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May looks like a good month for therapists, and just in time
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Dear Reader If you’re a facilitator, we don’t have much happening in May for you sorry (unless you’re a facilitator slightly dreaming of becoming a therapist :) – June and July look excellent for facilitators though. First up in May, a brand new course, Working with Inner Criticism – for therapists from all modalities and therapists-in-training. Because almost every client you’ll ever see across your whole career will struggle with inner criticism. But for most clients, it’s not how they'll describe their issue. They describe the impacts but usually don’t understand the root cause. Maybe they call it depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship issues, career stagnation, sense of meaninglessness, chronic emotional dysregulation…you name it, inner criticism probably has a part to play. And if you as the therapist don’t have a good foundation in noticing and working with inner criticism, you’re going to miss the real problem and be ineffectual at best. As supervisors, Silvia and Liz have helped hundreds of clinicians build the awareness, knowledge, and skills to work confidently with inner criticism and have finally put it all together in a course! An extended program over three modules (recorded lectures and live sessions) covering the essentials: · How to spot inner criticism (did you know that stubbing your toe and other minor accidents can be expressions of inner criticism?) · A suite of intervention techniques and a place to practice them (from powerful psycho-education metaphors to creative shape-shifting and everything in between - so you’ve got options). · Therapist-client critic entanglements – how they happen and what to do about them (including how to recognise the signs of critic-induced burnout). Also in May, Silvia offers her popular short course, Working at the Edge of the Unknown. Scary for client and therapist alike, both collude to stay off the Edge, that is, to stay away from the discomfort of unfamiliar growth, unknown outcomes etc. But it comes at a cost. For the therapist, not keeping clients on the Edge enough will wear you down. You won’t have the energetic support of the client’s growth direction (secondary process) and will have to overwork, it’s also sometimes a bit boring. For the client, they don’t really grow in the direction indicated by their own process, they can feel like they're failing at therapy, and they also get a bit bored. No fun for anyone! In the course, Silvia shares a range of techniques for identifying and staying at these growth edges, using live case demonstrations so you can take away skills you can use immediately to deepen your work! (Both in time to clock some extra PD points if you need them). As always, feel free to share these with any therapists or therapy students you know, but maybe not your own therapist :) warmly ANZPOP P.S. It's been quite popular AND there are still some spots left at the seminar next week, Healing Intergenerational Trauma in Rwanda! |
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