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 26th June 2021             10am - 4.30pm        Colour Blindness: Exploring Racial Differences

Saturday 2nd October 2021        10am - 4.30pm         Attachment, Trauma & the Body

​Friday 4th February 2022            10am - 4.30pm         Restorative Day Retreat

Friday 20th May 2022                 10am - 4.30pm        Supervision of Groups



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Booking Conditions

​Colour Blindness:

Looking at Race as an example of how we respond to issues of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in practice

Of interest to Counsellors, Psychological Therapists & Supervisors

Presented by Faisal Mahmood

This Event will now run Online 

Saturday 26th June 2021
10.00am - 4.30pm

Venue:  ONLINE
 
     
It gives us great pleasure to present this workshop with Faisal Mahmood, a highly experienced practitioner and senior lecturer in his field.  
 
The key essence of counselling/psychotherapy is to foster a dialogical contact in the therapy room. How do you truly make yourself available to the ‘in-between’ space? Can there be any meaningful therapeutic encounter without exploring issues such as equality, diversity and inclusion?  

In this workshop, Faisal will offer experiential space for exploring issues about racial differences that impact our presence as therapists, as supervisors, and more importantly, as fellow human beings. If we believe in a non-dualistic, unified field based human-world view then it is important to remove any pretentious boundary between the world out there (outside the therapy room) and the world in here.

This workshop will consider how we respond to colour in the Therapy / Supervisory space. Specifically, Faisal will explore the following:

• The prevalence & impact of ‘colour blindness’
• The idea that “when I look at you, I don’t see your colour” and “if it is my job to see beyond colour, then what do I do with my own colour?”
• The tendency, if it exists, to see black, rather than white, as the ‘other’.
• The concept of colour blindness as a response to internalised shame, relational dissociation or both?
• The fact of race as a fixed biological entity or a malleable social construct.

Politics, racism, capitalism, oppression, wars, Brexit and perhaps everything else, are inseparable to therapy and supervisory practice. These issues must be part of our ongoing work both as therapists and supervisors. 

​Faisal Mahmood is a UKCP registered individual and group gestalt psychotherapist and BACP Registered Accredited Counsellor. He works as a senior lecturer in counselling/psychotherapy at Newman University (Birmingham) heading up two programmes: Foundation Degree in Integrative Counselling (BACP accredited) and Post graduate programmes (MSc) in Counselling & Psychotherapy (UKCP accredited). He has over 20 years of clinical experience working with clients in a wide range of settings such GP surgeries, hospitals, voluntary sector and private practice. 
Faisal has a small private practice based in Solihull offering individual, couples and group therapy as well as individual and group supervision. He also facilitates personal development groups and Gestalt therapy theory based CPD events.


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  Attachment, Trauma & The Body; ​
   The Therapeutic & Supervisory Process
     Of interest to Counsellors, Psychological Therapists & Supervisors.

           Last Few Remaining Spaces

           Presented by:  Graham Music PhD 
   
                            Saturday 2nd October 2021 
                                  10.00am - 4.30pm
 
Thriplow Hall, Thriplow,
Cambridgeshire, SG8 7RD

Tickets £115.00 

     
We’re delighted that Graham Music, internationally known in the field of Attachment, and a highly experienced trainer, will be presenting this one day workshop that will be of interest to all practitioners as well as supervisors.

​Drawing on developmental research and Graham's longstanding clinical experience of working with trauma, this training will highlight how early experiences affect emotional expectations, and psychological patterns. We will see how early emotional strategies that start as life-saving adaptations can become defensive coping mechanisms which become unhelpful relational templates infusing therapeutic and supervisory relationships.

The central theme will be the challenges of working with people who have suffered trauma and neglect. In particular we will look at the different clinical approaches necessary for working with more dysregulated reactive cases, as opposed to more flattened and dampened down ones, whether as a result of neglect or more traumatic shut-down. The importance of body-awareness will be central to the day.

The workshop will  comprise lectures, video and clinical presentations, alongside opportunities to explore cases, including role-plays.

Graham Music is Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics and an adult psychotherapist in private practice. His publications include Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Hope using neurobiology, psychoanalysis and attachment (2019), Nurturing Natures: Attachment and children’s emotional, sociocultural and brain development (2016, 2010), Affect and Emotion (2001), and The Good Life: Wellbeing and the new science of altruism, selfishness and immorality (2014).

He has a particular interest in exploring the interface between developmental findings and clinical work. Formerly Associate Clinical Director of the Tavistock’s child and family department, he has managed a range of services working with the aftermath of child maltreatment and neglect, and organised many community based psychotherapy services. He currently works clinically with forensic cases at The Portman Clinic. He teaches, lectures and supervises in Britain and abroad.

You are invited to contribute to a bring and share lunch or, if you prefer, there is a local village pub or a corner shop.

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​ Alternatively payment may be made by bank transfer .  For details email CST

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Restorative Day Retreat
For Counsellors, Psychological Therapists & Supervisors with some experience of meditative practices

A Winter Warmer anchored in the practices of mindful meditations, self compassion and restorative silence

With Sarah Parkin
 

Friday 4th February 2022
10am – 4pm

Thriplow Hall, Thriplow,
Cambridgeshire, SG8 7RD

Tickets: £65

This winter warmer was a huge success in 2020 and we are delighted that Sarah is able to join us once again to present another Restorative Day Retreat.
 
The flow of compassion has three distinct elements: compassion to others, compassion from others and compassion to self. Often in the helping professions we are more adept at and pay more attention to the former element rather than the latter two. This Retreat day will therefore offer opportunity for us to attend compassionately to our self; to put aside the demands of the every day and spend time with our self and others in mindful meditation practice, in a supportive, warm environment.
 
The day will follow a familiar retreat pattern of regular alternating periods of practice including sitting, walking and movement and be held in restorative silence. The Retreat proper will end at 4pm and there will be time after this, for those who would like to stay on, for a cup of tea and a catch-up until 4.30pm.
 
This retreat is suitable for those who have some familiarity with meditative / reflective practices.
 
A number of mats and blankets will be available for use but please bring your own if you are able to.

Sarah Parkin is a trained and experienced Mindfulness practitioner and listed member with UK Network for Mindfulness-Based Teacher Training Organisations.
 
She has set-up and led numerous Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programmes as well as facilitated various training days and workshops in this area.
 
Sarah has been a partner with Cambridge Supervision Training for a number of years and is also a Senior Accredited member of the BACP.

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Supervision of Groups

Of interest to Counsellors, Psychological Therapists & Supervisors

Presented by:  Gaie Houston

Tickets:  Early Bird £100 on sale until 3rd September 2021  (Full Price £115)

Friday 20th May, 2022
10.00am - 4.30pm

VENUE: Thriplow Hall, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire SG8 7RD



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​We are so delighted to have Gaie Houston join with CST and bring her extensive experience to this very special training on Group Supervision.

Gaie writes; Every group is likely to generate far more process data than can be dealt with at the time. There are countless mnemonics and theories which attempt to corral what is happening under a few headings. These can be useful; but people in groups do not always behave the way a model predicts. For this training day, we can use this group to explore some of its own dynamics, to see how informative they may be about groups that members are supervising
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Alongside this, we can look at members’ own supervision needs. The hope is to let everyone build on whatever structure they already, awarely or unawarely, use for supervising groups.
Shared leadership of groups is common and may be worth some time; so is the balance between intra and interpersonal work and systems-level intervention.

Different ways of recording work with groups may be of interest. Theorists from Bion to Schultz can likewise give clues to the goings-on in all sorts of groups.

I hope to construct the workshop with the members’ help, to deal with what in this large topic interests them most and will make an entertaining and useful day.

Gaie Houston MA [Oxon] Dip.A.B.Sc.

Trained in behavioural science in the USA, and has taught psychotherapy in this country since the mid-seventies. She has fronted three TV series about human behaviour, and written nine books on that subject, including those on Counselling, Supervision & Groups.

Gaie used to write radio plays for the BBC. She has also directed operas in Italy, and last year wrote an e-novel. She now has a mostly supervisory practice, and is Advisor Emerita to The Gestalt Centre London.

 

 

​Booking Conditions
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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.