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.
Open Days
Psychotherapy Training Open Days
The Open Day provides an opportunity to visit our centre and meet staff from the Bowlby Centre to find out more about our approach and the details of our training programme. The event is a facilitated workshop, with an overview of the curriculum, a clinical vignette and a discussion about our approach and the theoretical influences that have informed our work. It is also an opportunity to meet some of those who may be training alongside you, should you decide to join us.
There is a charge of £50 for attendance.
Venue:
The Bowlby Centre
1 Highbury Crescent
London N5 1RN
Clinical Forums
Clinical Forum – Masters in the Art of Defence: Working with Avoidant Attachment
Saturday, 8th December 2018 FULLY BOOKED
Synopsis:
Clients with a dismissing/avoidant pattern of attachment can be difficult to engage and frequently leave therapy before any real work can be done. They often evoke uncomfortable feelings in the therapist including boredom, fear, and strong dislike –or may make little impact on us. In this talk, Linda will describe her work with several highly defended dismissing clients and suggest that their internal worlds are governed by shame and self-hatred. This has implications for how we work with such individuals, and the aims of therapeutic work with them. The talk will be followed by refreshments to celebrate the launch of her latest book.
About the speaker Linda Cundy
Linda Cundy trained at the Bowlby Centre in the 1990s. She has taught at a number of psychotherapy trainings for twenty-five years, and instituted a postgraduate diploma in attachment-base therapy at the Wimbledon Guild. She has published a number of papers in professional journals and has contributed to and edited three books to date; Love in the Age of the Internet: Attachment in the Digital Era (Karnac, 2015),Anxiously Attached: Understanding and Workingwith Preoccupied Attachment (Karnac, 2017) and Attachment and the Defence Against Intimacy: Understanding and Working with Avoidant Attachment, Self-Hatred and Shame (Routledge, 2018)
Date: Saturday, 8th December 2018
Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm (Registration 10.45)
Cost: £30 – FULLY BOOKED
(Bowlby Centre members and students – free)
Venue: The Bowlby Centre 1 Highbury Crescent, London N5 1RN
CPD: 2 hours (CPD certificate provided)
Courses
Hold Me Tight: Conversations for Connection -17th and 18th November 2018
An interactive Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy workshop –
Creating resilience, emotional depth and trust in long term relationships
Date: 21st and 22nd April 2018
Time: 10.00am to 4.00pm
Cost:£500 per couple (Maximum 8 couples)
17th and 18th November 2018
10.00am to 4.00pm
Cost:£600 per couple maximumn 8 couples)
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
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
Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice – June
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
Saturday 18th May and Sunday 19th May 2019
and Saturday 8th June and Sunday 9th June 2019
Cost: £580 Organisations, £540 Individuals
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