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Evening Meetings
Review of Evening Talk, March 11th, Extreme Religious Organisations, with Ruth Mackintosh
The topic of extreme religious organisations or cults was of particular interest to me because I was in a “cult” with a guru for twelve years myself! I was interested to hear Ruth’s take on “extreme religious organisations.” Ruth’s reflections and reading have...
Review of February Evening Talk: Working with Spontaneity, with Doris Prugel-Bennett
Doris gave us a scholarly exploration of Spontaneity, looking at the social context that affects all of us and of which as individuals and as therapists we can be largely unaware. The talk was based to a large extent on the work of Jacob Moreno*, the father of...
Review of Evening Talk: Boundaries with Couples Work, January 2019
This talk was extremely well attended, with an audience of some 80 plus delegates. Jenny introduced herself as a Transactional Analysis (TA) therapist who works with couples and individuals. She commenced the talk reflecting on the similarities and differences...
Review of Evening Talk: End of Life and Bereavement: How to hold someone in both, given by Wendelien McNicoll and Louise Golledge on November 18th, 2018
Firstly a big thank you to Louise who stood in relatively last minute to take the place of the original speaker, who had a wonderful opportunity to go to India for 6 months at the time of this talk, lucky her! Louise opened by saying that talking about death won’t...
Review of Evening Talk: Understanding the Self through the use of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, on September 10th 2018 with Susan Henderson
Susan gave us an interesting, informative and enjoyable evening exploring the Myers-Briggs type indicator. It was particularly enjoyable that we were able to work in groups exploring the four spectra of the test: Extraversion v Introversion, Sensing v Intuition,...
Review of July 18th, 2018 talk: Working with Problem Gambling – Theoretical and practical insights, with Maxine Howe
On July 18th , Maxine Howe presented to our members the topic: Working with Problem Gambling – Theoretical and Practical Insights. I appreciated Maxine’s candour in admitting that when she began working with this group, the prospect of helping and achieving a good...
Review of Evening Talk: Creative Approaches to Autism, with Mark Redwood, on Monday 18th June, 2018
A packed house found Mark’s talk very informative with lots of examples to illustrate the points he was making. Mark has been working in Learning Disability Services for 20 years, and after some time realised the usual ways of working did not work well with autistic...
Review of Evening Talk: Psychodrama – A Psychotherapeutic Modality, with Doris Prugel-Bennett, Chandler’s Ford Methodist Centre, Tuesday 15th May, 2018
Doris began the evening by giving a little of her own background and a brief insight into the subject itself. Psychodrama, she said, ‘facilitates the wide range of human communication and goes beyond the paradigm of verbalisation’. She shared her passion for the work...
Review of Evening Talk: An Introduction to Counselling in Schools by Marilyn McGowan,12 March 2018 in Chandlers Ford
Marilyn is clearly a progressive leader in her field and I doubt there’s much about counselling in schools, she doesn’t know or a question she couldn’t answer. Her devotion to the cause (as we learnt) is summed up by the fact that she’s nearing completion her PhD on...
Review of evening talk, Mindfulness in the Counselling Room, by Karen Prouton, February 21st. 2018
This talk was a nice balance between experiential work and a description of Mindfulness and its practices, and was based on some sound experience of client work. I did feel at times that it seemed to me to come close to a sales pitch however! Mindfulness is...
Training
Review of Day Training on Saturday, Four Chair Work – an expansion of the Gestalt Two Chair Work through the lens of the Four Main Archetypes on 26th January 2019 with Stefan Charidge
Stefan offered a litle of his own background and how his work had evolved to include an interest in Two and Four Chair Work underpinned by, what he sees as, the four main Archetypes: the Warrior, Sovereign, Lover and Magician and informed by the four key emotions,...
Review of Day Training: Working with the Elements, with David Brown, Saturday November 10th, 2018
Our workshop with David started over a week before ‘the due date’. David kindly prepped us with information on the elements and invited us to get in touch with the elements in a 9 day build up to the workshop itself. On one of these days I could hear the sea...
A review of the Day Training, Exploring Dreams, on Saturday, 20th October, with Diane Hardiman
Diane led us through an enlightening, experiential journey with dreams and the necessity of healthy sleep. Before she began, Diane invited us to choose one of her beautifully prepared booklets entitled ‘Exploring our Dreams’. Each had a different image, colour, saying...
Review of HACP Day Workshop: Saturday, 29th September 2018 Family Therapy and Family Dynamics with Graham Shavick
Glorious sunshine greeted us last Saturday for Graham’s workshop on Family Therapy and Family Dynamics. Graham treated us to a wonderfully prepared slide pack so we could note important things along the way. The day was filled with a mix of theory, along with...
Review of Day Training: Understanding Co-dependency, with Angela Hughes, Chandler’s Ford, June 23rd, 2018
‘What is Co-dependency?’ Angela explained that ‘in a co-dependent relationship one person allows another person’s behaviour to seriously affect him or her and they become obsessed with controlling that person’s behaviour’. It is a relationship which is excessive to an...
Review of Day Training: Movement Psychotherapy, with Dr Sandra Reeve, March 17th. 2018
As a psychotherapist, supervisor, dancer, Buddhist, movement therapist and academic and researcher, Sandra brought an exquisitely rich tool box to the day training. The whole day, Sandra physically modelled what she was teaching. Informed by Rudolf Laban’s (1879-1958)...
Reviews of Conference, The Stages of Life, on October 8th, 2017
I learnt interesting and sometimes challenging points from both Bob Harris and Dr. Judith Anderson’s talks and thoroughly enjoyed just how much they connected with each other and us even though none of us had never met before. The Actors, Cameron, Danielle and...
Review of the Day Training, Saturday, September 16th. ‘Stuck in Grief’, with Aileen George
Aileen led a full workshop through an enlightening, experiential journey with grief and its impact on clients and therapists and how each can become stuck. She helpfully based the day around the following five questions asking us to initially work in small groups with...
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...