision

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Booking Conditions apply to all CST events. Please scroll to the bottom of the page for full details.

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Creating New Perspectives on Supervision
Of interest to Counsellors, Psychological Therapists & Supervisors

Presented by

Isabelle Rodker

Thriplow Hall, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire SG8 7RD

Early Bird Tickets on sale now: £100 (until 15th July)
Full Price £120

24th September 2022
10.00am - 4.30pm

CST are delighted to welcome Isabelle Rodker. A highly accomplished Arts & Drama Therapist & Supervisor, Isabelle's experience of working with trauma across the world enable her to bring a unique cross cultural perspective to the field of creative supervision.

Isabelle writes: Please join me for an exploration of creative approaches in supervision to catalyse reflective processes and inspire new perspectives within supervision.
We will explore a range of creative tools, for example writing, art and drama techniques to develop your practice and to support supervisees in varied professions to examine their practice afresh.
There will be the opportunity for self- reflection, considering your own identity and how this impacts your practice and informs your understanding of others.
During the workshop we will be stimulating and challenging ideas about supervision, and in doing so expanding to consider varied approaches in working with challenges and respecting difference.

Isabelle Rodker is a Drama Therapist and Clinical Supervisor who has worked both overseas and in the UK supporting organisations working on the front line with people experiencing trauma.

Her experience of working interculturally in Palestine, Bahrain and Cambodia, as well as inner city London has significantly informed her practice and developed a creative approach to supervision.

She currently works in private practice as a therapist and supervisor and is clinical supervisor for Youth Offending Teams nationwide.

She has a special interest in seeking to understand neuro-diverse and cultural perspectives to inform and expand the lens of her practice.

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Supervising Therapeutic Practice

with

 Children & Young People

Jocelyne Quennell

Clair Lewoski

ONLINE WORKSHOP
of Interest to counsellors, psychological therapists & supervisors

Presented by

Jocelyne Quennell & Clair Lewoski

4th March 2023
10.00am - 4.30pm

Early Bird Tickets on sale until 1st September : £85.00
Full Price £100

We're excited to be offering a day on the important work of supervising those working with children & young people, presented by leaders in the field, Jocelyne Quennell and Clair Lewoski.

The day aims to raise awareness of the needs and capabilities of children and young people, highlighting some of the issues which can emerge in the supervision of therapeutic work with this population. Whilst we cannot offer a full training around these issues, we will be raising awareness of the knowledge, skills and understanding required to address the complexity and diversity of challenges which are integral to therapeutic work.

We will consider how supervising this client population requires a strong contextual focus, knowledge and understanding of child development, trauma informed practice, safeguarding and multiagency working.

For those with clinical experience of working with children and young people, the day will help to inform your understanding of the role of supervision with awareness of the skills necessary to the meet the needs of this client group including their unique vulnerabilities and dependency needs as well as their agency and innovation in child-centred therapeutic practice.

If you work with adults the day could also provide a valuable opportunity to gain further understanding of the challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary and multi-agency practice, legal, ethical and policy frameworks for safeguarding. It may help to inform relational and developmental awareness in psychotherapy considering attachment based and rights informed issues in practice.

The day will emphasise the core competencies required to deliver this work with understanding of the role and responsibilities of child therapeutic supervision in context. We will provide information through presentations,clinical vignettes, experiential seminar discussion, reflection and analysis.

Jocelyne Quennell
Fellow of UKCP, Psychotherapist and Director of Wellbeing Faculty at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE)

Clair Lewoski
MA Cantab; MA Tavistock; PGCE Cantab
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist MA, UKCP & BACP, Arts Therapist HCPC

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Shining a Light on

Shame in Supervision
of Interest to counsellors, psychological therapists & supervisors

Online Workshop

Presented by

Sue Parker Hall

Saturday 10th June 2023
10.00am - 4.30pm

CST are delighted to welcome Sue Parker Hall. Sue has a wealth of experience in her field and promises to guide us through this potentially challenging topic with a mindful sensitivity whilst also offering a rich insight into this often under explored area.

Sue writes:
‘In this workshop, we will shine a gentle and compassionate light on the issue of shame in supervision. I aim to normalise the emergence of this issue, to heighten participants’ awareness of how the phenomenon presents, not to see it as a bad thing but as an important piece of information, worthy of fruitful exploration in a relational way.

Supervision is an intimate relationship in terms of it being a space for the vulnerabilities of supervisee and supervisor. Because of its essentially unconscious and relational nature, there is the potential, on occasions, for shame to trigger enactments and ruptures within the supervisory relationship, just as there is in the therapeutic relationship. This can be messy, but we will look at how it can be tidied up in a way that leads to self-healing and -growth, and a deepening of the supervisory and therapeutic relationships.

I will set the context by offering some definitions of shame, including my own; we will consider origins of shame beyond the interpersonal, including cultural, global and transgenerational sources; and explore how shame presents in the supervisory relationship, physically, emotionally and behaviourally, often as a parallel process to the therapy being explored in supervision.

I will share my model of self, which indicates where shame is situated in relation to the self, and the specific focus for interventions. We will look at the elements of an enriched environment where shame can safely surface and be processed and there will be an opportunity to individually reflect on any experiences of the supervisor (personal or professional) which remain unprocessed that may impact within the supervisory frame. I hope some of these can be shared within a small group, and the bigger group for learning purposes but privacy will of course be respected.

The learning experience will be supported by powerpoint, theoretical models and methodology. There will be opportunities for application to self and supervisory work, an individual reflection exercise, small group and large group discussions and a slot for supervision of supervision. Participants' observations, links to practice and questions will be welcomed throughout the day. I aim to facilitate the group in a way that models the relational qualities that, in my experience, are most helpful in processing difficult emotions and trauma symptoms, including shame’.

Sue is a relational psychotherapist, a Certified Transactional Analyst (UKCP registered) and a MBACP (Snr. Accredited) therapist, with over 20 years’ experience.
She is the author of “Anger, Rage and Relationship: An Empathic Approach to Anger Management” published by Routledge.
For the last 15 years she has been facilitating workshops entitled ‘The Link Between Rage and Shame’ and ‘Working with Shame’.
She is a higher education lecturer and has spoken about anger, rage and shame at international conferences and is a supervisor of practitioners (individual and groups) helping a diverse client population.

Booking Conditions applicable to all CST events

Regrettably, refunds cannot be given except as follows:

You cancel in writing 60 days before the first date of the event you have booked, in which case you will be entitled to a 100% refund.
You cancel in writing 30 days before the first date of the event you have booked, in which case you will be entitled to a 50% refund.

You may give your place to another person if you let us know that person's name at least 24 hours before the event begins.
If the event is cancelled we will offer you a full refund OR transfer of your fee to another CST event
We reserve the right to change our prices at any time. Regrettably, discounts offered after you made your booking cannot be claimed or applied retrospectively.

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