Monday 12th May Counselling and the learning experience with particular reference to trauma Judith Woodward Building on the theme I took up in my paper for Psychodynamic Practice ‘Internal state of emergency – working with an international student suffering from trauma in a student counselling service’, the discussion will focus on how some students, in […]
Monday 17th March Open Forum on Organisational Dynamics with Jo Dickie, Caroline Payton and Caroline Rose How far do institutional dynamics interfere with our ability to do our jobs effectively? Work politics can at times be detrimental to the functions which staff members within an organisation are trying to carry out. If people do not […]
Monday 17th February * A Book Club Event * ‘The Uncommon Reader’ by Alan Bennett (2008) London: Faber & Faber introduced by Barbara MacKenzie This book is described as a novella. It’s a short, funny, observant story about the Queen. In this fiction she stumbles across books via a mobile library in the grounds of […]
Monday 20th January Desert Island Footprints with Liz Omand The way we develop as counsellors and therapists can be influenced by many things, but sometimes a book, lecture, poem or conversation can have a particular impact. Following in the footsteps of a well-known radio programme, we have invited a psychotherapist of considerable experience and standing, […]
Tuesday 19th November Unconscious Processes in Bilingual Counselling Dominique Cornwall In our on-going counselling work we often have clients who speak different languages. In this presentation I will attempt to explain what bilingual work involves, and what it means to work in a different language than our mother tongue. Using case material, I will speak […]
Tuesday 15th October Meeting the challenges of undertaking therapeutic work in a school setting Ros Park Ros will talk about her experience as a school counsellor, and of working psychodynamically with young people in a Catholic secondary school. She will focus primarily on the tensions which exist within the institution, and on her efforts to […]