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2008 - WELLSPRING'S 30TH ANNIVERSARY
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To celebrate Wellspring's 30th Anniversary we will be hosting a series of events and workshops during 2008. Forthcoming events include the following:

Saturday 27 September 2008

Talk by Simon King-Spooner
Is CBT over-rated?

CBT - cognitive behaviour therapy - is the dominant therapy in British clinical psychology. More than that - it has been so well marketed that it is taken as the psychological treatment of choice by a growing section of the community. But CBT's level of success is unwarranted, for two main reasons. First, any claims to superiority over other psychotherapies dissolve away when set against the so-called researcher allegiance effect, the high correlation between the therapeutic allegiance of a researcher and the therapy he or she finds to be most effective. Second, and especially when researcher allegiance is taken into account, there is little evidence for major differences in effectiveness between different herapies - they all work better than nothing, though not always that much better. Despite its overselling, however, CBT has important strengths, and should be looked at carefully by therapists of other schools.

Simon King-Spooner has been a clinical psychologist for nearly thirty years. He has a longstanding interest in psychotherapy, and takes a loosely existential approach in his own work - though he prefers to avoid categorisation and believes in demystifying therapy and in stressing its continuity with "ordinary" conversation. He also uses CBT principles, in as low-key a way as possible.

Venue: Wellspring

Time: 11.00am to 12.30pm

Cost: £8 (concessions £6)

Saturday 18 October 2008

Workshop by John MacFadyen
Trans-generational development and relational evolution.

Every generation of our species states that they endeavour to give the current child population a better deal than what they as providers experienced themselves. Within this day course we will explore how trans-generational development works, what slows it down and what can accelerate this process throughout the life-cycle, education, self development and the therapeutic relationship.

John McFadyen is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and trained at the Karuna Institute of Core Process Psychotherapy. He has extensive experience as a psychotherapist, trainer and organisational consultant, social worker with children and families, and supervisor of psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers and project managers with the helping professions. John has spent many years working therapeutically with adults, children and young people, couples and families within the voluntary sector and in his private practice. He has also worked at Wellspring for a number of years.

Venue: Wellspring

Time: 10.00am to 4.30pm

Cost: £65

Saturday 29 November 2008

Workshop by Mary Carew-Stirrat
Fine Tuning.

This workshop will be of interest to counsellors/therapists working with individuals and couples. The course will focus on listening, not only to the narrative but to what is being expressed by the client through tone, pitch, quality and frequency of sound. Themes of the day's workshop will include communication, attunement and separation. These themes will be considered/explored within the context of the "the sound of the voice".

The workshop facilitator Mary Carew-Stirrat is an experienced psychotherapist, couple counsellor, sexual/relationship therapist and supervisor. BASRT Accredited, UKCP Registered, Relate trained (Edinburgh University Accredited).

Venue: Wellspring

Time: 10.00am to 4.30pm

Cost: £65

Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th March 2009

Workshop by Mike Wilson
Redeeming the Spirit: Psychotherapy, Counselling & Spirituality

"Certainly there is within each of us a self that is…out of love with the ordinary; it is out of love with time. It has a hunger for eternity." Mary Oliver.

By attending to the spiritual dimension of experience, psychotherapy and counselling acknowledges an intrinsic aspect of a person's life, which is not always recognised or lived. The consequences of this can be far reaching. And it is often through paying particular attention to spirituality in therapy that a person's life is given greater significance, sometimes profoundly so.

For the practitioner, widening the therapeutic frame to give priority to spirituality can be challenging as well as enriching, and often demands a way of working which requires an ability to attune to the spiritual in the unique life of another, as well as to adopt a non-reductive therapeutic focus.

This weekend offers an opportunity to consider the spiritual side of therapeutic practice from both practical and theoretical perspectives, and will include a consideration of dreams, the imagination, and creative explorations which take body's wisdom into account.

Venue: Wellspring

Time: 10.00am to 5.00pm both days

Cost: £120 (£40 non-returnable deposit)
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Please send a cheque payable to Wellspring and tickets will be posted to you.