If you got here via www.soth.co.uk and want to get rid of the yellow banner for uk2 across the top, click here.What's NewI am slowly hatching my newly designed website which should be functional in the autumn. In the meantime you can access a variety of things: Calendar of Training Events for 2005/2006I have written an up-to-date synopsis of how Body Psychotherapy has developed over the last decade, by way of an introduction to the advanced training and continuing professional development events for Chiron. There is a new series of workshops, each building on the previous one, on Embodied transference and countertransference. This will be suitable for any counsellor or psychotherapist who wants to deepen their perception, understanding and working with transference and countertransference as body/mind processes. There are a couple of events of an introductory nature, for counsellors or psychotherapists who have never had any input on the role of the body in these endeavours - one Friday evening talk and supervision demonstration, and one Saturday. There is a series of three events over one weekend on 'Working with Illness'. I will also be running the Friday evenings again on paradoxes and on Gestalt Dialogue. New Body Psychotherapy Training AND Group Facilitation Training at the Centre for Integral-Relational Learning (CIRL):A new exciting London-based project - please help spread the news as much as you can - we need all the publicity help we can get!. Now online: up-dated text of UKCP Presentation:What therapeutic hope for a subjective mind in an objectified body? (also as downloadable .doc and .pdf files) I have been asked to submit the text of my presentation to the new 'Journal of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy'. For that purpose, I have gone over it again, ironed out some ambiguous bits and pieces, added a bit on character formation. It's not that different from the version I put online at the end of October - just thought I'd let you know ..... In the presentation I am working towards a body/mind holistic phenomenology of relationship, including a body/mind account of transference and countertransference, hinging mainly on the notions of re-enactment and parallel process.If you looked at it before, there is now a more complete conclusion and a significant appendix on attending to the whole body/mind, and how the fragmented field of psychotherapy mirrors the fragmented body/mind.
New chapter on 'Embodied Countertransference'My chapter in Nick Totton's new book 'New Horizons in Body Psychotherapy' will be available soon - the book comes out September 2005. For this chapter, I have written up for the first time in a more comprehensive fashion some of my teaching around re-enactment. I've uploaded some extracts from the chapter, to whet your appetite - for the whole chapter, you need to wait for and buy the book. This chapter was slimmed down, chopped, reduced, decimated from 16,000 to 6,000 words, so some things incl. some explanatory graphics were left out.If you are interested, I can email them to you. I will try to make the long version available soon - please contact me if you are interested. Presentations at conferencesThe next up-coming conference (October 8th) will be with a counselling organisation in Liverpool: Compass. The next one after that will be UKAPI in March where I will run a workshop on 'Internal Supervision'. I put quite a lot of work into preparing a PowerPoint presentation for the Counsellors in Primary Care conference which took place in May, on 'Who lives in the symptom ? Who wants to get rid of it ?'. This addresses the cultural blocks which psychological practitioners encounter in working with physical and psychosomatic symptoms, how to address these and what spectrum of possible relationships to the symptom we might need to make ourselves available to. I would be happy to present this again (as I have done all the work already) in any other context - please contact me if you are interested. Articles / PapersYou can access most of my published writing - my teaching hand-outs will go up as and when I have published them. There are a couple of new articles, one by my colleague Lavinia Gomez (on “Humanistic or psychodynamic - what is the difference and do we have to make a choice ?”) and a response I wrote on 'Integrating humanistic techniques into a transference-countertransference perspective'. There is a sneak preview of a paper on 'Working with Dialogue' and the dilemmas which can be anticipated when using this technique. It's partly a question of integrating Gestalt with transference, but there's more to it. There are a couple of new articles in the pipeline which I have been working on: after my presentation at the 'Counsellors in Primary Care' (CPC) conference in May I was invited by the editor Penny Gray to contribute an interview to the Healthcare Counselling & Psychotherapy Journal. She asked me 10 questions on 'Relating to the Symptom', and this is going to appear in the October edition of the journal. I will be teaching this material on the weekend on 'Working with Illness'. If you would like me to notify you of any upcoming events I am organising or involved in (weekends, conferences, workshops), please send me an email, giving me your name, address and contact details as well as a brief description of your interest and previous experience of personal development / counselling / psychotherapy / groupwork. Specifically, I am collecting names of people who are interested in advanced facilitation training. This would be designed for facilitators in groupwork and organisational leaders and focus on use of self, countertransference and parallel process, including the facilitator's internal conflict as an expression of the group dynamic. It would be interdisciplinary and include a presentation of my own model for facilitation as well as draw on traditional facilitation training in this country (John Heron - Six Category Intervention) and groupdynamic, psychoanalytic, humanistic and integral (Wilber/Don Beck's Spiral Dynamics) and complexity theory (self-organisation / Ralph Stacey) perspectives on groupwork. If you are interested, please let me know. As you may have read above, this is now going ahead at CIRL, starting January 2006. Most other things will still need a lot of work, but in the meantime you can always email me. Enjoy!
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