Pierre Janet’s simple definition of trauma is ‘there was nobody there.’

In this presentation I will:

Define trauma, rage, & shame, use a case study to offer my understanding of how trauma, rage, & shame are related and show how a therapeutic relationship relationship transforms trauma, rage, & shame.

Working with clients who have faced trauma and seeing them recover and grow is a satisfying and rewarding experience. And yet, as the therapist, what happens when we are involved in trauma?

John Wilson talks to psychotherapist Martin Weaver about his personal journey through childhood bereavement, the age of AIDS/HIV, family death, and now cancer. They explore how we can and perhaps should make the best use of our skills and experiences as therapists to ensure our own resilience through life’s major and minor traumas. Participants will be encouraged to ask their own questions and make their own observations during the conversation.

I would love to share my own personal experience of growing up in Northern Ireland during ‘the troubles’, leaving just as the peace process began, and returning four years ago as a clinical psychologist to work with people in my community affected by the trauma of this period. The conflict in Northern Ireland, although steeped in much deeper history, started in the late 1960s, continuing until the 1990s, with dissident republican and loyalist groups continuing to attempt to upset the peace which has been obtained.

This interview will discuss the neurobiological systems that regulate the body and how this affects children in traumatic events. The talk will look at the stages of development, how these can be affected, and how we as therapists working with clients or parents can relieve, facilitate change, and psycho-educate around these issues.

Noel will cover trauma from several perspectives and with clinical experience going back to his work from the mid 1990’s. The session will cover what trauma is, what PTSD is, how trauma develops neuro-biologically, and how that manifests in the individual and also in their relationships to others.

Trauma is a complex area of work and there is no one size fits all approach. There are common pitfalls to avoid such a re-traumatisation and secondary traumatisation of the therapist.

THIS WEEK: Using Images in your Blog Post for Social Sharing

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In this event Marilyn will address some key questions around the experience of people who have been imprisoned for sexual offences.

Does prison effect change?
What are the risks of prison officers being groomed?
What happens on release from prison?
What are the risks of re offending?

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This event focuses on “create”. The client is asked to create a representation of their goal, their life, their journey, a situation, a challenge, an emotion, the past, present or future. What the clients create and how the horses respond to the creating and creation is the process information.

John from onlinevents will be sharing his create session on leadership. Then Jonathan Browne from Two Ash will be sharing his create process focusing on his transition between Royal Navy Reserve deployment and coming home.

In this very first episode of Social Media with Saz, Sandra talks about Canva and how it can bring to life our Social Media presence.

Sandra also offers a tutorial, showing you the step by step process that you can use to create your very first Image Quote for Social Media.

Image quotes are a great way to be social on social media and at the same time drawing attention to our work.

Marketing is all about what our message is and how we can get it out into the world, so that people choose to work with us.

Marketing is about doing, so John and Richard will talk about practical approaches, focussing our efforts and being consistent over time. Please join us to learn 3 top tips and find out the brilliant marketing question that 99% of people forget to ask.

In this conversation, Susannah will be sharing some of her ideas about her Functional Fluency model – what it is, key aspects of how she created it and ways in which it can be used. She says, “Functional Fluency is a way to put ‘I’m OK – You’re OK’ into action to create mutual benefit. I believe people can learn to choose their behaviour and that this makes a huge difference to how they relate to others (and themselves). The FF model offers a menu for choosing how to behave, moment by moment.

‘It ain’t what you do – it’s the way that you do it – the functionally fluent way’.”

When coming to counselling, a client naturally focuses on their issue – presenting problem which often has become magnified for them. With Human Social Functioning, whilst the client’s need and focus are respected, the use of the HSSF (the questionnaire), assists both client and counsellor to see the bigger picture: where the client is functioning well in addition to the immediate difficulties that have brought the client to seek help.

The therapeutic relationship is considered to be the most significant factor in achieving positive therapeutic change. As such, it is essential that trainee and practising therapists are able to facilitate a strong working alliance with each of their clients.

An Introduction to the Therapeutic Relationship in Counselling and Psychotherapy – Stephen Paul & Divine Charura

This book will help them do just that, by offering a practical and evidence-based guide to all aspects of the therapeutic relationship in counselling and psychotherapy. Cross-modal in its approach, this book examines the issues impacting on the therapeutic relationship true to all models of practice.

Interest in sexual identity, sexual practices, and the transitioning of relationship has thus far focussed more on trans identified and trans-historied people themselves than their partners (Nemoto et al (1999); Docter and Fleming (2001); Smith et al (2002); Cuypere et al (2005); Hines (2006).

However, as long as being Trans’ remains socially stigmatised, those who engage in relationships with them frequently find themselves stigmatised by association – wherever their own sexual identity and orientation reside. This brings a unique layer of struggles for partners, beyond any issues within the relationship itself, including the silencing of celebration.

Pete Sanders’ half of this shared keynote will ask whether we can allow people to live lives very different from our own without making their lives and experiences into a diagnostic category? Is distress an illness or a natural (albeit sometimes terrifying) reaction to bad things happening in life? And can some people live happy fulfilled lives living with experiences that disturb and distress the rest of society?

In the world of mental health activism, we find Mad Matters, Mad Studies, and Mad Pride – movements following in the wake of Hearing Voices Network and the Paranoia Network. They ask the question: ‘Is the struggle to demedicalise diversity in experiencing a civil rights struggle?’ Pete Sanders says ‘yes’ and invites you to join in.

Diversity includes all aspects of an individual’s intersectional identity; age, race, class, gender, sexuality, etc. Practitioners should therefore be encouraged to be cognizant of issues related to all of these dimensions of culture. Similarly, engaging diverse clients involves a continuous process of reflection and reflexivity.

‘Reflexivity’ involves examining one’s ‘conceptual baggage’; ‘assumptions’; and ‘preconceptions’, and how these affect professional decisions.

Practitioners must therefore reveal their total interaction with diverse communities by exposing their subjective experiences, both the personal and the political, to reduce the expression of unconscious bias.

Trev will tell his story of the day that changed his life and the time spent in hospital. How getting involved with a charity called Back up enabled him to ski again and to experience sailing and quad biking which gave him confidence to pursue studies in sports coaching. Trev will talk about getting involved with a sports club called the SAND club which stands for see the ability not the disability and activities this has led to and working with younger adults with physical and behavioural issues in sport.

In this presentation we will offer some reflection and ideas on this under explored arena of white therapist identity. We will discuss the notion of power and the concept of white as a norm. It is our hope to create an environment where we can all reflect on how the being of a white therapist can impact on us both personally and professionally.

Our vision for the structure of this keynote is to combine presentation for stimulus with an opportunity for reflection and thoughtfulness. We would like this keynote to provoke critical thought toward the systemic and personal implications of the being of the white therapist.

Watch the powerful, life changing EAGALA (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association) model in action at Derby College Equestrian Centre, UK.

An audience, both at the venue and on-line, interactive demonstration on how horses can help individuals, families and groups transform their lives.

The Q&A session gave the venue and virtual audience the opportunity to ask any further questions they may have about EAGALA or Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Learning as well as explore how they might work with this model.

Watch the powerful, life changing EAGALA (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association) model in action at Derby College Equestrian Centre, UK.

An audience, both at the venue and on-line, interactive demonstration on how horses can help individuals, families and groups transform their lives.

In this unique webinar, you will get an insight into the unique ways some practitioners are working with their Companion Animals to bring further benefits to their clients.

Perhaps you have heard of “Animal Assisted Therapy” but you’re not sure how working with an animal might work for you or your clients?

Dip your toe in the water and learn about some of the theory behind the benefits of interacting with animals, how you might bring AAT into your Counselling practice, why it might benefit your clients, and how you can further your learning.

There has been dramatic growth of counselling services for children and young people in the last decade, but counsellors continue to anxious about how best to provide therapy and also deal with safeguarding issues, self-harm, parental consent and other major challenges to confidentiality.

This session will explore some of these issues in the context of the author’s model of children’s rights, which has been specifically designed to support counselling with children and young people in England and Wales.

I got fed up of trying to hide my German Shepherd from my clients so I decided to give him a job. Max turned out to be a better therapist than me. He just somehow knew what to do and never said the wrong thing.

I will be talking to John on about how I came to have a therapy dog and the work we have done together.

A journey from light to dark and what I learnt along the way.

In this hour Justin describes his research and the intervention he has been using to help clients stop their traumatic nightmares. Justin also engages with the chat room and answers a number of practical questions from practitioners.

Friday 17th July is the last day of International Supervision Week. In this hour we will review why we at Centre for Supervision and Team Development and onlinevents combined to make it a world wide event, what we have done and plans for it to be repeated next year.

Sue has extensive experience supervising counsellors working with children and young people. She is passionate about the need for quality supervision in this field. Although rewarding, it is particularly challenging: supporting practitioners to work effectively with their clients whilst staying mindful of safeguarding responsibilities and managing relationships with parents, schools, and other agencies.

Sue is looking forward to sharing her own experience of this work and invites you to share your experience, fears, and hopes in offering and receiving this kind of supervision.

I want to look at how the therapeutic tool box we all develop over time can be applied in the everyday life and place we inhabit. I believe that these tools can be a huge power in political change in the way we live together, how we view difference and actually communicate as people.

I am aware as I write this how even the act of presenting these words can be misinterpreted and for this reason want to be able to encourage an open forum during the discussion online.

In this conversation, Steve will endeavour to tease out some of the different ways of considering the nature and purpose of ‘supervisory relationship’ and its part with the overall work that is being supervised.

The settings and contexts in which we work involve different roles and responsibilities. These determine our approach to the work and can present us with a complex and changing landscape to navigate.

Joseph Wilmot and Joan Wilmot want to explore work and supervision within different relational contexts. Their relationship encompasses the familial, collegial, organisational and beyond. We will invite the group to explore and share their own experience of relationships in their work.

Joan and Robin spend time reflecting with the online group about the place of work in our society and how supervision can help us to experience work as love in action.

In this event, Alison and Adam are talking live from a Supervisors’ retreat in Byronshire, Northern New South Wales, an annual event which they offer to Supervisors who have completed their Wheel of Supervision Training.

They talked about the Wheel of Supervision Training which emerged from Alison’s doctoral thesis. It approaches supervision from a holistic standpoint: encouraging supervisors to create a personal model that works for them, focusing on putting theory into facilitated practice and on the development of the person of the supervisor.

I’ve been thinking (and talking) lately about the place of opinion in the supervision interaction. Does it have a place? What occurs when opinion is requested? What occurs when opinion is given?

Informal feedback from some of my supervisees suggest that opinion is an important tool for those who are wanting another perspective in the discussion related to their supervision items. I also hear opinion can be a distraction, a form of conflict and not a comfortable intervention especially when a supervisee is new or less confident.

How do experienced psychotherapists continue to learn in supervision? This conversation will explore how the supervisory relationship can be used as a primary resource for a supervisee throughout their career.

As a supervisor I value the reflective process that facilitates awareness of underlying emotional blocks or communications that have yet to be metabolized in the supervisory matrix. This requires me as a supervisor to be willing to continue to learn alongside my supervisee, to bear experiencing unconscious processes, to feel uncomfortable, to not understand or be able to make sense; and to recognize that anything that I experience in the session has potential for learning for both supervisee and supervisor.

In this hour Anne will look at what needs thinking about whether your online supervision is the occasional use of emails and live chat or whether you mainly supervise online.

This session will explore some of the ethical, professional and legal issues relating to supervisor “duty of care” and liability for supervisee’s practice, comparing US and UK models, together with changes to the role of the supervisor currently proposed by the BACP Ethical Framework (2016).

Within this interview we will be exploring what Transactional Analysis, as an approach and a body of theory, can bring to the supervision process. Of particular focus will be the use of contracting within supervision.

  It is Supervision Week this week on Twitter and I thought I would take a moment to share my supervision journey with you and…