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Bi-monthly Supervision & Personal-Professional Development Group (online Zoom) Copy

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 [...]

By |2024-02-03T01:36:20+00:00February 3rd, 2024|CPD Workshops, Courses & Events|0 Comments

Monthly Supervision & Professional Development Group (Friday evenings, online)

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 [...]

By |2024-02-03T01:50:27+00:00February 3rd, 2024|CPD Workshops, Courses & Events|0 Comments

Bi-monthly Supervision & Personal-Professional Development Group

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 [...]

By |2023-04-24T22:52:41+00:00August 14th, 2022|CPD Workshops, Courses & Events|0 Comments

Level 6 – Supervision Diploma: Becoming an integrative supervisor

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 [...]

By |2020-10-16T12:13:58+00:00September 20th, 2020|CPD Workshops, Courses & Events|0 Comments

The Client’s Conflict becomes the Therapist’s Conflict – CPD workshop in Oxford 19 Jan 2019

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 [...]

By |2020-04-19T00:08:44+00:00October 4th, 2018|CPD Workshops, Courses & Events|0 Comments

Monthly Small Supervision Groups (2 hours, 4 participants, online on Zoom)

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, Senior Therapists (monthly Tuesdays 15.45 - 17.45 [...]

By |2022-09-27T08:19:17+00:00September 3rd, 2018|CPD Workshops, Courses & Events|0 Comments

London: bi-monthly Advanced Supervision Group for Experienced Therapists

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 [...]

By |2018-09-03T08:25:00+00:00September 3rd, 2018|CPD Workshops, Courses & Events|0 Comments

Bi-monthly Supervision & Personal-Professional Development Group (online Zoom)

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 [...]

By |2024-02-07T23:52:35+00:00September 3rd, 2018|CPD Workshops, Courses & Events|0 Comments

Exeter: Body-oriented CPD Weekend Group 2019-2020 with Michael Soth

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 [...]

By |2019-12-30T13:12:07+00:00September 2nd, 2018|CPD Workshops, Courses & Events|0 Comments

Gathering the fragments (2018)

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 [...]

By |2019-01-26T11:49:02+00:00August 26th, 2018|General Blog Posts|0 Comments

Sustainable practice in the ‘impossible profession’? – Interview with Michael Soth

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 [...]

By |2019-11-25T23:32:12+00:00May 9th, 2018|Michael's Psychotherapy CPD Blog|0 Comments

Integrative Trauma Therapy – CPD Workshops in Oxford with Morit Heitzler 2018

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 [...]

Report & Review – Allan Schore: “The growth-promoting role of mutual regressions in deep psychotherapy”

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. [...]

By |2018-05-25T00:59:08+00:00January 13th, 2018|CPD Workshops, Courses & Events, General Blog Posts|0 Comments

Allowing ourselves to be constructed and the enactment of the bad object

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 [...]

By |2018-03-03T00:10:49+00:00January 13th, 2018|CPD Workshops, Courses & Events, General Blog Posts|0 Comments

OTS-Oxford: Couple Workshop Series 2018

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, [...]

By |2017-12-02T20:47:37+00:00December 2nd, 2017|General Blog Posts|0 Comments

OTS-Oxford: Public Workshop Series 2018 – All About Therapy …

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 [...]

By |2017-12-02T20:53:31+00:00December 2nd, 2017|General Blog Posts|0 Comments

Exeter: Body-oriented CPD Weekend Group 2018 with Nick Totton & Michael

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 [...]

By |2018-05-03T19:57:21+00:00December 2nd, 2017|CPD Workshops, Courses & Events|0 Comments

Pakistan: TherapyWorks Level V Diploma – Psychotherapy Integration

  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 [...]