CPD - Cambridge Supervision Training

From October 2019 we are launching an exciting new programme of CPD events for counsellors, psychological therapists and supervisors at all stages of their professional development.

Friday 4th October 2019 10am - 1pm Childhood Attachments & Adult Relationships
Saturday 9th November 2019 10am - 4.30pm     Fun, Self-Care & Creativity in Supervision
Saturday 1st February 2020   10am - 4.00pm    Restorative Day Retreat
Saturday 16th May 2020 10am - 4.30pm Attachment, Trauma & the Body

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Childhood Attachments and Adult Relationships

Kathy Mitchell
Friday 4th October 2019
10.00am - 1:00pm

Arbury Community Centre, Campkin Road, Cambridge CB4 2LD
Tickets £55

This 3 hour workshop invites you to reflect upon the implications of childhood attachments on adult relationships. This is relevant in our personal relationships but also in the relationships we create with our clients and in the supervisory space.
This session will provide insight and guidance with regard to identifying attachment styles both for ourselves and in relation to our clients, whether we see them individually or as couples.

An introduction to the theory and application of Sue Johnson’s model of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), combining theories of attachment with a structured systemic approach and a person centred way of being, is designed to offer participants a clear strategic lens through which to view couple work and relationship issues emerging in one to one work.
The workshop may be of interest to both novice and experienced counsellors or supervisors. In brief, we will look at:

A brief summary of the principles of attachment theory in relation to children & adults
How to identify attachment styles in ourselves and our clients
The practical application of attachment theory to relationship therapy with individuals & couples

Kathy Mitchell MSc, Dip is a BACP Accredited Counsellor, and experienced supervisor with a background in Psychology. At her core, Kathy is a person centred practitioner with a particular interest in couple work. She has a thriving therapy practice and works in a supervisory context with experienced and trainee counsellors and other allied professionals. She is a partner with CST.

Fun, Self-Care and Creativity in Supervision

  Anna Grace Jacobs
Saturday 9th November 2019
10.00am - 4.30pm

  Thriplow Hall, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire, SG8 7RD
  Early bird tickets £100 on sale now until 1st September! (Full price £115.00)

As counsellors and therapists, our humanity and needs can sometimes be forgotten within supervision, which is an essentially supportive relationship. This aspect of supervision, one of creativity and transformation, can often be ignored when the demands of clinical work and outside influences dominate.

On this day we will explore how creative mediums can enhance our supervisory experience. We will discover how we can allow for fun & insights and learn to recognise our own self care needs and those of our supervisees.

Come prepared to discover how approaching supervision as a deep self- care process can enhance our work and our growth, and how the use of the arts can inform our work as supervisors.

We will explore various mediums such as play dough, the arts and sand tray miniatures
We will touch on the aspects of supervision which involve our own personal stories, needs, and self-care to counteract the demands of our roles
We will gain tools for nourishment and discover that supervision can be fun as well as meaningful
Finally, we will explore how the use of creative tools can support supervision, enabling insights and revelations with apparent ease.

The day will include some theory on the tools of arts and creativity in supervision, to base our experience on.

Anna Grace Jacobs is a creative arts counsellor, play therapist and supervisor with over thirty years experience as a practitioner and trainer for those supporting both children and adults. She offers creative arts and sandtray therapy trainings in the South West, and has written articles on aspects of supervision and books on her previous specialism of grief and loss. She is known for her safe, fun, insightful and creative training style. She has a thriving private practice near Bristol. Previously she co-ordinated services within grief & loss and cancer care for two large charities and has worked within the mental health sector, the care system and within education.

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.

Restorative Day Retreat
A winter warmer anchored in the practices of mindful meditations, self compassion and restorative silence.

Sarah Parkin
Saturday 1st February 2020
10.00am - 4.00pm

Thriplow Hall, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire, SG8 7RD
Tickets £60.00

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.

Attachment, Trauma & The Body;
   The Therapeutic & Supervisory Process

   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 development, and a highly experienced trainer, will be presenting this one day workshop that will be of interest to all practitioners as well as supervisors.

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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