CaPPP CPD event Saturday 17th February 2024‘It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self’.D.W. Winnicott ‘Playing & Reality’, 1971,The play theorist Brian Sutton Smith asks,... Read more »
CaPPP Online eventComplaints: Therapists supporting TherapistsA question and answer session and discussion on complaints and the member support work of the PCU after a brief introduction. With Sasha Kaplin, PCU Member Support Coordinator, and Ruth Jones, Regional Rep for South West and Wales Branch.We are delighted to be hosting this online introduction to the work... Read more »
Includes CaPPP CPD event with Nicola JonesWorkshop: How an Attachment-Informed Approach Can Make Our Inner Worlds Visible Description: John Bowlby found that our first and most fundamental need is to connect to our parents (primary caregivers) and that this need, aka the attachment or careseeking system, exists from “cradle to grave.’ The corollary of this... Read more »
Dialoguing with sub-personalities to heal the childhood woundsThis workshop introduces Internal Family Systems (IFS) - a radical new style of individual psychotherapy which is rapidly growing in popularity around the world. Internationally renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk (author of ‘The Body Keeps the Score’) has described it as ‘the treatment method which all... Read more »
CaPPP CPD event in-person Saturday 18th March 2023 Weight stigma, fatphobia and diet culture in the therapy room: how to work respectfully with clients of every size with Cat Chappell and Jo Reader A safe, nourishing, interactive and empowering space to help you reflect on how you feel about your own body and how to... Read more »
CaPPP CPD event in-person Saturday 19th November 2022 from 10.00 to 16.30 Gender reassignment involves a fundamental lifestyle change. While many clients seeking gender reassignment have a clear understanding of when they first felt uncomfortable in their birth gender, and have a clear expectation what life will be like for them after gender reassignment surgery... Read more »
CaPPP CPD event Saturday 15th October 2022 at Engineer's House This experiential workshop is an invitation to CaPPP members to take time out of their busy lives supporting others to experience creative and expressive writing as a source of care and nourishment for themselves. Led by therapeutic writing facilitator and counsellor Rachel Hawkins-Crockford, the day... Read more »
CaPPP Member's Free Annual Gathering and 20th Anniversary Celebration Yes! CaPPP is 20 years old, to mark our anniversary this year’s annual gathering is going to be a good one - a day of free, high quality CPD, networking and a celebration lunch for members – and yes, there will be cake! We are lucky... Read more »
CaPPP CPD in-person & online What racial differences impose on our minds and bodies as individuals and collectively as a society is demanding and complex. Social change begins with a conversation, but the challenge is often simply to remain coherent in our thinking, and often there is a feeling of being under-resourced to stay with... Read more »
CaPPP CPD event Saturday 23rd April 2022 at St Michael's CentreA one-day workshop for therapists offering practical know how. We will look at basic techniques as well as exploring some theoretical ideas about working with dreams. Among other things we will:• Explore the different kinds of dreams and pay attention to how we notice that.•... Read more »
CaPPP Online CPDThis is an introductory workshop exploring gender diversity, which aims to increase awareness of gender diversity and the roles we can take in supporting people who are trans, gender diverse and/or gender non-conforming. Who is this workshop for? This workshop is for anyone who wants to understand more about gender diversity and how... Read more »
CaPPP Online CPD The therapeutic dyad is, among other things, a space where two people struggle over narratives about what is happening now, what has happened in the past, and what may happen in the future. Each person inherently has one vote; so each has a natural incentive to try to make their vote count... Read more »
CaPPP Online CPD This event will illustrate how to understand and work with more shut-down states, such as those seen after trauma, neglect and learned helplessness. The talk addresses not only trauma, but emotional flatness and lack of energy, the variety of forms this can take, and how to come back to life after it.... Read more »
CaPPP CPD Event This is a fast-paced active relational model, mainly informed by the work of David Malan, Gertrude Mander and Angela Molnos, among others. In the present economic climate, with new clients able to afford fewer sessions and with less funding for organisations who offer free or low-cost counselling, counselling sessions are often limited... Read more »
CaPPP CPD Event A rare opportunity to spend the day with one of the leading figures in the world of psychotherapy, Susie Orbach. Susie is one of the most well-known psychoanalysts of our time. Her eloquent and yet continually pressing thoughts and insights on women, feminism, bodies, food, relationships and the climate crisis have entered... Read more »
CaPPP members only event: This year as well as introducing an event focusing on therapy against a background of political turmoil and climate change we want to offer members plenty of time to socialise and connect with each other. With that in mind the day will start with registration and 40 minutes for tea, coffee... Read more »
CaPPP CPD event Saturday 12th June 2021 at Engineer's House Mari will explain and facilitate exercises to explore how your body senses inform you and your client unconsciously and consciously. When you gain familiarity in simple ways with your own body's sensory language, you can voluntarily choose to engage and resource yourself and your client... Read more »
CaPPP online CPD event Saturday 15th May 2021 Description: Insecure attachments form neural behavioural pathways that manifest throughout childhood and are replicated in adult loving relationships. In addition, infant trauma and the vandalization of the sexual template during critical periods in the development of the brain may lead to the later development of paraphilias and... Read more »
CaPPP online cpd training day This training is a unique experience for you to explore and increase your understanding of Compulsive Hoardi This training is a unique experience for you to explore and increase your understanding of Compulsive Hoarding and to obtain practical skills from a therapist who lived for 10 years with a partner... Read more »
CaPPP online cpd training day This interactive workshop provides participants with an opportunity to develop their understa This workshop This workshop is an introduction to working with ASD / ASC / Aspergers clients. Through a mixture of presenting and group discussion we will explore the concerns around working with this client group, dispel some myths... Read more »
CaPPP online cpd training day This interactive workshop provides participants with an opportunity to develop their understanding.Telling stories and the vagueness which clients often struggle with as they talk about all that troubles them, can seem to be a problem in the counselling room. Drawing on his work from using creative writing therapeutically, and narrative... Read more »
CaPPP CPD training day with Mick Cooper This interactive workshop provides participants with an opportunity to develop their understanding of goals in counselling and psychotherapy, and to develop their skills and knowledge in this area. The workshop is particularly oriented towards participants from a humanistic or integrative background: who are interested in an understanding their... Read more »
The theme of this year’s Annual Gathering is navigating the landscape of trauma and will be hosted by Angela McCormack. Theme: Navigating the Landscape of Trauma This is a two-part seminar and will begin with an exploration of trauma in general, from context-sensitive and body-based perspectives. Afterwards, we will focus on the terrain of sexual... Read more »
Free online workshop for CaPPP members This is a CaPPP members only eventEvent Description:It is hard for white people to understand the privilege they have. Often, they do not feel very privileged themselves. Even well-meaning white people struggle to understand the depth of feeling that people from BAME communities feel about this privilege which can... Read more »
Working with Transgender Clients Gender reassignment involves a fundamental lifestyle change. It is important we as counsellors / psychotherapists, or other health care professionals, work in our client’s best interest and do not knowingly do our clients any harm. A clear understanding of the onset of our clients Gender Dysphoria, and why they are seeking... Read more »
