AFT Branch List
Please select a branch name to view the relevant contact and event details.
- Berkshire
- Chiltern AFT
- Cornwall and Pymouth AFT
- Derbyshire AFT
- Dorset AFT
- Hampshire AFT
- Isle of Wight AFT
- Jersey AFT
- Kent AFT
- London AFT
- Lothian AFT
- Manchester AFT
- Merseyside AFT
- North East AFT
- North Essex AFT
- Northern Ireland AFT
- Nottingham AFT
- Scotland
- Somerset AFT
- South Yorkshire AFT
- Surrey AFT
- Sussex
- Tayside
For special Interest Groups -
please see bottom of page
Berkshire AFT
Claire S. Wainwright; Rep
Jo Medway; Treasurer
Judy Walsh and Stella Collis; sharing the Chair
Charity Tawodzera; secretary
We meet in a number of venues around Berkshire, and every 3 months we have an evening presentation.
We started 2 years ago and have run two Conferences, our first with Prof. Arlene Vetere and the second this Oct with Jim Wilson. Audience feedback was good, one person remark “how nice it is to see well known speakers but also interesting having workshops with home grown talent…”
We are small and friendly and like to include all ideas and invite interested people to do evening presentations.
BAFT group also like to go out to dinner together as well. It is a great opportunity to make friends and network.
Please contact Claire Wainwright on clairewainwright60@hotmail.com
contact Eleanor Woods on Eleanor.woods@obmh,nhs.uk
Contact Liz Burns - liz@burns.myzen.co.uk
Derbyshire AFT - DAFT
Contact Ali McKeown on -Alison.McKeown@DerbysMHServices.nhs.uk
Fun, creative and playful approaches to working with individuals and families.
Cost: £10, just a tenner!
Venue: University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby
Date: 17th May 2012: 9.30am-4.00pm
These can be increasingly uncertain times, with an over empathise upon managed care, targets, performance reviews and payment by results. Come and join DAFT to celebrate continuing to find creative ways of engaging and working with people in this context. For the cost of just £10 enjoy workshops by local practitioners on a wide variety of subjects which we hope will be uplifting and inspiring. The day aims to offer a variety of workshops offering inspiration looking at practical and theoretical ideas to help practitioners maintain curiosity, creativity, optimism and humour.
Please go to www.derbyshireaft.wordpress.com for more information about DAFT
Dorset AFT
Contact Linda Perrin on linda.perrin@dhft.nhs.uk
Creative Relationship Therapy - an approach to working with children /young people & their families/carers/workers using methods drawn from Family Therapy & Art Therapies
Workshop Leaders: Mags Joseph and Patrick Belas
DATE: Friday February 24th 2012 : 9.30-4.30
VENUE: Eastpoint Centre, Burgoyne Rd, Southampton SO19 6PB
COST: £55 (lunch included)
( Unwaged and AFT members: £50)
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The small committee meets every 2 months in Southampton.
The current chairperson is Denise Wilson Denise.Wilson@southampton.gov.uk and HAFT branch rep on the AFT Branches Committee is Patrick Belas patrick.belas@nhs.net
HAFT primarily provides low cost high value day workshops every 4 months as one of the ways to promote the aims of AFT. The Committee actively seek formal feedback from audience concerning current and ideas for future workshops. The workshops form the basis of a thriving and ever developing network of people interested in or undertaking systemic work, teaching and research at very different levels of knowledge and experience (ie from those new to systems ideas and practice to those who may be qualified. This is one of its strengths.
Contact Chris Brook Smith 01983 740950.
Jersey AFT
Contact Sarah Reeves on 01534 444550
Kent AFT
Branch Contact - Kate Creedy katecreedy@gmail.com
The Kent Branch of AFT runs two annual systemic Workshops in Canterbury in May and November for professionals interested in family and systemic practice across the multi-agency networks operating across South East London, Kent and the South East. It aims to offer good quality training with interesting speakers at a reasonable cost to all those wishing to sustain and develop their interest and expertise in systemic ideas and practice in different professional contexts. It also provides a day in which people can share information and ideas with each other on an informal basis and strengthen local networks and connections between people working in different services.
People interested in attending the Workshops are added to an email list and information sent out to them in advance of the dates. Past speakers have included Mark Rivett, Gill Gorell Barnes, Sharon Bond, Barry Mason, Alan Cooklin, John Burnham, Chip Chimera and lots of others to whet the appetite and support the development of systemic practice and innovation!
The 2012 Workshop dates are the18th May and the 16th November 2012 and speakers will be confirmed as soon as possible.
London AFT
An informal evening showing film clips from a powerful film of 2nd generation Turkish families living in Germany. Presented by Dilek Demir and Annette Barrett
Vauxhall Griffin Pub 8 Wyvil Road SW8 2TH - Nearest station Vauxhall.
Cost: £4 - All disciplines welcome. Seats limited to 25. No food available at pub but OK to bring own snacks. CPD certificates will be available. For more information please contact Kathy Donaldson at k.donalfern@googlemail.com
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Contact names
Nicola McCarry nicolamccarry@blueyonder.co.uk
Teresa Wilson teresawilsonsw1@gmail.com
London AFT appreciates the diversity within its large geographical area (50% of inner Londoners belong to ethnic groups other than White British), its large membership and their professional networks and clients. The committee recognises that inequalities that exist within our society can be reflected in our branch and we seek to address these. A current aim is to make our branch a more democratic process whereby members can influence the Branch through questions, ideas and requests via a phone call or by joining our new email group.
To subscribe send an email to:
AFT-London+subscribe@googlegroups.com
We aim to be inclusive with an emphasis on the GRRAACCEEES and building systemic networks so our events are open to all who are interested and currently run at minimal cost. This is thanks to careful sourcing of venues and committee members giving their time to run events. We are currently building on our first successful writing seminar and our Systemic World Cinema events.
Branch co-ordinator Nick Child - nick.child@virgin.net
07803097727
AFT Lothian is a low key informal group that holds occasional meetings in a pub for those in Lothian who have an active interest of any kind in FT and SP
Manchester AFT
branch secretary Pat Gray at patsyg@talktalk.net
Manchester AFT is a well established Branch that has a history of promoting and supporting family and systemic practice for over 30 years. We are a small group of committee members who meet regularly throughout the year. Our aim is to host training events that stimulate systemic thinking and practice and ensure AFT members continue their professional development in individual, couple, family, organisational, statutory, non-statutory, supervision and private practice by:
• attracting national and international presenters to provide whole day workshops
• supporting and promoting local knowledge and practice through mini workshops
We welcome both qualified and non-qualified practitioners of all disciplines who work with families, have an interest in organisational systems to attend these events.
If you are interested in our activities, want further information or have any ideas to support our aim please contact the branch secretary Pat Gray at patsyg@talktalk.net
We are pleased to say that we are now up and running again in Merseyside. We've agreed to meet bi-monthly with a theme or paper to discuss
the dates for 2012 are:
Thurs Mar 15, Wed 30 May, Thurs 26 July, Wed 26 Sept, Thurs 29 Nov
We meet at 6pm at South Liverpool CAMHS Rose Hill House, 1 Rose Lane,
Mossley Hil, Liverpool L18 8ES
Please contact Danny McGowan for more information regarding Merseyside AFT on
dannymcgowan@hotmail.co.uk
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North East AFT
Contact
Sean Tomlinson - sean.tomlinson@ntw.nhs.uk
North Essex AFT
Branch contact Matthew Ganda matthew.ganda@nepft.nhs.uk
East Anglian Regional CAMHS Eating Disorders Conference
“from the frying pan into the fire” Transitions into, out of, and during treatment
23rd March 2012 9.30 – 4.30
The Essex Golf and Country Club Earl’s Colne, Colchester CO6 2NS
This branch was formerly East Anglia
The branch holds bi-monthly film nights from 5.30pm to 7.30pm at Holmer Court, Colchester CO3 3BT .
All welcome, just let us know in advance if you are coming
Northern Ireland AFT
Contact - Lorna Kavanagh
Tel: 02890204700
Lorna.kavanagh@belfasttrust.hscni.net
Nottingham AFT
Contact Liz Tatham 07958 571374 - liz.tatham@nottshc.nhs.uk
AFT Scotland
We are starting up a new, more widely engaged and connected organisation and lead group for FT, SP and AFT in Scotland. We want this to better represent, integrate, support, lead and further promote all the many people ;and projects in Scotland that contribute to the dynamic Family Therapy and Systemic Practice scene here.
SAFT aims to hold one significant training event each year. We also try to meet occasionally throughout the year to think about current issues in family therapy. We are a small group at present and we’d be very pleased to welcome new members.
Contact Annie Biggs at annie.biggs@obmh.nhs.uk
South Yorkshire AFT -
We have bi-monthly supervision groups and run the Sheffield Foundation Course.
Contact Alison Murphy on alison.murphy@sch.nhs.uk
Surrey AFT
'WHEN ANGER ENDANGERS RELATIONSHIPS:SELF-HARM AS A SYSTEMIC SOLUTION’ presenter David Pocock
The Dorking Halls, Dorking
Friday March 23rd, 2012, 10am to 4 pm
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Contact - Chris Ball (Branch Rep)
chris.ball@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk
07818842942
Surrey AFT hosts two training events each year, with the aim of responding to the needs of current practices. Events are held at the Dorking Halls. We are open to thinking about different ways to expand systemic practice and support members on our mailing list.
Friday March 2, 2012, 10 – 4.30pm
Paolo Bertrando, MD, PhD.
Working on Emotions in the Systemic Therapeutic Session
Brighthelm Centre, Brighton
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Secretary: tanyasmart@lewesfamilytherapy.co.uk
Chair: richard.a.best@talk21.com
Treasurer: david.secrett@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
Local Branches Member: Margaret@SystemicNarrativeTherapy.com
Sussex AFT has a vigorous Committee, Chaired by Richard Best, Secretary Tanya Smart, Treasurer David Secrett, and Local Branch Member for AFT Margaret Henning.
Other Committee members play key roles planning and running workshops, one future development being the introduction of locally provided practice workshops working across different modes of therapeutic practice, and agencies.
The current Sussex AFT has been functioning since 2004 and provided workshops by Peter Stratton and David Epston in its first year and continued since then with two workshops each year. Our autumn workshop with Gail Simon proved very popular and we plan several more consultations with Gail. In March 2012 Paulo Bertrando will share with us his ideas on emotion.
The workshops have provided a surplus of funds for our needs and recently we decided to feed some money back into National AFT as an appreciation that without them we would not achieve so much.
Brighton and Hove City, West and East Sussex are embraced by the Sussex Partnership NHS Trust, and many systemic therapists work within the Trust, although a good number of systemic practitioners work privately. There is generally a vibrant, often political discussion about the place and role of different psychotherapies therapies in the region. Many Committee members are trainers and or supervisors, some teaching on systemic programmes locally, with qualifying courses in Brighton and Hove, neighbouring Guildford, as well as in London
The first Sussex AFT was established in 1974 spearheaded by Rosemary Ryle, a Tavistock trained therapist. In 1974-5 training days were run by Rosemary Whiffen, John Byng-Hall, and Arno Bentovim amongst others. Sussex AFT has been reincarnated several times since then, but always retaining its training role and focus.
We welcome anyone in the Sussex area not already part of Sussex AFT to get in touch with us.
Contact Roy Farquharson on
roy.farquharson@barnardos.org.uk
Wales - AFT Cymru
contact Shirley Valentino on s.valentino1@ntlworld.com
01446 402445
AFT Cymru’s core objective is to provide a space for Continuing Personal Development which is rich in diverse systemic ideas, explored and offered through a community spirit. At present we meet four times a year in a relaxed atmosphere and aspire to learn from each others varied experiences. This can be through small discussion groups or by presentation.
At present the meeting venue is the Wenvoe Arms Pub Old Port Road Cardiff CF5 6AN. We offer a warm welcome to all who are working or thinking in a systemic way, whether qualified or students. For future meeting dates please can you email me at the above address.
Contact can be made with the Branch via
Jacqui Sayers email: jacqui.sayers@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Ann Hughes email: ann.hughes@nbt.nhs.uk
West Country AFT- WCAFT is based in the Bristol area of the West country. The Branch is strongly linked with a local Systemic Psychotherapy Network (SPN) of practitionersacross the Bath/ Bristol/Wiltshire areas.
We hold half day workshops 4 times per year and engage local speakers from our systemic community to run brief workshopsand make presentations about their work. We have also hosted whole day AFT events, including the Eileen Jameson Day last year. We hosted the National Conference here in 2007 and will be hosting it again in Bristol in 2012. The Branch Committee is made up of around 6 people. The WCAFT Chair is Ann Hughes, Secretary is, Jacqui Sayers. Shan Tate takes a Lead on the SPN Programme of workshops
We are an active branch and welcome interest from all systemic practitioners in the locality.
Special Interest Groups
Lancashire- Contact Cameron Anderson by email using the link or by phone to 01772 401040.
AFT 7 Executive Suite, St James Court, Wilderspool Causeway, Warrington Cheshire WA4 6PS.
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