This two-hour workshop will explore being the therapist of therapists, from working with trainees to those fully qualified. The overlapping of professional worlds and identities can bring ethical disorientation as well as edges of privilege and discrimination. How is working with trainees/therapists as clients similar and/or different to working with other clients? What are the...
These series of meetings will be preceded by a short case study, talk or article authored by me. Participants are asked to bring a poem or lyrics of a song that come to mind when reading the material, including any connections made with neuroscience. Together we will have a conversation based on what people bring...
When the stress is not ‘post-traumatic’ but current and ongoing, the usual approaches to trauma therapy are not appropriate. In this brief workshop we will offer some models to help participants and their clients understand what might be going on for them in overwhelmingly stressful situations and Andri will introduce some simple but effective exercises...
In this extended workshop, Steven Kuchuck explores the impact of the therapist’s life experience and psychological make-up on the treatment. By expanding psychoanalytic study to include an examination of events in the clinician’s childhood and adult life as well as related psychodynamic issues, Dr. Kuchuck focuses on ways in which these experiences, crises, and dynamics...
Based on the model of Bernd Schmid – Three-Worlds-Modell -, we look at the different role worlds or role-areas. How they are described? What is the difference between the three worlds? What are the impacts of these differences to the relations and responsibilities in the professional context? With questions related to the different roles, we...
This workshop offers participants an opportunity to discuss a key piece of TA theory. Based on his article on the subject (published in the Transactional Analysis Journal in 2016), the workshop will review these concepts, and discuss Keith's extension of the classification of permissions. The three Ps are reconsidered not only as qualities and skills...
This lecture will focus on the embodied relationship between client and therapist in TA therapy. We will examine ways of attending to embodied relational dynamics that become available when therapy includes a more direct focus on addressing the two bodies in the room, with and without touch. The lecture is based in Novak’s embodied treatment...
This seminar provides the opportunity to discuss a relational approach to working with trauma, based on a paper, “Traversing the Fault lines: Trauma and Enactment”. Trauma often involves experiences that have been unbearable for the mind to assimilate. When emotional pain becomes overwhelming, the psyche can shatter in an attempt to maintain sanity. The...
This workshop will present a transcultural and intersectional Ego State model considering the influence of transculture and intersectional identity on self and other. The model considers the intersect and interplay between race, gender, and other cultural selves, accounting for the complexity of cultural experience and narrative. Through enquiry of cultural selves and through mapping on...
Participants need to bring a photo of themselves as a child that includes their family members: all siblings with or without parents. In this workshop, I will present insights into the vertical paradigm, central to Freud’s theoretical framework, and the reasons why it has become the dominant perspective in psychotherapy, in consulting and in supervision....
Based on the model of Bernd Schmid – Three-Worlds-Model, we look at the different role worlds or role areas. How they are described? What is the difference between the three worlds? What are the impacts of these differences to the relations and responsibilities in the professional context? With questions related to the different roles, we will discuss various...
Wednesday evenings 6.30-8.30pm September 14th +28th, October 12th+26th, November 9th + 23rd. This is an opportunity for us, as women, to come together and share our memories and experiences as we have moved, and continue to move, through the different stages of our lives. We will explore the nature of our relationships (with ourselves and...
Dates for your diaries – events already planned for the Winter/Spring 2023
A Transcultural and Inter-Sectional Ego State Model of the Self: The Influence of Transcultural and Intersectional Identity on Self and Other. Bought alive in self and in the therapeutic dyad – Victoria Baskerville (She//Her) – 18th March – 11:00am – 3:00pm
Alienation: Radical and Relational Perspectives Karen Minikin – 1st April – 10am – 12pm
Ego States and Projective Identification – Alistair Berlin – 13th April – 7pm – 9pm
From Enactment to Play – Jessica Benjamin – 29th April – 2:30pm – 6:30pm
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