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Evening Meetings
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...
Review of the Evening Talk, Mindfulness A brief Introduction to Focusing & Focusing-Oriented Therapy with John L Threadgold, Monday 15th January 2018
Last month HACP had the pleasure to host John Leslie Threadgold who gave a talk on Focusing and Focusing-Oriented Therapy. John kindly filled in at the last minute as our original speaker had to cancel. I was intrigued by the title and wondered how this talk would...
Review of Evening Talk: Sociodrama-A Creative Way of Exploring the Roles that exist within Groups and Communities, with Noelle Branagan, Monday Nov 13th 2017
Noelle’s presentation was very lively and was well-prepared for an audience new to Sociodrama. Matching the action method approach, we started with action ie., experiencing Sociodrama rather than learning the theory about it in a room generously arranged for work...
Review of Evening Talk on Monday 16th October 2017 Living Adventurously, with David Brown
David stepped in at short notice tonight which was much appreciated. He began the evening by sharing a little of his background as a teacher, counsellor, trainer and author which is informed by being a Quaker, his interest in Jung and the archetypes and his own work...
Review of Evening Talk on Wednesday 20th September 2017 Sociodrama: Family Constellations- A Systemic View of Growth, with Marcos Frangos
It’s usually a good sign when the evening talk is ‘packed out’. We weren’t disappointed. Marcos commenced the evening by telling us a little about his family and lead on to sharing a very powerful experience of his own when he first explored the world of Family...
Training
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...
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...