PODS Information Workshop / Open Meeting

Date: Saturday 9 October 2010, 9.30 am to 5.30 pm

Venue: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE28

Cost: £40.00 per person or £60.00 for a couple (either survivor plus partner, or survivor plus supporter).

This workshop is suitable both for people suffering from a Dissociative Disorder and their partners, family members or other supporters (including counsellors). The main part of the day will be an information-based workshop looking at:

• Understanding DID
• What It’s Like Being DID
• Coping with and Recovering from Dissociative Disorders.

This will then be followed at 3.30 pm by an open meeting which is the opportunity for people to meet together, support one another and share their experiences. This part of the day is entirely optional.  It is also free to attend if you do not wish to come to the information workshop.

For more details and a booking form, please click here.

You can also book and pay via credit/debit card or Paypal online by clicking on the ‘Pay Now’ button below:

Conference For Those Supporting SRA Survivors

Harnhill Centre of Christian Healing and Mike Fisher and Dr Ruth Cureton

This conference is the second run under the auspices of the Fellowship of Christ the Healer, a group of leaders involved in the Christian healing ministry both in the UK and also abroad.

Those involved have seen the need for better support and more training for those involved in the care of survivors of ritual abuse or satanistic ritual abuse.  Many survivors are seeking help both through the conventional medical disciplines, and also through the Christian healing centres, churches and faith-based agencies.

A survey was done 3 years ago which showed that there were few places that were actually able to help survivors on a long-term basis, and so the first conference was held to support those involved in care.  Approximately 30 people came and found the experience challenging but helpful, and so two years later this follow-up conference is likewise aimed at helping those involved in caring: pastors, counsellors, prayer ministers, medical agencies, spouses, friends.

Date: 17-19 September 2010

Cost: £170 (residential) / £80 (non-residential)

Venue: Harnhill Manor, Gloucestershire, GL7 5PX

For more information please click here for brochure or email office@harnhillcentre.org.uk

Anger Workshop 1 - Theory & Practice: Deep Release

Trainers: Deep Release Team

Suitable for Counsellors and Clients

A look at how anger gets blocked, often causing sickness and depression; how emotions can be repressed in childhood; releasing angry feelings safely; spiritual dynamics;  exercises and demonstrations.

Tuesday 21 September 2010 - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex  CM15 9BX

Cost: £69.00 including lunch.

Go to www.deeprelease.org.uk for more details and to book

Anger Workshop 2 - Skills: Deep Release

Trainer: Pauline Andrew

Suitable for Counsellors

A follow-up practical skills workshop to help increase your skills working with blocked anger.  Includes the Courtroom, chair work, TA, blanket work, art work, puppets, sensorimotor exercises and using symbols.

Wednesday 22 September 2010 - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex  CM15 9BX

Cost: £69.00 including lunch.

Go to www.deeprelease.org.uk for more details and to book

Understanding Attachment - Deep Release

Trainers: Deep Release Team

Suitable for Counsellors and Clients

Why do we often feel confused about our feelings, both wanting help and pushing others away? This day will explain how understanding Attachment makes sense of this.  As infants we need to attach to a safe person in order to grow and develop well. What happens if our key carer is not safe? Anxious attachment can lead us to develop a ‘false self’ and to build defences to keep out shame and pain.  What are the implications for us as counsellors?  This workshop is an absolute ’must’!

Wednesday 6 October 2010 - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex  CM15 9BX

£69.00 including lunch.

Go to www.deeprelease.org.uk for more details and to book

Early Trauma, Abuse and Neglect - Deep Release

Trainer: Pauline Andrew

Suitable for Counsellors and Clients

This workshop addresses the effect of early abuse and neglect which can affect body, soul and spirit.  The latest findings of neuroscience are simply explained, with teaching on trauma bonds, disorganised attachment, learned helplessness and how to work effectively to bring healing and hope.

Wednesday 13 October 2010 - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex  CM15 9BX

£69.00 including lunch.

Go to www.deeprelease.org.uk for more details and to book

Overcoming Stress and Anxiety - Deep Release

Trainer: Dr Chris Andrew

Suitable for Counsellors and Clients

Stress, anxiety and fear dominate many people’s lives and underlie many of the issues brought to counselling.  They can lead to a low quality of life and poor health.  Dr Chris Andrew addresses these issues with honesty and compassion, addressing early roots, changing the way we see the world and bringing hope for the future.

Wednesday 3 November 2010 - 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex  CM15 9BX

£69.00 including lunch.

Save over 10% if all 3 days 1-3 November are booked together.

Go to www.deeprelease.org.uk for more details and to book

Dissociation, Trauma and Time-Travelling ...

... or Living and Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

A joint TASC and Deep Release training day with Hazel Barton, Jane Potts and Carolyn Spring.

Suitable for counsellors, therapists, survivors, partners, pastoral workers, Rape Crisis Centre staff, and anyone else interested or involved in the field of trauma and dissociation

Carolyn Spring worked therapeutically with children for nearly ten years.  And then all of a sudden, at the peak of her career, she had an unexpected and debilitating breakdown. From working as a professional in a multi-agency team, she suddenly found herself unable to sleep, eat, think or work. At times she was barely able to speak, and when she did so it was in a four-year-old's voice, pleading not to be hurt.  She began what felt like a series of 'time-travels', back into the past, then suddenly forwards again into the present.  She would realise that she was miles from home, with no memory of how she had got there. She felt like she was stepping in and out of the TARDIS in Doctor Who.

That was over five years ago.  Carolyn is now walking down a path of increasing healing, having been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder as a result of extreme childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse.  Using her story as a basis, and expanding out into the experiences from 'the other side' of two leading therapists, this training day will explore the mechanisms of dissociation and DID, the effect of trauma on the body and brain, the reality and therapeutic minefields of disorganised attachment, and how healing and recovery can be possible through appropriate therapeutic work.

The training will be led by Hazel Barton and Dr Jane Potts, two therapists experienced in the field of trauma and dissociation, as well as by Carolyn herself.  It will be a fascinating day full of insights into both living and working with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Topics Covered:

Part 1 — Dissociation, Trauma and Attachment:

• what is dissociation and what is its function?
• what are dissociative disorders and how do they develop?
• understanding trauma
• understanding attachment

Part 2 — The Experience of Being DID:

• denial, somatisation, shame, trust
• disorganised attachment, powerlessness
• identity (the structure of the personality)
• sexuality, parenting / family life, vocation / work

Part 3 — Working with Dissociation:

• the 3-phase treatment plan
• treatment modalities
• issues for the therapist
• sources of support and information

Saturday 11 December 2010, 9.30 am to 5.00 pm

Felden Lodge, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 0BL

Cost: £50.00 per person

For further information please email hazel.barton@ntlworld.com or phone 07957 380131.

For a flyer and booking form please click here or click here for more information and to book online.