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We offer a wide range of trainings but all of them are approached in a particular way; we believe that the teacher is responsible for the learning of the student. An embarrassingly large number of teachers from my profession appeared to take the view that the student is very lucky to be in the presence of someone with such great knowledge and experience. They proceed to lecture in an often quite abstract way without apparently any regard to how easy or difficult as students are finding it to follow them. Indeed any student brave enough to point out that they do not understand will almost always be treated as if they have a serious problem.

We believe that real teaching occurs when the teacher is interested in the experience of the student is having (rather than in the cleverness of his own presentation). This sort of teacher will adapt according to the needs of the particular student group. In order to best facilitate this process, we provide handouts that are sent out in advance of the teaching, so that students have some idea what is going to be taught, don't have to take notes if they don't want to, and can go more deeply into certain parts of the material knowing that the full content can be read afterwards.

The list on the right is regularly updated and shows both courses that can be run over one or two days, or gradually, in sessions of one or two hours, over several weeks. It also shows a range of one-off lectures.

Courses

Lectures

  • A Model for Supervision
  • Working with Borderline Personality Disorder
  • “You didn’t say you were going to... “ an approach to ethical psychotherapy
  • The Couple State of Mind
  • The Couple Therapy approach to Parental Guidance.
  • Adolescence, a form of Psychosis psychosis?
  • Sexual Abuse, the real damage.
  • Leadership
  • The Healthy Organisation: an approach to Organisational Consultancy
  • Fundamentalism; The Fear of Madness:
  • Mental Health Care in the Market-driven NHS.
  • Paedophiles in Children’s Homes, or the Danger of Relying on Rules.
  • Change; How to Understand it and Survive it.
  • Groups: how they work, when they work