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PROSPECTUS
ONE-YEAR COURSE INTEGRATING ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY INTO PSYCHOTHERAPY
and 5 DAY FOUNDATION COURSE2015
CONTENTSINTRODUCTION 3WHO THESE COURSES ARE FOREVIDENCE
ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY IS A DEVELOPMENT 4OF EXISTING THEORY AND PRACTICEGENERAL PERSPECTIVES
www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.uk
ELEMENTS ON WHICH THE COURSES DRAW 5CONTENT
SYLLABUS 6GENERAL PATTERN OF TEACHING DAY
MEDITATION AND SOCIAL DREAMING 7
PERSONAL THERAPY AND SUPERVISION 8COURSE DATES AND VENUE
5-DAY FOUNDATION COURSE (Part 1)TWO TERMS OF FURTHER CLINICAL SEMINARS (Part 2)GREEN DAYS
ROUTES TO QUALIFICATION 10COSTS
TEACHERS 11COURSE REQUIREMENTS TUTORIALS, ACCOUNTS OF LEARNING AND QUALIFICATION
GUIDANCE FOR CASE STUDIES 13
DETAILS OF THE COURSE ORGANISERS AND TEACHERS14
APPLICATION FORM 16
INTRODUCTION
The tutor group has been working on a revised structure for the Converging Streams Course. Full details of the courses are in thIs prospectus, also available on the website http://www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.uk
Retaining the same content , we have modified the format of the teaching to make it more accessible to those in different areas of UK, those who are unable at present to commit to a full year’s course and those who wish to take longer to qualify. This means that in addition to the 13-day Course already planned the separate components of the course can be booked separately.
The full 1-year Converging Streams course in Energy Psychotherapy comprising 13 days takes place in London in 2015 (details below).
The following is a brief summary of the Converging Streams Course. The three separate components are:
Five-day foundation course in Energy Psychotherapy (Part 1)
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www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.uk Two further terms of 1-2 day courses on separate clinical subjects
(Part 2) Other optional ‘Green Days’ or CPD days, some more directly
clinical than others, organized by the community of energypsychotherapyworks, some with invited teachers
WHO THESE COURSES ARE FORThese courses in Energy Psychology are for professionals with an established practice: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists and psychiatrists. We also consider on an individual basis individuals who are close to qualifying as psychotherapists. We offer an integration of energy psychology and the traditions and cultures of depth psychology including Jungian, Psychoanalytic, and Humanistic and Integrative, including Transpersonal.
EVIDENCEResearch showing the effectiveness of energy methods is gaining recognition1 and growing numbers of practitioners, having experienced the value of these for themselves, have found them of profound benefits for their clients. Single case studies will be shared with you during the courses.
ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY IS A DEVELOPMENT OF EXISTING THEORY AND PRACTICE
It furthers the trajectory of relationality with its origins in attachment theory.
It affirms Jung’s ambition for authentic embodied spirituality. Freud’s ‘libido’ is extremely close to the concept of subtle energy
that we work with in energy psychology.2
It takes into account neuro-scientific developments. The conception and practice of these methods radically reviews
human psychology as a part of the whole not apart from, and resonates with current pressing ecological and eco-psychological concerns
GENERAL PERSPECTIVES
The development of the Converging Streams Course grew from our observation that many colleagues had been deeply touched by energy psychology but were daunted by the process of making changes in their practice. Our own experience was that the process of integrating the new methods into practice was a substantial journey. The courses we run aim to enable participants in their journey of integration.
1 http://energypsychotherapyworks.co.uk/evidence-for-ep-methods/2 Mollon P (2008) Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy Karnac UK p3
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www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.ukThose organising the courses have gathered courage to develop more effective practice using energy psychology through the combination of our own therapy, supervision, and attendance at many teaching seminars, peer supervision and conversations. The structure of the course is dialogical. As the course progresses we look forward to hearing participants’ experience of the work, to ensuing conversations and the emergence of ideas.
For the psychotherapist using energy psychology methods there is an increased emphasis on healing and on ‘doing’ something with the patient. This changed stance of the therapist is challenging to think through. The emerging dialogic relationship still guides the work. Elements and capacities of the imaginal, unconscious and synchronistic realities are significantly enhanced, often in a remarkable way. With the skill of an experienced psychotherapist, the energy techniques therefore enable both depth and effective help for the client. This has fired our enthusiasm.
While we as therapists have sometimes been cautious, even anxious, about introducing these ways of working, our clients have most often welcomed them; their energy systems have said, 'Yes!'
The remarkable changes brought about by energy therapies that we observe clinically have theoretical consequences. We need the participation and conversations of a larger group of experienced therapists to explore these. We hope that these courses will, in time, add to the collaborative thinking that is already taking place.
ELEMENTS ON WHICH THE COURSES DRAW
The field of Energy Psychology consists of many small groupings3. Our learning has been mainly with
Asha Clinton’s Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) Phil Mollon’s Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy (PEP) Howard Brockman’s Dynamic Energetic Healing (DEH) Gary Craig’s Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Roger Callahan’sThought Field Therapy (TFT) Tapas Fleming’sTapas Acupuncture Technique (TAT)
Acronyms abound! For all of these founders and methods we are profoundly grateful. Our own orientation is not towards the creation or the advocating of a brand.
3 www.aitherapy.org/wp/www.philmollon.co.uk/www.emofree.com/ www.eftuniverse.comwww.rogercallahan.com www.tfttraumarelief.wordpress.comwww.tatlife.com/www.dynamicenergetichealing.com/
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www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.ukCONTENT
The courses will teach core skills to enable an experience of working with energy, accessing the subtle energy system of meridians, chakras and biofields
The course will introduce you to the many valuable bodies of knowledge in the energy psychology field on which to draw and support your process as you develop an understanding of the theory and learn how to put it into practice.
Experienced practitioners will illustrate energy methods, presenting case material, followed by discussion.
You will learn methods of addressing the psyche/spirit/body system using techniques of ' energy' or 'muscle’ testing taken from kinesiology.
You, and through you your clients, will learn to identify and clear from the energy system problems and blockages that inhibit people’s growth and development.
SYLLABUS FOR THE YEAR
In the first term (Part 1) there will be a particular emphasis on basic skills.
Energy/Muscle TestingBasic understanding of Chakras, Meridians and BiofieldsIdentifying and treating energetic disorganisationDealing energetically with ‘Reversals’ ie Internal Objections to healing and changeWorking with chakras and meridians, beginning with simple interventions and then discerning those with more complexityLetting the energy centres/points ‘speak’, free associationWorking with aspects of a problem/complex and its early and wider rootsWorking with underlying belief structures
History of Energy PsychologyMapping the fieldEthical Issues
Issues of touchHealing and IntentionWorking with the ‘positive’, health not pathology Two days on working with parts, levels, archetypes.Deeper Considerations of Muscle TestingTwo days on working with the psychosomatic issuesTherapist self care
GENERAL PATTERN OF TEACHING DAY
Reading prior to seminar
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www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.uk Meditation or social dreaming to start Teaching of theory and skills and philosophy Case presentations by experienced practitioners Demonstrations Practice of methods in pairs Presentation and discussion of course members’ emerging clinical
experience (as course develops) Discussion and questions
MEDITATION AND SOCIAL DREAMING
The reason we include meditation and social dreaming as part of the course is that the life-long work of the psychotherapist is the development of presence to tacit knowledge present in symbol and metaphor of deep process.4
Meditation is a discipline that contributes to the stillness required for presence to the life of deep processes. There are many different forms of meditation that have been designed for different purposes. The approach to meditation that we will use on the course is based on working with the heart and the breath. This practice fosters a sense of presence-presence to the body, the mind, the emotions and to the subtle energy field.
Social dreaming is a practice that has deep and old roots, recently brought to consciousness by Gordon Lawrence. (For more information go to www.socialdreaming.com)In social dreaming people tell dreams and free associate to them. There is no obligation to bring a dream; the work is to be in the imaginal space. It’s a way of approaching our subject, the theme of a teaching day, with right-brain apprehension5 The dreams in the matrix are not interpreted, they are regarded as belonging to the matrix not to the individual, in this case the matrix of the day's teaching and learning. The intentionality of the preparations made by teachers and students for a particular day's subject will elicit a response in the deep processes to be found in dreams and associations which then inform and enrich the days’ work.
4 We hesitate to use 'unconscious' as a noun; we from a left brain orientation may be unconscious of deep process, it does not seem appropriate to designate deep process as unconscious! The phrase 'tacit knowledge’ is taken from Polyani, M. The Tacit Dimension RKP 1967
5 The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist Yale 2009
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www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.ukPERSONAL THERAPY AND SUPERVISION
Because the courses are for those with an established practice in psychotherapy or counselling we make the assumption that students share with us that the foundation of work with clients and understanding theory is personal experience.
To integrate energy psychology into your practice you need experience of therapy using the methods. How this happens is in your hands. Longer sessions of less frequency can work because you will have done considerable work on yourself. We have in mind the relative scarcity of therapists working in this way, and the constraints of distance. Some therapists work by Skype.
Supervision can take place face to face or via Skype sessions, individually or small group supervision. Our experience is that supervision is the key to successfully integrating energy psychology into your practice.
We do strongly recommend you have your own therapy beforehand as well as during the courses and find regular supervision of your practice. The costs to you of your own therapy and supervision will be in addition to course fees
COURSE DATES AND VENUE(RESTRUCTURED END OCTOBER 2014)Retaining the same content, we have modified the format of the teaching to make it more accessible to those in different areas of UK, those who are unable at present to commit to a full year’s course and those who wish to take longer to qualify. This means that in addition to the 13-day Course already planned, the separate components of the course can be booked separately.
The full 1-year Converging Streams course in Energy Psychotherapy comprising 13 days takes place in London in 2015.
The three separate components of this are: Five-day foundation course in Energy Psychotherapy (Part 1) Two further terms of 1-2 day courses on separate clinical subjects
(Part 2) Other optional ‘Green Days’ or CPD days, organized by the
community of energypsychotherapyworks, some with invited teachers
FIVE-DAY FOUNDATION COURSE IN ENERGY PSYCHOTHERAPY (Part 1)This will provide a foundation to begin practice with clients, supported by supervision and personal energy psychotherapy.
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www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.ukTeaching to include:What is energy?, the human energy system, energy testing, disorgansiation and reversals and how to correct them, a chakra treatment, energy routine for self care, meridians and EFT, finding deeper origins of problems, energetic boundaries, working with positive and negative beliefs, intention, and more….These will be attended by:
those who have applied for the 13 day 1 year course others who may be interested in a shorter course others who may be interested in a longer course but at a different
pace
London 2015: 10+11th January, 31st Jan+1st February, and 7th MarchWest Midlands (Leamington Spa) 14-15th February, 14-15th March, 25th AprilSouth West Stanton Fitzwarren, Wiltshire (4 miles SE of and just outside Swindon)13th -15th March (Friday teaching 2-8pm) and 25-26th April
TWO TERMS OF FURTHER CLINICAL SEMINARS (Part 2)The present qualifying programme in London 2015 has clinical seminars scheduled (Term 2) 9th May, 13+14th June, 11th July(Term 3) 10th October, 14+15th November, 12th December
These seminars comprise Part 2 of the course and include:finding a code for meridians and chakras (Phil Mollon’s Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy), working with psychosomatic conditions, archetypes, approaches to healing, spiritual trauma and more. Further details of specific topics and dates will be sent out shortly.
These will be attended by those booked on the 13-day course and are also open to:
Those interested in a particular topic who have some experience of energy psychology techniques
Those engaged in a flexible route to qualifying
GREEN DAYS These are days or weekends for CPD for the whole energypsychotherapyworks community and wider. The programme for 2015-2016 will be available shortlyThese can be attended by
Those booked on the course (optional but included in course fee) Those interested in a particular topic Those engaged in a flexible route to qualifying
ROUTES TO QUALIFICATIONThere are now 2 routes to qualification
a) A 13-day scheduled programme in 2015. Individuals who engage in this programme also receive termly individual tutorials, and their tutor’s response to accounts of learning and case studiesOR
b) A flexible route which allows practitioners who have completed the 5-day Foundation programme to elect to take
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www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.ukpart in 8 further clinical seminars over subsequent terms. In addition to the cost of each seminar there will be a termly fee of £75 after the foundation term to cover administration, termly individual tutorials and tutors response to accounts of learning and case studies
COSTS
SCHEDULED FULL YEAR COURSE£1950 (£1900 if attended Intro Day)includes 13 course days of trainingfree attendance at Green Days6
termly individual tutor sessionsresponse from tutor to first term account of learning, final account of learning and case studiesNot included:Supervision Personal Therapy
FLEXIBLE ROUTE TO QUALIFYING5-day foundation course £720 (£670 if attended Intro Day)Course training days £130/dayClinical Green Days £130/dayQualification track fees £75 per subsequent termTOTAL COST ESTIMATE £1995 if take 4 terms in totalOther Green Days £80/dayincludes 5 days foundation coursetermly individual tutor sessionsresponse from tutor to first term account of learning, final account of learning and case studiesNot included: Green Day attendance, Supervision, Personal Therapy
5-DAY FOUNDATION COURSE (taken as stand alone)£720 (£670 if attended Intro Day)includes 5 days foundation courseone individual tutor sessionresponse from tutor to first term account of learning Not included: Green Day attendance , Supervision, Personal Therapy
TEACHERS
Those teaching the courses will be experienced psychotherapists who have integrated energy psychology into their practice. They will include Ruthie Smith, Elizabeth Simpson, Heather Redington, James Barrett and Judith Anderson (further details at end of the prospectus) We expect Phil Mollon to teach PEP.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Attendance at seminars
6 This would not include major conferences or several-day workshops similar to the Brockman events in June 2013 and 2014 , though we have and will offer significant discounts on these.
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www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.ukIf for reasons beyond your control you are unable to attend a particular seminar, we will make the course material available to you. If you need to make up particular skills taught, depending on your experience, you may need to arrange a separate (paid) session with a course teacher.
Strong recommendation for personal therapy with a psychotherapist/counsellor using energy methods
Supervision with an experienced psychotherapist/counselor using energy methods; frequency of this to be discussed with your tutor.
Presentation of work (see Assessment Process)
A certificate of completion will be offered at the end of the course if all requirements were met; you would then be eligible for listing on the Energypsychotherapyworks website.
TUTORIALS, ACCOUNTS OF LEARNING AND QUALIFICATION
Tutorials.Your tutor will be one of the course organisers. We suggest you meet with your tutor once in each term, either face-to-face, telephone or Skype. The cost of this is included in the course fee.
Accounts of Learning and Qualification.
The Foundation course Part 1 will require a written account of your learning after it is finished and, for those who wish the qualification that Energypsychotherapyworks offers, a final written account of your learning and two case studies at the end. The organising committee will hold responsibility for giving a ‘Pass’ in response to you having demonstrated integration of energy psychology into your practice. Completion will enable you to have your name on the practitioners’ list of our website energypsychotherapyworks.co.uk if you so choose.
Learning in psychotherapy occurs through the integration of personal learning, theory and work with clients.
The process then is as follows:
At the end of Part 1 of the course You make an account of your learning, which includes your
experience at seminars, as a client/patient (with appropriate confidentiality boundaries), and in supervision.
You give this account to your tutor. Your tutor will discuss this with you and give you a written
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www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.ukresponse to what you have written.
The tutor will not be making an assessment of you, he or she will be responding to what you have written. This important distinction is to incise in everyone’s minds that your learning process is at the centre of the course, and to the extent it can be known (some matters that have been learnt may only become apparent long after the course is over) it is only you who can make it known if you choose to do so.
At the end of the course Your prepare 2 case studies, which you will probably wish to
discuss with your supervisor before final submission. If you consider that you have integrated methods of energy
psychology into your practice please ask your supervisor to write to the organising committee to confirm this with a copy to yourself.
You make an account of your learning, which includes your experience at seminars, as a client/patient (with appropriate confidentiality boundaries), and in supervision also reflecting on your supervisor’s report7 and the preparation of the 2 case studies. In this final assessment of your learning you will need please to address in particular your integration of the energy methods into your practice and make a formal statement that in your view you have, or have not managed to do so.
Your tutor will respond to this account in the same way as described above.
Both your account, the tutor's response, the 2 written case studies and your supervisor’s report will be read and considered by the course organisers to help the tutor in his/her role. If the student is, or has been, in therapy with a one of the course organisers, that person would absent themselves from discussions.
The organising committee will give a certificate which will state that you have attended the course and fulfilled your intention to integrate methods of energy psychology into your practice.
GUIDANCE FOR CASE STUDIESThe following guidelines, whilst not prescriptive, may be helpful for you to consider. We suggest you include:
synopsis of client’s history, and, if you have worked with someone previously in therapy, before using energy psychology the progress made so far
identification and treatment of disorganization and dehydration
identification and treatment of Reversals
7 You will need to liaise with your supervisor over the timing of this
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www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.uk ways in which you have used energy testing e.g ND&D,
finding an origin or guiding the treatment plan use of specific energy therapy methods and why they may
have chosen specific examples of treatment phrases including an
understanding about the origins of trauma and treatment of origins where appropriate
your observations of the effects of energy therapy, showing evidence of the change as a result of the energy intervention.
your reflections on your integration of energy methods within your existing core therapy theoretical modality
DETAILS OF THE COURSE ORGANISERS AND TEACHERS
Ruthie Smith is a Psychoanalytic Attachment Based Psychotherapist who worked for 10 years as a Principal Individual Psychotherapist in the NHS, and prior to that, at the Women’s Therapy Centre. She teaches on a number of psychotherapy training programmes, including at the Bowlby Centre and the Minster Centre, and also teaches and supervises AIT (Advanced Integrative Therapy) in the UK and abroad. She is a regular speaker at events organized by Confer. Ruthie works in private practice at The Flame Centre in London as a psychotherapist and supervisor. Her other passions include music (jazz and classical), contemporary spirituality, astrology and energy work generally
Judith Anderson has practiced as a Jungian Analytical Psychotherapist for over 17 years, beforehand working in the NHS as a Consultant Psychiatrist, informed in her practice by ideas drawn from attachment and relational theory. She trained in AIT attending many of the Advanced Seminars. Subsequently she has trained in PEP. In her experience these are beautifully elegant methods that may facilitate the healing of trauma in all its aspects and forms and can be integrated into any model of psychotherapy. She was Chair of the steering group of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility (PCSR) for 7 years. www.pcsr.org.uk and is on the steering group of the Climate Psychology Alliance.
James Barrett an experienced Jungian Analytical Psychotherapist working with individuals and couples in private practice in Leamington Spa. He learned his practice of energy psychology principally from Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy and Advanced Energy
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www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.ukPsychotherapy and also from Emotional Freedom Therapy and Thought Field Therapy.He co-founded the training in Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy at the West Midlands Institute for Psychotherapy in 1991. He has chaired the WMIP, the Confederation for Analytical Psychology, and the Training Standards and Membership Committee of the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis at the UKCP.
Heather Redington is a UKCP integrative psychotherapist in private practice. She also worked for over twenty years as a family therapist in an NHS service for child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS). Some years ago she became interested in the new field of energy psychology and trained in various modalities (EFT,TFT and TAT) She is an AIT teacher and has taught AIT Basics in the Uk and in Ireland. In her private practice currently she draws on a number of energy psychology modalities. She is also a teacher of Heart Rhythm Meditation, a practice which has its roots in Sufism.
Elizabeth Simpson joins the teachers in the West Midlands. She trained in Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy with WMIP and is in private practice in Leamington Spa. She has been active in the Institute including three years as chair. She published two analytic papers and was Editor of the Institute Journal for three years. She was a founder member of the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis, and chaired its Training Standards Committee for three years, helping to review and update the national training standards. She has trained in AIT, PEP and more recently has been interested in Dynamic Energetic Healing (DEH), which incorporates shamanic methods into energy psychology, and uses all these approaches in her practice. She believes that patients are very open to new ideas and approaches in the work, and that it is the wariness of the practitioner, which needs addressing. She feels that the need to defend orthodoxy has done the profession and the public no great service. She is currently writing a book for trainee counselors and psychotherapists in whom she hopes to encourage greater openness and freedom of spirit as they start out on their new road.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION
Please feel free to contact any of the organisers:
Judith Anderson 01926 421524 [email protected] Barrett 01926 316178 [email protected] Redington 01793 762939 [email protected] Smith 07971 964438 [email protected] or [email protected]
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APPLICATION FORM (you may wish to use the headings on this form electronically to take as much space as you need for the responses)
Name
Gender
Address
Age Phone nos EmailContact no of next of kin in case of emergenciesProfessional Associations
Most important theoretical influences/perspectives
Brief description of current practice
Training OrganisationWhen QualifiedPrevious experience of Energy Psychology
Whether part of practice now
What has drawn you to this course?
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www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.ukIf this feels meaningful – what are your intentions for this course?
Please attach a copy of your psychotherapy qualification and current membership registration and send to Judith Anderson 94 Upper Holly Walk, Leamington Spa, CV32 4JP or email [email protected] with a cheque in post for £100/£50 if attended Introductory Day made out to energypsychotherapyworks, the first instalment of the course fee and deposit.
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