Continuing Professional Development

We provide a variety of professional development opportunities. Some of these are available only to our members whilst others are available to other qualified psychotherapists and counsellors and we are committed to developing training provision aimed at giving an attachment orientation to other professionals.

Attachment Narrative Therapy short course – 29-30 March 2019, 26-27 April 2019, 31 May – 1 June 2019 and 21-22 June 2019

THE BOWLBY CENTRE PRESENTS A 40 HOUR COURSE ON: ATTACHMENT NARRATIVE THERAPY WITH PROF RUDI DALLOS AND PROF ARLENE VETERE

COURSE FULL

This course will provide training in the implementation of an integrative therapeutic approach (ANT) which combines attachment, narrative and systemic theories and techniques. This combines a consideration of the systemic processes encapsulating problems in families with an analysis of how these are fuelled by underlying attachment dynamics. In turn this is explored in terms of how family members’ narratives – explanations and understanding of their problems – are connected to and in turn shape the attachment and systemic patterns. The training utilises a range of therapeutic interventions – Formats for Exploration’ which can be employed in various clinical contexts.

The training programme will provide clinical examples in terms of case studies to illustrate the approach, DVD material, experiential learning activities and group discussion. The training programme will cover applications in child, adult and couples settings with illustrations of work with a wide range of clinical presentations including conduct problems, eating disorders, self-harm, addictions, domestic violence and trauma. The programme will be in four two-day blocks of training with a focus on: Integrative Framework and Creating Safety; Exploration and Formulation; Looking for Alternatives; Complexity, Trauma and Maintaining Change. Participants will have the opportunity to work in small supervised groups on their own clinical case material in each of the 4 blocks.

Dates: 29-30 March, 26-27 April 2019
31 May – 1 June, 21-22 June 2019
Time: Friday, from 3pm – 8.30pm and finishes on the next day, Saturday, from 10.00am to 2.30pm.
Cost: For all 4 blocks £700  £500 BC members (limited to 5 places)

Course Content

The Course will cover the following main themes: representational systems of attachment; intergenerational learning and care in families; trauma and the restriction of attempted solutions; recursive processes of intervention – paying attention to pattern and process; the use of self in therapeutic work; developing and monitoring the secure base in therapy and in families; the use of action techniques in therapy; and healing in relationships.

Block 1 – 29-30 March 2019
Introduction and Implications of Attachment
Formats for Exploration

Block 2 – 26-27 April 2019
Attachment Narratives
Formats for Exploration

Block 3 – 31 May – 1 June 2019
Working Therapeutically with Couples
Formats for Exploration

Block 4 – 21-22 June 2019
Working Therapeutically with Trauma and Loss
Formats for Exploration

Attachment Narrative Therapy: Working Systemically with Attachment Narratives – pdf brochure

COURSE FULL

Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice – June

COURSE FULL

Saturday 18th May and Sunday 19th May 2019

and Saturday 8th June and Sunday 9th June 2019

Cost: £580 Organisations, £540 Individuals

Seminars will include the following themes

• Introductions – our relationship to attachment theory.
• Attachment theory in context
• Separation, loss and mourning
• Patterns of attachment and their internal representation
• Secure • Dismissing • Preoccupied • Unresolved/disorganised • Not classifiable
• Evaluating adult attachment states of mind
• Internal working models
• Reflective functioning
• Intersubjectivity

Clinical work will consider the role of mourning, narrative, mutuality and recognition, affective attunement and cycles of rupture and repair in the therapeutic process.

The objectives of this course is to introduce Attachment theory and deepen your understanding of it. It’s designed to be of practical value with implications for therapy and human relatedness.

The course is aimed for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Social Workers.

“I was surprised how this course touched on all areas of my life… for me it has been the missing piece of the jigsaw I have been looking for and brings together many things…”

Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP registered attachment based Psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a training supervisor and a training therapist. She trained at the Bowlby Centre, London where she is the Editor of the journal Attachment-New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis (published by Karnac books). She teaches Attachment theory and is the head of the planning group of the International Bowlby Memorial conference. She specialises in attachment theory and trauma and regularly writes and present papers on these topics. She runs a private practice and works relationally with individuals, couples and parents. Orit has a particular interest in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma and have displayed symptoms of dissociation. She is the co-author of the book “Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs” (Karnac Books), co-editor of the book “Terror within & without”, and is the co-editor of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) newsletter where she regularly writes articles and film reviews.

Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice

COURSE FULL

Saturday 18th May and Sunday 19th May 2019

and Saturday 8th June and Sunday 9th June 2019

Cost: £580 Organisations, £540 Individuals

Download the pdf brochure

Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice – October

Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th October 2019 and
Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November 2019

Cost: £580 Organisations, £540 Individuals

Seminars will include the following themes

• Introductions – our relationship to attachment theory.
• Attachment theory in context
• Separation, loss and mourning
• Patterns of attachment and their internal representation
• Secure • Dismissing • Preoccupied • Unresolved/disorganised • Not classifiable
• Evaluating adult attachment states of mind
• Internal working models
• Reflective functioning
• Intersubjectivity

Clinical work will consider the role of mourning, narrative, mutuality and recognition, affective attunement and cycles of rupture and repair in the therapeutic process.

The objectives of this course is to introduce Attachment theory and deepen your understanding of it. It’s designed to be of practical value with implications for therapy and human relatedness.

The course is aimed for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Social Workers.

“I was surprised how this course touched on all areas of my life… for me it has been the missing piece of the jigsaw I have been looking for and brings together many things…”

Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP registered attachment based Psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a training supervisor and a training therapist. She trained at the Bowlby Centre, London where she is the Editor of the journal Attachment-New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis (published by Karnac books). She teaches Attachment theory and is the head of the planning group of the International Bowlby Memorial conference. She specialises in attachment theory and trauma and regularly writes and present papers on these topics. She runs a private practice and works relationally with individuals, couples and parents. Orit has a particular interest in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma and have displayed symptoms of dissociation. She is the co-author of the book “Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs” (Karnac Books), co-editor of the book “Terror within & without”, and is the co-editor of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) newsletter where she regularly writes articles and film reviews.

Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice

Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th October 2019 and
Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November 2019

Cost: £580 Organisations, £540 Individuals

Download the pdf brochure

Adult Attachment Interview Training Workshop – November

10 Days
Monday, November 4th – Friday, November 8th  plus
Monday, November 11th – Friday, November 15th

Cost: £2000  (deposit of £385 payable on booking with the balance payable on invoice when accepted on the course)

Non-refundable deposit payable upon booking, no later than 1^st August 2019

Balance due on acceptance of course, no later than 21 October 2019

Applicants not accepted will be refunded their deposit monies.

The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) developed by Mary Main and colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley, investigates an individual’s current mental representations of attachment-related experiences from childhood. Adult Attachment Interview Institutes last ten days, and are usually held Monday through Friday of two weeks in succession. One transcript is assigned over the weekend, hopefully leaving you time to take one day off.

The AAI institute is intensive and involves analysis of about 7 or 8 AAI transcripts in succession. Meetings take place about 5–6 hours a day (though sometimes considerably more time is needed to discuss a particular case). Their central purpose is to discuss scoring and classification of the transcript assigned for the previous night, which will also take you at least 6 hours to prepare. In addition to the group meeting, we will be available to see individuals or small groups another hour each day if necessary.

The cost for the institute is USD 2600 (GBP 2000), which includes training, training materials, refreshment & snack during the two weeks as well as reliability testing and associated materials.

The maximum number of participants is 20.

Kazuko Behrens, Ph.D.
Assoc. professor
Dept. of Social Behavioral Sciences
State University of New York
Tel. + 1 315 787 3964
E-mail: behrenk@sunypoly.edu

Pehr Granqvist, Ph D
Professor
Developmental psychology
Stockholm University
Tel. + 46 73 616 26 12
E-mail: pehr.granqvist@psychology.su.se

Introduction To AEDP – Poetry In Motion: Dyadic Regulation Of Emotion And Transformation Of Self

Saturday 16th November 2019

10.00am – 4.30pm

Cost: £150

In this one day workshop we will introduce Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), a transformative, non pathological model of change developed by Dr Diana Fosha in New York. Drawing on the art and science of psychotherapy, Angela Massucco and Dr Heather Gretton, will introduce AEDP as a healing oriented, experiential, attachment based psychotherapy that translates affective neuroscience and developmental research, into the musicality of AEDP language as an unfolding, moment to moment, therapeutic dance. AEDP is an approach that seeks glimmers of potential healing from the moment of meeting. Engaging the client through a collaborative process, the therapist privileges the healing potential of the relationship to undo aloneness, regulate anxiety, and provide the safety necessary to process previously avoided affective experience.

The body is a vessel for emotional experience. Within the body, felt experience is sensed, encoded in the brain and re-experienced within the brain and body. Through the exquisite attunement between therapist and client, the therapist accompanies the client to access their affective experience, and to regulate and deepen waves of emotion to completion. Out of these completed waves of emotion, relief and hope can emerge, and new adaptive action can come alive. Through meta processing, the therapist engages the person in a self-reflective process, bringing implicit experience into mindful awareness that supports the deepening of the transformational experience. AEDP detects glimmers of hope, undoing fear and shame so that joy and a compassionate and coherent sense of self can emerge. In this introductory workshop Angela Massucco and Dr Heather Gretton, will explore how creative and scientific elements of AEDP meet to access hidden resources, and release resilience and positive growth at the very core of self.

Presenters:
Angela Massucco is an Attachment based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and trained at Bowlby Centre. She is an AEDP Therapist and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist and holds a Psychosexual Certificate with Tavistock Relationships. She is an Art Therapist and Gestalt Arts Coach. Integral to influencing her work is Dr Fosha’s AEDP for Individuals and David Mars development of her work for couples (AEDPfC). Inspiring her work with emotional depth and a well spring of hope for transformational change in individuals and couples. She enjoys the creative process in devising workshops and welcomes Dr Gretton to the UK. She works in private practice in the City of London and in Cambridge.
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Dr Heather Gretton is a psychologist and AEDP Therapist in private practice in British Columbia, Canada. Dr Gretton is involved with the AEDP Institute Research Team. She is interested in the weaving together of science, theory, and clinical knowledge with the authentic and therapeutic use of the self in psychotherapy, to promote transformational change and wellness. Her background includes AEDP for individuals and couples; Adult-Attachment based Psychotherapy;
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; Mindfulness based Therapies, Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, and Gottman Method Couples Therapy. She has presented at workshops, conferences and published articles in academic journals nationally and internationally.