Celebrating the World of the Person-Centred Therapies!

Join us online to celebrate the launch of The Tribes of a Person-Centred Nation (3rd ed), Edited by Mick Cooper and Published by PCCS Books

The event will begin with a short reflection on Pete Sanders, the previous editor, followed by a roundtable where Mick Cooper and the chapter authors will speak about their 'tribe'. The evening will finish with a short discussion and Q&A.

About the book

This classic text, now in its third edition, is essential reading for those training and embarking on a career in counselling. From its origins in the work and research of Carl Rogers in the 1960s to today’s world where myriad forms of counselling are on offer, the person-centred approach has resonated with the hearts, minds and experience of those looking to train as a counsellor. But it has not stood still, and in this book you will find descriptions of some of the many seedlings that have flourished from its root stock, fed by its core principles. The book’s title speaks of tribes, and person-centred approaches inspire a fidelity and sense of identity. From classical client-centred therapy and focusing through to pluralism and creative play therapy with children and adults, this book maps a vibrant nation that continues to have much to offer counsellors and their clients. Leading proponents in their fields offer succinct and inspiring summaries of the roots, theories, principles, practice and research of their specialist approach, supported with suggestions for further reading and resources.

Contents of the book

Introduction

1 Carl Rogers and person-centred therapy: a historical overview - Pete Sanders and Sheila Haugh

2 Classical person-centred therapy - Tony Merry and Sheila Haugh

3 The relational approach to person-centred therapy - Gina Di Malta, Mick Cooper, Rosanne Knox and Steve Cox

4 Focusing-oriented therapy - Campbell Purton

5 Emotion-focused therapy - Robert Elliott

6 Person-centred experiential counselling for depression - Richard Doyle and David Murphy

7 Motivational interviewing - William R. Miller

8 Existentially informed person-centred therapy - Siebrecht Vanhooren and Mick Cooper

9 Pluralistic person-centred therapy - Nicola Blunden

10 Person-centred creative arts therapies - Ani de la Prida

11 Pre-therapy and contact work - Dion Van Werde and Pete Sanders

12 Child-Centred Play Therapy - Dee C. Ray

Conclusion

Join us online to celebrate the launch of 

You're Not My F*cking Mother and other things Gen Z say in therapy by Jeanine Connor

on 14th May at 7 - 8pm 

Tickets - free 

Register for tickets here

Please join us as we launch Jeanine Connor's book 'You're Not My F*cking Mother' and other things Gen Z say in therapy. 

Jeanine will be in conversation with Catherine Jackson, Commissioning Editor at PCCS Books, discussing her new publication followed by questions from the audience. 

Jeanine Connor is a psychodynamic psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and training facilitator in private practice, as well as Editor of BACP Children, Young People & Families and Reviews Editor for BACP Therapy Today. She is the author of one book about the human body and You’re Not My F*cking Mother is her third book about human thought and behaviour.

About the book 

Modern life is tough on young people, and perhaps toughest on the generation whose adolescence and early adulthood has been indelibly marked by Brexit, the Covid-19 lockdowns, war in Europe, economic recession and the mixed blessings of social media. Beneath the looming shadow of the impacts of climate change, Gen Z, the so-called zoomers, are hanging onto the rails on a rollercoaster ride through the social, economic, environmental and political chaos of modern life, and their mental health is suffering. Psychotherapist Jeanine Connor turns her focus to this generation in another series of vivid portraits of what goes on behind the doors of her therapy room. We meet Stan, standing on the threshold of adulthood and grappling with love, sex and death; Preesha, the social influencer, whose life is being shaped by the demands of the media and its conflicts with her cultural family history, and Drew, whose vivid dreams hint at a sexuality that flies in the face of all his notions of masculinity. We sit alongside Keziah, who doesn’t ‘need’ therapy but whose (literally) f*cking mother provides the title (and connecting theme) for the book; Morgan, whose emotionless exterior belies a traumatic childhood, and Bea, the beauty, who wants the fairy tale ending, but not if it reduces her to the status of arm-candy on the biceps of the beast.

These therapeutic snapshots bring to life the theories pioneered by Freud and his descendants and make compulsive reading for all those concerned with the human psyche and the struggles of young adults in the Western industrialised world today. They illustrate how mothers show up in (almost) everybody’s psychotherapy, and how they, their and our own heritages and baggage shape us all.

• RRP £19.99
• PCCS Books online price: £18.00 - https://bit.ly/YNMFM
• ISBN paperback: 9781915220455 
• ISBN ebook: 978191522046

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Endorsements

‘In a world where everybody is talking about mental health, psychotherapy still has an image problem. Though TikTok and Instagram have made psychology the Lingua Franca of today’s youth, what actually goes on behind the consulting room door still remains a mystery. Fortunately, You’re Not My F*cking Mother is not just another f*cking therapy book. Connor’s refreshingly frank dialogue and relatable stories wonderfully humanise what therapy (and being a therapist) is all about. Accessible, yet grounded in theory, this is a must read for all, from Gen Z to Gen X – and their f*cking mothers.’  Aaron Balick, psychotherapist and author

‘Not only is it a rollicking read, this book is a bang-up-to-date account of the real-world struggles that young people face today. Social media hell holes and the pandemic hangover are among the themes that Jeanine takes on, with the steadying foundations of Freud and our earliest experiences. Her writing is fresh and bold and never gets gummed up with ‘therapy-speak’. This is an essential book for anyone who works with, or cares for or about young people, which is all of us.’ Sally Donovan OBE, author of The Strange and Curious Guide to Trauma

PCCS Books invites you to the online launch of Counselling Pathways: developing your career

Edited by Rick Hughes

Thursday 4th April at 3.30pm - 5pm

We will be celebrating this new publication and hearing from some of the contributors.

Please join us on the day via the Zoom link here and rsvp to katie@pccs-books.co.uk

**Unfortunately this event has now been cancelled**

Check back here on how to watch Bayo Akomolafe, Global Fellow at the University of California and founder of the Emergence Network, in conversation with Elouise Mayall, climate activist with the UK Youth Climate Coalition (pre-recorded event)

We will also announce any rescheduled workshops shortly. 
 

Drawing on contributions to our best-selling book by the same title, PCCS Books, in association with Onlinevents, is pleased to present this one-day online conference for all counsellors, coaches, psychotherapists, psychologists and others concerned about how we support our clients’ resilience in the face of climate crisis.

The day opens with international speaker, psychologist, posthumanist thinker and essayist Bayo Akomolafe, Global Fellow at the University of California and founder of the Emergence Network, in conversation with Elouise Mayall, climate activist with the UK Youth Climate Coalition. Bayo and Elouise will discuss how communities worldwide can respond to the climate change challenge and its implications for all species.

Later, in our second keynote presentation, Linda Aspey, BACP Fellow and accredited psychotherapeutic counsellor,coach and facilitator and supervisor for the Climate Psychology Alliance, talks with therapist, trainer and founder of The Anti-Discrimination Focus (TADF), Mamood Ahmad, about equity and climate change, and the skills counselling professionals need to support clients in these challenging times.

With an offer of 11 workshops scheduled in three streams across the day, this is the go-to event for all counselling, psychotherapy, coaching and psychology practitioners and students seeking tools and confidence to respond meaningfully to their clients’ climate-related needs. There will also be opportunities for participants to come together to pause and ground themselves throughout the day.

Workshops with Bayo Akomolafe, Mahmood Ahmad, Farah Ali, Linda Aspey, Roger Duncan, Hetty Einzig, Fred Ehresmann, Caroline Hickman, Chris Johnstone, Elouise Mayall, Jo McAndrews, Andy Miller, Matthew Painton, Robin Shohetand + Maggie Turp.

Workshops focus on diverse topics including how we support children and young people, developing frameworks for therapeutic interventions, fear and forgiveness, radical hope, eco-fiction in therapy, motion validation coaching, solution-focused responses, transforming climate anxiety into action, and much more

Therefore, the delegates will have a choice of four workshops in two streams and three workshops in one stream and can watch the others on catch up.

Andy Miller’s workshop may run concurrently with the Q&A and will be live, not a pre-record. The Bayo Akomolafe interview is a pre-record.

The final Q&A will be a panel of all presenters who can stay around to take part and feature Q’s from participants.

RECORDING

This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

Join us online on 11th Jan (7pm - 8pm) as we launch Pater Barham’s new book

Outrageous Reason: madness and race in Britain and Empire, 1780-2020

Zoom link -  us02web.zoom.us/j/85397619301

All welcome 

RSVP to katie@pccs-books.co.uk

The workshop will summarise the argument of the book - Different Bodies: that just as the problem with 'race' is whiteness, the problem with marginalisation in general is the concept of normality and its power to shape society.

The workshop is addressed to everyone who identifies as 'normal', or who has a part of them that does; its aim is to question that identity, to encourage you to move away from it and identify instead with your unique pattern of difference -- which is what we all have in common.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

Learning to question assumptions about normality and difference, and to relate better to these issues as they appear in therapy.

To challenge and also help the person who self-defines as ‘normal’– be they talking therapist, body therapist, client or anyone else.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

Psychotherapists, counsellors, and anyone else interested.

A Disorder for Everyone! - The Online Festival 2023

22nd September 2023 - 9am 

We are in assocation with PCCS BOOKS and supported by onlinevents.com

You can expect the usual dynamic, change-making energy, passion and wisdom from every one of them. They are all people who challenge the mainstream medicalised paradigm of emotional distress that labels and pathologises people’s suffering on a daily basis.
Our contributors this year:-
Lucy Johnstone / Jo Watson / Akima Thomas / Sanah Ahsan / Indigo Daya / Jacqui Dillon / Daniel Mackler / Mary Boyle / Joanna Moncrieff / Sami Timimi / Shoshana Levin Fox / James Barnes / Catherine Jackson / Anne Guy / Sarah Henry / Janet Tolan / Kate Silverton / Gabor Maté / Johann Hari / Nadine Denneth / Robert Whitaker / Karin Jervert / Marnie Wedlake / Peter Kinderman / Lasse Matilla / James & the disorders ft John Read / Viv Gordon / Clare Shaw

This is a donation only event to ensure that it is as accesible as possible to all so please pay what you can afford and what you are comfortable with.
Suggested donations are..
On benefits £5
Low Waged £15
Waged £40
High Waged £70

For group/organistion bookings please contact adisorder4everyone@gmail.com

The day will be recorded so that delegates who can't watch live can access in their own time.

This event is supported by Onlinevents

PCCS Books invites you to the online launch of Therapists Challenging Racism + Oppression: The unheard voices

Edited by Neelam Zahid + Rachel Cooke

Wednesday 19th July 6.30 – 7.30pm

Please join us on the night on Zoom HERE 

BAATN, Onlinevents and PCCS Books are delighted to announce a conference, inspired by the publication of the book Therapy in Colour: Intersectional, Anti-Racist and Intercultural Approaches by Therapists of Colour (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)

The online conference will run from 14-15th July 2023. It will offer a combination of keynote speakers, panel discussions and a wide-ranging choice of practical workshops.

Our aim is to provide a space for students, trainers, practitioners and researchers to explore and showcase best practice in:

• challenging race discrimination and white fragility within the counselling professions
• developing new ways of preparing students to work in our multicultural society
• finding new ways to offer therapy to a diverse population
• increasing access to talking therapies for people from minoritised racial groups
• promoting black, Asian and minority ethnic presence within the profession at all levels

With keynotes from Myira Khan, Eugene Ellis + Dr Dwight Turner 

The conference will open in the evening of Friday 14th July with a panel discussion on the theme of "Student & Trainers Experience of Race in Training" , followed by a wider discussion with participants.

On Saturday, 15th July, there will be an opening keynote address, followed by workshops of between 45 and 90 minutes, organised in four streams to reflect the four primary sectors of interest:

Students / Trainers and lecturers / Practitioners / Researchers

Following a break for lunch, we will reconvene for a second keynote presentation, followed by a further choice of workshops across the same four streams.

The event will close with a keynote presentation and discussion forum where participants can reflect and report on what has arisen for them in the workshops and discuss ways forward for the profession.

Join us online for an evening of storytelling and reflection to launch 

Weathering The Storm: Stories of love, life, loss and discovery in the time of covid

edited by Liz Rothschild

23rd February 2023 7pm – 8.30pm

Please RSVP to katie@pccs-books.co.uk to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event

The book has been described as 'Remarkable in its plainspoken eloquence and critical commentary, this book captures the panoramic impact of the global crisis as revealed in the lives of the healthcare workers, teachers, immigrants, youth and families who have “weathered the storm”. I recommend it to anyone compassionate, curious or concerned enough to dive deeply into the experience of trauma and resilience, tissues in hand, and open to cultivating a fuller humanity.’

Holding the Hope: Reviving Psychological and Spiritual Agency in the Face of Climate Change – Book Launch Event with PCCS Books and Onlinevents

You are warmly invited to the launch of

Holding the Hope: reviving psychological and spiritual agency in the face of climate change

Edited by Linda Aspey, Catherine Jackson and Diane Parker and published by PCCS Books

Catastrophic climate change, the destruction of our ecosystem and accelerated species extinction hang over us all. How can coaches, counsellors, psychologists and psychotherapists hold their own fears, let alone those of their clients?

In Holding the Hope, contributors from a range of cultural backgrounds and professional disciplines – coaches, counsellors, psychologists and psychotherapists – discuss our inter-relationships with the natural world, indigenous practices and understandings, our betrayal of our children and young people, maintaining a sense of meaning and agency and, above all, how to go on practising at the edge of despair.

To launch the book, contributors will be coming together to make short presentations about their chapters, followed by an opportunity for participants to talk in more depth in small-group ‘meet the author’ workshops.

We are delighted to welcome:

Roger Duncan

Roger is a registered systemic family therapist, systemic supervisor and author, and writes and lectures on systemic psychotherapy and the epistemology and practice of ecosystemic psychotherapy. He will be talking about ‘What your biology teacher didn’t teach you: Reclaiming a Western indigenous relationship 

Niki Harré

Niki is a professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in community psychology and the psychology Her chapter is titled ‘Towards a sacred framework’ and explores the importance of coming together as communities to respond in practical ways to the climate emergency

Robin Shohet

Robin has written extensively on supervision. His approach to tackling climate change is a deep inquiry into our thinking and our ‘polluting’ thoughts, prompted by the question: ‘How green is your mind?’ 

Hetty Einzig 

Hetty works globally in leadership development, facilitation and coaching, with individuals, teams and organisations. She is a writer, a coaching supervisor, a psychotherapist rooted in the transpersonal and psychoanalytic traditions, and executive editor of the AC global magazine Coaching Perspectives. Hetty will be talking about ‘Radical hope: A dimension of the rooted soul’ 

Nick Totton

Nick is a body psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. He founded and for some years taught training in embodied-relational therapy and in wild therapy. He will argue that, in the current situation, hope is an unhelpful burden that needs to be let go of, and that therapists can offer a space for the client to express and experience the intensity of their despair, grief and anger.

Caroline Frizell

Caroline is a senior lecturer on the MA Dance Movement Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths and holds a PhD in posthuman, eco-feminist research. She will be presenting her chapter, ‘Coming home to a post-human body: Finding hopefulness in those who care’

Chris Johnstone 

Chris is a resilience trainer, with a background in medicine, psychological therapies, groupwork and coaching. He will be talking about Active Hope Training, which he developed with Joanna Macy

Maggie Turp 

Maggie is a psychotherapist who has published on psychosomatic health and self-harm, and in recent years has focused more on climate and ecological issues. She is a member of the editorial team of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) journal Explorations. Her talk will be about the role of climate and ecology fiction (cli-fi) in fostering awareness and resilience

Pedro Oliveira

Pedro runs an English-speaking therapy service in Lisbon for international clients and is founder of a collective of eco-aware psychologists in Portugal. He will talk about his own therapeutic practice with individuals who come to him with ‘eco-anxiety’, using a case study as illustration

Matthew Painton

Matthew is a certified co-active coach and a co-founder of the Deep Adaptation Guides community. He will be presenting on his own model of deep adaptation coaching 

Yasmin Kapadia

Yasmin is a transpersonal integrative counsellor and eco-therapist. She will discuss the need for a decolonising and anti-racist approach. She will describe how therapy can help cultivate qualities of kinship in our relationships which are foundational in our response to social and ecological injustices, including the climate crisis. 

Fred Ehresmann

Fred is a registered mental health nurse specialising in working with children, young people and their families. He works at the University of the West of England as a senior lecturer in mental health, where he leads an undergraduate module in solution-focused practice. His focus will be on ‘solution-focused practice at the edge of despair’ 

Caroline Hickman

Caroline is a psychotherapist and lecturer at the University of Bath. She has researched and published widely on children and young people’s emotional responses to climate change and will talk about how to help them make meaning from their experience

Jo McAndrews

Jo is a training consultant, facilitator and qualified psychotherapist, specialising in working with young people, parents and professionals who work with children. She will talk about growing resilience in the face of crisis 

Andy Miller

Andy is a climate coach in Vancouver, Canada, has an MSc in the business psychology of sustainable development and is a certified EFT coach. He will present his model of emotion coaching for parents of climate-aware children

PCCS BOOKS invites you to the online launch of Online Counselling: An Essential Guide

by Sarah Worley-James

Wednesday15th Feb at 7pm until 8pm via Zoom.

Please rsvp to katie@pccs-books.co.uk and join us on the night as we celebrate this recent publication.

Sarah Worley-James is a BACP senior accredited counsellor, supervisor and trainer with 25 years’ experience in the public, private and third sectors. She is former chair of the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online (ACTO), a senior tutor with the Academy for Online Therapy and Senior Counsellor at Cardiff University, where she set up the online service in 2011. She writes a regular column about online counselling in the BACP Workplace journal and published a series of articles about the process of setting up a university online counselling service.

'Reading Online Counselling made me realise just of  how far online therapy has matured as a profession over the past 10 years. Sarah’s warm and inviting style of writing nails the subject of online therapy from page one. Any online therapist, whether experienced or not, will find so much in this book that will benefit them and, consequently, their online clients.'

Pip Weitz, Training Director, Academy for Online Therapy

‘Putting The Politics (Back) Into Counselling’

PCCS Books 30th Anniversary Conference 

Thursday 11 MAY - Online

9am – 5pm

It’s 30 years since PCCS Books published its very first book – a short guide to using counselling skills on the telephone. Since then, we have published more than 200 books on counselling theory and practice, critical psychology and mental health. The aim of this conference is to celebrate those 30 years, and all those books, and to pay tribute to our co-founder Pete Sanders, who died in 2022. Inspired by Pete’s vision, PCCS Books has always argued that the professional is political: that politics has a place in the counselling room and counselling has a role in the battles for social justice. This conference will be an opportunity to discuss and debate the challenges that face counsellors and mental health practitioners today – resisting the medicalisation of talking therapies; tackling social injustice; challenging racism in counselling training and practice, and fostering agency and hope in the face of climate change.

Join us online to debate the key professional and political challenges facing counselling in the 21st century.

Morning –

De-medicalising mental health
with Joanna Moncrieff, Lucy Johnstone and John Read

Politics, class and social justice in counselling
with Mick Cooper and Katy Woodger

Afternoon – 

Decolonising counselling
with Neelam Zahid, Sarah Henry and Delroy Hall

Holding hope in the face of climate crisis
with Nick Totton and Linda Aspey

Tickets

Tickets are priced to enable a wide audience.

Ticket prices are set at £25 / £37.50 / £50.

Please select the ticket price that is affordable. The ticket prices includes access to the recording of the conference.

Speaker Biographies 

Dr. Lucy Johnstone is a consultant clinical psychologist, author of 'Users and abusers of psychiatry' (3rd edition Routledge 2021) and ‘A straight-talking guide to psychiatric diagnosis’ (PCCS Books, 2nd edition 2022); co-editor of 'Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy: making sense of people's problems' (Routledge, 2nd edition 2013); and co-author of ‘A straight talking introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework’, 2020, PCCS Books) along with a number of other chapters and articles taking a critical perspective on mental health theory and practice. She is the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate in the UK and has worked in Adult Mental Health settings for many years, most recently in a service in South Wales. Lucy was lead author, along with Professor Mary Boyle, for the ‘Power Threat Meaning Framework’ (2018), which outlines a conceptual alternative to psychiatric diagnosis and has attracted national and international attention.

Joanna Moncrieff is a Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London, and works as a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS in London. She researchers and writes about the over-use and misrepresentation of psychiatric drugs and about the history, politics and philosophy of psychiatry more generally. She is currently leading UK government-funded research on reducing and discontinuing antipsychotic drug treatment (the RADAR study). She is author of numerous papers and her books include A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs Second edition (PCCS Books, 2020), The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs (2013) and The Myth of the Chemical Cure (2009) (Palgrave Macmillan). Website | https://joannamoncrieff.com Twitter | @joannamoncrieff

Dr. John Read worked in the UK and USA for 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist and manager of mental health services. He joined the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1994, where he became Director of the Clinical Psychology doctoral training programme. He held the same position at the University of Liverpool when he returned to the UK in 2013. He is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London and Chair of the Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal. He is the author of over 150 research papers, co-editor (with Jacqui Dillon) of Models of Madness: Psychological, social and biological approaches to psychosis (Routledge, 2013) and founding editor of the research journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.

Mick Cooper is an internationally recognised author, trainer, and consultant in the field of humanistic, existential, and pluralistic therapies. He is a Chartered Psychologist, and Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton. Mick has facilitated workshops and lectures around the world, including New Zealand, Lithuania, and Florida. Mick's latest of many books explores the contribution that counselling and psychotherapy theory and practice can make to wider social progress and justice. Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Towards a Progressive Vision for Society is published by Bristol University Press, 2023.

Katy Woodger is a psychotherapist and supervisor in practice since 2009. Katy co-chairs the National Association for Trauma Specialists at the University of Nottingham and is also a member of an advisory board chaired by Sir Keir Starmer, which informs professional responses to sexual violence. Katy is about to complete a PhD at the Open University through the Grand Union doctoral training partnership between the Open University, Brunel University London and the University of Oxford. Katy’s research explores service user experiences of mental health organisations. Katy is a contributor in Counselling, Class and Politics: Undeclared Influences in Therapy (2018) and #MeToo Counsellors and psychotherapists speak about sexual violence and abuse (2020) both published by PCCS Books. 

Sarah Henry is a published author, person-centred counsellor and counselling tutor. She is a contributor the book People Not Pathology: Freeing Therapy From The Medical Model, writing a chapter focused on the overmedicalisation of Black people. Sarah has also presented nationally about the impact of race and ethnicity within the counselling and tutoring relationship. Born in England to a Black British mother and Jamaican father, Sarah's formative experience was a notable dynamic of complementary and clashing norms. Elements of this disparity continue into adulthood and inform her work, both implicitly and explicitly.

Neelam Zahid - I’m an Integrative Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor accredited by the BACP and have worked as a therapist since 2003. I previously worked within higher education for over a decade and currently have my own private practice. I’m also the Deputy Course Leader for the Foundation year at the Minster Centre and teach on the Introduction to Counselling Skills Course. In addition to this, I’m currently a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster teaching on the B.Sc. Psychology and Counselling and Introduction to Counselling Skills Course. My areas of interest are intersectionality, difference, and diversity and have contributed to the following publications: The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy (2001, eds Colin Lago) and Black Identities + White Therapies: Race, Respect + Diversity (2021, eds Colin Lago and Divine Charura). 

Dr. Delroy Hall - Counsellor, Coach and Trainer with over three decades of experience, Delroy Hall is a trained counsellor, wellbeing practitioner, trainer, and independent scholar. Delroy has given lectures and academic papers nationally and internationally. He has extensive keynote speaker experience and has lectured at Harvard University and Boston College Massachusetts, USA. Delroy has coordinated mental health projects and is currently working with Birmingham Community Health Care Trust (BCHC) facilitating the Inclusive Leadership component on their ‘Inspire Leadership Programme. He is also coordinator for a Black Male Suicide Prevention programme under the auspices Sheffield Health and Social Care (SCHC).Since April 2020, Delroy has hosted live wellbeing sessions on Facebook and now it is shown on LinkedIn, Twitter and soon, YouTube. Delroy is the Chaplain for Sheffield United Football Club. As a former four hundred metre hurdler, ranked No 2 in Great Britain in 1979, Delroy keeps fit and is presently training for various aqua bike events in the UK.

Nick Totton has been a body psychotherapist for forty years, and a supervisor and trainer for nearly as long. He has written a number of books, including Embodied Relating: The Ground of Psychotherapy, Wild Therapy: Rewilding Inner and Outer Worlds, and (forthcoming from PCCS Books) Different Bodies: Deconstructing Normality. He is the founding editor of Psychotherapy and Politics International, and a previous chair of Psychotherapists for Social Responsibility and the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Union. Nick has a daughter and two grandchildren. He lives in Sheffield with his partner and grows vegetables.

Linda Aspey is a leadership coach, facilitator, psychotherapeutic counsellor, BACP Fellow, and activist. She works with people and organisations to support them in engaging and acting on climate, environmental and social crises.
 

Please Note - We at PCCS Books are sorry to say we have had to take the difficult decision to move this day to a purely online event, previously we had planned an in-person and online conference. The costs associated with hiring a venue and covering speakers’ travel mean that it is very expensive to organise such a day. Unfortunately, we have not been able to sell enough tickets, at the non-subsidised price, to get close enough to covering our costs, so we have been forced to rethink the day. 

Thankfully Onlinevents have very kindly stepped in and agreed to facilitate the conference online on the same date as originally planned.

All our speakers have likewise been very accommodating and agreed to adapt their presentations to an online-only conference. 

PCCS Books and AD4E present Causes of Mental Health Problems with John Read

Friday 17th Feb 10am - 11.30am

Join us as Professor John Read explains what we know today about the origins of mental distress by drawing on the latest research from across the world.

What causes mental health problems?

Nature or nurture?

Brain and biology?

Genetic inheritance or social environment?

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event:

The origins of mental distress, drawing on the latest research from across the world

Understanding of the social determinants of mental wellbeing

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

Raising awareness of evidenced based conceptualizations and treatements

Encouraging awareness of teh damage done by diagnosis and the importance of shared formulations

Dr. John Read

Dr. John Read worked in the UK and USA for 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist and manager of mental health services. He joined the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1994, where he became Director of the Clinical Psychology doctoral training programme. He held the same position at the University of Liverpool when he returned to the UK in 2013. He is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London and Chair of the Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal. He is the author of over 150 research papers, co-editor (with Jacqui Dillon) of Models of Madness: Psychological, social and biological approaches to psychosis (Routledge, 2013) and founding editor of the research journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.

The 3rd annual AD4E festival will bring you a whole day of change-making talks, presentations, conversations, poetry from far and wide.

About this event

For the last 2 years AD4E has brought together wisdom, experience and passion for change in an online festival full of inspiring contributors who all challenged the mainstream medicalised paradigm of emotional distress that labels and pathologises people’s suffering.

The feedback we received in the weeks & months that followed both events was overwhelmingly positive and encouraging and it provided us with yet more evidence that the appetite for this discussion is growing exponentially.

Too many people have simply had enough of people’s stories and experiences being negated and dismissed by scientifically questionable labels. They want change, and they want to be part of a movement that is demanding change.

This September 2022 we are doing it all again. Please sign up to join us and please help to spread the word as much as possible.

Hosts: - Dr Lucy Johnstone, Jo Watson, John Wilson, Dr Akima Thomas

9am BST John Wilson - Open and welcome

Jo Watson - Introduction to the festival.

Dr Lucy Johnstone - The critique of psychiatcric diagnosis and why we need a better way forward.

Matt Ball & Indigo Daya - Activists for change in Austrailia

Dr Margot Sunderland - On trauma informed work in schools.

Panel discussion - Psychiatric Drugs

Prof John Read

Stevie Lewis

Zev Faith

Prof Joanna Moncrieff

Dr Rani Bora

Dr James Davies - The Politics of Distress - How the mental health sector came to serve Neoliberalism.

Dr Gabor Mate - A Conversation about Gabor's new book "The Myth Of Normal"

Panel Discussion - Is climate change making us crazy?

Dr Lucy Johnstone

Annie Mitchell

Gareth Morgan

Carla Denyer

Dr Khadj Rouf

Dr Akima Thomas OBE - Title to be confirmed

Bob Whitaker - The Scientific Collapse of the DSM's Model of Care

Panel discussion - Are we on the brink of change?

Prof Peter Kinderman

Rebecca Donaldson

Hári Sewell

James Barnes

Keynote presentation by Dr Jacqui Dillon - First Do No Harm - a keynote talk on iatrogenic harm.

Close of day - 5.30pm

Evening session 6.30pm ( no need to have attended the festival to come to this )

There will be a tribute to our dear friend, colleague and ally Pete Sanders who died in February. This will take place after the festival at 6.30pm and there is a separate link to access it. Sign up free via AD4E eventbrite.

As part of the Completed Life Initiative 2nd Annual Summer Arts Festival!

Liz Rothschild presents Outside the Box –Everyday Stories of Death, Bereavement and Life

Starting life as Outside the Box – A Live Show About Death, Liz later adapted her one-woman show into a book. Drawing on the 350 stories Liz gathered through four years of touring, PCCS Books published Outside the Box – Everyday Stories of Death, Bereavement and Life in November 2020. Following the success of the book, Liz incorporated it into a new format for live performance. This latest version of Outside the Box, which we are excited to share with you next week, features readings from the book of the same name, interaction with the audience, and Q&A. Drawing on many stories from her personal and working life, from colleagues and from the audiences at almost a hundred performances, Liz has created a cornucopia of contradictory, funny, angry, sad, informative and uplifting stories.

A Birthday Celebration for the Life and Work of Pete Sanders - Open to ALL

A chance for colleagues and friends to recount some of their favourite memories of Pete.

Join us for an Onlinevents get together on the evening of what would have been Pete’s 71st birthday

9th August, from 7–8:30pm UK Time

Psychotherapy & Counselling’s Contribution to Global Peace, Justice, and Wellbeing: What Difference Can we Make? An Emergency Summit

We live in terrifying times. The war in Ukraine has broken apart any semblance of global peace and security we might have had.

Many of us, as counsellors, psychotherapists, and psychologists, are asking what we can do—if anything? This Emergency Summit will bring together globally-leading theorists, researchers, and clinicians in the psychotherapy and counselling field to discuss the potential role that we can have in creating a more just and peaceful world: one in which all members of the global community have the opportunity to live full and satisfying lives.

Our talks will cover both the practical things that therapists can do, for instance working with war traumatised clients; challenging racism and a Eurocentric view of the world; and more theoretical explorations of the links between therapeutic ideas and conflict resolution practices.

Fundraising
All profits from this event will be donated to the UN Crisis Relief appeal to support the people of Ukraine. You can read more about UN Crisis Relief and make a donation on the link below.

https://crisisrelief.un.org/ukraine-crisis

All of the presenters are donating their time without charge. The event will be hosted by ONLINEVENTS LTD (OE) and OE will be donating all the team time to organise and host the conference. The Eventbrite fees, any sales tax incurred and the cost of using Zoom will be paid from the event income.

Confirmed Speakers:

Andrew Reeves

Dr Andrew Reeves is an Associate Professor in the Counselling Professions and Mental Health, a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist and a Registered Social Worker. His practice experience spans over 35 years, when he first trained as a Samaritans volunteer at 18, before moving into social and work therapy. His research focus in working with risk in therapy, having experienced the suicide of a client during his training. Since then, he was published extensively in this area. He is previous Editor-in-Chief of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research journal, past-Chair of BACP and is Chair of the York St John Advisory Board Counselling and Mental Health Research Clinic. He supervises mostly doctoral research in counselling, psychotherapy and psychological trauma.

Carol Wolter-Gustafson

As a facilitator, therapist, and university adjunct, the person-centered approach has been her theoretical and experiential home-base since her first group encounter group with Carl Rogers. Carol has explored human wholeness, brokenness, and our power in our personal and social relationships. Her work is cultivating alternatives to the destructive, “us vs them” zeitgeist in her writing and Going Global Workshops.

Emmy van Deurzen

Emmy van Deurzen is a professor of Psychology and Psychotherapy with 18 books to her name, several of which have been translated into a dozen languages. She is the Co-Founder and Principal of the Existential Academy (www.existentialacademy.com), where she also runs post graduate courses through the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in partnership with Middlesex University (www.nspc.org.uk) and her private practice (www.dilemmaconsultancy.com). Born and raised in the Netherlands, she lived, studied, and worked in France before settling in the UK in 1977. Emmy has been instrumental in founding or cofounding numerous organizations, including the Society for Existential Analysis, the Federation for Existential Therapy in Europe and the World Confederation of Existential Therapy. She has helped people in facing their life problems and suffering for nearly half a century. Amongst her books are the bestsellers Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice (3d edition 2012), Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness (Sage, 2009), Everyday Mysteries (2nd edition Routledge, 2010) and Paradox and Passion (2nd edition, Wiley, 2015). Her book Rising from Existential Crisis was published with PCCS books in 2021. She is currently writing a book on Existential Freedom for Penguin.

Ernesto Spinelli

Professor Ernesto Spinelli was Chair of the Society for Existential Analysis between 1993 and 1999 and is a Life Member of the Society. His writings, lectures and seminars focus on the application of existential phenomenology to the arenas of therapy, psychology, and executive coaching. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) as well as an APECS accredited executive coach and coaching supervisor. In 1999, Ernesto was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of psychotherapy, counselling and counselling psychology. In 2000, he was the Recipient of BPS Division of Counselling Psychology Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession. And in 2019, Ernesto received the BPS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. His most recent book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World 2nd edition (Sage, 2015) has been widely praised as a major contribution to the advancement of existential theory and practice. His previous books include: The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology, 2nd ed (Sage, 2005); Demystifying Therapy (PCCS, 2006); Tales of Un-knowing (PCCS, 2006); and The Mirror and The Hammer: challenging therapeutic orthodoxies (Sage, 2001). Living up to the existential dictum that life is absurd, Ernesto is also the author of an on-going series of Private Eye novels, the first two of which are Scorpio's Children (2019) and Cruel Love Ways (2020).

Jaako Sekkula

Jaakko Seikkula, Ph.D. is a senior faculty member of the Institute for Dialogic Practice and a Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. From 1981 to 1998, he was the chief psychologist at Keropudas Hospital in Tornio, Finland. It was during this time that he developed Open Dialogue. His clinical and research interests combine the further development of dialogical approaches with the systematic research analysis of their outcomes and process variables. Jaakko leads the International Meeting for Treatment of Psychosis Network and is a board member of the International Family Therapy Association (IFTA). He is also a member of the American Family Therapy Academy, the Society of Psychotherapy Research and the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS). Jaakko was awarded for his excellence in the field of research in family therapy and systemic practice at the European Family Therapy Association EFTA’s congress in Athens, Greece September 2016.

John McLeod

John McLeod is Professor Emeritus of Counselling at the University of Abertay Dundee. He is author of An Introduction to Counselling (Buckingham: Open University Press, 4th edn 2009), The Counsellor's Workbook: Developing a Personal Approach (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2nd edn., 2009), Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2010), A Training Manual in Research Skills and Awareness for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (with Robert Elliott and Sue Wheeler) (BACP, 2010), Qualitative Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy (London: Sage, 2nd edn., 2011), and Counselling Skills (with Julia McLeod) (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2nd edn, 2011), as well as articles and chapters on a wide range of topics in the field of counselling and psychotherapy. He was the founding editor of the BACP research journal, Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, and is committed to the use of research and inquiry to enhance the quality of services offered to clients.

Mick Cooper

Mick Cooper is an internationally recognised author, trainer, and consultant in the field of humanistic, existential, and pluralistic therapies. He is a Chartered Psychologist, and Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton. He has facilitated workshops and lectures around the world, including New Zealand, Lithuania, and Florida. His books include Existential Therapies (Sage, 2017), Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2018), and The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (Palgrave, 2013). His latest work is Integrating Counselling and Psychotherapy: Directionality, Synergy, and Social Change (Sage, 2019). His principal areas of research have been in shared decision-making/personalising therapy, and counselling for young people in schools. In 2014, Mick received the Carmi Harari Mid-Career Award from Division 32 of the American Psychological Association. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the Academy of Social Sciences.

Paul Gilbert

Paul Gilbert OBE qualified in clinical psychology in 1980 and is professor of clinical psychology at the University of Derby and has had a number of visiting international professorships. From his extensive clinical and research work he developed compassion focused therapy for people with complex mental health problems.

Peggy Natiello

Peggy Natiello’s professional life has focused on Client-centred therapy and the Person-centred approach. Her book, The Person- centred Approach: A Passionate Presence, was written to clarify the importance of Dr. Carl Rogers’s radical beliefs about psychotherapy, education, group work, organizational development, and life. Currently she is reflecting on the perfect fit between those beliefs and the dizzying changes confronting our global culture.

Windy Dryden

I am a CBT Therapist, Trainer, Academic and Writer. I am Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths University of London and have been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975. I was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and have trained with Drs. Albert Ellis, Aaron T. Beck and Arnold Lazarus. I have also trained at the University of Warwick where I was awarded an MSc in Psychotherapy. This was an eclectic course and gave me a very broad view of the field. What has been important and sustaining in my career has been variety. Thus, I work as a practitioner, trainer, academic and writer/editor. 

Additional Confirmed Speakers

Colleagues from Ukraine 

Digby Tantam 

Jaako Sekkula 

Lucia Berdondini 

Maureen O'Hara

Mhairi Thurston 

Nora Sveaass 

Event Venue
This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our camera and microphones to interact with each other.

Event Tickets
Registration for this event is offered as a self-select fee.

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us raise money to be sent to Ukraine.

There is a ticket for access to recordings made at the event which is available for £19.99GBP.

We are expecting that we will be able to record most of the contributions to this event, however, there may be contributions that are not appropriate for recording and will not be included in the recordings viewable following the event.

Crucial Conversations is a series of 'A Disorder for Everyone' online events in which authors of recently published books that contribute to challenging the culture of diagnosis and disorder are invited to talk about their work.

In our 3rd event of this kind, AD4E welcomes Johann Hari and Lucy Johnstone to talk about their new books. There will be audience questions and a panel discussion afterwards.

Panel members confirmed so far include Sally-Ann, DrGabor Maté and Prof SamiTimimi. (Bios to follow)

About Lucy

Dr Lucy Johnstone is a consultant clinical psychologist, author of 'Users and abusers of psychiatry' (3nd edition Routledge 2021) and co-editor of 'Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy: making sense of people's problems' (Routledge, 2nd edition 2013), along with a number of other chapters and articles taking a critical perspective on mental health theory and practice. She is the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate and worked in Adult Mental Health settings for many years, most recently in a service in South Wales. She is lead author, along with Professor Mary Boyle, of the Power Threat Meaning Framework (2018), a radical conceptual alternative to the diagnostic model of distress, which is attracting national and international attention. @ClinpsychLucy

About 'A straight talking introduction to psychiatric diagnosis'

'A straight talking introduction to psychiatric diagnosis' was first published by PCCS Books in 2013, and offers an accessible overview of the arguments in this complex area. Its core aim, which aligns with that of 'A disorder 4 everyone', is to offer people a choice of understandings of distress.In this second, updated edition, Lucy Johnstone revisits the revolution that is underway in mental health.

No one doubts that people’s distress is very real – but are they actually suffering from illnesses which need diagnosing? In our increasingly competitive, unequal and fragmented world, we are all struggling. We are told the answer lies in finding the right diagnosis. We are encouraged to talk about our ‘mental health’ instead of the conditions of our lives. And increasingly, we ourselves seek out labels which reassure us that our feelings of shame, failure and difference are not our fault. But there are better ways forward.

The book ends with a new, hard-hitting analysis of the political, economic and social forces that drive the diagnostic model. It demystifies one of the guiding myths of our age, and opens up hope and new ways forward for anyone who has taken on a diagnostic label.

The revised edition of Lucy's book will be published 23rd March 2022 - https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/forthcoming-books

Reviews from the first edition include:

‘Rigorously researched, powerfully argued and engagingly written, this thoughtful and valuable book empowers readers with something too often missing in statutory care – the knowledge and resources to make an informed choice.’ Eleanor Longden, Psychosis Research Group, University of Liverpool

‘This is a tremendously valuable book, punching holes in tradition and psychiatric conservatism, finding lights at the end of very dark tunnels, valuing the individual, giving them space and time and their story back.’ Polly Mortimer, Contemporary Psychotherapy

‘A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis is a short, concise work which combines scholarship with humanity and compassion. It provides a unique resource for those of us who have been harmed by the workings of psychiatry and want to prevent future harm to others.’ Louise Gillett, Huffington Post

The Panel Contributors.

Joining Johann & Lucy for a discussion after their talks are...

SallyAnn - Survivor, activist & speaker

Prof Sami Timimi - Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Dr Sanah Ahsan - Poet & liberation psychologist

Dr Gabor Maté - Author & speaker

Join Dina Glouberman as we celebrate the launch of her new publication.

There will be saxophone music, an ImageWork experience and a chance to share your ImageWork stories or to ask Dina your questions. Don't miss the celebration!

About the book

The ImageWork approach offers a wonderful invitation to learn to imagine better.' So writes Dr Dina Glouberman, author of the bestselling The Joy of Burnout, in this powerful new book about the theory and practice of ImageWork, with a foreword by Robin Shohet. ImageWork is the unique approach she has created and developed over 40 years that harnesses the power of the imagination to promote healing, creative achievement, transformational insight and practical wisdom. It is used by practitioners worldwide to multiply and deepen the effectiveness of their work, and to enable their clients to make creative choices and profound changes.

This is a practical, comprehensive, beautifully clear and accessible handbook for practitioners, including therapists, counsellors, coaches, consultants, supervisors, spiritual directors, health professionals and every helping practitioner. It is packed with fascinating client stories, original theory, practical guidance, ImageWork exercise scripts, takeaway points, and practice sessions. Practitioners are also invited to apply ImageWork in their own lives, just as Dr Glouberman herself does every day - 'It's the best training of all.' Martin Rossman, one of the leading imagery authors in the USA, has said about ImageWork, "In my 50 years in the field, this is the best book I have read about working with imagery for healing, creativity and personal transformation. A landmark book."

Dr. Dina Glouberman

Dr. Dina Glouberman, psychotherapist, coach, facilitator and world-renowned expert in transformational imagery, is the visionary co-founder and co-director of Skyros Holistic Holidays, which has pioneered community-oriented holistic health holidays since 1979. She is the author of the classic books Life Choices, Life Changes; The Joy of Burnout; You Are What You Imagine, and Into the Woods and Out Again, and co-editor, with Yannis Andricopoulos, of Skyros: Sunshine for the soul. Dr Glouberman has been a pioneer for the past 40 years in creating, teaching and practising the use of ImageWork, which harnesses the imagination that guides our lives and enables creative life choices and profound life changes. More recently, she founded and directs the Aurora Centre in southern Italy, where she offers trainings in ImageWork to therapists, counsellors, coaches, consultants and health professionals, and also facilitates ImageWork retreats. She is a course leader on the Faculty of the MA (Clinical) in Psychotherapy of the Tivoli Institute in Dublin, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Humanistic Psychology (Britain).

Onlinevents and PCCS Books are delighted to announce a one-day conference, in association with the editors of the recently published book, Black Identities + White Therapies (PCCS Books, 2021).

The online conference will run from 15-16th July 2022. It will offer a combination of keynote speakers, panel discussions and a wide-ranging choice of practical workshops.

Our aim is to provide a space for students, trainers, practitioners and researchers to explore and showcase best practice in:

challenging race discrimination and white fragility within the counselling professions
developing new ways of preparing students to work in our multicultural society
finding new ways to offer therapy to a diverse population
increasing access to talking therapies for people from minoritised racial groups
promoting black, Asian and minority ethnic presence within the profession at all levels

The conference will open in the evening of Friday 15 July with a panel debate on a topical issue, followed by a social gathering and party for participants.

On Saturday, there will be an opening keynote address, followed by workshops of between 45 and 90 minutes, organised in four streams to reflect the four primary sectors of interest:

Students
Trainers and lecturers
Practitioners
Researchers
Following a break for lunch, we will reconvene for a second keynote presentation, followed by a further choice of workshops across the same four streams.

The event will close with a keynote presentation and discussion forum where participants can reflect and report on what has arisen for them in the workshops and discuss ways forward for the profession.

We are seeking

submission of abstracts to run workshops from practitioners, trainers, students, academics and researchers. The workshops can be either 45 or 90 mins in length. Please send your abstract/proposal to…..
sponsorship for this event to enable us to reimburse all the speakers adequately for their time and keep the ticket prices low.
TRAINING PROVIDERS
We are asking all training providers to email their students details of this conference along with a link to the Student Discount.

To acknowledge your support for the conference we are displaying training providers logo’s here on the registration page, also in the resources pack that will be sent to all conference participants and included with the recordings from the conference.

Please email help@onlinevents.co.uk for the details to send to your student group and to share you company logo for the registration page.

STUDENT DISCOUNT
We have a special student discount ticket that is available for only £15.00.

This ticket is available via training providers.

Please send the contact details of your training provider to help@onlinevents.co.uk so that we can send the student discount details to your training provider to distribute to their student body.

Our intention is to let all counselling & psychotherapy students know about this conference as the learning will be vital for current training and future practice.

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our camera and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

Counselling & Psychotherapy in Times of Global Calamity

with workshops from Emmy van Deurzen, Nick Totton, Karen Izod, and Robin Shohet

Counsellors and psychotherapists are working in a time of multiple crises not encountered since, perhaps, the Second World War. In the past two years alone, we have experienced the rupture of leaving the European Union and finding we are split equally as a nation over the decision; the horror, terror and grief of the Covid-19 pandemic, with its resulting impacts on incomes, relationships and individual mental wellbeing, as well as widespread grief; today we are facing the multiple repercussions of both these on jobs, security and everyday life. And overshadowing it all is the ever-growing, ever-closer, ever more irreversible impact of global heating and climate change. There is little we can take for granted any more, even in our cosy Western world, and so many reasons to feel afraid, angry, lost, abandoned, bereaved, isolated, riven apart, and alone.

This is all the stuff of therapy at an individual level, yet it is happening at national and global levels too. What have psychotherapy and counselling got to offer the populations they serve and the individual in the counselling room?

In this one-day event, four leading therapists and writers discuss these issues, each from their own particular professional perspective and viewpoint: Emmy van Deurzen offers an existential perspective on living and learning through crisis; Nick Totton calls on us to let go of hope and validate despair; Karen Izod talks about attachment and place and their significance in times of upheaval and rupture, and Robin Shohet presents on fear as an inner ‘pollutant’.

Schedule for today:

9:15 Open Zoom

9:30 Start / Intro from PCCS and facilitator Caz Binstead

9:30 - 11:00 Emmy van Deurzen - Rising from Existential Crisis

11:00 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:45 Nick Totton - Rewilding Hope: Therapy in the Anthropocene 

12:45 - 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 15:15 Karen Izod - Attachment to place:  location and dis-location

15:15 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 17:00 Robin Shohet - Fear as an Inner 'Pollutant'. How Green is your Mind?

17:00 - 17:15 Closing Comment and End of the Day

Emmy van Duerzen

Many of the emotional and mental health problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic were related in some way to the fact that our usual frameworks of meaningful connections were suddenly broken apart and that we were not prepared for this. This was particularly true of children and teenagers who could no longer see their friends, their gang, their peers, to make life interesting. It was also strikingly true for those who lived alone, or who were elderly, chronically unwell and disabled, most of whom had to spend long months in isolation. But it was also true in the sense of our habits being broken, our work and travel patterns being interrupted and our relationships becoming more difficult.  People had to create new ways of being and relating and much can be learnt from these experiences for how to work with people in such situations.

Emmy van Deurzen is a philosopher and professor of Psychology and Psychotherapy with 18 books to her name and whose work has been translated into as many languages.  She is the Principal of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the Existential Academy (www.nspc.org.uk) (www.existentialacademy.com), in London, where she runs post graduate courses in partnership with Middlesex University as well as her private practice Dilemma Consultancy (www.dilemmaconsultancy.com). Among her books are the bestsellers Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice (3d edition 2012), Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness (2009), Everyday Mysteries (2nd edition, 2010) and Paradox and Passion (2nd edition, 2015).  Her book Rising from Existential Crisis: Life beyond Calamity was published with PCCS books in 2021.  She is currently writing a book on existential freedom. www.emmyvandeurzen.com

Nick Totton - Rewilding Hope: Therapy in the Anthropocene 

Faced with the near certainty of environmental collapse, is hope a useful response, or an avoidance of reality? I suggest that our clients, will increasingly need something else from us: a validation of despair, fear and anger which denies nothing about our predicament, but finds room for life and love in the here and now. To be able to offer this, practitioners need to fully address our own despair, fear and anger. I believe that approaches like Wild Therapy can help us to achieve this; they also form part of a new kind of therapy which is emerging from many quarters. Covid -- itself a direct symptom of environmental stress -- has forced therapy to embrace outdoor work, online work and other 'frame breaking' methodologies, accelerating a process of rewilding which was already underway. I will try to describe some of the key elements of this therapy in and for the Anthropocene.

As a therapist and trainer with nearly 40 years experience. Originally a Reichian body therapist, I have explored widely in a number of therapy modalities, and now practice my own approaches, Embodied-Relational Therapy and Wild Therapy, having founded and handed on training courses in both. I have a grown up daughter  and a grandson and granddaughter. I have written a number of books, including Wild Therapy, now in a new 2nd edition. I live in Cornwall with my partner and grow vegetables.
www.nicktotton.net
 

Karen Izod - Places evoke a line of thinking, resonate with particular memories, bring forth an array of emotions.’

(’Here is where I have presence’, Psychogeography and Psychotherapy: Connecting pathways (Chris Rose (ed); PCCS Books, 2019)

This session will offer a meandering journey between descriptions of places and deliberations on attachment to illustrate the formative nature of places – the inner landscapes of thoughts and feelings and external landscapes of places and the way we behave in them.  We will explore the interplay between self and place against a backcloth of the Covid pandemic, in order to consider how our experience istransformed either through close familiarity or dislocation. 

Karen Izod works as a consultant to organisational change and professional development.  Questions of identity (who am I?) and place (where am I?) are frequent themes in her work, and she has brought her ideas on attachment to place to individuals in role transitions, organisations re-locating or merging, and in community and city planning. Karen has been consulting to individuals and organisations for more than 30 years from a background in social work and group and organisational dynamics.  She now works as Course Lead for the Professional Doctorate in Consultation and the Organisation at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust.  She also writes and performs poetry.

www.karenizod.com

Robin Shohet - How Green is your Mind ?

In this workshop, Robin will look at the concept of othering and how it creates and reinforces fear – a source of both psychological and physical pollution. 'How Green is Your Mind' asks us to examine and take responsibility for our thinking in order to help us to move beyond fear to a place of connection.

Robin Shohet has been working in the field of therapy for more than 40 years, and has written extensively on supervision in particular. HIs latest book,In Love with Supervision(PCCS Books, 2020), which he co-wrote with his wife, Joan, looks at supervision as a form of spiritual practice.

Clients – as well as therapists – often hope that gaining insight will smooth the path to making significant change. But all too often, even though gaining insight provides some relief, the therapeutic process remains stuck. This workshop will look closely at this type of therapeutic block, offer some ways of explaining it, and provide practical ideas for how to overcome it.

In particular, we will explore an analogy between achieving psychological change and acquiring complex practical skills, such as driving, sight-reading music, or playing tennis. In all these cases we recognize that just knowing the theory – the equivalent of insight – is not enough. To develop skills also requires practice. Usually, we have to attempt to exercise these skills “badly” before we’re able to exercise them “well”. Sometimes, as with tennis, to gain the skill we also need to practice with another person. I will make the case that the analogy has much to offer practitioners and their clients and, further, that therapeutic work can fruitfully borrow lessons from music, sport, and the learning of other complex skills.

In the workshop we will:

- share experiences of work where the gap between insight and change has arisen in the therapy room

- look at and discuss some case studies where the practical skill analogy has helped both practitioner and client make sense of and overcome stuckness

- learn about some specific techniques inspired by this way of thinking about insight, change, and stuckness

- reflect on some of the potential advantages as well as limitations of this approach.This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our camera and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

Matthew Elton, DPhil, PG Dip (TA Counselling), BACP Registered

Matthew Elton is a psychotherapist based in Edinburgh and has been in private practice since 2005 (www.extra-help.org.uk). He works with a wide range of clients and has a special interest in writers and artists. His formative training was in Transactional Analysis and he has since developed a strong interest in Narrative Therapy. Matthew regularly delivers talks and workshops in Scotland and across the UK on therapy practice and related matters. He has just published Talking It Better: From Insight to Change in the Therapy Room (PCCS, 2021) in which some of the themes and techniques covered in this workshop are explored in depth through stories of client work. Before becoming fulltime as a practitioner, Matthew was an academic working on the philosophy of mind at the University of Stirling, then a manager in the charity sector. He is the author of a well-received volume on the philosopher Daniel Dennett for Polity’s Key Contemporary Thinkers series, published in 2003.

To support practitioners in this time of extraordinary circumstances we are offering access to this group for a self-select fee.The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

PCCS Books presents workshops with Art Bohart, Beverley Costa, Sheila Haugh and Nick Totton 

Agenda

9.40 - Zoom Opens

9.50  - Start / Introduction from PCCS Books

10.00 - 11.30am - Sheila Haugh – Learning and Being, Person-Centred Counselling in Practice

11.30 - break

11.45am - 1.15pm - Beverley Costa - Other Tongues: Psychological Therapies In A Multilingual World

1.15 - 2.15 - Lunch

2.15pm -3.45pm - Nick Totton - Wild Therapy: Undomesticating Inner And Outer Worlds

3.45pm - break

4pm - 5.30pm - Art Bohart - Person-Centred Therapy And The Enhancement Of Human Possibility

Biographies

Art Bohart is one of today’s foremost theorists and practitioners of person-centred therapy. His work has influenced generations of person-centred students and practitioners, both here in the UK and in the USA, his home country

Beverley Costa grew up in East London in a family with three languages and two religions and cultural practices. After training as a counsellor, psychotherapist and group psychodramatist, she set up Mothertongue, a multi-ethnic counselling service, to meet a gap she observed in services for multilingual clients. In 2009 she created a pool of mental health interpreters within Mothertongue and in 2010 established the national Bilingual Therapist and Mental Health Interpreter Forum. Beverley founded The Pasalo Project in 2017 (www.pasaloproject.org) to disseminate learning from Mothertongue. She is a Senior Practitioner Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London

Sheila Haugh is a client-centred therapist, supervisor, and trainer with 25 years experience. She is a UK Council for Psychotherapy Registered Psychotherapist and teaches a Masters level programme in Contemporary Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Applications. She is a former Convenor for the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA) and a former board member of the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies (WAPECP). The book Learning and Being in Person-Centred Counselling by Tony Merry has inspired and guided thousands of counselling students since it was first published in 1999. In 2020 the third edition was updated by Sheila including a new chapter on recent developments in Person-Centred counselling.

Nick Totton has been a body psychotherapist for many years and has developed and taught on training courses in Embodied-Relational Therapy and Wild Therapy. He is the author of several books, including Embodied Relating: The Ground of Psychotherapy, Not A Tame Lion, and Wild Therapy. He was founding editor of Psychotherapy and Politics International, and a past chair of Psychotherapists & Counsellors for Social Responsibility and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union.

To support practitioners in this time of extraordinary circumstances we are offering access to this group for a self-select fee.The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00.  Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

Workshop Overview

Sheila Haugh - Learning and Being, Person-Centred Counselling in Practice

Where Person-Centred Therapy is today 

- Classical and Experiential

- The myth of non-directivity

- The profundity of empathy and UPR

- What is congruence?

Power and the Person-Centred Therapist

The Future and The Challenges Ahead

Beverley Costa - Other Tongues

Language differences are surprisingly easy for therapists to ignore and yet they are relatively easy to embed into existing training and supervision models. In this 1.5-hour session we will begin to consider how people’s multilingual identities impact on emotional expression, experience of trauma and recovery and ethical practice.

The following are examples of topics we will cover.

- Communicating effectively across languages, beyond interpreting

- The impact of working in English as a lingua franca – the colonial legacy

- Concepts of linguistic agency, linguistic power/justice, linguistic empathy

- The multilingual experience in terms of emotional expression, identity, memory recall and trauma processing

- Participants will be introduced to a new, free online resource on mental health and multilingualism.

Nick Totton - Wild Therapy is an approach to bringing therapy into the wild, and wildness into therapy. It believes that therapy is inherently wild, but has become often disappointingly tame! Working outdoors with clients is one way to cast off the familiar frame and work more freely and spontaneously.This workshop will be an introduction to the theory and the practice of Wild Therapy, including some experiential exercises.

Art Bohart - Person-Centred Therapy And The Enhancement Of Human Possibilty

I. What Is Unique About Person-Centered Therapy.

A. The interventionist model versus the whole person dialogical model of person-centered therapy.

B. The idea that it is not either/or. There is value in both.

C. Expansion on the differences between the two models.

D. The unique value of the person-centered approach.

II. Self-Organizing Wisdom.

A. The basic idea that therapy promotes growth towards more wise ways of being and behaving.

B. How the idea of self-organizing wisdom fits into the idea of actualization.

C. A model of wisdom and how therapy promotes it.

D. How to promote self-organizing wisdom.

III. Empathy-Based Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy Integration

A. The nature of empathy from a person-centered point of view.

B. How one can practice integratively from a person-centered point of view.

This drop the disorder poetry evening is brought to you by A Disorder 4 Everyone and supported by Onlinevents.

Poetry and spoken word have played a major part in the A Disorder for Everyone events since the first one in October 2016.

This will be our 4th online poetry event.

We hope evening will connect us in friendship and solidarity.

Please note this is not an open mic night. The line-up includes some of our regular AD4E performers and plenty of new voices too. There will also be some more performances of poems that feature in the book ‘We are the Change-Makers - poems supporting Drop the Disorder!

This is a donation only event with a minimum fee of £1 to maximise accessibility. Please make a donation based on what you can afford.

Other Tongues Workshop - Psychological Therapies in a Multilingual World Beverley Costa                                                                              

07/10/20 1pm - 3pm

Language differences are surprisingly easy for therapists to ignore and yet they are relatively easy to embed into existing training and supervision models. In this 2-hour workshop we will begin to consider how people’s multilingual identities impact on emotional expression, experience of trauma and recovery and ethical practice. We will also explore some of the complexities - the difficulties as well as the benefits - of working with interpreters. Throughout the workshop we will use case examples, interactive activities, film clips and ethical dilemmas to provide illustrations and provoke curiosity.

The following are examples of topics we will cover.

1.         Communicating effectively across languages

2.         The impact of working in English as a lingua franca – the colonial legacy

3.         Concepts of linguistic agency, linguistic power/justice, linguistic empathy

4.         The multilingual experience in terms of emotional expression, identity, memory recall and trauma processing

5.         Power dynamics, insider/outsider status and the sense of inadequacy when working as a therapist/counsellor with an interpreter

Dr Beverley Costa grew up in East London in a family with three languages and two religions and cultural practices. After training as a counsellor, psychotherapist and group psychodramatist, she set up Mothertongue, a multi-ethnic counselling service, to meet a gap she observed in services for multilingual clients. In 2009 she created a pool of mental health interpreters within Mothertongue and in 2010 established the national Bilingual Therapist and Mental Health Interpreter Forum. Beverley founded The Pasalo Project in 2017 (www.pasaloproject.org) to disseminate learning from Mothertongue. She is a Senior Practitioner Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. With Professor Jean Marc Dewaele, she won the 2013 BACP Equality and Diversity Research Award. Beverley has delivered training and supervision to statutory and voluntary sector health and social care organisations for the past two decades.

This online gathering is brought to you by A Disorder 4 Everyone and supported by Onlinevents.

Poetry and spoken word have played a major part in the A Disorder 4 Everyone events since the first one in October 2016.

This will be another great night of poetry, made even more exciting as we will be celebrating the launch of the new Drop the Disorder! poetry book ‘We Are the Change-makers’ which is being published on 18th September.

Confirmed contributors:

Jyl Anais

Jacky Power

Jenny Yates

Shayn McDonald

Vesper Moore

Toni hurford

Ruth Dixon

Kathleen Halley Angus

Mitzy Sky

Peter Gordon

Wendy Badger

Akima Thomas

Sanah Ahsan

This is a donation only event with a minimum fee of £1 to maximise accessibility. Please make a donation based on what you can afford.

PCCS Books are pleased announce a CPD day for counsellors, psychotherapists and mental health workers.

The day will feature four workshops (6 hours CPD) from PCCS Books authors who are trainers and experts in their mental health, therapy and psychiatry fields.

Please note that the 3 ticket pricing options (£20, £30,and £40) all enable you to join the CPD day for all 4 workshops.

The prices work on a self-selecting fee, therefore you select the payment option you can best afford, with the intention of enabling the day to be more accessible.

Schedule for the day:

9:00 - 9:15 | Open Zoom Room [Start of Day]-

9.15 | Welcome from PCCS Books

9.30 – 11.00 | Rachel Freeth - Psychiatry and Mental Health: A workshop for counsellors and psychotherapists

11:00 - 11:15 | Break

11.15 –12.45 | Joanna Moncrieff - A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs

12:45 - 13:30 | Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:00 | Helen Kewell - Living Well and Dying Well: Working therapeutically with an ageing population

15:00 - 15:15 | Break

15:15 – 16:45 | Professor Mary Boyle - The Power Threat Meaning Framework: An alternative to psychiatric diagnosis.

16:45 - 16:50 | Closing Summary

16:50 - 17:00 | End of Day

This is a University of Strathclyde Engage organised event and PCCS Books will be selling books on the night.

Dr Wendy Traynor presents the 2020 Mary Kilborn Lecture, which will address the application of Person-Centred-Experiential psychotherapy with people who present with psychotic or other unusual experiences.

Wendy will discuss her path into practice and research on this challenging client population, which includes people who hear voices or have unusual or psychotic experiences. Both therapist and client perceptions of helpful and unhelpful aspects of practice and possible impact will be discussed.

Key practice considerations will be highlighted as well as reflections regarding the complexity of the wider context of service provision, using examples from life, work and research.

Refreshments and the opportunity to network will be available at registration from 17:45. The lecture will begin at 18:30. After the lecture, at around 19:30, there will be a wine reception and an opportunity for further networking.

"A Disorder for Everyone!" - Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis and exploring trauma informed alternatives in association with The Women's Centre Cornwall

AD4E is coming to Cornwall!

This will be our 21st event and we are delighted to be supported by The Women's Centre Cornwall

Contributors include Dr Lucy Johnstone, Matt Ball, Dr Akima Thomas, Michelle Springer-Benjamin, Pat McArdle, Kate Atkinson, Maggie Parks, Viv Gordon, Nollaig McSweeeny and Jo Watson.

PCCS Books will be selling books on the day.

About the day

The event features not just professionals but people from a diverse range of backgrounds who have an essential contribution to make to the debate.

Lucy Johnstone presents the current debates and controversies about psychiatric diagnosis. It is increasingly acknowledged, even within the mental health establishment, that categories like 'schizophrenia', 'bipolar disorder' and 'personality disorder' lack validity. The assumption that distress is best understood as disease can have very serious consequences for the individual, their identity, and their path to recovery. In the morning Lucy will present alternatives to diagnosis which can help people to make sense of experiences of distress, however extreme, and which are based on working together to explore personal meaning.

Other Listed speakers will make up the rest of the day as well as an afternoon workshop.

Workshop 1

Title: An Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning
Framework

Facilitator: Dr Lucy Johnstone

Summary: Lucy will outline the key principles of the framework and show how it can be used in practice to understand and make sense of emotional and psychological distress.

Check out the trailer for the Power Threat Meaning Framework Launch

Workshop 2

Title: The Trauma informed approach and Beyond.

Facilitators: Dr Akima Thomas & Michelle Springer-Benjamin

Summary: This workshop will provide a space and an opportunity to reflect on promising practice and the integration of trauma informed principles. Akima and Michelle will facilite an open discussion where participants will be encouraged to think critically and creatively about trauma informed approaches to working with emotional distress.