Continuing Professional Development 



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


Saturday 1st February 2020        10am - 4.00pm          Restorative Day Retreat
Wednesday 4th March 2020       6.30pm - 9.30pm      Trauma Informed Therapy and Supervision
Saturday 16th May 2020              10am - 4.30pm          Attachment, Trauma & the Body

​Scroll down for further details & tickets

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Restorative Day Retreat
​A winter warmer anchored in the practices of mindful meditations, self  compassion and restorative silence.
Of interest to therapy professionals with some experience of reflective practice.
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.
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Trauma Informed Therapy and Supervision
Of interest to Counsellors, Psychological Therapists & Supervisors.
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Anthea Millar
Wednesday 4th March 2020
6.30pm - 9.30pm

Friends Meeting House, 91-93 Hartington Grove, Cambridge CB1 7UB
​Tickets £55.00
        

​Clinical and neuroscientific research is leading to new insights into the nature and optimal treatment of complex traumatic stress. Trauma-informed Practice draws on this research, offering a strengths-based framework that emphasises physical, psychological and emotional safety. Instead of identifying what is ‘wrong’ with the person, this approach understands client behaviour as an adaptive purposeful attempt to cope with life experiences, creating opportunities for survivors to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment. 

Trauma-informed practice recognises the prevalence and detrimental impact of trauma not only on individuals, but on whole communities. It aims to educate and support people working within educational, health, justice, and social systems to develop best practice with complex trauma related problems. 

In this practical and interactive seminar, Anthea Millar will address the following as an essential foundation to a trauma informed approach to therapy and supervision: 
  • A Trauma Informed Approach
  • The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
  • Trauma Diagnosis: Putting People before Protocols
  • Principles of Safe Trauma Therapy
  • Adverse vs Resilient Community Experiences
  • Trauma Informed Supervision
Anthea Millar MA, MBACP (Senior Accredited), UKRC, Dip. IIP
Anthea Millar is a UK based senior accredited psychotherapist, psychotherapy trainer and
supervisor/supervisor educator, with 35 years’ experience working in the National Health Service,
with Employee Assistance Programmes, and numerous social service, educational and charitable
agencies. Anthea is a founding partner of Cambridge Supervision Training, and is regularly invited to
deliver trauma therapy and supervision training in the UK and abroad. She is co-author of ‘Practical
Supervision’ and has written many other articles on supervision and trauma.
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     Attachment, Trauma & The Body; ​
   The Therapeutic & Supervisory Process
      Of interest to Counsellors, Psychological Therapists & Supervisors.
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     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.