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 13th March 2021           10am - 4.30pm        Working Effectively with Risk in Therapy & Supervision 

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

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


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Covid-19 update: Please note, these events have been rescheduled and will now take place next year in 2021.  Dates shown below are the new dates for these events.  If you have already purchased tickets, we will have sent you an email to notify you of the changes and the procedure for refunding tickets where required.  

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Working Effectively with Risk

Exploring the Challenges in Therapy & Supervision

Of interest to Counsellors, Psychological Therapists & Supervisors

Presented by:  Dr. Andrew Reeves

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

Saturday 13th March 2021
10.00am - 4.30pm

 Thriplow Hall, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire, SG8 7RD​


CST are thrilled to present this workshop with Dr. Andrew Reeves, previous chair of BACP. As a speaker of international repute who has extensive expertise both as a practitioner and an author on the subject of Risk, we are looking forward to a highly engaging and informative experience. ​

Working with risk can challenge even the most experienced practitioner - whether as a therapist or supervisor. Knowing how to work effectively with risk, holding it appropriately in the therapeutic space, and working effectively from an explorative and assessment position, can be challenging, but is certainly possible.

This workshop will consider what we mean by risk in therapy, the different ways in which it might present, and reflect on the particular challenges for both the therapist and supervisor. The aim is for attendees to further build on their existing experience, as well as going away with new ideas and confidence.

Dr Andrew Reeves is an Associate Professor in the Counselling Professions and Mental Health at the University of Chester, a Senior BACP Counsellor/Psychotherapist, a Fellow of BACP and is Director for Colleges and Universities for the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust. He is Immediate Past-Chair of BACP, having held the role for 5 years. He has written extensively about working with risk in counselling and psychotherapy, drawing on his personal and professional experience over 35 years as a practitioner in a range of settings, including mental health crisis intervention. He has delivered highly-regarded training on Risk to over 15,000 practitioners in the UK and Europe over the years.  
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​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

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

Saturday 26th June 2021
10.00am - 4.30pm

 Thriplow Hall, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire, SG8 7RD
 
     
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.

     Presented by:  Graham Music PhD 

   Last Few Remaining Spaces
      
      Tickets £115.00 on sale now



Saturday 2nd October 2021 
10.00am - 4.30pm

Thriplow Hall, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire, SG8 7RD
     
  
                
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