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...

  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...

  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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...