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Irish Society of Jungian Analysts in conjunction with the Irish Analytical Psychology Association Presents live on Zoom Thursday, 7th November 2024: 19:30–21:00 (Irish time) __________________________________________________________________________________ Disease as the Shadow of the Body Wendy J Bratherton, Jungian Analyst “This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.” (M. Woodman and J.Mellick, Coming Home to Myself) In this talk Wendy will show how engaging with disease as “shadow in the body” can enable us to make changes in our lives and find meaning in our suffering. Since disease is located in the body, if we want to engage with this aspect of shadow, we must delve deeply into the unconscious memories which are stored in the body. Jung appreciated the depth of connection between mind and body. Between 1934-9 he gave a series of lectures to colleagues where he warned of the dangers of becoming too intellectual and ignoring the body. Jung said, “The body is merely the visibility of the soul, the psyche: and the soul is the psychological experience of the body. So, it is really one and the same thing.” Wendy will look at the link between mind and body and focus on Jung’s concept of the psychoid psyche, together with some recent insights from neuroscience and outline some clinical examples. Wendy Bratherton is a retired Jungian Analyst (SAP London) and a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist (CSTA). She was an Infant Observation Seminar Leader for 25 years and trained with Marion Woodman in BodySoul work. She has run Body Soul workshops with Marian Dunlea and helped with her online BodyDreaming Modules. She is a safe and Sound Protocol Provider, using sound to help heal trauma. She has contributed to Contemporary Jungian Analysis, ed. I.Alister & C. Hauke, Routledge 1998, and Jung’s Shadow Concept ed. C.Perry and R. Tower, Routledge 2023. ≈ Visit Eventbrite for further Information & Booking Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/disease-as-the-shadow-of-the-body-with-wendy-bratherton-jungian-analyst-tickets-1027902543177 ≈ Registration closes on Wednesday, 6th November@ 18:00 Admission: €22.42 / Students: €17.07 Booking is via Eventbrite only This event will be recorded, and the link will be available for 2 weeks for the personal viewing of registered participants only. _________________________________________________________ General enquiries, please contact Nola at isja.events@gmail.com

Irish Society of Jungian Analysts in conjunction with the Irish Analytical Psychology Association Presents live on Zoom Thursday, 10th October 2024: 19:30–21:00 (Irish time) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Photo credit: Cedrus Monte Awestruck in nature do we wander Cedrus Monte, Jungian Analyst It could be argued that any true healing of neurosis would need to bring both spiritual life and the natural world to a new understanding. We are perhaps still trying to solve the problem of healing on a too personal, psychological level. Jung was deeply concerned over the loss of our connection with Nature, with the Great Mother. The word “matter” has become a purely intellectual concept. How different was the former image of matter — the Great Mother — which could convey profound emotional meaning. By wandering in the natural world, we begin to awaken to our primal, embodied connection to the Great Mother and feel the awe and gratitude that are ours to receive when we open to the beauty and mysteries that are an integral part of the natural world. In this way we might in part begin to heal, at the level of soul, an ever-increasing neurotic and collapsing world. Cedrus Monte, Jungian Analyst, graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute (1996) Member of IAAP (emerita)/AGAP.  Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she now lives and practices in Zurich, Switzerland. In addition to numerous papers included in Jungian anthologies, she has published CORPUS ANIMA: Reflections from the Unity of Body and Soul (Chiron Publications) and A MEMOIR OF MEMORIES: Remembering the Death of My Mother (Little Owl Press, Zurich; with accompanying podcast on Speaking of Jung, episode 68). Visit Eventbrite for further Information & Booking Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/awestruck-in-nature-do-we-wander-with-cedrus-monte-jungian-analyst-tickets-991059685197 Registration closes on Wednesday, 9th October @ 18:00 Admission: €22.42 / Students: €17.07 Booking is via Eventbrite only This event will be recorded, and the link will be available for 2 weeks for the personal viewing of registered participants only. ___________________________________________________________ General enquiries, please contact Nola at isja.events@gmail.com

Join us this November for the Professional Certificate in Couples Therapy course, designed to provide you with both theoretical insights and hands-on skills for effectively working with couples.

This training is ideal whether you work with couples or not, as it provides deep insights into relationship dynamics that will greatly benefit your individual client work.

What you’ll learn:

• Comprehensive understanding of couples therapy techniques and theories.
• Integrative approach to resolving deep-rooted relationship issues.
• Tools to enhance communication and conflict resolution between couples.
• 6 Models including Gestalt relational approaches, Developmental Model, Terry Real’s Relational Life Therapy, etc.
• 23 Topics including Communication skills, first sessions, vulnerability cycles, family of origin work, sexual issues, and more.

Details:

• Date: 4 full days (in-person on 8th/9th & 29th/30th November 2024) and 2 evening workshops (via Zoom). Thursday 21^st November 7-9 pm and Thursday 12^th December 7-9pm.
  
• Location: Maldron Hotel, South Mall, Cork City
  
• CPD Hours: 24 CPD hours (IACP approved)
  
• Participants: Limited to 15 participants

This course provides an immersive learning experience, combining theoretical study with experiential learning. Whether you’re a seasoned therapist or just starting out with couples work, this course will equip you with the skills to help couples achieve lasting change.

Register now to secure your place in this transformative course! Spots are filling up quickly.

Find out more about the course here: https://instituteofcouplestherapy.com/core-training/

Couples Therapy is not just about resolving conflict, it’s about understanding deeper relational dynamics. This training is designed to equip you with confidence and creativity in addressing long-term issues.

Testimonials

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“This was a fantastic course and I would highly recommend anyone who has any interest in working with couples but unsure of where to start to take the leap and sign up for one of Karen’s trainings. Karen has a fantastic ability to impart her knowledge around couples therapy in such a clear and transformative way. The four day training was very much geared to providing very useful tools and structures into your practice with couples work, regardless of your own experience in this area. The added bonus of multiple resources, future training, networking opportunities and supervision options is also invaluable.”- Maria Gleeson

“I have attended many trainings during my nearly twenty years of psychotherapy practice but I can honestly say that this was one of the most stimulating, inclusive and comprehensive trainings I have attended. Karen has a natural ability to impart her knowledge of couples therapy in a way that makes it vital and interesting. She is generous in sharing her resources and experience. For anyone who is considering training in this area I highly recommend this particular one.“ - Elizabeth Cullen

An ideal family can be defined as a unit, whatever it consists of, that provides love, support and stability to its members. It is a family where each member feels valued, respected and understood. An ideal family fosters a positive environment for growth, learning and emotional well-being.

This workshop was created to explore the issues that we carry with us throughout our lives when the aforementioned, ideal family conditions do not exist, for whatever reason. We will delve into a healing process regarding the missing elements of family, whatever that menas to you and explore how to build meaninful reparative family systems going forward.

The work employs Gestalt techniques. Gestalt is primarily a creative, emotional process incorporating body processes, art, music, ritual and expression.

Dates: 26th & 27th October 2024
Venue: De La Salle Retreat Centre, Elderfield, Castletown, Co. Laois, R32 N6D8
Cost: €300.00

Accommodation extra, available on request.

For further details contact: Alan Hackett, 087 747 4421, Email: alanhackett@gmail.com

Integrative Psychotherapy Practice

The Body Within The Therapeutic Relationship

November 2024 to March 2025

This course has been running for over 20 years. The course will introduce you to a lens and a concrete set of tools which will enable you to understand and work with the body in the therapeutic process with clients. It is grounded in an integration of the theory of Wilhelm Reich and Alexander Lowen, who were forerunners in the development of body awareness in the therapeutic process. The course will help you to integrate the body lens into your current practice from a humanistic perspective.

Content:   Theory and techniques - Reich, Lowen, Rogers

Character structures - formation and purpose

Bioenergetics - choreography of body work

Applied skills in practice - facilitated and directed work

Participants must hold a qualification in psychotherapy and be in practice

For more information and inquiries: tel: 01 498 2408, email: info@ippireland.com

For application form available on the IPP website: www.ippireland.com

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Facilitators: Deidre Collins IAHIP, ICP, EAP and Ray Tonge IAHIP, IACP, ICP

Payments can be made in instalments on request

"It's a credit to our instructors that this information and learning, which always has the potential to feel overwhelming, was taught, managed and facilitated in a deeply skilled way."

"Learning to view my client work through this lens has opened up my practice and depth of work."

Mindfulness & Compassion for Mental Health Professionals

A five week online course, to support you in bringing mindfulness and compassion into your one to one work… as a resource for you and for your clients.

Facilitated by Dr Tony Bates, Prof Brendan Kelly, Erica Balfour, Rachel Ardagh and Barry Lee (from the Mindfulness & Compassion Centre)

Dates: Thursday evenings (17^th October 2024 – 14^th November 2024)

Time 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

About the course:

• Establish a personal practice (30 day mindfulness & compassion challenge).
• Experience a variety of different mindfulness and compassion practices, drawing from a range of evidence based mindfulness and compassion programmes (MBSR, MBCT, MSC, MBCL, MBRP and more).
• Learn how mindfulness and compassion can support us as therapists, sustain us in our work and help mitigate against secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue
• Learn how to skilfully bring elements of trauma informed mindfulness and compassion into your work with clients.
• Learn a variety of simple practices, tools and models that can be helpful in one to one work with clients. 
• Learn some of the “dos and don’ts” of using mindfulness to help clients ground.
• Learn the importance of language when guiding others in mindfulness practices.
• How embodying mindfulness and compassion can facilitate deeper work and healing in our clients.
• Learn how to adapt mindfulness for neurodiverse clients (emphasis on autism and ADHD).
• Learn about the types of clinical situations, when mindfulness is not helpful and may cause harm.

CPD Hours: 10 Hours Awarded 

For further information - https://www.mindfulness.ie/mindfulness-compassion-for-mental-health-professionals

www.mindfulness.ie Email: info@mindfulness.ie

Practitioner Certificate in Multi-Sensory Trauma Processing and EMDR Principles across the lifespan

This exciting training programme, utilises two core models to address and resolve trauma.

1) Multi-Sensory Trauma Processing Model (MTP)

2) Eye movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy

MTP was initially created, by Dr Nancy Davis, after the tragic events of 911 in NYC to help reduce residual trauma symptoms in first responders and their families. It has since been expanded to address trauma with multiple other populations. Multi-Sensory Trauma Processing (MTP) focuses extensively on the sensory and somatic aspects of traumatic experiences and how blockages in these areas interrupt successful processing.

MTP combines many types of therapies:

• Cognitive therapy
• Visual imagery/hypnosis
• Therapeutic stories
• Narrative therapy
• EMDR-bilateral stimulation
• Client centered Rogerian therapy
• Neuro linguistic programming

EMDR also relies on the power of bilateral stimulation (BLS) and has been widely researched and proven to be an effective therapy for trauma survivors. It is also useful in the psychotherapeutic treatment with a wide range of clients who struggle with debilitating psychological and physiological symptoms.

Both modalities are designed to assist with the processing of unresolved issues and to activate the client’s internal healing processes. Treatment may be a single session or may span multiple sessions. It may also be incorporated as an ongoing or intermittent part of the treatment being provided. Clinical decisions are made in accordance with the complexity of PTSD symptomology that the client is struggling with.

As this is a practitioner award, engagement in 20 clinical practice sessions, and 5 supervision sessions, are required. This supervision is included in the course.

Suitable Applicants

This training is suitable for trainee and qualified play therapists, counsellors, psychotherapists, expressive arts therapists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals working within the range of psychotherapeutic modalities with clients of all ages.

Course Leader

Linda McGuire MA, MIACP, is an EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner and Consultant and certified trainer of MTP. Linda has led university level degree programmes in the field of

counselling and psychotherapy, addiction counselling and art psychotherapy throughout Ireland and is an experienced lecturer and course developer. She has worked extensively with young people and their families coordinating clinical services in these dedicated areas for over twenty-five years.

Dr Nancy Davis is the former head of psychological services with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In addition to development the MTP model, she is also the creator of Therapeutic Stories that Teach and Heal Series (3^rd Ed) and is an international trainer. Nancy will zoom in briefly during 2 sessions.

Course Structure

This course runs over 7 full days (10am – 5pm). Days 1, 3, 6 and 7 are in person and Days 2, 4 and 5 are online. There will be 3 additional online small group supervision sessions spread over the duration of the training for each participant. Full day sessions take place from 10am – 5pm.

Overview of Content

Day 1: Introduction to MTP and Trauma
Day 2: Theory, Practice and Bilateral Stimulation, Therapeutic storytelling
Day 3: Fishbowl Supervision (single incident trauma)
Day 4: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s), Parental/ Caregiver inclusion, Healing the Healer
Day 5: Job-Related Trauma, Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue, and Letting Go
Day 6: Integrating Therapeutic Stories with MTP, BLS and Expressive Arts: Putting it all together –
Day 7: Case Presentations/Supervision

The 2024-2025 course will run on 16^th Nov 24, 14^th Dec 24, 18^th Jan 25, 15^th Feb 25, 15^th March 25, 12^th April 25, and 24^th May. Dec, Feb and Mar modules are online, 3 onsite dates are in Limerick, and the Jan day is in CTC, Ballymore, Co Westmeath.

Usual Course Fee is €1200. Launch offer: €200 Discount to first 10 participants to enrol!

Please return completed application form, with €50 application fee (payable to Children’s Therapy Centre) to: CTC. Stewart House, Lonsdale Road, National Technology Park, Plassey, Co. Limerick, V94 KN70.

Further enquiries: ctclinda1@gmail.com

IACP CPD approved for 48 CPD Points

Dear pre-accredited and accredited fellow professionals,

Are you interested in joining a new supervision group ? They are found to be “great support”, giving “valuable perspectives from experiences of other group members” and “safely contracted spaces”.

This new group will meet on Thursdays at 7pm the first one will take place on 17th October.

I, Jim FitzGibbon, will be the facilitator. I am a supervisor accredited with IAHIP. I am a gestalt psychotherapist. I recently completed further supervision training for supervisors at the Gestalt Institute at HCC Italy.

Delivery will be on-line with approximately ten meetings per year. My fee is 60 euros per person for each two hour session.

In line with accreditation criteria set by IAHIP and IACP, groups will have a maximum of four members.

Assessment reports and re-accreditation applications will be included.

The group is also a good fit for additional supervision support and CPD and you may even find that belonging to a group of others meets a personal need.

If you are interested please contact me at jamesfitzgibbon57@gmail.com.

Best wishes
Jim

[CPD Opportunity] Challenging Presentations in Couples Therapy | IACP-approved CPD Webinar

Are you feeling stuck and unproductive in your Couples Therapy Sessions? Join us for this live and recorded webinar with Charlie Stevens, an experienced couples therapist, to gain practical tools and insights into overcoming these challenges.

What you’ll learn:

• How to de-escalate conflict and foster open communication between partners.
• Techniques to break the cycle of avoidance and hostility in therapy sessions.
• Tools for creating safe spaces for vulnerable interactions and long-term healing.

Details:

Date: Monday, 30th September 2024
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Price: €25
Where: Online (Live & recorded access available)

2 Hours of IACP-approved CPD Certificate

Charlie Stevens brings over 20 years of experience in couples therapy, including a background in family constellation work, yoga, and meditation. This is a valuable opportunity to learn from an expert and enhance your therapeutic practice.

Register now to secure your spot and take your practice to the next level! Spaces are limited.

Find out more via: InstituteOfCouplesTherapy.com

Therapy Rooms
Available to Share

Cork City Centre

Two Lovely Spacious Rooms

Very Centrally Located 

We are seeking another person to join us for two days/ evenings

Thursday & Friday available 

Very reasonable rates.

 Ring Mary on 087 797 0804 if years oldu are interested.