The Spring Equinox is here, when day and night balance for a short while until the day-light hours become longer than the night time. All over blossom, daffodils and crocus are beginning to bloom. It feels like the earth is waking up after a slumber and, perhaps, it is a good time to think about activating our brains with some training.

As professional therapists, we have to keep our skills up-to-date. The UKCP requires at least 250 hours of continuing professional development for its registrants in any give five-year period. But we don't do training just because we have to, it keeps us curious, developing, supports our practice.

We have some great CPD workshops coming up (see the CPD workshop tab on the website). Particularly a couple of workshops on bringing bodywork into our approach to therapy (with Janet Hills, 23rd April & 18th June) and exploring what ideas around attachment may mean to us and our clients (with Pete Lavender, 14th May & 9th July).

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Thoughts from ACT tutor, George Bassett:

One of the fundamental beliefs that I hold regarding the nature of both the human experience and therapeutic process, is that life is inherently dramatic.

Much of our everyday thinking and reflections upon our life experience is shared with others through the medium of Dramatic Story. Whether we tell someone about our day, share a funny incident, describe a painful encounter, or gossip about last night’s episode of EastEnders, we are all involved in telling and listening to Story.

We all do it. We flow in the drama of unfolding events. Story is accessible and digestible, in all its various forms. Whether it be a best-selling novel, a poem, film, play, jokes, or the daily news, we are immersed in Story and Story form. With this being so prevalent as a “non scientific” framework for working out what we do and why, and learning from the experiences of others, I believe it is a rich and vast seam of knowledge which should be included in the therapists repertoire/toolkit.

Dramatic forms illuminate the challenges and outcomes of human endeavour. The nature of such frameworks follow commonly recognised patterns of process and development. Put simply:
Something happens that causes a reaction. A problem is presented, Who will help and who or what will get in the way? How does it turn out? Will, there be “a happy ending” or will the “Baddies” get away with it?
 
In the new Active Creative Techniques course you will be immersed in Drama/Story and Theatre Forms to compliment and enhance your existing therapeutic practice.
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Embrace the Hero/Heroine in your, and others’, Story.

Dates: 2016: 7/8 May, 30/31 July, 17/18 Sept. 10/11 Dec.
2017: 4/5 March, 13/14 May.

Cost: For all six workshops, £850 (SCPTI members), £950 (non-members)

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