Monday 28th July – Friday 1st August 2008
Hayes Conference Centre,
Swanwick, Derbyshire
‘WHERE TWO
WORLDS MEET’
FAIRY TALE ENACTMENT - An Opportunity to Find the Deeper Meaning Inside the Story for You – Ann Boyd
We have all heard fairy stories and may indeed have favourites ... yet they can have deeper roots in our psyche and can inform us about life in many ways.
This is an experiential workshop based on Jung's theory of the archetypes and the collective unconscious
Ann Boyd, a UKCP-registered psychotherapist who works in full time private practice, is on the Leadership Team of Bridge Pastoral Foundation, and has been involved in training tutors and planning conferences for many years. Ann is experienced in working with individuals, couples and groups, and has a special interest in early years and primal integration.
TRANSITIONS AND OPENINGS – Isabel Clarke
Personal experience of the threshold: times of transition; times of openness to the spiritual; times of darkness – all these experiences represent encounter with the other way of knowing. This workshop will provide a gentle and boundaried opportunity to explore these and their place in our lives.
PRACTICAL MINDFULNESS – Isabel Clarke
Mindfulness is the key to managing the threshold. This workshop will introduce varied ways in which mindfulness can be used in order to take charge of this process, both for the individual and to be used in therapy.
WORKING WITH PSYCHOSIS – Isabel Clarke
This workshop will go into Isabel Clarke's therapeutic approach to psychosis in more depth than the plenary. This approach starts from normalising openness to anomalous experiences, recognising differences in vulnerability to such openness, and so being able to validate an individual's experience without collusion. This non stigmatizing stance is useful for forming the therapeutic alliance. It goes on to introduce ways of managing such experience, some standard within Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for psychosis, and some that have developed directly from this theoretical position
Isabel Clarke is currently a consultant clinical psychologist, working in the NHS, as psychological therapies lead in a psychiatric inpatient hospital, Woodhaven, which serves West Southampton and the New Forest. She has published and organised Symposia at national and international conferences on how therapy can be delivered in the inpatient setting. In her previous job, she worked for 12 years with the Southampton Rehabilitation Service and assisted with its re-organisation on Recovery lines. She edited a book, Psychosis and Spirituality; Exploring the New Frontier (2001), and has organised three conferences on this theme. An ongoing e-mail network of people interested in these topics has come out of this
ENCOUNTERING OUR ‘INNER’ OR ‘OUTER’ SPIRITUALITY: Experientially Through Our Non-Dominant Right Hemisphere Psyche – Mike Ellis
An experiential workshop through the medium of our non-dominant right brain hemisphere which is our holistic and non-verbal psyche. Safe, creative and playful opportunities will be provided to participants. Some participants may choose to work at ‘depth’ and in an altered state of consciousness.
Mike Ellis is an experienced therapist, trainer, college lecturer and supervisor, building upon his work as a Baptist Minister and Hospital Chaplain.
HOLDING THE HIDDEN TRUTH – Fr Tony Slingo
Meditation as a practical skill of creating the space to allow inner experience to process without intrusion of thinking control. Fr Tony will give a practical taste and reflective sharing of “bare attention” as the foundation of meditation in all spiritual traditions. Cultivated as part of mature psychological health, it enables access to inner “truth” before the imposition of conceptual formulation, however desirable that may be subsequently.
Catholic Priest who practised and studied Buddhist meditation in India and America before ordination. Abstracting the practice of “Vipassana” from explicitly religious teachings, I and colleagues practice this meditation as neutral to belief systems, thus of service to some. Practice of meditation enables me to know a personal grappling with the deep insights of teachers such as Jesus, Guatama and others. It borders on mysticism, but as that is truly understood, is thoroughly down to earth!
‘WAY OF BEING’ – Frank Lake’s Dynamic Cycle in Psycho-Spiritual Development and Healing – Jim O’Donoghue
Participants will be invited to immerse themselves in the four phases of the Dynamic Cycle though a guided meditative journey and to share their response to this. There will be a brief period of journaling so bring a pen and paper. We will the consider the elements in a Healthy Human Personality and how we might create difficulty for ourselves by reversing the possibility for Healing and Growth. There will be a brief introduction to the model for those who are unfamiliar with it.
Jim O’Donoghue is a Clinical Psychotherapist and Trainer/Lecturer. Currently he works as Clinical Director in Ireland. His background is in Philosophy, Theology and Sacred Scripture. He has a special interest in the working of the Spirit in personal and social healing, and he leads workshops and seminars with this as a central theme. Jim has used Lake’s Model of ‘The Dynamic Cycle’ in his clinical practice with patients/clients and it has formed an essential part of the professional training courses which he leads for nearly 30 years.
OUR PATCHWORK FAITH - Annie Adcock
Psalm 139 7-10
A small, safe, sacred space to encourage creative exploration beyond mind and body into the life of the spirit. The session will offer each person a time for image making using a variety of art materials. There will be an opportunity to come together at the end to share their images if they wish. No previous experience with art materials is necessary This type of image making can be very powerful so participants need to keep themselves safe and may wish to find appropriate support afterwards. Participants may find it helpful to bring a small object or image that has been part of their personal spiritual journey.
A member of BPF since 2001, Annie has a background in teaching children with special needs and supporting communities for adults with learning difficulties where creativity and experience of art made a large contribution to their health and well being. A qualified Art Psychotherapist who runs workshops and offers support to those in mental distress. She is often challenged and amazed by the power of creativity to touch the soul
SALT PORTRAITS – Angela Ryan
This will be a fairly light weight workshop with opportunities for deeper insights. Using salt and colour creatively to express something of who and how you are in the moment.
Angela is a qualified counsellor working in private practice. She has tutored on a BACP accredited counselling course in Liverpool and done a range of training and retreat days for various organisations. She has worked as a BPF tutor and facilitator over a number of years but now spends more time in the BPF office!
