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 […]
Tuesday 17th September The GP Practice as a Secure Base Jonathan Smith This paper will describe the function of the GP practice in providing a secure base which can promote and sustain the development of a working alliance in the therapeutic work of counsellors practising in the setting and make a significant contribution to the […]
Tuesday 18th June The ‘In- Crowd’ Sarah McMichael This talk will be focussing on the concept of the ‘in-crowd’. Examples will be taken from the prevalence of celebrity culture, as well as teenage experiences, as the feeling of fitting in, or not, becomes particularly crucial in adolescence and can frequently be an enormous influence, sometimes […]
Tuesday 21st May A ‘book-club’ forum: ‘Beware of Pity’ by Stefan Zweig (new translation by Anthea Bell), (2011) London, Pushkin Press introduced by Nikky Sternhell Set on the eve of the First World War but written on the eve of the second, the main story is of the relationship between Lieutenant Anton Hofmiller, a young […]
Tuesday 19th March Is there a place for Psychodynamic Thinking in an organisation dominated by acting out and a fear of failure? Chris Gore As a counsellor working with adolescents who have been excluded from mainstream education and with the staff who support them I have had to adapt my role. Through understanding my counter-transference […]
Tuesday 19th February Training after Training: What’s the point? Lindsay Thomas Why do a training after having already done one? After training at Birkbeck in the 90’s I worked as a GP counsellor for 9 years and began to lose my sparkle and the joy of anticipation I remembered having when I started the work. […]