We will have ex-boarders in our therapy rooms, and they may not tell us they went to boarding school.
While the numbers who go are relatively small, boarding school has a huge reach in our culture. Our government, press and legal system are full of ex-boarders.
Clients themselves may have been sent away (some as young as 5 or 6), and we may also see clients who have a partner, parent, sibling, friend or work colleague who went.
Using the theories developed by Nick Duffell and Joy Schaverien, this workshop will help you to:
– understand core issues for ex-boarders and how they arise
– recognise underlying and often hidden trauma
– identify and manage common difficulties arising in therapeutic work with boarding school survivors, and
– respond to a client group that can be difficult to reach with compassion and strength
The workshop will be a mix of presentation, discussion and small group work.
Course Content
Presenter
Karen Macmillan (she/her) is a Transactional Analysis counsellor who specialises in working with ex boarders in Hove and online. She completed Nick Duffell’s training in working with ex-boarders in 2017/18 and continues to reflect on her own experience of boarding.
She runs workshops for counsellors on working with ex boarders in a variety of settings and is committed to raising awareness of the often hidden trauma that may be present in the counselling room and beyond.
This workshop in a collaboration between the Link Centre and Onlinevents
At the Link Centre we pride ourselves in delivering high quality options tailored to needs of clients and delivered in a relaxed, comfortable yet stimulating environment in which people feel safe to learn and develop. We work with individuals, groups, organisations, and educational establishments using the depth of our psychological knowledge, to facilitate growth and development.
Our training centre is located in the heart of the countryside, in Plumpton, East Sussex. It provides a variety of training rooms, extensive parking, and disabled access, to help meet the needs of individuals attending our courses. As well as this the centre has extensive grounds that can be enjoyed during lunch and tea breaks.
We also offer in-house coaching, training and consultancy that is tailored to the needs of our customers.
Our trainers and consultants are all fully qualified, experienced, skilled and accredited to both national and international level.
For more information about The Link Centre Visit thelinkcentre.co.uk
