I have been working as a UKCP Registered Psychotherapists, Supervisor and Trainer for over 30 years in a wide range of contexts. We are living through very challenging times. We are having to manage what appears to be a deteriorating world situation and face a multitude of threats, that have impacted our lives and bombarded our TV screens on a nightly basis.
Working with clients has become increasingly challenging in the face of feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness both in them and potentially in us as practitioners.
In this workshop we will spend exploring some of these existential issues and examine some of the underlying structural causes, and the impact that these are having on our and others mental health.
As counsellors and psychotherapists, whether we like it or not, we are a model for our clients and hold a professional responsibility. We will spend time looking at some of the ways that we can be ‘the peace you wish to see in the world’ with a view to being a positive model to others.
We will draw on both contemporary and ancient wisdoms to empower us to contextualise the place of suffering in the human experience and what we can individually do to alleviate our own suffering and the suffering of others.
I hope that we will deepen our understanding of the causes of our problems, identify ways to be resilient, happier, more empowered and hopeful, and reduce anxiety and depression by overcoming hopelessness and powerlessness in both us and our clients.
Course Content
Presenter
Geoff is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, with nearly thirty years experience as a psychotherapist and trainer. This experience includes twenty years of private practice and and eight years working in a high security prison. Since moving to the South Coast, he has maintained clinical supervision practice and has become one of the partners of the Link Centre where he is also a core tutor.
He is an experienced workshop presenter and interested in mythology, archetypes and symbolism. He is also an Interfaith minister with a strong interest in ancient wisdoms and the interplay between science and spirituality.
As a seasoned mental health practitioner, he is committed to ensuring that we deal urgently with the challenges of the 21st century. For psychotherapy this includes working with many new and pressing challenges, as well as embracing and developing anti-oppressive practice. He also believes that peace and happiness are our essential nature, and that our healing involves loving ourselves well enough to be able to love others, with whom we are all ultimately connected – eve though it doesn’t always feel that way.
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.
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