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Facilitator: Gayle Williamson (MIACP) has written widely on mental health issues and in recent years has devoted herself entirely to the IFS model after experiencing it's transformative effects on her practice.

This small, online training is an intensive experiential grounding in the IFS approach, for those who have taken Gayle's Foundations in IFS course (Beginners 1) or an equivalent introductory IFS training.

The focus is on demos (live and recorded) and on participant skills practice. This is a valuable opportunity to develop your skills in working with exiles and protectors, as you will rarely find a training group as small as this - the maximum number of participants is 8 - where Gayle will be doing everything she can to make it feel as safe and non-intimidating as possible.

Next Beginners 2 group starts: Friday, September 16, for six consecutive Fridays, 4.30pm to 6.30pm.

Course fee: €320. More information: www.ferneytherapy.ie

To book: email Gayle at enq.ferneytherapy@hotmail.com

Previous participants' feedback: "Gayle’s passion, knowledge and expertise in presenting the Internal Family Systems training was delivered in a very safe, collaborative and inclusive way." - Pauline, psychotherapist. "The course was everything I hoped it would be, and has transformed my practice." - Michelle, psychotherapist.

Sandra Mullen: Gestalt Psychotherapist, Accredited Supervisor MIAHIP, MICP

Supervision is a space for counsellors, psychotherapists, and allied health professionals to develop their skills, protect from burnout and explore their own personal and professional development. It is a dynamic learning and development process in which both parties learn and grow together. (Page & Wosket 199:4). The Gestalt Relational model of Group supervision forms the foundation of a supervisory relationship based on the philosophical principles of existential phenomenology, field theory and dialogic existentialism, a relationship that can hold safely what Yontef describes as our ‘Moment to moment experience of the ‘between’ and of the mutual influencing and co creation of meaning’ (Yontef 2002:15).

This supervision group will be a holding space for therapists where they can be supported to stay with and reflect on how they impact and are impacted by their clients. Providing the opportunity where they can be curious and learn from their experience of what is evoked in them, including their struggles, doubts, and growing edges as they emerge in the group and ultimately to support them in providing a safe holding space for their clients.

Sandra is a Gestalt Psychotherapist and Supervisor accredited with IAHIP and ICP. She trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy with the Gestalt Institute of Ireland (GII) and completed her training in Relational Gestalt Supervision with the Dublin Gestalt Centre (DGC). Sandra has a background in the community and voluntary sector with over 25 years’ experience providing personal development, educational and community-based programmes for individuals, families, and groups. She is also a facilitator, trainer, and organisational consultant with extensive experience in areas of supervision, team development, workplace learning and practitioners’ self-care. Sandra is currently working in private practice in the Dublin Gestalt Centre and in Tallaght.

Who is the group for?

The group is for professionals who work in a process and integrative manner with a varied caseload. It is open to Accredited and Pre accredited Counsellors and Psychotherapists. The maximum number of participants in the group is four

Dates:

Tuesday 27th September 2022

Tuesday 25th October 2022

Tuesday 29th November 2022

Tuesday 13th December 2022

Dates for 2023 to be decided.

Time: 6.45pm – 9.15pm

Venue: Dublin Gestalt Centre, 66 Lr Leeson Street, Dublin 2

Fee: €75 per person per session - Total cost €300 per person for 4 sessions. Payment is due in two instalments of €150 on or before the 9th of September and 1st November 2022 respectively.

For further details or to book a place please contact Sandra Mullen, Telephone 086 4171912, or e mail sandramullen2002@yahoo.com

Group Supervision: Enjoy the connectivity with other experienced psychotherapists while fulfilling your supervision criteria.

Group facilitator and supervisor Jim FitzGibbon is a re accredited IAHIP supervisor until 2027.

He leans into his core gestalt modality, oriented towards what is happening in body in the therapeutic relationship.

There are some morning options and an evening vacancies in existing groups.

Cost: 60 euro per 2 hour session, monthly.

Four supervisee members in each group.

Delivery: Zoom as well as in person (zoom in a 7pm Monday evening group and by zoom in an 8am Thursday morning group). Also there’s a vacancy in a Friday morning in-person group option.

Location: Space adjacent to my home at Ballykeeran Athlone (N37DH04).

Do call me if interested. I also work with individual supervisees and for your own personal development psychotherapy.

Phone: 087 755 5680 / Email: jamesfitzgibbon57@gmail.com

Being Human: Six Ways We Need Each Other

with psychotherapist Emma Philbin Bowman

a live journey, six Tuesday evenings on zoom

6-7.30pm (Irish) September 13-October 17

Max Participants: 16

‘Emma's ability to communicate complex concepts and themes in simple language is a gift...’

Maria, Cork

In Being Human, psychotherapist, writer and facilitator Emma Philbin Bowman explores the rich territory of our relational lives within the support of a small, intentional group.

Drawing on an integrative model based in self-psychology and object relations, this highly accessible course explores six forms of connection each of us need in order to thrive: containment, mirroring, twinship, adversity, resonance and partnership. Participants will develop a clear, intuitive understanding of each form and its unique value and potency in our lives with others.

Each week will have two elements: the week's content - in clear accessible modules on Teachable - and a live session, where Emma will present the theme and blend group work with more intimate inquiry exercises.

This material is evocative but gentle, providing a refreshing and spacious lens by which to revisit our lives with others. Originally inspired by Stephen Cope’s exceptional template in Soul Friends, this course celebrates how different forms of connection enable us to thrive across the arc of our lives. These themes are hugely rich to explore in a small group, and much of our learning will arise together.

Being Human draws on the self-object work of Heinz Kohut, and is also informed by Winnicott, Hillman and contemporary neuroscience. It is designed to benefit participants in their personal process and in their work with others. Special IAHIP pricing available to August 30th. [CPD Certs available]

This course is also available as a stand-alone offering without live sessions – email: emmapb@me.com for info or see my school on teachable.

"Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence.

We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all."

Erik Erikson

Existential Conversations - 3rd Series (Online)

A guided learning workshop and reflective development space to explore existential life issues, for the benefit of both the psychotherapist and their clients.

6 sessions x 2 hours on specific existential topics   Limited to 6 - 10 participants

For the third season, ‘Existential Conversations’ is being offered in Ireland. Each session in this series will begin with a short lecture by Allison Joyner on a specific existential topic (e.g., Death, Freedom, Choice etc), followed by group discussion and personal reflection to make the theory relevant to the professional’s practice and their personal lives. Allison will help guide the members in their exploration and understanding of the subject matter, and possible application.

This group approach will heighten people’s understanding of their position in life, and ideally help clarify what it means for them to truly live life fully. This is a unique, private, closed group that involves a free flow of thought and consciousness and supports curiosity, openness, and truth.

It is suitable for those new to existential ideas or those who already have some knowledge and would like to learn more, develop a deeper understanding of, and have a place to discuss, existential concepts.

If you are interested in taking ownership of your own life, choosing one that liberates rather than constrains, and in equipping yourself to better support your clients in their existential challenges, then this is the space to share that journey.

All groups have 6 – 10 members. They meet once a month (online) for 2 hours. A commitment for six sessions is necessary to allow for group safety and trust to develop.

When: First Thursday of each month

Times: 19:30 – 21:30 (Irish Time)

For further information or to book a place on this group, please go to https://allisonjoyner.ie/group-work/

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions: 

Tel: 087 927 6790  Email: allisonjoynertherapy@gmail.com

I am a Dublin City University (DCU) MSc in Psychotherapy student looking forward to carrying out my research thesis, the purpose of which is to explore the lived experiences of accredited black psychotherapists working in Ireland around the attitudes and perceptions of Africans living in Ireland towards Psychotherapy.

The research objectives would include:

• Appreciating differences/challenges to psychotherapy work and practice for African people living in Ireland, as experienced by black psychotherapists working in Ireland.

• Exploring cultural beliefs or myths around discoursing or accessing mental health services among African communities, as located in the lived experiences of black psychotherapists working in Ireland.

• Illuminating in some ways, as to the differences and distinctions with which African people living in Ireland may both approach and present around psychotherapy in Ireland as again identified through the lived experiences of black psychotherapists working in Ireland.

I am writing to seek your support in my research to advertise and recruit for six accredited Black psychotherapists currently working in Ireland.

My supervisor for the research study is Assistant Professor Ray O'Neill from DCU and his contact email is RayB.ONeill@dcu.ie and his phone number 01 700 7750.

The research is voluntary and as an inherent part of the recruitment, a plain language statement and consent form will be sent to any participants willing to take part in the study. DCU Ethical approval has been obtained for this research. I attach these here for your records.

I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Alex Aroh

BSc Psychology

MSc Psychotherapy

Dublin City University

alex.aroh2@mail.dcu.ie

Phone: 089 988 8187

Bright spacious room to rent two or three days a week, evenings and weekends.

Website: www.mariannemurphy.ie

Would suit Psychotherapist/Counsellor. Limerick city centre. Use of Bathrooms and Kitchenette. Parking not included but good value parking available nearby. 

Call Marianne on 086 604 0950 or email emdr@mariannemurphy.ie to arrange viewing.

Diploma in Supervision for Healthcare Workers

delivered collaboratively by

Turning Point™ Institute and the Psychosynthesis Trust (London).

This is a part-time online training. Our integrative approach is embedded within a humanistic framework and informed by the transpersonal approach of Psychosynthesis and the developmental insights of a psychodynamic orientation. The training consists of skills practice with an experiential element that offers a soul infused way of working. It also offers an enriching group experience. This training is accredited by the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP).

Who is it for?

Healthcare workers or related professions, including counsellors and psychotherapists from any modality, social workers, childcare and community workers, nurses, doctors, psychiatrists, pastoral carers, educators, mediators and more.

This training presents an exciting opportunity, perhaps the perfect next step for developing your practice, or to deepen your existing practice.

Course Dates & Attendance

• The course runs from 12th November 2022 to 11th June 2023.

• The training is designed to fit in with the life of a busy professional, meeting fortnightly over 3 weekends and 11 Saturdays for a total of 100 hours over 17 days.

• The deadline for applications is the 30th September 2022

Contact Kajal admissions@ptrust.org.uk

All other information including details about the course modules, trainers, dates and fees are available on our website Diploma in Supervision for Healthcare Professionals (turningpoint.ie) and Diploma in Supervision for Healthcare Professionals (psychosynthesistrust.org.uk)

Inside Out deadline approaching…

Just a reminder that we are now accepting article submissions and adverts for the Autumn 2022 edition of Inside Out. The final day for submission is September 1st 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, please submit your advert as an email attachment in either Word or PDF format to the IAHIP office at admin@iahip.org.  Payment can be arranged directly with the office.

Unfortunately, we can’t print ads until payment has been received.

The advertising options are Half-Page (14 x 10cm) and Full-Page (14 x 20.5cm), costing €115 and €230 respectively. All ads are in full colour. Please make sure that your advert’s information is not out of date when considering the time of publishing. The Autumn edition will be due in to readers’ letterboxes by the end of October 2022.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Editorial Board, Inside Out

Purpose of the group:

The purpose of this experiential process group is to provide a space for practicing psychotherapists to continue to develop their personal awareness and their relational skills through direct group experiential learning with particular focus on here-and-now relating. We aim to provide a group environment which offers the opportunity to meet others at relational depth in a here-and-now oriented context.

Facilitators:

Both facilitators are experienced practitioners, both trained experientially within a humanistic and integrative framework.

Alan Hackett. MA, BA, DIP, MIAHIP.

Alan is an experienced, accredited psychotherapist working with adults who present with a diverse range of presenting issues. He also specialises in working with adolescents and young people. He has experience of facilitating growth promoting groups which include families affected by addiction and also young people in aftercare recovery.

Barbara O’ Connell. MA, BA, DIP, MIAHIP, ECP.

Barbara is an experienced, accredited psychotherapist who works with a variety of presenting issues with both individuals and couples. She is also an accredited supervisor working with both individuals and groups. Barbara has extensive experience in working with groups of all levels and abilities.

Entry requirements:

This group is open to accredited and pre-accredited therapists. Exceptions may be considered depending on individual levels of personal awareness and development.

Maximum group participants: 10

Time commitment: 3 hours, twice a month. September 2022-May 2023

Cost: €1400 -can be paid in two instalments-in September and in January

Contact Details:

Barbara O’ Connell – (086 387 1477) barbararoconnell@gmail.com

Alan Hackett – (087 747 4421) alanhackett@gmail.com