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Evening Meetings
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...
Review of Evening Talk, Stalking, September 16th, 2019, with Lucy Kay
Lucy’s introduction to the group was inspiring and well received by all. It was very evident from the start that Lucy has a great deal of knowledge, understanding and experience relating to stalking and is very passionate about her work. Lucy is a Stalking...
Review of Evening Talk, July 1st, with Zoe Lodrick. Sexual/Domestic Violence and Abuse – The Neurobiology of interpersonal trauma
Zoe was clearly knowledgeable, confident and experienced in this work and I found her very compelling to listen to. Zoe trains many first responders in abuse situations including the army and the police. She explained at the beginning that there was ‘offender’...
Review of Evening Talk, June 19th, 2019, with Adrian Francis. Working with Deaf Clients in a Therapeutic Setting
Adrian shared some of his background and how profound deafness led him, via the Civil Service and Local Government, to qualifying as a counsellor who has a particular desire to work with clients who are on the hearing loss spectrum. It is estimated that 1 in 4...
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...