Taster Days
We offer taster days in the majority of our longer training programmes, they are an opportunity to come and find out more about the professions and training available. It also enables you to get a flavour of the teaching staff and style offered here plus the environment it takes place in.
The taster days are priced at £50 (inc VAT), however this amount is deducted from course fees should you decide to go onto a longer training programme.
Counselling
A one-day event for anyone interested in taking up further training in Counselling. The taster day is open to a wide range of people who may find this day beneficial. It is open for all those who are thinking of pursuing a career in counselling, and of course those who are interested in developing their communications and inter-personal skills.
The day is designed to provide you with an introductory into counselling and will outline the use of listening skills and the practice of inter-personal skills. You will also be encouraged to reflect upon your own experience and personal awareness. There will also be the opportunity for those who wish to learn more about ‘Going through The Mill’ to discuss the requirements needed to train as a professional counsellor.
Tutor
Jan Cavill Adv. Dip. Couns., Cert. Couns. Child & Adol., MBACP (Accred), UKRCP.
Jan Cavill has worked for many years in an independent school and now teaches at both certificate and advanced diploma level, and is an enthusiastic researcher. As an experienced therapist Jan continues to advance her studies to include psychotherapy and supervision, all of which keeps her very busy.
Outside the clinical environment she loves to walk her dogs through the countryside around the Taunton area, and further afield when time allows. Jan also hopes in the near future to return to her favourite pastime of drawing.
Counselling Children and Adolescents
The day will introduce and offer some creative and experiential approaches which could be used as part of the healing intervention for children and adolescents in counselling. We will also look at the working knowledge of the Child and Adolescent developmental needs, and looking at the law that surrounds young people and our work with them. Furthermore, it hopes to inspire you enough to pursue such knowledge as a way to further your learning. This workshop will seek to harness your creative talents and blends theory with experiential components.
The Child and Adolescent certificate seeks to assist the counsellor to use their special and unique qualities. Looking at different models of therapy that can inform working with young people. Additionally, the certificate looks to offer some useful ideas or ways of thinking that might add to your work with young people such as the law around counselling young people Attachment and loss issues and identifying areas of concern for young people, looking deeper into different therapeutic approaches which may, in turn, help to build a stronger sense of client/counsellor relationship.
Tutor
Jan Cavill Adv. Dip. Couns., Cert. Couns. Child & Adol., MBACP (Accred), UKRCP.
Jan Cavill has worked for many years in an independent school and now teaches at both certificate and advanced diploma level, and is an enthusiastic researcher. As an experienced therapist Jan continues to advance her studies to include psychotherapy and supervision, all of which keeps her very busy. Outside the clinical environment she loves to walk her dogs through the countryside around the Taunton area, and further afield when time allows. Jan also hopes in the near future to return to her favourite pastime of drawing.
Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy
Transactional Analysis is used in many spheres, G.P's have an introduction to it as part of their training, people in Human Resources find it useful; it is good for Teachers, Social Workers, parents and anyone wanting to know what makes people tick and why we sometimes go round the same old pattern without understanding why.
This taster day gives you an opportunity to learn one or two of the key ideas, and some practical ways of avoiding or resolving conflict. It gives people a chance to see if they would like to take it further on the Certificate course, or do a full training in Transactional Analysis. This can lead to registration with UKCP for Psychotherapy or BACP for Counselling, or you can do it for interest or as a lead in to the Coaching Training with Elliot-Griffiths. Come and have a good day out with fun, laughter and some useful tools to take away.
Tutor
Julie Hewson Director of the Iron Mill Institute, BA (Hons) Post Graduate, Cert Ed Dip SW, CQSW, TSTA, CTA, BACP Registered Supervisor, registered with UKCP. Trainer and Supervisor for the European Association of Supervision.
Supervision, Mentoring and Coaching
Supervision is exactly what it says; it’s a bigger vision of professional practice, training needs, organisational development and professional development. This taster will seek to introduce and inspire those of you that have a compassionate curiosity for those involved in the helping professions. This is a stand-alone seminar but is also a good introduction to what the longer training can offer. It is has been part and parcel of normal ethical practice in counselling, psychotherapy social work and now coaching, the medical professions and other areas such as complimentary medicine.
Sometimes it is described under other headings such as co-mentoring or even professional coaching but the main aims are to find the excitement of careful consideration and reflection on a range of professional practice issues, and how this impact on the personhood of the practitioner as well as the client. This taster will seek to introduce and inspire those of you that have a compassionate curiosity for those involved in the helping professions. This is a stand-alone seminar but is also a good introduction to what the longer training can offer.
Tutor
Julie Hewson Director of the Iron Mill Institute, BA (Hons) Post Graduate, Cert Ed Dip SW, CQSW, TSTA, CTA, BACP Registered Supervisor, registered with UKCP. Trainer and Supervisor for the European Association of Supervision.