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| Enter the family drama: Using psychodrama in systemic therapy with families – 20-21 September 2010 | |
| Presenter: Chip Chimera is a systemic family psychotherapist and psychodrama psychotherapist. She is currently undertaking doctoral studies focused on how family therapists use action in their work. Chip is the Director of the Centre for Child Studies at the Institute of Family Therapy. | |
| Psychodrama is a form of group therapy developed by J.L. Moreno in the 1920s and 1930s. It has been expanded by practitioners around the world and has continued to develop as a vibrant form of intervention for individuals and groups. There are many overlaps with, and similarities, to systemic practice. In this skills based workshop participants will learn the basic tenets and philosophies of psychodrama and their interface with systemic practice. | |
| Evidence-based practice – skills workshop – 11th October 2010 | |
| Presenter: Stewart McCafferty is a Systemic Psychotherapist and Supervisor, with experience of working in both statutory and voluntary contexts directly with families and as consultant to professionals. Barbara McKay is also a Systemic Psychotherapist and Supervisor and currently the Director of the Institute of Family Therapy. | |
| The workshop will explore practice choices available to professionals working with the complex needs of individuals and families. The presenters will identify interventions from evidence based practice that can be applied directly to working with clients. Participants will be given the opportunity to refine their practice skills throughout the day. | |
| Attachment and narrative therapy – 4-5 November & 6-7th December 2010 | |
| Cost: £350.00 | |
| Presenter: Dr Rudi Dallos, Course Director, Clinical Psychology Doctorate, Plymouth University. Dr Arlene Vetere: Deputy Course Director, Clinical Psychology Doctorate, University of Surrey, Guildford | |
| This 4 day training workshop will introduce participants to Attachment Narrative Therapy – an approach to formulation and practice that integrates attachment theory with systemic theories and practice in the context of narrative development in children and families. The training will include experiential exercises to illustrate the concepts in action, and will provide many opportunities to link to participants’ own practice. | |
| Cost of workshops: 1-day £120 - 2-day £180 | |
| The Training Department, Institute of Family Therapy 24 - 32 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HX Tel: 020 7391 9150 Fax: 020 7391 9169 email: training@iftnet.plus.com or visit our website at: www.ift.org.uk |
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| David Campbell Memorial Supervision Conference |
24 September 2010 |
| Fee: £95 (20% reduction for TSP members and concessions) Venue: Tavistock Centre, London |
| The Systems Discipline of the Tavistock and Portman is joining forces with the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists to hold the first annual conference to mark one year since David Campbell's untimely death. |
| The theme of the conference will be supervision, an area of practice David felt passionately about. |
| The day will comprise plenary presentations and a choice of workshops. |
| Speakers include Charlotte Burck, Margaret Rustin, Sara Barratt, Paula Boston, Kate Daniels, Barry Mason |
| For more information on the conference, visit www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/DavidCampbellMemorial |
| Further information Events Organiser, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Tel: 020 8938 2548, Email: events@tavi-port.org, Web: www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/conferences |
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| University Centre Doncaster High Melton Campus Doncaster DN5 7SZ |
| MSc in Relationship Therapy |
| This is an exciting and unique 2 year programme offered by the Relate Institute, focusing on Counselling Research. |
| COMMENCING 27TH OCTOBER 2010 |
| The first year of the programme consists of two semesters. In the first semester students will attend five 2-day blocks and explore innovative research methodologies. In the second semester students will work on a small research project under the guidance of their tutor and academic supervisor, submitting a short report of their study at the end of the semester. |
| Students will then embark on a larger research project, submitting a dissertation in the September of the second year of the course. During the two years of the programme students will be expected to maintain a clinical practice which will form part of the assessed work. |
| For more information & application form contact the Programme Leader 01302 553879 gloria.flynn-piercy@don.ac.uk |
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| The Institute of Family Therapy and Relate 2nd Joint Conference | |
| On Thursday 28th & Friday 29th October 2010 | |
| Challenging Dominant Discourses in Sexuality | |
| A two-day event in Central London with keynote speakers from leaders in the field of psychotherapy. | |
| Refreshments and light lunch will be provided | |
We are delighted to announce the second conference between two major training institutions in the field of counselling and psychotherapy, Relate and the Institute of Family Therapy. |
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| This is a practice based conference for all of those who work in voluntary, statutory and private sectors. The conference will focus on the development of discourses around sexuality; seek to consider useful ways of talking with clients about sex and sexuality; and the effects on the family and wider systems. | |
| The keynote speakers and workshop presenters are leaders in the field and bring together a significant body of knowledge and experience of working with sexuality with couples, individuals and families. | |
| The presenters will include current literature and examples from their own clinical experience to demonstrate their work in this field. | |
| Keynote speakers on Thursday 28th October | |
| Dominic Davies is Director of Pink Therapy. He has worked as a counsellor, psychotherapist and sex therapist with gender and sexual minority clients for almost thirty years and was made a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling for his “distinguished contribution to the field” . | |
| Catherine Butler is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and systemic psychotherapist in the Infection & Immunology Department at Barts & the London Trust. | |
| Keynote Speakers on Friday 29th October | |
| Damian McCann is a Consultant Family & Systemic Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer working in a Child & Adolescent Service in north London. He is also a Clinical Associate of Pink Therapy and is in private practice specialising in sexual minority therapy. | |
| Desa Markovic is a systemic therapist, supervisor and trainer. She has worked in the UK for the last 20 years and incorporates her work as a psychosexual therapist within a wider frame of working systemically. | |
| Fee for 2 days: £245 | |
| The Training Department, Institute of Family Therapy 24 - 32 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HX Tel: 020 7391 9150 Fax: 020 7391 9169 email: training@iftnet.plus.com or visit our website at: www.ift.org.uk |
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