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Educational Support and Inclusion - Short Courses

Short Courses and Day Schools for Professional Counsellors or Counsellors in Training starting from October 2002 until June 2003. Enrolment for these courses is through the attached Application Form returnable to: The RTG Admin Secretary at Educational Support & Inclusion, Faculty of Education, University of Manchester, Oxford Road M13 9PL

email: esi@man.ac.uk Tel: 0161 275 3510 Fax: 0161 275 3548

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INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELLING SKILLS

This is an introductory course in basic counselling skills for anyone who is interested in developing their helping, listening or interpersonal skills. It does not require any previous qualifications but, as the course revolves around experiential learning and self awareness, participants are expected to be willing to engage in some self examination and reflection.

The course will run from 20th January to 23rd March 2004, 5.30 – 8.30pm. The cost of the course is £100.

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EPiT CONFERENCE 2004

Educational Psychologists in Training are invited to the annual conference, hosted by the University of Manchester on the 7th, 8th and 9th July 2004.

The conference is to be held at the University’s Hulme Hall Conference Centre

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INTRODUCTION TO SUPERVISION

Tutors: Celia Hindmarch, Freelance Counsellor, Supervisor & Trainer,
Core Tutor for Supervision Cert. University of Manchester
& Bob Colderley, Relate Counsellor & Supervisor, Core Tutor
for Supervision Cert. University of Manchester.
Times: A Two Day Workshop from 9.30 am till 4.00 pm approx on
Dates: Thursday, 29th January & Friday, 30thJanuary 2004.
Venue: Room T.B.A. Humanities Building
Places available: 12
Cost: £120.00

This course is designed for would-be supervisors in the field of counselling, therapy and the helping professions. It is not a qualification in supervision, but rather an introduction to the key requirements for beginning the supervisory role. Experienced practitioners are often asked to take on a supervisory role without appropriate training. In particulate the is course will be useful to those who wish to pursue a supervision training course, but are cautious about taking on supervisees without some basic preparation for safe practice.

Over the two days, the following areas will be covered:-

• Definitions of supervision
• Functions of supervision
• Making the transition from practitioner to supervisor
• Getting the conditions right for starting
• Setting up a supervision contract
• Structures and recording
• Accountability

Attendance requirements: course participants need to be experienced practitioners in their field, with a suggested minimum of two years post-qualified practice.

It is anticipated that some participants will make a natural progression from this two-day course to the Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision at this University, which prepares for BACP accreditation.

CRITICAL INCIDENT SUPPORT

Tutor: Celia Hindmarch, Honorary Tutor, BA, Cert. Couns.
Times: A One Day Workshop from 9.30 am till 4.30 pm approx.
Date: Tuesday, 2nd March 2004
Venue: Room T.B.A. Humanities Building
Places available: 16
Cost: £40.00

This one day course is designed for counsellors, therapists, and other helping professionals who may be called on to provide psychological support for those suffering post-traumatic stress. Critical incidents resulting in such stress range from private tragedy to public disaster.

• What kind of support is needed short term and long term?
• Who should provide it and what special training is required?
• What is critical incident debriefing, and how is it different from counselling?

In addressing these questions, the day's programme will include:

• trauma theory and post-trauma responses
• relevant counselling skills and therapeutic approaches
• rationale for Critical Incident Debriefing (CID)
• CID formulae and techniques.

'AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSPERSONAL IN COUNSELLING AND THERAPY'

Tutor: Mike Poulter
Times: Two Day Workshop from 10.00am until 4.30pm approx
Dates: Thursday, 1st April & Friday, 2nd April 2004
Venue: Room A5.3 in the Humanities Building
Places: 8 maximum
Cost: £80.00

This course is intended for qualified counsellors and counsellors in training at diploma level. Some of the techniques common to Transpersonal Psychology, such as Guided Fantasy and Visualisation, are familiar to counsellors as methods of achieving relaxation and coping with stress. However, there is a shortfall of coverage of how the processes available in transpersonal work can be used at a more personal level to acquire insights, meanings and change for both self-development and for clients in counselling and therapy. This workshop addresses the gap by demonstrating through theoretical input, discussion, story telling and experiential work, how the language of transpersonal psychology - imaging - may be used in such contexts. The key approaches of Jung and Assagioli are seminal to the course.

SATURDAY DAY SCHOOL - ‘Cross Cultural Counselling’

Date: Saturday, 8th May 2004
Times: 10.00 am - 3.30 pm approx
Lecturer: Pittu Laungani
Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Arts, Arts Building
Cost: £40.00

COUNSELLING, SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

Tutors: Henry Hollanders Ph.D. and William West Ph.D.
Times: Two Day Workshop from 9.30 am till 4.00 pm approx.
Dates: Monday, 14th June & Tuesday, 15th June 2004
Venue: Room A5.5 in the Humanities Building
Places: 20
Cost: £100.00.

At best both religion and psychotherapy are about the personal and inward journey towards development, individuation and wholeness, together with all the implications of that for relationships with others and with the world. At worst they either prevent the journey from being undertaken or hinder the traveller on her/his way. During these two days, we will be exploring the boundaries of psychotherapy, religion and spirituality and the pathways between them.