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Date: Saturday 6 November 2010
Time: 0900 - 1500
Venue: Market Harborough Methodist Church, Northampton Road, LE16 9HE
Speaker: Michael Jacobs
MICHAEL JACOBS, formerly of Leicester University, is a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds and Bournemouth University, and a psychodynamic and integrative psychotherapist registered with UKCP, in independent practice in Swanage, Dorset. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. His books on psychodynamic counselling and therapy are used as key texts on many training courses – notably The Presenting Past (2006, 3rd edition, Open University Press), Psychodynamic Counselling in Action (2010, 4th edition, Sage). Other publications include The Therapist’s Use of Self, written with John Rowan (2002 – Open University Press), and his latest books are Shakespeare on the Couch (Karnac) and Our Desire of Unrest (Karnac).
Michael Jacobs trained originally in theology and was ordained into the Church of England. Later learning about psychological ideas he began to challenge in himself the most basic ideas which he had held, and since he was at the time working as a university chaplain, found these were also ideas that others were challenging. Giving up on the church because of its conservatism and narrow-mindedness he moved into a new career as a secular counsellor and psychotherapist, although for a few years in the eighties and early nineties he combined the role of director of the University of Leicester's counselling programme with the post of Director of Pastoral Care and Counselling in three East Midlands dioceses, where he helped to develop training and resources for clergy and lay people.
He has retained a lively interest in the links between his original discipline and the one that he has spent most of his working life developing. His book Illusion: a psychodynamic interpretation of thinking and belief sets out his own position in a definitive way, and it is this which forms the basis for his day long presentation, when, illustrating his ideas with words and music, he traces how he thinks belief systems may change over the course of a lifetime.
PROGRAMME
0900 - 0930 Coffee and registration
0940 - 0945 Welcome and opening prayer
0945 - 1115 Session 1
1115 - 1145 Coffee break
1145 - 1300 Session 2
1300 - 1345 Lunch (Bring your own - drinks provided)
1345 - 1400 AGM (for members)
1400 - 1545 Session 3
1545 - 1600 Coffee break
1600 - 1700 Session 4
Please e-mail christine@j10counselling.org.uk if you would like more details.