Thursday 8th October 2009

7.0pm until 9.0pm

Mark Walker

'An Introduction to Cognitive Analytical Therapy (CAT)'

Venue Dawson Building Room 324,

BCU, Perry Barr

Thursday 12th November 2009

7.0pm until 9.0pm

Mark Walker

'An Introduction to Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)'

Mark Walker is a nurse therapist employed by BSMHFT using cognitive analytical therapy.  He also has a private practice and teaches CAT in Oxford 2 days a week.   He has many more strings to his bow and you may recall that he gave us a lecture a couple of years ago on Buddhist Psychology.

Venue Dawson Building Room 324,

BCU, Perry Barr

Wednesday 20th January 2010

7.00pm until 9.30pm

Tricia Whitehouse

'Working with Dreams'

Venue Dawson Building Room 324,

BCU, Perry Barr

Tricia Whitehouse MSc., CPsychol., CSci.  is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, a Chartered Scientist and an integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapist. In addition to her formal psychology training, she has studied spiritual healing, channelling the energies of Reiki, Seichim and Sekhem; transpersonal therapy; and Buddhist psychology.  Her clinical work has predominantly been for the NHS in community mental health teams & specialist eating disorders services in the West Midlands.

The Workshop: 'Working with Dreams'

Do your clients sometimes have:

·       dreams that they cannot understand?

·       dream images that linger in their mind?

·       a sense of hidden meaning in their dreams?

Would you like to help them to understand the language of dreams?

In this workshop, we shall be:

·        taking a brief look at psychological theories of dreams

·        outlining different approaches to understanding dreams

·        experimenting with these approaches – alone and with a partner

PREPARATION FOR THE WORKSHOP

You will need to bring with you at least one dream on which you can work.

The best way to keep a note of this is in a dream diary:-

Dream Diary

Keep a book, pen and pencils by your bedside, ready to record dreams in writing and/or pictures. Record as much as you can recall of your dream immediately on waking.

• Note any atmosphere – was there a sense of danger? joy? sadness? excitement?
• Were any colours particularly bright? dark? – or was your dream black and white?
• Who was in your dream? Was it many people or just one? Do you know them?
• Were there any animals in your dream? Were they behaving naturally or oddly?
• What symbols were there? Were they coloured? What do they mean to you?
• Note anything else of significance