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 16th May 2020              10am - 4.30pm          Attachment, Trauma & the Body  (Postponed)

Saturday 21st November 2020    10am - 4.30pm          Are we Colour Blind? Exploring Racial Differences

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 Covid-19 update:
This event has been postponed.  New dates will be available shortly.  If you have already purchased tickets we will be in touch via email.
     Attachment, Trauma & The Body; ​
   The Therapeutic & Supervisory Process
      Of interest to Counsellors, Psychological Therapists & Supervisors.

       Graham Music PhD 
                  
      Saturday 16th May 2020
      Thriplow Hall, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire, SG8 7RD
      10.00am - 4.30pm
     
​      Early Bird Tickets £100.00 on sale now  (Full price £115)
                
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.
​ Alternatively payment may be made by bank transfer .  For details email CST
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​Are we Colour Blind?

Exploring Racial Differences in
Therapy & Supervision

Of interest to Counsellors, Psychological Therapists & Supervisors
Presented by Faisal Mahmood

Early Bird Tickets £100.00 available now  (Full price £115)

Saturday 21st November 2020
10.00am - 4.30pm

 Thriplow Hall, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire, SG8 7RD
 
     
​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. 

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