The profession of Coaching has emerged over the past few years from a number of different sources. It is now an important resource to a range of professional and business people, managers, supervisors and people at Life's crossroads wanting to make changes. More...

Procrastination is a debilitating habit which can either be an minor irritant, or cause major problems with debt, studying, relationships, communication, projects, safety at work, physical and mental health difficulties including depression and anxiety. Putting things off blocks our ability to lead effective, satisfying and relationally rich lives. Research has shown how procrastination can be a progressive habit, fundamentally undermining our resilience and sense of self-confidence, as well as making us less able to be productive and creative. The workshop will offer strategies for overcoming the habit personally as well as ways of helping our clients do the same. More...

This workshop provides an opportunity for participants to practice a focused, contactful and committed approach which takes into account the needs of the client as well as the practical implications of the context in which counselling or psychotherapy takes place. More...

The introductory 101 in TA is an opportunity to find out what TA means and also how it can be applied in a number of settings. It is an overview of the landscape of Transactional Analysis in the fields of psychotherapy, counselling, coaching and mentoring, organisational applications and education. More...

The term supervision is heavily loaded in the sense of associations with being judged, overseen, criticised. In fact it should be an oasis, a reflective pool in which to wash away the weariness of the professional day, a mirror through which to perceive things differently, a chance to recharge batteries and get creative. More...

Participants in this 2-day workshop are offered an opportunity to face, discuss and work through the ethical dilemmas, which they would hope they never have to face! Polarities of choice are extrapolated from established ethical principles and values. Questions are poised as to the priorities of individual practitioners of psychological therapy when they have to choose between Compassion and Justice? Safety or a Client's Privacy? Respect for Individual Autonomy or the local Legal and Moral Code? More...

For people interested in developing a theoretical and experiential understanding of the practice of dramatherapy. Participants may have an interest in pursuing training in dramatherapy, or regard the course as a means of enriching their present personal or professional development. Participants need have no prior knowledge of the subject of dramatherapy. More...

In these two days, the training will explore the interface between issues of available time, the need to work through traumatic experience and the use of attachment theory. How can the practitioner offer a healing therapeutic relationship that focuses on dysfunctional patterns of attachment within the inevitable constraints of time available? More...

An introduction to current psychiatric drugs used in clinical practice today. It will look at the way the drugs work, understand more about the diversity of the side effects and explore what these issues mean for clients and therapists alike. More...

This one-day course provides an introduction to Poetry Therapy. There is increasing evidence that the use of literary resources (bibliotherapy) and creative writing can promote health and well-being. As well as promoting emotional health, such activities have also been shown to help with chronic conditions such as asthmas and arthritis. More...

This workshop will offer a gentle experiential introduction into the method and process of psychodrama and the opportunity to discuss its many applications More...

This will be two discrete workshops for senior practitioners in the major helping professions, including GP mentors. This will be a forum for bringing live case examples for individual and group supervision. It will include the sharing on two or three meta models and will enable people from different professional backgrounds to supervise effectively. More...

Arts Therapists are familiar with a wide variety of creative techniques which can provide clients with alternative ways of uncovering the dynamics of their inner and outer worlds. Without becoming creative therapists themselves, counsellors and psychotherapists using predominantly verbal models can extend their repertoire of interventions by learning some of these techniques, and by developing both an understanding of the rationale for their use, and the confidence to do so. More...