Investigating our shared ‘implicit relational knowing’ about the working alliance by considering the question: Do therapists tend to over-estimate the working alliance they have with their clients? Take part in our online enquiry and join us in a shared experimental learning process. You are welcome to join in the enquiry around this topic which I [...]
Finally, after about 9 months' work since our wonderful WordPress webdesigner finalised the basic framework, the new site is ready to launch. We are very happy with it for now, although some options are not implemented yet. At last, all the resources are in one place, and they are easily accessible and it is fairly [...]
Integrative, experiential supervision groups with Michael Soth These small supervision groups run on a regular monthly basis (Tuesdays) online on Zoom. There are three groups with 4 participants each during each Tuesday (11.25-13.25; 13.30-15.30; 15.45-17.45). One place is becoming available in monthly 2-hour Supervision Group for Experienced Therapists (monthly Tuesdays 11.25 - 13.25 (Zoom)) [...]
meeting bi-monthly on Tuesdays on Zoom (10.00 – 16.30) maximum 9 participants - currently maximum 3 places available from January 2024 Purpose and scope of group This ongoing integrative group for counsellors and psychotherapists from different therapeutic approaches, orientations and trainings, meeting 6 times per year, has been running since 2019 in varying [...]
meeting monthly on Friday evenings on Zoom (18.30 – 21.30) maximum 12 participants - currently maximum 4 places available from March 2024 Purpose and scope of group This ongoing integrative group for counsellors and psychotherapists from different therapeutic approaches, orientations and trainings, meeting 11 times per year, has been running since 2022. To [...]
meeting bi-monthly on Tuesdays on Zoom (11.00 – 17.30) maximum 8 participants - currently 7 Purpose and scope of group This group is open to experienced counsellors and psychotherapists from different therapeutic approaches, orientations and trainings. It is an ongoing integrative group, meeting 6 times per year, and it has been running since [...]
based upon broad-spectrum integrative - embodied - relational – systemic principles Would you want a qualification (CPCAB accredited), or just the learning through participating in a course? Because of its unique integrative-embodied-relational perspective, this course would also be of interest to supervisors who are already qualified and practising. TherapyWorks Pakistan is organising an online supervision [...]
Online Zoom CPD Training - 19 April 2020 with Michael Soth 9.30 – 12.30 (free - donations to charity) “The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively – because without this humble appliance, you can’t know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have [...]
How to spot it and what to do next - a step-by-step recipe book (for processing the therapist’s dilemmas) A CPD day in Oxford - 19th January 2019 After the OTS training day we had in Oxford on September 16th (on ‘Relational Dilemmas of First Sessions and Initial Assessments') we have had several enquiries and [...]
This group (maximum 7 participants, meeting once every 2 months on a Tuesday in Hendon, North London 10:15 to 16:45) originally organised by Eamonn Marshall, has been running since 2014, meeting 6 times per year, in varying configurations and with various members. There is obviously an established group dynamic and cohesion, and new participants would [...]
meeting bi-monthly on Tuesdays on Zoom (10.00 – 16.30) maximum 9 participants - currently maximum 2 places available from March 2024 Purpose and scope of group This ongoing integrative group for counsellors and psychotherapists from different therapeutic approaches, orientations and trainings, meeting 6 times per year, has been running since 2019 in varying [...]
These weekend CPD events, initiated in 2016 by experienced TA therapist Judy Shaw near Exeter in Devon, with a view to forming an ongoing group, provide an ideal container for your continuing professional development, rooted in your own embodied process. The residential weekend format allows for a safer, more cohesive group experience than ordinary CPD [...]
I have been using the phrase 'gathering the fragments of the enactment' for many years, and many of you have asked me to give more detail - here finally is 'another fragment'. I'm grateful to the students on my recent teaching touring in Pakistan, as well as all the tutors and assistants present, who [...]
An interview with Michael in preparation of this CPD workshop "Sustainable practice in the 'impossible profession'?" organised by the Wimbledon Guild Your workshop "Sustainable practice in the ‘impossible profession’?" is unique in its concept, what led you to its creation? There are two separate but linked recognitions which inspired the workshop, and the 2017 article [...]
in Oxford with Morit Heitzler integrative - embodied - relational trauma therapy for counsellors and therapists working with trauma (suitable for practitioners from across all therapeutic approaches) If some of your trauma clients show resistance, manifest stuckness or get caught in hidden dissociation or re-traumatisation dynamics, or you encounter unexpected ruptures, impasses or enactments, these workshops are for [...]
On 23 September 2017 I attended the CPD day (6-hour PowerPoint lecture) "On the growth-promoting role of mutual regressions in deep psychotherapy" (organised by nscience in London) because Allan Schore was promising to offer his latest thinking, and I think he delivered on that promise: he offered some genuine paradigm-shifting ideas and principles. [...]
A blog post written in preparation for a CPD workshop in Oxford on 4 March 2018 How safe does the therapeutic space need to be? In our attempts to create a safe, empathic and accepting environment for the client in which they can afford to feel open, undefended and vulnerable, we provide a therapeutic presence [...]
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This series of evenings and day workshops is designed to give space to you as a couple. We invite you to invest in your relationship. In our culture that’s a rare opportunity – normally we expect ourselves to just get on, by virtue of being supposedly loving, cooperative, committed adults. But that’s an unrealistic, [...]
A series of open evenings (conversations as well as question and answer sessions) to help you find your way through the maze of the psychological therapies The psychological therapies are a minefield, and very confusing for the layperson. What are the differences between psychology, CBT, counselling, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis (and many, many others)? Even the [...]
This weekend CPD group, organised by experienced TA therapist Judy Shaw in Devon around Exeter, will run over 5 weekends during 2018, with 2 weekends led by Nick Totton and 2 by Michael Soth. The weekends will take place at Judy's place in Offwell near Honiton. Dates for 2018 March 17/18: Nick & Michael together [...]
Starts 5 February 2018 in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad The aim of the course is to work towards a comprehensive map of the field and develop a relational meta-position that integrates the whole broad range of approaches. This can help us evolve beyond a merely eclectic stance which picks and chooses pragmatically or [...]
