We
offer a training programme designed to meet the CPD needs of counsellors,
psychotherapists, psychologists and people working in the caring professions. Our training is delivered
by experts in the field, and is affordably priced.
Costs
for each workshop:
Self-funded: £60
(day); £30 (half day)
Institutionally funded: £80 (day); £40 (half day)
Discounts are available for groups of people from an Institution.
Bespoke in-house training can be arranged for a group of staff
members.
A
£10 non-refundable
deposit is required for each course
Tea
& Coffee included
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All training days will be held at the
Dover
Counselling Centre
9 St James' Street
Dover
Kent CT16 1QD
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The table below shows our current programme. To find out more about a course, click on its title. For information about
a trainer, click on
their name:
Please
telephone (01304 204123) or email
the Centre for any additional details of any of the above
activities. If you have missed a course that you would have
liked to attend, please let us know - if there is sufficient
interest, the course may be run again.
Information
about the Courses:
Creative Imagination – Bypasses The Mind (One Day Workshop)
Friday, 16th January 2009
Tutor: Jan
Courtney
Working with images and objects can release feelings and experiences
more effectively than talking.
This workshop is an opportunity to explore this experience for
yourself, tapping in to your own creative imagination.
Opening up self awareness about creativity can encourage working
creatively with clients as well as facilitating a movement in personal
development.
Aims of the Course:
An
experiential day with a hands-on approach exploring the use of:
Drawing and writing
Visualisation
Objects and toys
Sand tray
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Part
One (One Day Workshop)
Friday 6th
February
2009
Tutor:
Gerlinde
Wilberg
An introductory day for counsellors unfamiliar with the theory and
practice of CBT.
Aims of the Course:
To
explore the concept of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
To explore the implications and limitations of
CBT.
To explore how to integrate CBT into your present orientation.
To offer an opportunity to practice CBT interventions in small groups
To receive feedback and discuss your experiences with CBT
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Myers
Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Friday 20th February 2009
Tutor: Jane Waters
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality inventory based
on the theories of Carl Jung. The
Indicator is non-judgmental and allows people to gain an understanding
of themselves, their motivations, their natural strengths and their
potential areas for growth. It
will also help people to appreciate those who are different from them
and encourages cooperation with others.
The MBTI produces 16 different personality types, each with its own
characteristics and strengths. There
are no right or wrong answers on the Indicator and no assumed
‘right’ way to be.
Over 50 years of research and development have demonstrated the
reliability and validity of the MBTI and it is the most widely used
instrument for understanding normal personality
Aims of the Course:
During the workshop delegates will have the opportunity to:
Complete the MBTI questionnaire
Carry out a self-assessment against the four MBTI dimensions
Participate in exercises to explore and understand
differences
Establish their own MBTI ‘best-fit’ type
Reflect on how understanding of different MBTI types may
influence or inform their practice
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Part
Two (One Day Workshop)
Friday 27th
February
2009
Tutor:
Gerlinde
Wilberg
A workshop for counsellors familiar with the basic
CBT
approach
Aims of the Course:
To
explore and discuss the complexities of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
To introduce the assessment model of
CBT
To understand how our own cognition influences our behaviour
To offer an opportunity to practice setting behavioural tasks
To receive feedback and discuss your experiences with this model
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Introduction
to Gestalt (One Day Workshop)
Friday 6th
March
2009
Tutor:
Gerlinde
Wilberg
“Awareness and responsibility for the total field, for the self as
well as the other, these give meaning and pattern to the individual’s
life.” Perls F. 1973 p49
Aims of the Course:
To introduce the concept of Gestalt therapy
To explore the implications and limitations of Gestalt therapy
To explore how to integrate Gestalt into your present orientation
To offer an opportunity to practice Gestalt interventions in small
groups
To receive feedback and discuss your experiences with Gestalt
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Drug
Awareness (One Day Workshop)
Friday 20th
March
2009
Tutor:
Sue Wiltshire
This workshop will involve discussion and case studies, involving all
attendees, giving people the opportunity to discuss their counselling
experiences working with clients who are using or have used / abused
drugs in the past. If you
have a case study you are able to share with the group and would like
to bring this into the discussion, please do so.
Hand outs will be provided with information on specific drugs,
their use, affects and costs.
Aims of the Course:
To look at the most common drugs used and abused on
the streets
To look at the cost of drug misuse and the impact on society
To explore some of the myths around illicit drug use
To explore and discuss some of the possible effects on mental and
physical health
To look at the early signs of drug use
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Asking
for Money (One Day Workshop)
Friday 20th
March
2009
Tutor:
Barbara Kelly
This workshop is for practitioners in private practice or in any
organisation where clients are expected to pay all or part of the cost
of counselling.
Aims of the Course:
To explore the significance of money in the counselling work
To explore contracting for payment
To review how counsellors deal with asking for payment for missed
sessions and cancellations
To explore money as a metaphor, looking at how issues with money and
payment can reflect what is happening in the work and the relationship
between client and counsellor
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Understanding
Couple Relationships (One Day Workshop)
Friday 27th
March
2009
Tutor:
Barbara Kelly
This workshop is for counsellors trained to work with individuals, but
who sometimes find themselves hearing clients talk about their couple
relationships. This is not
couples counselling training, but an opportunity to gain some insight
into how couple relationships operate in order to be able to interpret
what clients’ say and to respond effectively.
Aims of the Course:
To explore what draws couples together – why this partner and not
another?
To explain what draws couples together in what Henry Dick describes as
the ‘unconscious fit’
To consider different aspects of attraction and interaction, social
conscious and unconscious
To identify some common patterns in committed couple relationships
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Part
Three (One Day Workshop)
Friday 5th
June
2009
Tutor:
Gerlinde
Wilberg
Further theory and skills for those who have previously attended days
one and two
Aims of the Course:
To
catch up with colleagues from previous courses
To evaluate and discuss clinical experience in our own practice
To review how much
CBT
thinking has influenced our work and life
To see and experience
CBT
in
action on the day
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Dreams
(One Day Workshop)
The
Royal Road to the Unconscious
Friday 26th
June
2009
Tutor:
Jan Courtney
Without realising it, we can make our dreams much more active in our
process of individuation
We have the power to stop them, start them and ask them questions
Aims of the Course:
To explore using creative imagination with dreams
To look at associations with images and symbols
To explore where the energy is in a dream
To explore how we can live with a dream to help process its content and
meaning
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Trauma
(One Day Workshop)
Friday 3rd
July
2009
Tutor:
Barbara Kelly
Aims of the Course:
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Introduction
to Transactional Analysis (One Day Workshop)
Friday 17th
July
2009
Tutor:
Jane Waters
TA was developed in the 1950s by Eric Berne and is a model for
understanding human personality, relationships and communication.
Since
Berne
’s death in 1970, it has continued to be developed,
with TA practitioners introducing new concepts and techniques ensuring
it has gained international recognition as a professional approach,
facilitating effectiveness in the fields of psychotherapy, counselling,
personal development, education and organisational development.
Berne
believed that early childhood decisions lead us to
develop a ‘script’ (unhelpful repetitive patterns of behaviour),
which can limit our potential. TA can help us to develop an awareness
of these patterns and help us change them, to become more effective.
Many
TA concepts are easy to learn and apply, making them accessible and
valuable to both therapist and client.
Aims of the Course:
During this participative workshop, delegates will have the opportunity
to learn more about:
The philosophy of TA
Life script
Ego states and transactions
Psychological games
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Self
Harm (One Day Workshop)
Friday 11th
September
2009
Tutor:
Sue Wiltshire
What constitutes self harming in the counselling setting?
How do we introduce contracts to clients?
How many forms of self harming are there and how do we assess the impact
on an individual’s wellbeing?
If counsellors believe a client may be self harming do they have a duty
to confront the client?
What are our personal views on self harming?
Can counsellors offer any short term measures effectively?
If a client discloses self harming, how do we evaluate how serious it
is?
Can or should counsellors work with the presenting issues only if a
client does not wish to discuss their self harming?
Aims of the Course:
To re evaluate your own current practice.
To discuss options.
To look at personal views and experiences of self harming within the
counselling contract.
To explore what is our duty of care for these clients.
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Domestic
Abuse (One Day Workshop)
Friday 2nd
October
2009
Tutor:
Teresa Regan
The effects of domestic
abuse on children and young people and how that has an impact on the
counsellor’s work with adults.
This study day is not intended for those who have an in depth knowledge
of domestic abuse and its effects.
Aims of the Course:
Definition and brief overview of domestic abuse.
The potential impact of domestic abuse on children’s development from
pre- birth to adolescence. This will be in the form of small group
discussion and presentation.
Ways of working with children who have and/or are live in family where
domestic abuse is a factor. Participants are invited to share what
resources they use and have found helpful
Domestic abuse the impact it has on family dynamics and relationships
Working with adult clients who grew up in abusive homes.
Participants are invited to share what resources they use and find
helpful
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Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (One Day Workshop)
Friday 9th
October 2009
Tutor:
Gerlinde
Wilberg
DBT emerged when practitioners, who recorded and observed their own CBT
practice, noticed that clients often moved onto change more likely when
the practitioner was less task orientated but listened to the client’s
story.
Some call Dialectic Behavioural Therapy, CBT with empathy, others
describe it as a mixture of person-centred and CBT.
It will suit practitioners who come from a more humanistic perspective
as ‘dialectic’ refers to the existential notion that everything
always has (at least) two sides, and there is no one right way to heal
or be healthy.
The seminar will give an introduction to the theory and skills of DBT.
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Erotic
Transference (One Day Workshop)
Friday 30th October 2009
Tutor:
Gerlinde Wilberg
How do we manage when a client falls in love with us? Is
it true that clients need to fall in love with us for healing to take
place? How do we manage our desires when we fall in love with a client?
How does congruence and immediacy feature when erotic feelings emerge in
the therapeutic relationship?
Aims of the Course:
To introduce theories about ET and ECT from different orientations
To explore the goldmine and minefield of working with ET and ECT
To explore how to integrate working with ET and ECT into your practice
To offer an opportunity to practice working with ET and ECT in small
groups
To receive feedback and discuss your experiences with ET and ECT
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Information
about the trainers:
Jan
Courtney MA Dip Psy
Jan is a relationship counsellor and a transpersonal therapist and
supervisor.
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Barbara
Kelly BSc (Hons) Social with
Clinical Psychology, MBACP Accred
I am Relate trained and qualified. I am an independent practitioner
working as a counsellor, specialising in relationship counselling
for individuals and couples, trauma support for individuals and
groups and as a trainer.
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Teresa
Regan R.G.N.H.V, Dip Int Couns, MBACP Accred
All my career I have worked with children and families.
Prior to becoming a counsellor I was a health visitor and
practice teacher, specialising in post natal depression and domestic
abuse. I am an
accredited counsellor with BACP and Relate trained to work with
adolescents. I also have
training in
CBT
and
Solution Focussed Therapy, am an accredited trainer for
Kent
on
domestic abuse, supervisor to school counsellors and work with
children and young people for Primary mental health.
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Jane Waters MA
MCIPD
My
background is in teaching and learning & organisational development.
I have worked in both public and private sector organisations where I
have been responsible for personal, team and leadership development.
I began psychotherapy training in 2003, using the theory of
Transactional Analysis (TA). I
use TA in both my counselling and also in the design and delivery of
personal and leadership development programmes.
In 2006 I left corporate life to set up my own learning and
development business, which I currently combine with counselling at DCC.
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Gerlinde
Wilberg MSc, MBACP Sen.
Accred. Supervisor
Gerlinde trained as a
person-centred practitioner more than 30 years ago. Over the years
she additionally trained in other humanistic (Gestalt and
Psycho-synthesis), but also in systemic, psychodynamic and
existential theories. Her Masters in integrative therapeutic
counselling, researched the question: ‘If love heals, how do we
best express this love?’
Gerlinde works as a trainer all over
Europe
, as a counsellor and supervisor in
private practice in
Kent
and teaches Person-Centred, Gestalt
and Existential theory at the
University
of
Kent at Canterbury.
Professional Publications:
1979 Zeit fur uns, Munich:Frauenbuch Verlag, 215 pages
1987 Zeit fur uns, Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 221 pages
1987 Ganz bei mir, Salzburg: Selbst
Verlag, 381p. Co-author:
Hujber
1991 Naturliche
Geburtsvorbereitung, Munich: Kosel Verlag, 276 pages.
Co–author: Hujber
1992 Preparing for Birth
and Parenthood, Oxford: Heinemann, 302 pages1997
Zeit fur us, revised and updated,
Munich:Kunstmann Verlag
2008
The Joy of Not Knowing,
Therapy Today, Sept. issue, pp 22-25
The Buddhist notion that nothings lasts yet nothing is lost
underlies her work and teaching. Her books are written from a
dialectic stance: creating awareness that there are different
perspectives to everything we can choose which perspective to live.
Becoming more mindful of our selves as a whole, rather than
separating mind body and emotion we can make healthier choices.
Becoming aware of where we are coming from and the beliefs we have
created in our own lives enables us to create different paths for
our future.
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