TRAINING DAYS 

Mind Matters is pleased to be sponsoring a series of CPD workshops this autumn - all events will be held in YORK.  Workshop leaders are experts in their field and places are limited so, to be sure of a place, complete our booking form now.

 

 

Introduction to Solution Focused Conversations 

 

Date: 18/11/2011 -   Cost (including light refreshments only) £95 (£80 for Mind Matters associates)

 

Solution focused conversations are positive and optimistic and leave clients with the expectation that things will get better. Research shows that having a positive expectation combined with a vivid image of your own positive behaviour are keys to achieving your desired future. Conducting solution focused conversations can be challenging, especially when the client feels stuck. In this workshop you will learn how to use solution focused interventions and further develop your understanding as to how and why these interventions work.

 

Goal: what you can expect

The goal of this workshop  is to provide participants with an overview of the solution focused toolkit, so that they can decide for themselves if this change approach could be useful to them in their own work with clients and, if so, what they would like to use in their specific context.

 

Programme

During the day there will be plenty of opportunity to practice. Brief theoretical introductions will be linked to the experiences of the participants. The themes of the day are as follows:

 

·         Getting to know the success focus

·         Five basic solution focused interventions

·         Assumptions of the solution focused change approach

·         Visitor typical, complainer typical and client typical interactions

·         Solution focused conflict interventions

 

Trainer

This workshop is facilitated by Gwenda Schlundt Bodien, a solution focused trainer, author and coach. Trained by Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer in 1999, she has spend the last 12 years of her professional life understanding, developing and expanding the solution focused change approach and has written numerous articles and five books on the subject. She shares her time between the Netherlands and the UK, living and working in both countries. 

 

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The Dangers and Delights of Information Technology in Counselling and Psychology  

 

Date: 7/10/2011 -  Cost (including light refreshments only) £95 (£80 for Mind Matters associates)

 

Introduction

Counselling training, at all levels, places enormous importance on offering clients a clear contract of time and content, and a confidential space in which to talk.  Information Technology, on the other hand, offers a space where privacy is not necessarily seen as valuable. This workshop will examine whether these are compatible values.

 

Programme

The theme of the workshop is Confidentiality, Counselling and the Internet. We will begin with an explanation of the differences between “Digital Natives” and “Digital Immigrants”  (Harding 2010, Zur 2011). Participants will be encouraged to look at where they might place themselves before going on to explore how the use of Information Technology has special dangers and delights for the unwary counsellor.

 

Trainer

This workshop is facilitated by Heather Dale, a Senior Accredited Counsellor and Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Heather is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield and works for BACP's Professional Conduct Department, hence her interest in ethical working. 

 

An Introduction to Couple Counselling 

 

Date: 23/09/2011 -  Cost (including light refreshments only) £95 (£80 for Mind Matters associates)

 

This training day is based on the premise that couple counselling needs additional skills, knowledge and awareness, over and above those required for the counselling of individuals.

 

Goal: what you can expect

This day offers experienced and qualified 1-to-1 counsellors an opportunity to get a real taste of the principles, practice and experience of counselling couples. As well as offering input and insight into key models, there will be considerable opportunities for active personal involvement and experiential learning.

 

Trainer

The workshop is facilitated by Kevin Chandler, the author of ‘Listening In’: a novel of therapy & real life, and the novella, Fifty-Minute Hour. Kevin also writes the monthly In Practice column for the BACP Journal, Therapy Today. As well as being a writer, Kevin is also a BACP Senior Accredited  Counsellor/Psychotherapist and Supervisor with over 20 years experience training and supervising of Relate couple counsellors. 

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