TASTER DAYS
We offer one-day tasters in all of our longer training. These days are both informative and fun and you will leave with some useful tools. They take place 2-3 times a year, dates can be found below. If you decide to progress onto further training the amount you have paid will be discounted from the course fees.
All Taster Days are priced at £50 inc VAT.
BOOKINGS
If you wish to book onto any of the taster days please fill out the workshop booking form and return to the Iron Mill Institute along with your payment. .
COUNSELLING
Next date - Saturday 22nd November 2008
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 introduction 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.
COUNSELLING CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Next date - Sunday 23rd November 2008
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.
TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS PSYCHOTHERAPY
Next date - February / March 2009 - TA 101 in December 2008 (see workshop list)
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.
SUPERVISION, MENTORING & COACHING
Next date - February / March 2009
Supervision is exactly what it says, its 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 complementary 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 these 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.
LIFE, BUSINESS & EXECUTIVE COACHING
Next date - February / March 2009
Coaching is a relatively new kid on the block, though it has been around for decades in other disguises. Essentially it operates from a premise that many people need a forum in which to assess their current personal or work situation and plan for the future in a strategic way that takes account of their beliefs, their values, the system in which they live and the overall ecology of the situation. It concentrates on now rather than the past and works for the betterment of the future.
It draws on a number of approaches from psychology, NLP, TA, Gestalt, Cognitive Behavioral, and Solution Focused and in addition it has within its remit a range of tools and schemata to understand how teams operate, what helps in business and what senior managers and executives need in order to improve performance and bring about the best for all to whom they are accountable.
BODY-CENTRED PSYCHOTHERAPY
Next date - Autumn 2008 TBC
On this day, you will have an opportunity not only to get acquainted with the theoretical approach behind this training, but to see if the way we work resonates for you. It will give ample opportunity at the end of the day for questions and practicalities, but the day will be mainly experiential. The theme of the day will be “Trusting Reality”. This theme has been chosen for the taster day because, in the four year training, the emphasis will be less on lofty Transpersonal concepts than on learning to be present to our “live” experience of the Here and Now. From living on a mental “map” we go back to living in the landscape - the landscape of a Reality that embraces Spirit - and this gives us access to resources for healing. There will be guided meditation, movement and inquiry work in pairs, and group dialogue.