Timelines are an important therapeutic tool yet often aren’t used to their fullest potential. Timelines can help therapist and client to explore major losses and changes throughout their client’s life, significant events and difficult periods in life and importantly, how these have impacted on the client today.
Timelines can help us to identify patterns, make links and see clearly, the life stressors that may have overwhelmed a person’s nervous system. They can help to identify the very point where particular parts of the personality developed, possibly as a way to copy, where other parts went into hiding (to stay safe) or where trauma-defenses came into being. In doing so, making the unconscious, conscious.
In this workshop you’ll explore a variety of ways to work with timelines including working symbolically and creatively whilst gaining an understanding of how Psychodynamic theories can provide another layer of insight. We’ll play with the ideas of Freud, Jung, Winnicott, Klein and Bowlby to help enrich the timeline process and in doing so support you to understand and work with your clients at a deeper, richer level.
You will also be guided on safe-practice and how to keep your client in the window of tolerance through this process.
There will be an opportunity to create your own timeline and engage in a variety of creative activities.
Have to hand, paper and colours, and if possible, shells or buttons.
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Presenter
Kate Williams has been in therapeutic practice since 2009 with a background in counselling in further education. She currently runs a busy private practice, works with NHS clients and enjoys running workshops for onlinevents and staff wellbeing workshops for NHS Hull & Humberside.
Kate is centre manager for the Bedfordshire Centre for Therapeutic Studies where she teaches on the CPCAB L5 in Somatic Trauma Therapy course & L2 Award in Breathwork Coaching as well as the Level 4 in Therapeutic Counselling.
Kate has a passion for bringing the body into her practice supporting clients to release the trauma that is held within their bodies. Kate is know for her relaxed teaching style, experiential somatic practices and skill of bringing theory to life and making it applicable.
