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- Relational Process 2010 / 2011

This course is an essential part of the training for the Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, and forms two units of Module 2 in the MA in Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy programme with Middlesex University. 

It is designed to build on the work of earlier stages of the training, which introduce person-centred and object-relational theories and equip the student to begin to practice professionally and ethically.  Students are now working in private practice with training clients, and this course provides support for furthering theoretical understanding but with a particular emphasis on translating that into effective work in the therapeutic setting.  In earlier stages general listening skills are developed.  Here, there is a focus on listening for how the client is structuring her understanding of herself and her world, as revealed principally in the interaction between client and therapist, while being aware also of how the therapist's own contribution may help rather than hinder the client's progress.  Students will be encouraged to form their own integration from theory taught and explored in this module.

The course runs for 13 weeks from October 2010.
For full details please download the Relational Process course flyer.

 

- Reflection and Presence 2011

This course is an optional part of the training for the Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, and forms one unit of Module 2 in the MA in Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy programme with Middlesex University.

The contemplative approach to psychotherapy values the ability to remain present with our experience in each successive moment, without recourse to defensive closures, either through repression or acting out, knowing that which we call self to be ultimately a fluid expression of energy. Drawing upon that part of transpersonal psychology that has been influenced by the contemplative traditions of Christianity, Advaita Vedanta and principally, Buddhism, this course seeks to establish a small beginning in the essential skill of Bare Attention or mindfulness and establishing an atmosphere of generosity and unconditional friendliness, together making the foundation of a contemplative clinical practice.

The course runs over six Saturdays in 2011, from January 29.

For full details please download the Reflection and Presence course flyer.

 

- The Ecological Self 2011

This course is an optional part of the training for the Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, and forms one unit of Module 2 in the MA in Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy programme with Middlesex University.

This course emphasises the view that relationship with other-than-human life is fundamental to our existence, particularly at a time when ecological crisis has an impact on the psyche. We will look at the significance of this bond in biography, case studies, culture and society, and in the theory and practice of counselling and therapy. The latter applies to both content and process.

We will look at ways in which this connection can be included in (or excluded from) counselling and psychotherapy, and the ways in which its occurrence in sessions - for instance through the intervention of animals - can occur by accident or intention. We will consider: the eco-biographies of participants; the ways in which nature affects individual and group process (by interacting with horses and with a woodland setting); the appearance of this theme in our client work; how practitioners decide to include nature in their work, and what changes participants might make to the way they practice in future.

We will study the theorists of eco-psychology and eco-therapy and the ways they complement or contrast with the more familiar therapeutic theories. We will be making extensive use of access to animals and landscape available at the site of this course.

The course takes place over three weekends in 2011, starting February 19-20. For full details please download the Ecological Self course flyer.