Event reviews
Read & Review Previous HACP Organised Events
Here we’ve collected together the reviews and write ups of past HACP events. We encourage you to read and also comment on them if you feel a contribution is neseccary.
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Evening Meetings
A review of the Evening Talk on with Tuesday May 16th 2017. The Cause of Depression, with Stefan Charidge
From the moment Stefan started his presentation - I felt that he captivated his audience and it remained this way for the whole evening. Stefan Charidge gave a very simple yet fresh view on emotions and how they can ultimately be used in supporting an...
Review of the Evening Talk, Wednesday June 14th, 2017 Working with Gender Identity, with Shelley Bridgman
Michelle gave us a very moving talk on gender dysphoria: unhappiness with gender identity, which leads many thousands of males and females in the UK every year to consider and in many cases change their gender. Surprisingly to me about half of surgical reassignments...
A review of talk, April 18th, 2017. Family Therapy and Family Dynamics, with Graham Shavick
For our April evening talk, our committee was delighted to have Graham Shavick present his talk: An Introduction to Family Therapy and Family Dynamics. Graham is a psychotherapist and business coach with a keen interest in working with families and understanding...
A review of the Evening Talk on with Monday March 13th, Anger Management, a T.A. Perspective with Nicola Worrall and Helen Davies
Nicola and Helen introduced us to the work they had undertaken as facilitators to evaluate the effectiveness of a transactional analysis (TA) methodology working with a group of male volunteers experiencing difficulties in managing anger. The objectives of the project...
Review of the evening talk with Maggie Lomax: Monday 13th February 2017, Cultural Considerations in Counselling Survivors of Sexual Violence
The evening began by naming a list of ‘Where to Start’ (e.g. available support, safety, honouring, shame issues, etc.) and recognising those important factors when working win the field of domestic/sexual abuse. In the first half of the evening, Maggie gave a talk...
A review of the Evening Talk on Wednesday 18th January 2017 with Sinead Mitchell. Weaving the Lost Wisdom of Child-bearing Years in the Counselling Room – ‘it takes a village to raise a child’
A review of the Evening Talk on Wednesday 18th January 2017 with Sinead Mitchell. Weaving the Lost Wisdom of Child-bearing Years in the Counselling Room – ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ This talk focused on the kind of support that really benefits women before...
Review of Evening Talk on Alcohol Awareness on November 15, 2016 by John Baker
Review of Evening Talk on Alcohol Awareness on November 15, 2016 by John Baker ‘A Sobering Experience - Double pun intended’ Fancy a tipple or two? – Sure, it’s almost the Silly Season - time to kick back and break open a bottle or two. I do. But after John’s...
A Review of: Are Talking Therapies Sitting on Their Hands? – Why Touch Matters, with Doris Prügel-Bennett on Monday, 17th October, 2016
A Review of: Are Talking Therapies Sitting on Their Hands? – Why Touch Matters, with Doris Prügel-Bennett on Monday, 17th October, 2016 Doris was kind enough to step in at the last minute as our original speaker unfortunately had to cancel. This talk was extremely...
Review of the evening Talk, The Cycle of Change: with Bob Hammett on August 17, 2016
Review of the evening Talk, The Cycle of Change: with Bob Hammett on August 17, 2016 The August evening meeting explored a motivational approach to change. In opening the discussion was about how motivation to change is not fixed, but is an internal process that...
Review of talk on Theta Healing with Jacqueline McGinn, Tuesday July 12th, 2016
Review of talk on Theta Healing with Jacqueline McGinn, Tuesday July 12th, 2016 Jacqueline gave us a description of Theta Healing and its philosophy including a short video from its founder, Vianna Stibal. She also shared her story of how she came to study Theta...
Training
Review of the Day Training on Saturday, 13th May 2017 with Prof. Julia Buckroyd: Being Myself and Behaving Myself – Towards Authentic Practice
Julia invited us to take the opportunity to reflect upon our individual journeys as counsellors/psychotherapists and to share those thoughts, memories and influences with colleagues and/or the group. She began by explaining a little about the day and discussing what...
A review of the Day Training on Saturday March 18th 2017, Home and Migrations with Cecile Buckenmeyer
What an excellent day training Home and Migrations turned out to be with wonderful modelling in my view by the speaker, Cecile Buckenmeyer, of good psychotherapy in action. Luckily (!), there was a computer malfunction and we were spared the power-point slides...
Review of Day Training, Saturday January 21st, 2017 DEEP PLAY AND DEEP DRAMA, with Dr Sue Jennings
Review of Day Training, Saturday January 21st, 2017 DEEP PLAY AND DEEP DRAMA, with Dr Sue Jennings Twenty eight of us gathered in North Baddesley village hall for a day with Sue Jennings on play and drama therapy. For the day we were invited to be “homo ludens” and...
Review of Day Training – Supervision, a Reflective Journey. November 26th 2016, with Diane Hardiman and Richard Cove
Review of Day Training – Supervision, a Reflective Journey. November 26th 2016, with Diane Hardiman and Richard Cove This was a very full, informative and thought-provoking day of which the following is a small snapshot. Diane and Richard began by giving a brief...
Report on Affect Regulation and Early Brain Development, a psychotherapist’s perspective, day training with Kathrin Stauffer, 7th May 2016
Report on Affect Regulation and Early Brain Development, a psychotherapist’s perspective, day training with Kathrin Stauffer, 7th May 2016 Kathrin Stauffer’s training and earlier career as a scientist showed throughout the day. Her perspective is to decouple...
Self-Harm and Young People – Sally Evans – Day Training, 30th April 2016. Some Thoughts on the day from three participants:
Self-Harm and Young People – Sally Evans – Day Training, 30th April 2016. Some Thoughts on the day from three participants: Sally’s workshop on working with young people presenting with experiences of self-harming was simply brilliant. She is an engaging and...
Review of Libby Webber’s day training – HOW TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO YOUR THERAPY PRACTICE FOR DISABLED CLIENTS, 27th February 2016
Review of Libby Webber’s day training - HOW TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO YOUR THERAPY PRACTICE FOR DISABLED CLIENTS, 27th February 2016 Libby invited us to ask her anything we wanted to ask. I for one did not notice that I withheld questions, I had for her, and noticed my...
Review of Day Training on Finding Interpersonal Poise and Relating Consciously, with Richard Casebow, on Saturday, October 8th, 2016
Review of Day Training on Finding Interpersonal Poise and Relating Consciously, with Richard Casebow, on Saturday, October 8th, 2016 As a Gestalt psychotherapist working relationally and with the body, I was fascinated by the idea that psychotherapy and bodywork...
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