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  • 06/12/2022 15:41 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Between Defeat and Destiny
    with Emma Philbin Bowman BA, MIAHIP

    A free Online offering 

    'Between Defeat and Destiny is a carefully crafted distillation of a theme I have been passionate about for many years: how to retrieve passion, buoyancy, and vitality from the shadows of stagnation and despair. Christopher Bollas' understanding of this territory is potent, original and a hugely supportive vehicle for those engaged in inner work. Between Fate and Destiny covers the kind of territory that will speak to people who love Leonard Cohen - textured, expansive and paradoxical...'

    Emma

    This humble, self-paced course speaks to three deep strands in each of our psyches: Fatalism, Destiny and Yielding. Based on the innovative and brilliant work of psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas,

    Between Defeat and Destiny offers a fresh view on n how we may engage compassionately with territories of despair and re-align with our vitality and uniqueness.

    'Emma’s deep insight into these themes was profoundly awakening for me. It led me to discover the subtle, dynamic relationship between fate and destiny... I began to see where I had more agency in my life, my future, not purely based on a pessimistic view, originating in the past.'

    MOB

    'Emma’s ability to juxtapose the concepts of fate and destiny and introduce yielding into the mix is powerful and evocative...'

    Sue

    About my work: *Between Defeat and Destiny is an extract from my more extensive offering Tending Our Future, a course that is available in self-paced and live versions. My approach strives to make rich analytic theory more widely accessible, by way of a synthesis with contemporary integrative spirituality and live, presence-based explorations in small groups.

    To inquire further: emmapb@me.com

    Available free of charge for the month of December, Between Defeat and Destiny is suitable for psychotherapists, clients, and others involved in inner work.

    All info and registration here.

  • 06/12/2022 14:29 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    I am currently undertaking research as part of a MA in Creative Psychotherapy (Humanistic and Integrative Modality) in the Children’s Therapy Centre (CTC), Ballymore, Co. Westmeath.

    My research title is; Social media’s influence on Adolescents’ identity: A Psychotherapists’ and Play Therapists’ perspective. The aim of this study is to explore the influence social media has on Adolescents identity from Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists and Play Therapist perspectives.

    Participants will be invited to conduct a questionnaire online. The questionnaire should take no more than 15–20 minutes to complete. Your participation in this study will be anonymous and voluntary, with the right to withdraw up until you submit your answers. The findings of this study will be used as part of my dissertation.

    If you would like more information on this study please contact me on my email at lisaq80@gmail.com.

    Thank you for taking the time to consider participation in this study.

    I look forward to hearing from you.

  • 29/11/2022 16:27 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    We are now accepting article submissions and adverts for the Spring 2023 edition of Inside Out. The final day for submission is December 8th 2022.


    Please send your article, review, Conversation or creative writing as an email attachment to insideoutjournal@iahip.org. We’ll be happy to discuss your work with you if you need help getting started, and our submissions guidelines are on the front inside cover of each issue.

    Advertisers, check out information on how to advertise - www.iahip.org/Journal/

    The Spring edition will be due in to readers’ letterboxes by the end of February 2023.

    We look forward to hearing from you. Editorial Board, Inside Out

  • 29/11/2022 16:07 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Practitioner Development Supervision Group

    A small, innovative group process for Counsellors and Psychotherapists

    with Michele O’Brien MIAHIP

    Another opportunity to participate in this year-long professional group learning experience

    ➢ Would you like to upgrade your skills and approach?

    ➢ Enhance your Practice?

    ➢ Be part of a small, intimate group to hone your craft?

    ➢ Rejuvenate and rediscover your passion for the work?

    Covid-19 acutely impacted and challenged the work of psychotherapy. Many therapists feel depleted and overwhelmed.

    Participation in this group is an opportunity to reflect on how your practice has shifted in this changing world and help

    to ground these changes and harness this experience to become cutting edge practitioners.

    ➢ Seek out your future therapist self; authentic, unique and dynamic

    ➢ Learn from client and clinical experience with awareness – what is trying to emerge from within the field?

    ➢ Discover how the field of family, society, culture may be at play in influencing the work

    ➢ Understanding and awareness of inner experience and outer relationship

    ➢ Participation in a shared collaborative learning space and transformational process

    ➢ Explore the changing paradigm in psychotherapy and working in an uncertain world

    ➢ Work at the edge of practice and the continual development of best practitioner self.

    Course Details:

    This small, innovative learning group will take place monthly online via Zoom, Wednesday 10am to 1pm.

    6 participants, 10 monthly sessions commencing 25th January 2023 and continuing until November 2023 (excl Aug)

    Fee: €600

    Suitable for therapists at every experience level. Most important is a willingness to engage and commit to the process.

    For further details and to apply contact:

    Michele O’Brien 087 2564189 michele@micheleobrien.ie

    About Michele - Michele is a practicing psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience including 10 years’ experience in supervision. Trained at Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre, she later completed a Masters in Supervision with NUI, Milltown Institute.

    Michele sees supervision as a dynamic process, focussing on creating a collaborative learning space, with the client at the centre and brings a refreshing, creative approach, incorporating process work, art, movement, nature and humour. Michele provides supervision to psychotherapists at different levels of experience; trainees, pre-accredited and experienced therapists, both in private practice and in groups for therapists in organisations.

    In 2016 Michele presented her body of research work at IAHIP conference “Keeping Psychotherapy Relevant to These Changing Times” and subsequently other supervisory and therapy conferences. This research has been a core motivation and has informed her practice. This is constantly evolving, tested and upgraded.

    At the Dublin IAPOP 2018 conference Michele presented her critique on the complex role of the supervisor, holding the tension between legal and ethical requirements, staying in relationship and supporting each individual client and therapist.

    Michele maintains a private practice in Kenmare, her home for 30 years. Her work is supported by a daily meditation practice, time spent in nature, swimming, gardening and creative expression through art textiles.

  • 22/11/2022 16:30 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Systemic Theory and Practice in Family Constellations 2023 Online

    Spanda, in association with Ochre (Ireland) is happy to offer a 6 module Online course on Systemic Theory & Practice in Family Constellations.

    Course Overview

    This 12 day online course consists of 6 modules x 2days each module. (78 hours)

    Schedule of Dates for 2023

    Module 1: Feb 23rd & 24th

    Module 2: March 23rd & 24th

    Module 3: April 27th & 28th

    Module 4: May 25th & 26th

    Module 5: June 22nd & 23rd

    Module 6: July 20th & 21st

    All the dates are on a Thursday & Friday

    Timing: 11 am to 6pm IST with short breaks.

    It is mandatory to attend all the modules.

    Contact spanda.asia@gmail.com for registering.

    Family Constellations

    We will come together to offer this online course through Zoom in a group setting using human representatives, small figures and a phenomenological approach. This unique method of working online has been personally developed.

    In constellation work you are invited to enter a “Knowing Field” - an energetic field where everything that has been created belongs and has a place. The ‘field’ is a place where that which has been excluded can be brought back together again, opening the channels so love can flow.

    A broader image unfolds in the work as you see how people relate to each other while seen and unseen dynamics come to light. These dynamics are often guided by, what we call in systemic work, the principles of relationship.

    The way we belong in our family systems become very clear, often we are connected by hidden rules, by blind love and binding loyalties. We can appreciate and honour the wise adaptations of our personalities that have helped us to cope and to survive thus far so life could flow on. Life does flow on, but often at quite a cost. And at the same time something happens to the flow of love!

    While we journey in constellation in this way, looking through the lens of loving, inclusive compassion, we learn without judgement, what happens when hearts and souls have had to close. We see how it is we belong in the contexts we inhabit and the different loyalties between which we are divided. We find innocence and guilt in the limitations of different levels of conscience. Reconciliation becomes possible between victims and perpetrators in the very act of being truly seen.

    We connect with the importance of our sense of place and our familial bonds when everything and everyone is in the right place.

    We see the consequences of how ‘blind love’ operates through compensation and identification within a family system through the open heartedness of an innocent child, The constellation process offers a possibility to find a new understanding, a different image which can lead to a ‘Yes’ to the gift of life as it has come down to us. Respecting the full price it cost our ancestors to pass it on to us and acknowledging the full price we paid to receive it.

    Thank you for the gift of life!

    Our intention:

    - That this course will enable you to experience phenomenologically and learn cognitively the principles and fundamentals of systemic family constellation work.

    - That while your understanding expands you will start to think in a systemic way and see through a systemic lens, as you view the individual within a larger context. It can have a deeply profound effect when you notice and feel what influences the dynamics within a family system.

    - That in the continuum, you experience personal growth and healing through all the different levels of learning offered during this course.

    - We hope that you will learn what moves the Soul as you become more familiar with the grammar and language of the personality within the family system. And then start the process of translating it all into the language of the Soul.

    - During our time together we will explore the unconscious intergenerational dynamics that operate in our very sacred families. We will learn how the effects of loss, trauma and exclusion are transmitted intergenerationally, and see how these have been experienced within our personal and cultural histories.

    - We will also experience the great joy of connection - to be separate and connected.

    - As we deepen into presence we will explore our understanding of ‘the field’ which unfolds in constellation work, and see what happens when we pay attention and listen to the truth of experience coming through the body.

    - We will learn to be guided by the heart and become aware of the subtle movements of the soul. The movement from the past is into alignment with the present and agreement with all that ‘is’ just as we are, just as it is.

    Contact: spanda.asia@gmail.com for registering.

    Modules - an overview

    Learning during each module will be offered theoretically and at an experiential level:

    -Introduction to module

    -Meditation/ exercises to deepen presence

    -Teaching/theory

    -Practice: constellation work, small group work.

    Module 1

    Belonging: Bringing together that which has been separated 

    Serving the first principle of relationship

    Module 2

    The balance of giving and taking: Bonding and the limits of conscience

    Serving the second principle of relationship

    Module 3

    Tending to the wounds of love: The neuroscience of coping.

    Leading to our compassionate self

    Module 4

    How love flows: Order, things in their right place.

    This serves the third principle of relationship

    Module 5

    Opening the heart: The High Art of Helping

    Module 6

    Including everything with love: Serving that which we all participate in.

    “The Greater Soul”

    And so much more!

    Before the course concludes you will be asked to write a reflective essay which serves to integrate your learning and experience.

    After meeting the criteria for course completion, you will receive a certificate of completion from Colette Green, Ochre & Annie Cariapa, Spanda.

    After completion of ‘Systemic Theory & Practice in Family Constellations’ Level 1, a further Level 2 course is offered for those who want to to build skills in facilitation of constellations.

    Cost: If remittance is from within Karnataka

    Please enquire at spanda.asia@gmail.com

    Cost: If remittance is from states outside Karnataka

    Please enquire at spanda.asia@gmail.com

    Cost: If remittance is from countries outside India

    Please enquire at spanda.asia@gmail.com

    FACULTY GUIDING THE COURSE

    Colette Green MA , IAHIP MIP

    Colette is a psychotherapist and organizational consultant, She works as a trainer and supervisor and has been working with groups and individuals for over 28 years in England, New Zealand, Ireland and India.

    She trained with Bert at Pichl Austria and Bad Reichenhall in Germany, at the Hellinger Institute of Britain, with Hunter Beaumont and faculty at Zist and Cloister Bernried in Germany and also with Stephan Hausner in Germany. Her training in organizational constellation work was at the Bert Hellinger institute of the Netherlands with Jan Jacob Stam and Bibi Schreuder.

    Colette runs Systemic Constellation workshops based on the work of Bert Hellinger and has followed all the many developments within the field of constellation work. She is interested in intergenerational dynamics and the transmission of trauma.

    Her research area is 'addiction' and the early childhood experience of addicts. She writes articles and short stories and serves on the editorial team of ‘The Knowing Field’ International English language Constellations Journal. Colette has taught on the H Dip in Psychodynamic Studies, the Masters in Integrative Psychotherapy and the Masters in Social work at University College Cork, Ireland.

    Colette has always had a great love of horses and nature, a certified equine assisted psychotherapist with Eagala USA she offers psychotherapy, supervision and constellation work with horses 

    Co-founder of Ochre: www.ochre.ie, with her husband Sebastian. They work separately and together to enhance relationship, development and change. Ochre is absolutely delighted to be working in association with Spanda in India after an association with India which spans over 40 years.

    FACULTY

    Annie Cariapa (STA Psychotherapy), BA Psy(Hons)

    Annie is the founder of Spanda. She has trained with Bert Hellinger in Bad Reichenhall and holds a Hellinger Sciencia diploma in Family Constellation & Movement of the Spirit Mind. Annie has further gathered her training in Cloister Bernreid, Germany over several years with Hunter Beaumont and multiple senior faculty. She has also had intensive trainings with Stephan Hausner in Germany. Annie continues to learn and develop cutting edge work in Family System Constellations and neuroscience. She has also developed a unique model of working online. 

    Annie has been offering Family Constellation workshops In India over the past 12 years.

    Annie has worked in the field of counselling & psychotherapy for the past 20 years. She uses an integrated approach, weaving together her expertise in Transactional Analysis (TA), Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Systemic constellation, Hypnotherapy, Body work, an understanding of neuroscience and related modalities in the process of developing wellness, harmony and balance. Her work reflects an integrated, organic, systemic and spiritual approach.

    Her workshop ‘Healing Your Inner Child & Living in the Power of Now’ has gained significant interest since 2012, as it continues to integrate the systemic lens and offers a space to grow an inner resilience.

    Annie says, "My work has been deeply influenced, not only by my life and work experiences, but also by my

    years as a farmer practicing sustainable organic farming. Exploring the analogy, sustainable farming is about finding a balance and about working with both what is healthy and unhealthy, with growth promoters and growth retardants - with life as it is.

    The fruit of this way of living is that of flowing with natural energies and of being in harmony. I believe that balance and centredness within our being can only be achieved by bringing harmony to the indivisible body, mind and soul that is guided by a greater power.”

    Holistic wellness and healing takes place when we bring back the balance, transcending our entanglements and moving beyond blame to an agreement with life as it is.”

    APPRENTICING IN THE COURSE

    Rekha Kurup

    Rekha is a a graduate of the Advanced course of “Systemic Theory & Practice in Family Constellations”. She will be supporting the work during the course. She will also be offering reading groups between modules. Rekha is a trauma-Aware Compassionate Inquiry-Informed Systemic Family Constellation Helper and Keeper of the Cyclic Earth Wisdom traditions.

    She offers a plethora of opportunities through her initiatives of She Stands Tall Project and Ordinary Human Project. The pedagogy of her work is founded in a Whole-Person-Philosophy that supports the integration of the Personal,Relational,and Transpersonal experience by supporting individuals to consciously develop the Compassion and Curiosity to Inquire into the Relational Origins of their Triggers, Develop the Courage to do the process – integration work, and Mature the Self awareness to take 100% Responsibility for their Being and Doing in the world.

    Her website: www.rekhakurup.com

    Acknowledgement:

    Our gratitude to Bert Hellinger for Hellinger Sciencia, the scientia universalis, which is the gift that

    goes far beyond the self. In this work in India, we have received the personal blessings of Bert and Sophie Hellinger and we continue to feel supported by what has been passed on.

    We have been blessed by many wonderful teachers & students in our lives. Thank you. With humility, we all play a part in the emerging Constellation work in India and internationally.

    For registrations and booking your place in the course 

    Contact: spanda.asia@gmail.com

  • 22/11/2022 16:04 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    This 5-day programme will offer participants an overview of the dynamics of development in adolescence, providing professionals with a range of relational skills, dialogic techniques and creative interventions to support young people as they navigate the adolescent years.  Lectures and workshops will take place over five training days, comprising both online and in-person contact (Dublin).

    Programme Fee: €900 

    For further information or if you would like to book a place on the training programme, please register your interest via email to Bronagh bronaghstarrs@gmail.com 

  • 22/11/2022 15:53 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Accredited Psychotherapist (IACP; IAHIP; ICP) seeking a client who is willing to consent to audio recording of sessions for therapist’s advanced training in Emotion-Focused Therapy (level 4).

    Therapy sessions will be provided at Church Hill, Ballinasloe at a reduced fee of €30. May suit student therapists seeking to complete required therapy hours. An informed consent form will be furnished on enquiry. Audio recording will only be listened to by the therapist and EFT trainer, and client confidentiality will be protected.

    Contact:

    Frank Kennedy, Ballinasloe Counselling and Psychotherapy.

    087 362 3809

    Email: frank@bcap.ie

  • 15/11/2022 12:30 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    For the first time there will be a coming together in Dublin of Disability Psychotherapy Ireland, the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability (UK), Callan Institute St. John of God Community Services clg., and UCD for a joint conference

    Disability Psychotherapy: Reasonable Adjustments PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE

    This conference invites all people who work in, or who are interested in disability psychotherapy, focusing primarily on intellectual disability to come together for a day of reflection on the work to date and the future of disability psychotherapy.

    The conference takes place in:

    University College Dublin Friday December 9th 9.30am – 5pm

    This event can be attended in person or online.

    We are thrilled to have a wonderful line up of speakers including internationally renowned pioneers and leaders in the field of disability psychotherapy. See the conference flyer for programme details.

    HOW TO REGISTER: Registration and payment (€35) can be made on Eventbrite 

    If you have any questions, please email callan@sjog.ie

  • 15/11/2022 12:11 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    My name is Sharon Cunningham. I am a Chartered Psychologist and am also studying for a Doctorate in Psychotherapy at DCU.

    I am conducting a research study exploring how counselling and psychotherapy clients experience the mandatory reporting of their childhood abuse once it has been disclosed in therapy.

    I am asking you for your support and assistance with recruiting participants for this study – more details are below.

    Existing research has explored mandatory reporting during counselling and psychotherapy from the therapist’s perspective, only a few global studies have examined this process from the client’s perspective, and no studies have been conducted in Ireland. This study aims to address this gap by exploring the experience of mandatory reporting from the counselling /psychotherapy client’s perspective, giving their experience a voice and an opportunity for their experiences to be shared and witnessed. The finding from this study will be published in a peer-reviewed journal, informing counselling & psychotherapy practice and policy.

    Participation in the study would involve attending a research interview with me, which would last about 60 mins, either in person or via zoom. The interview will be recorded, and the client will not be asked about their experience of childhood abuse, just the mandatory reporting process during counselling and psychotherapy.

    I am asking for your support with this study, as mandatory reporting is a part of counselling and psychotherapy that impacts us all.Your help would involve advertising the study to the clients attending your practice for counselling and psychotherapy and, where possible past clients and clients who may have terminated their therapy.

    I would appreciate it if you would consider;

    • Placing the recruitment Flyer in your waiting room – physical or virtual (email or text me if you would like some hard copies) 
    • If you have clients you think might be interested in participating in the study and sharing their experience of mandatory reporting, bring their attention to the flyer or webpage. 
    • If you have a mailing list, maybe send out the flyer or webpage.


    Informing clients that the study has commenced and providing them with the study information (see below) will be the extent of your involvement. Potential participants will be free to contact me directly if they wish to participate in the study.

    This video tells you more about the study, giving a brief overview and what would be involved in participation.

    You can find more information on the flyer and information sheet attached, or have a look at my webpage at www.sites.google.com/ mail.dcu.ie/psychotherapyandmrresearch

    If you would have any questions about the study or would like to have a chat about the it, you can contact me on 086 455 1186 or email sharon.cunningham35@mail.dcu.ie

    Further information you can download the Brief Information Sheet & Recruitment Poster.

  • 15/11/2022 10:59 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The adverse childhood experience of parental problem alcohol use impacts at least 200,000 children and 400,000 adults living with the legacy of this trauma.

    Alcohol Action Ireland, the independent advocate for alcohol harm reduction, has produced a free toolkit of resources for use by children, adults and professionals. Featuring, videos, podcasts, graphics and information sheets, it was created with input from professionals working in this area and by the lived experience of Alcohol Action Ireland's Silent Voices initiative.

    Further information: www.alcoholireland.ie/campaigns/silent-voices

    To download the Toolkit click here.