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Workshops Workshops are an ideal way to learn and interact, and with 12 workshops on a variety of themes we hope that you find both challenging and interesting. Fitness to Practise - Kathy Raffles Fitness to Practise evolved as a result of Kathy experiencing absence from practice because of illness and through undertaking collaborative doctoral research with other independent practitioners similarly affected. This research study subsequently highlighted a myriad of dilemmas that independent practitioners faced when affected by illness, loss or trauma. Workshop participants will be encouraged to take part in experiential work to explore professional, theoretical, emotional and economic issues involved when considering 'fitness to practise' in relation to the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy - promoting ongoing professional development through the sharing of knowledge and experience. The workshop will be suitable for any practitioner considering setting up, and/or already working in, independent practice, for supervisors working with independent practitioners and for trainers running programmes on professional practice issues. Available on Friday and Saturday What is Life Coaching? - Gladeana McMahon Life coaching is becoming extremely popular and many clients who would traditionally have turned to counsellors are now seeking life coaches. Additionally, many clients who have benefited from counselling also find themselves turning to life coaching. This workshop considers questions such as what is life coaching? who is it aimed at? how is it done? and what are its limitations? Gladeana is a certified coach, and Fellow and Vice President of the Association for Coaching (AC). She is also a BACP Fellow, accredited counsellor and supervisor and BABCP accredited cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist who is UKCP and UKRC registered. Available on Friday and Saturday Introducing performance management into counselling: a journey behind the therapy room door - John Mellor-Clark & Barry McInnes Over the past three years an informal association of counselling and psychotherapy managers has been meeting to share experiences of introducing standardised evaluation tools into their services. The initial focus of discussions in the development stages was very much about the best tools to use, and the most effective processes to engage the whole of the service in the use of such tools. More recently, as the volume of collective data has grown, the focus of activity has evolved from passively reviewing benchmarking data, to exploring dynamic activities for service development led by the introduction of performance assessment and management. John Mellor-Clark graduated in psychology in 1989, won an MRC scholarship for an organisational psychology Master's at Sheffield University in 1990, and has a Master's degree in quality assurance in health and social care from Leeds university. Throughout this period John has specialised in the naturalistic evaluation of psychological therapies. As Managing Director of CORE Information Management System Limited, John spends much of his time training NHS therapists in audit and evaluation methods for evidence-based management and clinical governance. Barry McInnes, a BACP accredited counsellor, and manager of the Royal College of Nursing's Counselling Service, has more than 20 years in counselling. Barry has worked in the voluntary sector, young peoples' services, mental health and the NHS. He is a former Chair of the Association for Counselling at Work, a division of BACP. He has a strong commitment to the application of practice-based evidence to service quality improvement and the development of individual clinical practice. Available on Friday and Saturday Counselling, Confidentiality and the Law - Peter Jenkins This is a popular and highly participative workshop, designed to clarify the key aspects of confidentiality that affect, for example, the counsellor's duty to warn others, disclosure of records and enforced access to notes by third parties such as solicitors, police and the courts. The workshop is based on brief scenarios, discussion and brief outlines of the law in non-technical language, with maximum opportunities for dialogue and follow-up questions. Peter Jenkins is a lecturer in counselling at Manchester university and a member of the Professional Conduct Committee of BACP. He has extensive experience of training counsellors and organisations on legal aspects of therapy such as confidentiality, and has published widely on this topic. His most recent publication is Psychotherapy and the Law: Questions and Answers for Counsellors and Therapists. Available on Friday and Saturday The future of research for BACP: a consultation - Nancy Rowland This workshop is a consultation on how best to develop a research culture within BACP. Nancy will begin with a brief presentation to participants on the need for evidence-based counselling and psychotherapy. There will then be a presentation of BACP's research strategy, and Nancy will describe new developments in the Research Department and in the Research Committee. Having set the scene, the consultation will begin. Participants will be asked to debate the future of research in the psychological therapies and how best to develop a research culture within BACP. How do we facilitate evidence-based practice? What does evidence-based supervision look like? How do we both research and practise? What methodologies should we use? What are the key areas for focus? Nancy will conclude by summarising the challenges ahead for BACP and for counselling and psychotherapy research. The results of the consultation will be used to inform future planning and activity in the Research Department. Available on Friday Using Technology in Counselling and Psychotherapy - Kate Anthony This workshop is designed to give participants the theoretical principles behind using computer mediated communication for therapeutic, supervisory and training relationships, and also an overview of the methods of a number of different ways in which they can use technology in counselling and psychotherapy. Uses of technology discussed will encompass standard response email, living document email, Internet Relay Chat/Instant Messaging, listservs, bulletin boards, websites, mobile phone texting, videoconferencing, and stand-alone software (CD ROMs). Also discussed is prototype software for the future of therapy, such as Avatar therapy, virtual reality and natural language engines. Participants are encouraged to contribute to discussion on their anxieties around the use of technology in therapy, as well as the practical, ethical and theoretical issues inherent in it. Kate is a therapist with Oxleas NHS Trust in London. She is the author of several articles and chapters on the use of technology in therapy, and developed and co-authored the BACP Guidelines for Online Counselling and Psychotherapy. She presents at a national and international level at conferences and is co-editor of Technology in Counselling and Psychotherapy - A Practitioner's Guide. Available on Friday and Saturday Surviving closeness: working with severely damaged clients - Val Huet & Neil Springham Increasingly, practitioners are called on to offer therapeutic services to severely damaged clients. These include people with personality disorders, addictions, acute and long-term mental health problems and learning disabilities. This is a challenging issue, as clients often fear the intimacy implied in the therapeutic relationship. In this workshop, we will focus on the impact of narcissism and the role of shame as the 'sleeper in psychopathology' (Block-Lewis, 1985). They both have a great impact on clients' ability to tolerate closeness and we will reflect on how they resonate with our own feelings of failure when clients do not engage or drop out. The issue of surviving closeness is one shared by both therapist and client. We will illustrate this talk with case examples from our art therapy practice, and will explore with participants ways in which practice may be adapted to meet these clients' needs. Neil has a background in fine art and graduated in art therapy in 1988. He has worked within mental health and specializing in drug and alcohol work. Currently Head of arts therapies at North Surrey Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and Co-course Leader of Art Psychotherapy training at Goldsmiths College, University of London, he co-founded the Art Therapy Practice Research Network in 2000 with Val Huet. Val Huet graduated in Fine Art (Sculpture) in 1982 and as an art therapist in 1986. She has worked in mental health community services and in the NHS as head of an arts therapies department. Her clinical experience includes work with Deaf people and acute mental health, and with children and adolescent mental health services. She taught Art Therapy training at Goldsmiths' College, London, from 1992 to 2003, and co-founded the Art Therapy Practice Research Network with Neil Springham in 2000. She is now the Executive Officer for the British Association of Art Therapists and a practitioner. Available on Friday and Saturday Movement as a psychophysical process - British Association of Dance and Movement Therapy - Katya Bloom The body and its movement provide a powerful means of making contact with deep layers of the self as well as with the outside world. This workshop will enable exploration of the possibilities for non-verbal articulation of experience through the language of movement; listening to the body, as a source of discovering movement vocabulary, and exploring how to find words for direct bodily experience. Can we learn to read this level of communication and include it in any therapeutic relationship, by using our own bodies for psychic attunement with clients? Katya is a senior dance movement therapist in private practice in London. She has been a visiting lecturer on the DMT training programme at University of Surrey Roehampton, and a tutor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for many years. She is co-author of Moves: A Sourcebook of Ideas for Body Awareness and Creative Movement and is currently completing her doctorate on 'Movement as a Psychophysical Process' under the auspices of the University of East London and the Tavistock Clinic. Her book The Embodied Self will be published in late 2005. Available on Friday and Saturday Ecopsychology and Ecotherapy - Nick Totton How have human beings developed an apparent disconnection from the rest of nature, and what can we do about it? Everyone knows that we are rapidly degrading our environment in a number of different ways, threatening our survival and that of other species sharing the planet with us, together with our psychological and spiritual wellbeing. Why would we do such a thing? What has damaged our ability to care for the greater whole, let alone our simple instinct for self-preservation? The workshop will explore experientially and theoretically how therapy can help reconnect us with the world around us - while it is still there. Available on Friday and Saturday The Continuing Challenge of Diversity to the Therapy Profession - Colin Lago At the heart of therapeutic theory and process is the respect, recognition and concern for each client's uniqueness. Other complex mechanisms can, however, interfere seriously with this valuing stance towards the client when they hail from groups experienced as different by the therapist. In short, this workshop will focus on the challenge(s) of diversity to the counselling/psychotherapy profession. Colin Lago was Director of the Counselling Service at the University of Sheffield from 1987-2003. He now works as an independent counsellor, trainer, supervisor and consultant. Trained initially as an engineer, Colin went on to become a full-time youth worker in London and then a teacher in Jamaica. He is a Fellow of BACP, an accredited counsellor and trainer and a UKRC registered practitioner. Deeply committed to transcultural concerns, he has had articles, videos and books published. Available on Friday and Saturday Working with Asylum Seekers - Lennox Thomas This workshop will help participants explore some of the issues around the emotional, theoretical and technical aspects of this work. While I had worked with holocaust survivors in my early career as a clinical social worker, my work with asylum seekers in the early 80s was shocking because I was not prepared to encounter organised human destruction on this scale again. Many counsellors and therapists need support on how to use skills they already possess, as well as how to manage the emotional torrent that sweeps them along. One of the interesting paradoxes is the importance of caring and being very present, which in some aspects of therapy is taboo and legitimises our personal coldness and detachment in the name of good practice. What is also very interesting when working with asylum seekers is the difference in the quality of the therapeutic work. Available on Saturday Therapeutic work with young people - Dennis Lines How are family dynamics played out in social settings such as the classroom, the youth club or small casual meetings, and how are they best addressed? How does the counsellor (who is more likely to be identified as parent than friend) form a therapeutic relationship with such clients who may not engage in long-term counselling? What style is best adopted and which interventions work in brief therapy with 'low-level' difficulties - such as name-calling and social isolation - that are often the precursors to later serious social and emotional difficulties? This workshop will consider not so much the high but the low-end type of niggling difficulties that beset adolescents during development and transition, which if not addressed can often lead to major problems in adult life. Dennis has 27 years' experience in teaching and full-time school counselling in a large secondary school in Birmingham, UK. Available on Friday and Saturday Supervision, counter-transference and trauma: challenges of supervising practitioners working with survivors of abuse - Moira Walker This workshop will explore the impact of working with trauma on the practitioner who works therapeutically with survivors of childhood abuse, and will explore their supervisor's role in helping to manage the resulting terror, horror and trauma. It examines how the therapist may become traumatised and identifies the problematic and potentially damaging consequences for the therapist, the client and for the therapeutic relationship. Particular attention is paid to counter-transference, traumatic counter-transference and secondary traumatisation. The question of what constitutes effective supervision in this field will be examined and the importance of identifying secondary traumatisation and responding appropriately in supervision, will be emphasised. Available on Friday and Saturday Intergenerational transmission of trauma - Moira Walker This workshop explores some of the potential consequences in adulthood of childhood abuse, in terms of the effects on parenting and on the child of the abuse survivor. It aims to identify and explore some of the difficulties and issues faced by survivors and their children, and how these can be manifested in counselling and psychotherapy both with survivors and with the children of survivors. Given the secrecy of abuse it is important that practitioners are aware of these issues as it is the experience of many survivors that not only do they feel themselves unfairly labelled by the 'cycle of abuse' argument but that their needs as parents, or as children of survivors, are frequently unrecognised. Moira Walker is a registered psychotherapist and fellow of BACP. She is currently a reader in the Institute of Health and Community Studies at Bournemouth University. Available on Friday and Saturday
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