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Evening Meetings
Review of Evening Talk Tuesday 19th January 2021. Wise Parenting , with Nancy Wilson
Nancy began her talk by telling us a moving story about her parenting of her son and how it had not been so successful, and how and what she has learnt from that. She very honestly and movingly told the story of her son’s troubles and her own parenting mistakes. She...
Review of Evening Talk: Eating Disorders (ED) Unzipped By Deanne Jade Via Zoom – Monday 23rd November 2020
The talk was well received and seen as useful by many people though some had reservations about the talk being too prescriptive’. ‘HACP is a broad church and its members include all categories from trainee or newly qualified counsellors who confirmed they...
Review of Olivia Hoines Evening Talk on the 14th October 2020 ‘An Insight into I.A.P.T.’
Olivia shared some of her experience of initially training as a Pluralist Counsellor in Scotland and her decision to then to join ‘IAPT’ (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies), in the main to learn more about the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy model (CBT) but...
Review of Talk- The 5 Jungian Functions, with David Brown, September 21st, 2020
Review of Talk- The 5 Jungian Functions, with David Brown, September 21st, 2020 The map of the 5 Functions shows the five functions of sensing, feeling, intuition, thinking and transcendence. Sensing and thinking are opposite functions, as are intuition and...
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...
Training
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...
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...