Zoom CPD Weekend in English, with simultaneous translation into Greek
Helping you address the five fundamental reasons and triggers for compassion fatigue through detailed and specific supervision with Michael and with each other
There are some deep and profound reasons why the practice of therapy may be considered hazardous for the practitioner and their psycho-biological health. Most therapists intend and attempt to work in a way that deeply and profoundly affects their clients' suffering. However, in order to do this, therapists need to open wide the door of empathy. That door does not just have one direction - through it pass the mutual impacts that client and therapist have on each other. By engaging with their clients deeply, therapists enter into and also absorb their clients’ inner world, their conflicts, trauma and emotional pain.
In a simple phrase which Michael has been using in his teaching for many years now: the client’s conflict becomes the therapist’s conflict (or in more psychoanalytic terms: bringing a holistic bodymind understanding to the countertransference, in order to access 'implicit relational knowing' and pre-reflexive intersubjectivity).
Compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatisation, therapist burnout and how to digest and process the psychosomatic load which is necessarily part of our practice - these were the themes of a previous workshop (you can find the workshop description here) and a series of articles written by Michael which were published in the UK some years ago.
Michael brings an embodied-relational perspective to these issues which are pervasive across the talking therapies, but cannot be understood or addressed comprehensively and effectively within a mind-over-body paradigm. Building on the ideas of this previous workshop, and re-visiting them briefly for the benefit of new participants, we will now apply them in some detail to your particular practice and way of working.
Paragraph for previous participants:
This workshop is an opportunity to deepen and experiment with your understanding as you apply your learning to your own practice and that of others. Participants from the previous workshop on the topic and those who are familiar with some of the material and ideas, will be invited to take the roles of observers and supervisors in relation to new group members who are joining for the first time. By challenging yourself to convey your learning to others, you will find yourself deepening your application of theory to practice.
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