Events organised by other Agencies

Other agencies ask us from time to time to advertise events that they have organised and could be of interest to some of our members. Below are links to some such events although ACC cannot be responsible for the content of non-ACC organised courses or conferences.


OXFORD CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE FOR COUNSELLING

“The Selfish Society”

with morning key note speaker Sue Gerhardt - Author and psychotherapist

Date: Saturday 13 March 2010
Time: 1000 - 1600
Venue: Headington Baptist Church, 78 The Old High Street, Headington OX3 9HW
Cost: £70.00 (including a light lunch)

Further details. Download a booking form from www.ocic.org.uk


'TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS' a CPD event in Sheffield from the Deep Release team

Date: Saturday 20 March 2010
Time 0930 - 1600

See ACC North East Regional page for more details.


WORKSHOP FOR THOSE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED SEXUAL ABUSE AND THOSE THAT SUPPORT THEM - TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER

A relaxed and friendly environment where we will come together to learn, share and support each other.

Aims:


Date: Saturday 20 March 2010
Time: 1400 - 1700
Venue: Kensington High Street, London W8

Cost: £35/£30/£25 (includes refreshments and handouts)

Concessions for partners/unemployed/students/groups.
Discount of £25.00 rate for ACC Members

The workshop is led by a Survivor and all Facilitators are professionally trained in counselling and group facilitation. BACP and ACC ethics apply.

Comments by people who have attended our workshops: “It was a really helpful day, and just so good to meet and talk to other survivors.”
“My partner’s understanding of my situation was greatly helped.”
“Thank you … for your wisdom in dealing with this often emotional issue, sensitively- particularly the subject of shame. I was glad that I came and convinced myself that I wasn't to be blamed.”
"I found the session helpful in my professional developmen.t"

Email Rebecca at info@intothelight.org.uk or see www.intothelight.org.uk


TAC: the Small Collaborative Team in Early Childhood Intervention

– making the best use of practitioners and parents’ time

Date: Wednesday 24 March 2010
Time 1000 - 1600 (Reception and refreshments from 0930)
Venue: Armada House, Telephone Avenue, Bristol, UK BS1 4BQ

Seminar topics for discussion:

1. The TAC System – values, philosophy and practice

A child’s TAC [Team Around the Child] will be presented as a small multi-disciplinary team of just two, three or four people (parent + practitioners) who work in close collaboration and have the authority and flexibility to find creative solutions to the challenges faced by child and family.

This session will focus on a genuinely child-centred approach and will question how valid it is to persist with the traditional approach of responding to ‘multiple disabilities’ with multiple practitioners. The TAC System will be offered as a whole-child approach that can reduce the pressure on child, family and practitioners.

2. How we sometimes waste education and therapy resources with too many practitioners offering a child too many separate interventions

The TAC System will be offered as an approach that is genuinely child-centred, genuinely family-centred and considerate of the conditions under which practitioners are working.

3. TAC, CAF, Keyworking, Lead Professional and Multi-agency Integrated Pathway: Fitting them all together

This session will envisage a seamless journey for babies and pre-school children and their families up to and over transition out of pre-school services. Discussion will include a single front door, assessment of need, the multi-agency referral panel and keyworker / lead professional.

4. The implications of offering a genuinely family-centred early support system

The phrase ‘family-centred’ can be a token expression with no substance in practical terms. If families were offered genuinely family-centred multi-agency support in the pre-school years, what might it include and what are the implications for service providers?

Further information, including information about the publication TAC for the 21st Century: Nine essays on Team Around the Child by Peter Limbrick. Interconnections. 2009.



"Beautiful Minds?" A one day conference on "Emotional Health and Christian Theology"


Date: Friday 26 March 2010
Venue: Holy Trinity, Brompton

By Mind and Soul and St Paul's Theological Centre.

Further information on the Mind and Soul poster

See the full Leaflet

http://www.mindandsoul.info

DEEP RELEASE COUNSELLING TRAINING – SW ENGLAND

Trainers: Julie Timm and Deep Release team

Venue: Shipham Village Hall (www.shiphamhall.co.uk) – easily accessible from M5/A38

Saturday 10 April 2010: Working with the inner child

This course looks at the emotional impact of early childhood pain and how this can lead to a lost inner child who has taken the blame for the struggles we experience in life. Finding him or her can bring a depth of personal healing and release in the present. A very moving and empowering day, including art work, creative writing and working with symbols.

Saturday 29 May 2010: Understanding attachment

As infants we need a safe person to attach to in order to grow and develop well. If our key carer is not safe, we often build a ‘false self’ to try and please them, and this can affect relationships throughout our life. Many people feel confused about their feelings, both wanting help and pushing people away. Come and learn how Attachment Theory explains this and offers help and the possibility of change.

Tuesday 20 July 2010: Anger workshop

Learn how anger gets blocked often causing sickness and depression... how emotions can be repressed in childhood... how to release angry feelings safely. This day will also look at some interesting spiritual dynamics, and includes practical exercises and demonstrations.

Cost: £55 per day. £100 for two days. £135 for three days when booked together.

Timings: Each day will start with coffee and registration at 0930 and will finish at 1630.

All drinks provided during the day but please bring your own packed lunch.

More information is available from Julie Timm on 01934 844721 timmjulie@yahoo.co.uk


PICT WORKSHOP
DISCOVERING AND CHANGING LIMITING BELIEFS

Date: 17 April 2010
Time: 0930 - 1730
Venue: Harvest Church, 72 Chelsham Road, South Croydon, Croydon CR2 6HY
Event Price: £85.00 per ticket

Speaker/Trainer: Lindsay Schofield

Being able to identify and remove limiting beliefs is of prime importance to anyone wishing to facilitate change. To change limiting thought patterns, uncomfortable feelings, unwanted behaviours, take responsibility for one’s health, reduce stress responses, etc. will require belief work, because what we believe creates the reality we experience. This intensive workshop covers detailed information about discovering beliefs and how to use the Mistaken Belief Visualisation (MBV), to rapidly change them.

This one-day workshop is formatted as information, demonstration and practice. It is a workshop where qualified counsellors have the opportunity to learn one of five specialist therapeutic techniques extracted from the Parks Inner Child Therapy (PICT) Childhood Abuse Training course.

Lindsay is a Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist with a private practice near Croydon, South East London. She has specialised for work with trauma and children. Lindsay presents the PICT course and workshops, counselling training and skills, and her own workshops on counselling children. Lindsay is a licentiate member of the NCP, and a member of the ACC, BACP and BABCP; Lindsay is married with two teenage sons and a menagerie of animals.

Lindsay Schofield, Cornerstone Integrated Therapies, 26 The Chase, Coulsdon, Surrey CR5 2EG
T: 020 8668 7527
E: lindsay@citherapy.co.uk

CITherapies is affiliated to The Penny Parks Foundation www.ppfoundation.org



CRUSE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010

(CRUSE Bereavement Care)

Topic: Caring for the life that´s left
Venue: Warwick University, UK
Dates: Tuesday 20 & Wednesday 21 July 2010

This event promises to be every bit as exciting and successful as our Golden Jubilee Conference, that took place in July 2009. Due to the popularity of the 2009 venue, the conference will be held once again at Warwick University.

We are honoured to count on the presence of the following keynote speakers:

Margaret Stroebe from Utrecht University in the Netherlands who will be speaking about research and its application to bereavement support

Dr Bill Webster, Grief Counsellor and well known International Speaker from Canada who will be discussing group support for bereaved people

Jim Kuykendall, International Lecturer on the subject of bereavement, trained in bereavement process under the renowned Dr Elizabeth Kubler-Ross - subject to be confirmed

Please check the Cruse website for Conference updates which will be posted at regular intervals over the coming months.
http://www.cruse.org.uk/ Email: conference@cruse.org.uk


PICT CHILDHOOD ABUSE TRAINING COURSE

Nine Modules, two days' teaching per month in the Croydon area.
Please note that the starting date has been altered to 7 November and the course will run till 11 July 2010. See further details on the ACC London and S E Regional page.

PICT is an evolving form of cognitive therapy. With foundations in Transactional analysis, it incorporates Neuro Linguistic Programming to aid rapid resolution of the symptoms and effects of childhood abuse. It is also helpful for treating depression; self-harm; grief and loss; anxiety and panic; compulsive behaviours; relationship difficulties; confidence and self-esteem difficulties, body image problems; phobias & allergies.
PICT Training is designed to equip practitioners with tools and confidence to comfortably and effectively treat challenging client issues.

More information is available on the PICT web site: www.ppfoundation.org


BROOK CREATIVE THERAPY

Creative therapy training for Christian counsellors Academic year 2010 - 11

September, October and November 2010 – Midlands and London based.
Creative, practical skills for Christian counsellors and trainees working with adults and children. Each day can count as six hours’ CPD.

Further information. Web site

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