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Evening Meetings
Review of Evening Talk – Breaking the Stigma of Self Harm, with Claire Dixon on July 9th, 2020
Another talk on Zoom... It was with a slightly heavy heart and sore head from a day of zooming with clients that I sat down to more screen-time. But within minutes of Claire starting her talk the heaviness lifted and my brain clicked into engage mode. Claire comes...
Review of Toxic Masculinity, Banter & Therapy, with Ben Scanlon, June 15TH, 2020 on Zoom.
Along with many other participants, as I have seen from feedback comments, I wish Ben’s talk had been on just one of the two topics, (toxic masculinity and banter) not both. I would like to deal with the two topics separately in this review as the connection between...
Review of the Evening Talk Thursday 14th May, 7.30 p.m. via Zoom ‘Sex Addiction – Myth or Reality’ with Dr Thaddeus Birchard
Thaddeus shared some of his own story of struggle and vulnerability, explaining he had been a Vicar for 30 years before training to be a Psychotherapist/Psychosexual therapist and subsequently integrating accreditation in CBT into his portfolio and establishing the...
Review of Evening Talk Thursday 4th May, 7.30pm. ‘Getting started with online meetings using Zoom’, with Graham Shavick
What strange times we are in with the virus and resulting lock-down. A Professor Karol Sikora, ex-director of the WHO Cancer Programme gave an interview on the internet and said that he learnt about the “R” number as an undergraduate and hadn't really thought about...
Review of the Evening Talk on Monday, 15th January 2020 John Harley explored being ‘Away from Home – the Boarding School Experience’
John shared his experience of going to Boarding School as a young child and explained it often created disrupted attachments; loss and feelings of abandonment; a need for hyper vigilance (against bullying and abuse, actual or feared); dissociation and denial resulting...
Review of Evening Talk Monday 20th April 2020 on Zoom, ‘The Chicken Soup of Identity: Transgender & Non-Binary 101’ with Chai Yoel Korn.
It was a very novel and exciting evening for HACP as we ventured into the world of Zoom training. As an organisation, we have been keen to trial this method and our recent circumstances pushed our agenda forward rather swiftly. It feels important to review the method...
Review of talk “a Wedding in the Family” with Annette Byford on March 9th at Chandler’s Ford Methodist Centre.
Annette Byford, a psychologist and psychotherapist of 30 years, based her talk on her research published in a book of the same title*, after the AGM on 9th March. It was well attended, and of particular interest to me as my son married recently married. Annette...
Review of the Evening Talk on February 12th, 2020. Managing Risk in Private Practice With Pam Gully
As someone in private practice for two decades, I was very keen to hear from someone who might speak ‘directly to me’ as it were. I wasn’t disappointed. Pam delivers her knowledge in a very easy gentle manner. There were many anecdotes that showed that having your...
Review of Evening Talk on Money, Money, Money presented by Kitty Willis on 21st November 2019
Kitty shared with us how this subject had become important to her personally and, in particular, professionally. In our small groups we were asked to look at, touch and move around the ‘play money’ she had put on each table whilst observing what feelings or questions...
Review of Physiology and Counselling, October 8th, 2019, with Mike Eustace
Mike’s presence from the beginning of the evening was comfortable, quiet in volume but with a subtle air of confidence. It soon became apparent from the evening that this was no coincidence, as Mike was modelling the whole time he was presenting. Counselling is...
Training
Review of the Day Training, ‘The Neuroscience of Transformation’ on 22 February 2020 with Paul Sibson
Perhaps the title of the workshop should have been The Coherence Therapy Model rather than the Neuroscience of Transformation as the day was focused on the theory and practice of the Coherence Model. A huge amount of information was given to us so this review attempts...
Review of Day Training -Addictions – The Bigger Picture presented by John Baker on 30 November 2019
The day saw a crowded room - a wonderful mix of new counsellors and experienced counsellors - all of whom were yearning to learn more, refresh previous learnings and add to their skill set. John imparts his wisdom in a way that makes you feel like you’re mostly...
Reviews of WILD THERAPY weekend, October 4th to October 6th, 2019, with Emma Palmer
The Cold Ash Centre, and the Sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who live there welcomed us warmly and looked after us so well, under the guiding hand of Sister Tram, in a way that was both efficient and completely, quietly discreet. The food was good and...
Review of Day Training on September 21st, 2019, COUNSELLING ETHICS, with Ruth Mackintosh
An experiential day underpinned by the BACP’s ‘Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions 2018’. Ruth wished this to be an inclusive day and so ethical guidance of other modalities and Associations including UKCP, BPS, the Association for Cognitive Analytic...
Review of Day Training on June 15th, 2019, WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, with Marilyn McGowan
Marilyn arrived for the talk, laden down with ‘stuff’ - official things like laptops and paperwork, but also a ton of toys, games and stuff that children and young people use to engage. The 2 aspects haven’t always got a lot in common or sometimes a little...
Review of Day Training on March 23rd,2019, FOCUSING, with John Threadgold.
A collaborative day underpinned by discussion and demonstration. A Safety Protocol, including confidentiality, was agreed. John explained his belief that people consist of body, mind, emotions, the psychological and the soul and all needed to be whole. A key influence...
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...