Courses Programme

Chiltern & Thames BAPCA are hosting the following course:

A Post Graduate Certificate in
Couples Work for Person Centred Practitioners

Facilitators:
Dagmar Edwards and Sharon Fairclough

Day 1 & 2 - Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th March 2009
Day 3 & 4 - Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st April 2009
Day 5 & 6- Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th May 2009

The New Memorial Hall, Two Dells Lane,
Ashley Green, HP5 3PP, Chesham

Refreshments will be on offer. Please bring your lunch.

10am – 5pm

£350 for BAPCA members
£450 for non - BAPCA members
 

Please note that it is possible to reserve your place by paying a deposit of £150 when booking onto the course. The balance will be required no less than one month before the course commences. Deposits are non- refundable.

Requirements in support of application:
One year post graduation.
Reference from your current supervisor supporting your readiness to attend this course.

CTBAPCA and Psychology Matters are excited to once again be offering this course after the huge success and positive feedback from the two courses which ran in 2005/6 and 2008. The first course in 2005 was the first time a local group, Chiltern & Thames BAPCA had offered a six day Certificate Course and the response we received meant we could not offer everyone who wanted to attend a place. Therefore we ran it again in 2008 and once again we were unable to offer everyone who wanted to attend a place so are running it again for the third time in 2009 as promised!

Both facilitators will bring their own relevant experiences in this field to the course.

Both Dagmar and Sharon would like this course to provide practitioners the opportunity to consider the application of Person Centred counselling/therapy to working with couples. Participants will be given the opportunity to reflect on how working with a couple might impact the therapeutic relationship(s). Participants will also have the opportunity to explore some of the complexities and dynamics of relationships in the context of couples and wider family
systems from a systemic perspective. We will also take time to reflect on and explore the potential impact of attachment, loss and health issues in relation to working with couples. Also, we will consider what we as individuals bring to this work from our own experiences of relationships.

The ethos of courses offered is to support individual learning styles, and the professional development needs of participants.

Practitioners will have the opportunity to develop a reflective practitioner stance in relation to a person centred approach to Couples Work, both theoretically and philosophically. The course also provides the opportunity for participants to practise and develop their skills and their own unique style of working with couples.

Key themes of this certificate course will include:

• The optimum conditions for couples work
• Communication skills and ways of relating.
• Attachment styles and relationships.
• Working at relational depth
• Exploring our own style of relating.
• Identifying repeating patterns and dynamics in couples and family relationships.
• Is this work for me?
• Practitioner dilemmas.
• Identifying necessary skills to support the therapeutic relationship.
• Exploration of ethical and professional issues when working with that client group.
• Experiential Process


Dagmar Edwards, MSc, Dip. Couns., Dip. GPTI, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist.

Dagmar has trained in a range of approaches to therapeutic work, including Person Centred, Gestalt, Systemic Family Therapy, and Transactional Analysis. Director of Psychology Matters, a consultancy, professional development and training organisation. Current interests include the design and facilitation of CPD training for therapeutic practitioners working with a range of issues, within different organisational contexts. She also has a private practice in counselling, psychotherapy, supervision and training, working within education, voluntary and private sector contexts. At the Metanoia Institute she is a primary tutor in the Person-Centred Department, and a module leader, assessor and examiner in the Integrative Department. At the Metanoia Institute she is a primary tutor in the Person-Centred Department, and a module leader, assessor and examiner in the Integrative Department.

Sharon Fairclough, Adv Dip. Couns. MBACP.

Sharon has studied and trained in many areas of therapeutic work with her core orientation being Person Centred. Her special interests are working in the field of attachment, bereavement and loss where she designs and facilitates CPD training for therapeutic practitioners. She has previously had experience in the development of a managed counselling service for a hospice setting where she supervised counsellors, and worked closely with the palliative care team. She has a private practice in both counselling and supervision and works for several counselling organisations in Buckinghamshire and London as a supervisor. She currently holds the position of chair-person of the Chiltern and Thames BAPCA group.

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